From farms and coal mines to airports and water supplies: How China is buying up millions of acres of land, vital infrastructure and companies - as part of its 'disturbing' plan to exert greater influence and control over Australia
This is just racist paranoia. China is not particularly targeting Australia. It is buying up assets wherever it can worldwide. And what harm is there in it? China can't just pick up Australian farms and take them back to China. And if they don't manage their assets commercially, they will send them broke, which is hardly what they would want. They are in the busimness of acquiring assets, not destroying them.
So why the worldwide buying frenzy? It's simple. They may be communists but they are following orthodox Western economics. Most economists are freaked by the huge issue of new American dollars that began under Obama and is continuing under Trump. Such actions normally lead to inflation and in a sense MUST lead to inflation. The inflation has been inexplicably delayed but the longer the unfunded spending goes on the more likely it becomes. And inflation means that any greenbhacks you possess become steadily worthless.
So what would you do if you owned a trillion of such unsafe greenbacks? China sells so much to America that they have earned greenbacks by the billion. But just saving it is out of the question. Even the banks don't do that. They lend it out. The bubble in the value of the dollar could burst any time and leave China with nothing in return for all the stuff they have sent to Amerrica. So they need to spend it NOW while they can get worthwhile things with it -- things that will tend to retain their value.
They have been doing it for years. They put their trust in real things, not bits of printed paper. So they told their millions of keen businessmen to buy overseas and their government would give them the dollars. And they really ramped that up in the Obama years. And they mostly like what they have got: Assets with both a future and a present that will be a reliable store of value.
So why is Trump continuing the Obama excess? Because he can. He has a distinguished economics degree so he can analyse the situation for himself. And he obviously thinks he can use the bubble while it lasts. Just printing money instead of raising it in taxes has a lot of appeal to any politician. Conservative econmists are squawking but Trump is ahead of them. Just look at how he has revitalized the economy
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