Many, many expats are rather unaware of how the Chinese are now the biggest purchasers of luxury goods in the world. Many of them live in the luxury that came from the blood, sweat, and tears of folks who broke their backs working hard for nothing. As expat teachers who have worked at crap places such as training centers I know for a fact at where the money comes from and what these people do with the money. It is already enough that the taxes we pay go to government officials to drink, eat endangered animals, and tear up newly built buildings and roads so they can add more credentials to their Political Resume on how they "developed" the area again. It is simply too much when merchants and businessman join in on this charade at my expense while employing GW types to lie to me and intimidate me to no end. But we do see that they are afraid indeed, some will even post on here telling us how right their views are and how much we should not think things through because it is China or whatever corrupt 3rd world country they are working in.

Six of one and half dozen of tuther between the Chinese greedy rich and the Western greedy rich would be a more realistic appraisal, I'd say. Western companies, not least of all the massive British ,American and French companies help to keep the peasants in poverty by squeezing Chinese manufacturers to accept silly prices. That being not good enough for them they also set up supermarkets in China, so fat rich investors in the West can get richer.