Those who live in glass houses shouldn't....
TBH, I sort of envy your glass ceiling house. Vaulted? Must be luminous during daytime. Great for stargazing on clear nights. Perfect vibe for swanky swinger parties on weekends!
Homes in Sicilian villages were selling for one dollar. Perhaps for good reason. "Crumbling" comes to mind.
These days, not even the Amazon rainforest is safe from deforestation. Nor its rivers free from industrial water pollution.
Ghost-town countrysides is great for a two-week meditation retreat. May help in mindful flipping of your remote cottage.
Mega cities, particularly capital cities in emerging markets, maintain historical resiliency to housing price downturn if not steady growth rates.
Gov. infrastructural investments in hospitals, schools, and transportation, etc., (deemed important by potential buyers) may be sorely lacking deep in your rain forests.
To say nothing of career opportunities for those who need to work to make ends meet.
FYI, authentic extra virgin olive oil, even organic ones imported from Greece or Spain, can be purchased on TMall flagship stores run by said multinationals. Delivered to our "asia wife" faster than to your forest hermitage....
oh I forgot, Peter processes them fresh from his backyard olive tree garden.
Crypto is another option in moving money. Feared by the institution for their elusiveness. Buy when mob sell in panic to nullify transaction fees.
For those with properties in China and looking to diversify eggs from one basket. Follow the BRI money train in SE Asia.
For example, near outer rim of Bangkok where future BRI station from China is currently in construction, condos are less than 300K (rmb).
Buy Thai condo with rmb, sell in USD.
Disagree with bucko. Literally over dozens of free unlocked and unlimited VPNs for android fly under the GFW radar due to their novelty.
I won't list them here as certain schizo members may accuse me of conspiring in spam.
Privacy standards may come into question compared to mainstream VPNs. Best browse via Onion/Tor and search w/ DuckDuckGo if you're a political dissenter or engaged in darknet transactions.
Paranoia much?
First of all, "authorities" are not reading comments of laowais for the purpose of monitoring VPN connections. Particularly your inimitable darling, GoKunming.
How simple and archaic do you think they are?
They can easily test every city/host server at one sitting. Specifically with the most popular ExpressVPN.
So loosen your muzzle.
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Posted byFirst, an offhand comment. Now, a backhanded compliment. Abrasive dialogues expected with cloudtrapezer.
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Posted byAllow me to elaborate.
The gradual easing of VPN restrictions starting with "foreign firms" to "attract more foreign investments," as mentioned...
which "may" possibly trickle down to expats "one day," as mentioned.
I did not mention anything about Chinese civilians. Nor did I imply this gradual easing would suddenly free up the internet for all, as you offhandedly concluded.
First of all from a legal perspective, this going against the grain first step creates policy transparency for foreigners conducting business in the Mainland,
For instance, Apple Inc. satellite R&D offices in several Chinese cities are prone to ramifications for something trivial like accessing their Facebook page via VPN if central government decided to retaliate against the U.S.-led Huawei ban. Currently AAPL is at the mercy & whim of tit for tat retribution.
With this official VPN permittance from Beijing, coming into effect in a few months, such murky political maneuvers are relegated back to aforementioned "dark ages,"
Of course this transparency chess move is meant to dissuade HQ of foreign firms from exodus to competitors in SE Asia, Yet from hindsight, laying out building blocks of transparent regulatory norms in trial cities such as the 1st tier Beijing or Shanghai, eventually spread across the map to other provincial capitals of secondary tiered cities. Particularly Kunming, which Beijing has designated as BRI investment gateway to SE Asia and beyond. It is a step in the right direction. Silver lining so to speak.
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Posted bydolphin, perhaps Jordan Porter's target audiences are foreigners looking in.... to plant seeds of interest in those who have yet to visit China, let alone Yunnan.
As for us expats living inside the murky fish bowl, the silver lining is big brother's gradual easing of VPN restrictions in a bid to lift barriers to attract more foreign investments.
By end of this year, foreign firms will be permitted to invest in VPN services in designated trial zones in Beijing:
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Though Jordan's "Destination China" channel will continue to be blocked, VPN usage to bypass the GFW may one day be officially legalized in cities like Kunming. Expats won't need to look over one's shoulders with so much dread.
Yunnan reaches out to Cambodia with children's health initiative
Posted byNo, America's mass shootings are another beast.
Brutality by Cambodia's corrupt military police is disturbing. The shooting in Sihanoukville village earlier this year comes to mind.
They've also begun the national drug war campaign in '17, though not to the extreme extent of the Philippines under Duterte.
Yunnan reaches out to Cambodia with children's health initiative
Posted byNot mentioned in above article is the China-Cambodia arms deal. Pray those Chinese firearms sold to Cambodia don't fall into wrong hands, injuring innocent victims of crossfire.