I don't have any primary evidence, but it appears China is engaging in economic colonisation.
In Serbia there are a lot of Chinese-owned general stores of varying sizes. I have been told that the people who run them and the other Chinese are sent over by the government and that they might not have any contact with their children for years. These shops are all over the place. I have a small house there and in a nearby village of 3,600 people I was told that I could probably get some towels from the China shop. I presumed that this was somewhere that sold china plates and kitchen items, but when I got there I found a man behind the counter with his T-shirt rolled up over his belly and a comb stuck in his hair singing in Chinese. He was living in a different world that was difficult to communicate with him in. It also explained why a few days earlier I'd seen an angry Chinese woman in a local shop who attitude she was the Queen of Sheba wasn't going down well with the locals.
The Chinese that have been dumped into Serbia are obviously their dregs. They don't look particularly intelligent, poorly dressed, ugly, bad skin, acne and very rude. They barely say anything.
Agree that Hong Kong is completely different. It's more like Victorian England crossed with Japan.
Of people I know who have dealt with China in business they say they are untrustworthy.
My main observation is there lack of creativity. If you look at their big companies, they are mostly clones of US companies. They are not good at coming up with their own ideas or making markets, but very good at doing your own ideas back to you and banning/making it difficult for you to compete in their territory.
In Serbia there are a lot of Chinese-owned general stores of varying sizes. I have been told that the people who run them and the other Chinese are sent over by the government and that they might not have any contact with their children for years. These shops are all over the place. I have a small house there and in a nearby village of 3,600 people I was told that I could probably get some towels from the China shop. I presumed that this was somewhere that sold china plates and kitchen items, but when I got there I found a man behind the counter with his T-shirt rolled up over his belly and a comb stuck in his hair singing in Chinese. He was living in a different world that was difficult to communicate with him in. It also explained why a few days earlier I'd seen an angry Chinese woman in a local shop who attitude she was the Queen of Sheba wasn't going down well with the locals.
The Chinese that have been dumped into Serbia are obviously their dregs. They don't look particularly intelligent, poorly dressed, ugly, bad skin, acne and very rude. They barely say anything.
Agree that Hong Kong is completely different. It's more like Victorian England crossed with Japan.
Of people I know who have dealt with China in business they say they are untrustworthy.
My main observation is there lack of creativity. If you look at their big companies, they are mostly clones of US companies. They are not good at coming up with their own ideas or making markets, but very good at doing your own ideas back to you and banning/making it difficult for you to compete in their territory.