the rules have been relaxed and one can now purchase an apartment for personal use as the restriction was (in recent years) that one had to reside in china for a year and one cannot buy land only what sits on it plus one could only buy one property. that is one reason why they come here and buy what they can. additionally the companies that buy outside china have full government backing and many if not most are defacto peoples republic of china communist companies. the company that bought the darwin port is a chinese govt company, as would be the company that was vying for kidman.
china has hundreds of billions of us treasury notes that they need to divest themselves of hence the voracious buying activity - they understand the dollar is dead and soon to be replaced with a gold backed yuan
the city of tianjin is the fourth most important city in china - there isnt a chance in hell that australia could take the port there over
dont know the reason for the unwarranted outburst by our lefty mate tho - typical fare im afraid
