SNS: Technology's Second Asset / China's Second Trick: Tariffs, Tech, and Real Estate, Part II

 

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Technology's Second Asset / China's Second Trick:

    Tariffs, Tech, and Real Estate, Part II

In Part I of this discussion, we examined an already-slowing Chinese economy suddenly - and negatively - affected by the tariff battle with the US. We looked at the ties between tech growth and real-estate price growth in major West Coast US cities ("technology's second asset"), and how China had "manufactured wealth" by the Chinese Communist Party appropriating land and becoming "real-estate rich" almost overnight. Finally, we looked at the real estate pricing history - and problems, and solutions - of the City of Vancouver, BC, the first West Coast city to experience real-estate-bubble investment by Chinese citizens, starting with the handover of Hong Kong the British.

Part I ended with this paragraph: