Dear Paul1405,

I concur with your assessment.

Do you think my observations on the number of Chinese in Sydney is correct? I have been criticised in the past for overestimating the numbers. Elsewhere, mhaze has criticised my assessment, stating that he has ABS statistics to show that only about 3 in 100 people on the average are Chinese in Sydney.

Do you think Mike Baird might be trying to turn Sydney into a giant holiday resort for Chinese tourists at the expense of the city's citizens?

Mr Opinion, at the moment the inner city is attracting a lot of Chinese investment, largely two types, the young professionals, lawyers, accountants working in the CBD and wanting to live close, often married with their first child. The other group are students attending UTS or UNSW, apartment livers usually renters or living in a o/s mum and dad owned apartment. the older Chinese, business people tend to live right in the CBD.
The younger group, particularly the young professionals, are very westernized, always speak excellent English, kids go to private schools, they are well off, the older group tend to be more Chinese but very wealthy. The middle class Chinese who have settled here recently are very keen for their children to succeed, eg send them to English school, after regular school at about $4,000 year for one 4 hour lesson on a Saturday another night lesson during the week. The older ones are very much into owing businesses both here and o/s.
We met recently a young Singapore Chinese girl, a fully qualified lawyer, still under 30, living in the CBD, parents still in Singapore, helping her buy her apartment, wants to find a decent bloke, she don't care if he is Chinese or Aussie, just decent, she's as Aussie as as we are. We went for dinner, we said you pick, okay her favorite restaurant, Italian! says something, not a chop stick in sight.
p/s On the bloke front, "C" has had a few boyfriends, but all crap, irony the best was an Italian bloke 25, but she thinks his parents didn't approve of her, and he was too much of a mummy's boy anyway, too possessive, still living at home.

Dear Paul 1405,

That's nice to hear about your friends but do you think that my assessment of the numbers of Chinese in Sydney is accurate?

Yes Mr Opinion, Barangaroo Casino is going to be a 'high rollers' establishment, attracting a lot of wealthy Asians, who love to gamble. Not all Chinese, but Asians will make up the bulk of punters. The airport is not being built just to get more Australian off to Bali, now is it. 80% of the population at Star City is Asian, Wealthy Asians see Australia as a very safe place to invest, and to holiday in. Our property ownership laws are very free and easy, so its not difficult to buy into Australia, be an absentee landlord or living here. Honk Kong investors own a good number of the smaller shopping centers around town now, they have been buying them up for a while, with an eye to redevelopments, shops on the ground, units above. One, HK Kingston Developments, got a slap for donating $340k to the Liberal Party, who when it comes to development, would approve a plutonium plant in Pitt Street if the price was right.
Small changes are happening to the law, like it will only require 75% of owners in a strata block to approve its sale, not 100%, sounds a small change, but why, stop the old biddies who reside from holding out against the developers. even with less than 75%, a court action could still see development approval given.

Mr Opinion

In just 1 event on the weekend the Africans as a gang did more criminal activity than the Chinese you are so afraid of.

Anyone with half a brain would be more concerned about gangs roaming around with swords, baseball bats and machetes like the Africans in the following story than some Chinese people buying a houses.

One man stabbed, 12 arrested in vicious Melbourne brawl

A man is in hospital with life-threatening wounds after being stabbed repeatedly during a brawl outside a train station in Melbourne's southeast.

Police arrested 12 men, aged between 19 and 32, following the brawl outside Kananook Railway Station in Seaford on Sunday evening and were still questioning them early on Monday.

A 23-year-old man who suffered stab wounds to his abdomen was dropped off by unknown men at Frankston Hospital where he remains in a critical condition, police said.

Officers searched three vehicles after the brawl and seized weapons including baseball bats, a samurai sword and a machete.

The men arrested came from the Melbourne suburbs of West Sunshine, Carlton, Taylors Hill, Deer Park, Truganina, Melton, Collingwood, Dandenong and Ardeer.

https://au.news.yahoo.com/vic/a/30413646/man-stabbed-in-melbourne-brawl/

Photos clearly show African thugs. When is the last time Chinese did this in Australia?

Dear Philip S,

You have misunderstood what I am saying. I'm not criticising the Chinese, I'm just pointing out that Mike Baird is turning Sydney into a giant holiday resort for millions of Chinese tourists and that in the near future the Chinese will make up about 80% of the population of Sydney. In fact I'm all for migration from China and think that Australia can help take the population pressure off China by bringing more Chinese into Australia. Australia is a big country and I think it could easily accept about 50 million Chinese migrants over the next ten years.