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Would you believe me if I told you the world is an important driver of houses prices?

None taken. Your point about China being formed by historical conquests of many smaller countries doesn't really indicate much about its modern day predispositions. Most countries (Japan, Germany/Prussia, Russia, France and, yes, even USA) are only the landmasses they are today through the...

Yea you're probably right, I'm probably a bit biased. But historically China has never caused problems. Japan attempted many invasions of China and its neighbours, not just in recent history. Japan annexed Korea and invaded China in late 1500s. In 1800s they went to war with Russia and China...

Japan is also very corrupt from what I understand, except that people are much more patriotic. Every Chinese knows this.

Don't forget China is a massive country, and like Australia, has markets within markets. If I were to put my money, I would put it in Shanghai Jingan over Sydney Mosman any day. But I wouldn't put my money in Shunde over Port Hedland.

The only difference between China and Japan is that China has the benefit of history. Although the problems are too difficult for me to understand how to solve them. Unfortunately the Chinese are a bit less arrogant than the Japanese, so they flee their capital to other countries. Such a big...

Australia's not immune to a Chinese recession/downturn, which may very well happen based on what I can see. Real question would be, would China go down the path of Japan and be a lost country forever, or will it just be a temporary, 4-5 year blip like most countries experience? And will...