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well it's panic selling in the chinese

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stock markets the last couple of days

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although the hang seng index is only

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down 16

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but certain companies especially in

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technology uh the internet sector are

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down like 40 50

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education companies in china down 80 to

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90 percent

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why is this happening is because all

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thanks to the government right the

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chinese communist party they're really

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cracking down on all these industry

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imposing fines

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banning certain activities imposing uh

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certain regulations

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so as an investor what should you do

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should you

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you know panic and sell like everyone

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else get out while i still can

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or should you hold your stocks or should

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you buy more stock should you be greedy

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when others are

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fearful so in this video i'll be

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breaking down

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this entire crisis so why are they doing

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this we're gonna

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you know explore why is the government

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doing this what's their

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end game how am i managing my own

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portfolio

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and as typical investors should you be

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taking advantage of this should you be

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buying stocks at these discounts

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or should you just be staying away

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because it's not worth the risk

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let's break it down in this video

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so before we begin let me remind you

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that in chinese

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the word crisis is called wei si which

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is made of two

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root words which is whey which means

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danger

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and c which means opportunity so what

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does it mean it means that in any crisis

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you've got to be aware of the danger you

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can get hurt but at the same time

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recognize the opportunity because in

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every crisis

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there's an opportunity so let's take a

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look at a timeline about what the

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government has been doing and how it's

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been cracking down on these different

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industries

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so all this started last year in 2020

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when they

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uh halted the end ipo of alibaba so ant

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is the

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fintech business of alibaba because they

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said you're violating certain

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financial technological laws in china

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although i do believe that is because

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and was posing a threat

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to the chinese banks of which the

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government has a big stake in it so it's

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like don't screw up my banks

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okay well then the second thing was they

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find alibaba

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about 2.8 billion dollars seems like a

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lot but in terms of a per share basis

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they're actually very small it's like a

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slap on the wrist

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they find alibaba for unfair

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monopolistic practices

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for example in alibaba what it did was

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they told their merchants if you sell

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with us

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you can't sell on other e-commerce

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platforms you can't sell on pin.org you

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can sell on jd.com

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you can only sell with us so the

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government felt that that was really

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unfair

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there was unfair monopolistic practices

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so they say stop that and again they

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give them a fine all those very small

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fine

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so these are the two main things that

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they did to alibaba

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they're fine and stopping them from

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making merchants sell exclusively on

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their platforms

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so as a result since last year alibaba's

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down like 41

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from the high then it started going

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after other internet companies

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so they then went after 10 10 cent

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is the largest social media company in

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china it's kind of like your facebook

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and your paypal put together and tencent

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is also the largest

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uh video game online video game

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company in the world not in china in the

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world all right

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so they went after tencent for a couple

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of things number one was they blocked a

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merger

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of taoi and huya which are the two

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largest video streaming companies in

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china they blocked the merger

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because they said if they merged they'd

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be like 70 market share that would kill

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all the competition so they killed that

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merger

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so tencent owns a 30 stake in both of

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them so they killed that so that's one

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thing

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second thing was they find tencent

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recently

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uh for allowing sexually exploitive

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content

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of miners on their on their

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their app all right and most recently

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what happened was uh the government

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ordered tencent music entertainment

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which is a subsidiary of tencent

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uh to end its exclusive music licensing

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deals with global

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record labels and they find them seventy

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seven thousand dollars which again

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impedance right so okay so that's what

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they did and 10 cents

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share price is down 40 from the high

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because of all these

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fines and regulations and of course

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there were a lot of other stuff

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the next one is of course dd so dd is

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the largest

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ride hailing app in china it's kind of

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like the uber of china

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and they recently went ipo they listed

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on the

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u.s stock exchange now a few days after

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they listed china said wait a minute

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you have been illegally collecting

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user data and violating data protection

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rules according to the cyber security

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laws of china so

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all your apps are suspended and we are

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launching a full investigation we're

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gonna

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find you and so because of that dd

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since it when ipo is down like 56

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from the ipo price and most recently

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they went after the private education

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companies in china and they said that

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you know you guys are creating

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undue stress and pressure on the kids

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you are charging exorbitant fees

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and because of that parents kind of

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fought the tutoring and they don't have

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kids anymore and it's creating a

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societal fracture

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and you know because of that no more

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profits for you guys right so

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all education companies teaching the

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curriculum has to be non-profit

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and you can't take foreign capital um

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and no more tutoring on weekends and

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vacations no more tutoring for kids

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under six years old

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so basically the government's new policy

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has killed

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the entire private education sector

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so sure enough the share prices of these

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companies have fallen like 90

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to 95 so with all this a lot of

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investors are panickings like

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who's next who's next to get whacked is

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my company gonna go to zero

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and they're freaking out they're panic

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selling and a lot of people are going

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they're looking at the government going

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what the are you doing are you

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crazy why are you killing your own

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companies why are you killing your own

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market

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what do you want right so

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here's the thing we have to understand

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the government what's their endgame

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why are they doing what they're doing

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and only then

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can you make money in china

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there's an old saying by suzu the art of

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war this

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military general and he said that you

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have to know your enemy

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and know yourself and you can fight 100

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battles without disaster

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so to ask investors the chinese

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government is kind of like the enemy

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right

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like the enemy so you've got to

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understand where they're coming from at

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the same time

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understand yourself as an investor

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what's your strategy

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what's your investment strategy and only

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then can you

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build your wealth without disaster so

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let's really understand

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uh what's going on here when you invest

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in china you have to understand it's a

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totally different

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political system it's a totally

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different game like in the us they know

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that

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big technology companies are also

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exploiting loopholes they are also

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having a lot of unfair monopolistic

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practices but the us government can't do

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right because

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of their democracy they debate till the

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cows come home and a lot of politicians

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they're in the pockets of these wealthy

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entrepreneurs they are controlled

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by them through lobbying so the us

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government government can't do anything

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right so it's like run free run free in

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china it's different

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in china remember that it's an

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authoritarian government it's a

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communist country where the government

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has

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absolute power over the private sector

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and it can push through any regulation

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they want anytime they want to do it

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that's the first thing to understand

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the second thing is that the chinese

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government would always put national

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interests

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above individual interests it means in

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china yeah you can get rich you can get

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wealthy

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but if you become too powerful and it

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goes against the

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national security of interest we will

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kill you

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now think about it right imagine you're

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the chinese government and

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you say to alibaba you know what we

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elbowed out

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google we elbowed out facebook we

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elbowed up paper we got rid of all the

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competition

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so you are the monopoly and baba goes

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yeah i'm the monopoly right but they got

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too arrogant they got too big

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and when alibaba started controlling all

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the data of all the citizens

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and started controlling the financial

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system

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the chinese government said no no no i

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got rid of all these people

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and now you want to play punk with me

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now you think you're bigger than me

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so that's how alibaba got fined and

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that's how they are now forced to play

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by the rules of the government

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the other thing to understand is that in

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china the government wants to balance

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capitalism economic growth with

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socialism which is the good of the

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people

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so yes they want economic growth and for

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that to happen they need people to

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be wealthier and that's why they need

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these companies to keep growing and to

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generate more profits so they won't kill

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these companies they want the companies

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to succeed

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but at the same time they have to ensure

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that the man on the street is not hurt

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so they enact these regulations to

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protect the citizens

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like anti-trust regulations that can

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create unfair pricing in the future and

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hurt the people

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at the end of the day we can be rewarded

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handsomely investing in china and riding

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on china's

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growth and wealth by the same time you

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have to understand which companies to

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invest in

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and you have to understand the

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regulatory risk

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these regulations may hurt the market in

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the short term but they will create more

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sustainable growth

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in the long run so when we invest in

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china we cannot use

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the western playbook we have to

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understand the regulatory risk

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and to do our best to avoid the risk in

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order to

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generate those profits when investing in

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china you have to understand the five

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main regulatory risk the first is a risk

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of

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anti-trust crackdown so this is where

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the government

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wants to stop unfair monopolistic

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practices by certain companies and there

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are not many companies that

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are monopoly so basically you've got

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alibaba

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you've got tencent you have got maituan

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and maybe

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jd or pintuato to name a few so

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i own these big tech giants am i

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concerned about this anti-trust

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crackdown

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not at all and the reason is this i

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think that these

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regulations to prevent unfair

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monopolistic practices i think

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is good for the long-term growth and

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health of the industry so i don't have a

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problem with it

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and although they are putting certain

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regulations like preventing certain

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mergers and stopping

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alibaba from exclusive arrangements with

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their merchants

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i don't think it's going to really

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affect the dominant

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positions of these companies uh

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significantly

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why because alibaba is already a huge

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market share leader they've got a wide

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economic mode they've over 60 market

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share

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same thing with 10 cents so all these

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things would

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benefit uh newer companies but it will

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not significantly

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alter the competitive advantage of these

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tech giants so this is something that

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i'm

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not concerned about at all the second

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risks are with companies that pose a

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cyber security

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threat to the chinese government and to

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the national security of china

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so basically they're concerned that

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certain companies like dd

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which is the right healing app and they

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collect data

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of millions and millions of citizens and

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by listing on the u.s

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exchange and being audited for example

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or some oversight by

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the foreign government they're afraid

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that this

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data this big data of citizens in china

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will fall into foreign hands

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so chinese government wants to ensure

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that companies that

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manage all this data the data stays in

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china

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and for companies that do not follow

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these regulations they'll be harshly

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punished

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by the chinese government and this

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exactly what happened to dd in fact

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the government told dd that to delay the

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ipo

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because they were violating certain

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cyber security laws

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and they were not handling the private

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data of

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their customers properly but dd

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basically went ahead anyway with the ipo

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and gave a middle finger to the chinese

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government so now the government is

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really pissed off

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and they're really gonna uh you know get

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dd for this so

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that's why for certain companies like dd

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i would stay

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away and i wouldn't dare to invest in

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them right

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so like i said you have to know which

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companies are in real trouble and which

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companies

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which are pretty safe now the third

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risk you have to understand is now this

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risk doesn't come from

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the chinese government it comes from the

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us government

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so recently last year the u.s government

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has

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passed a new bill which is the holding

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foreign companies accountable act right

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now this law states that uh companies

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specifically chinese companies that are

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listed on the u.s stock exchanges

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they have to declare that they are not

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owned or controlled by any foreign

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government

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now that's going to be tricky because i

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can tell you that most of the chinese

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companies are controlled

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indirectly by the chinese government at

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the same time

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these chinese companies listed on the

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u.s exchange

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they have to be audited

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by the pcaob which is the public company

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accounting oversight board

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for three consecutive years they must

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have their accounts being audited by

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this

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board and if they are not

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these companies companies will be banned

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from trading

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and delisted from the u.s stock

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exchanges

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so here's the problem the u.s government

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is saying that these chinese companies

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who are listed on the u.s exchange they

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must be audited by

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u.s authorities or they will be listed

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in three years but the chinese

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government will not allow that to happen

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because they would not want the u.s

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government to audit their companies and

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be privy to a lot of

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sensitive data now

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currently let's take a look at this

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currently there are about 248 chinese

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companies

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listed on the u.s exchanges with a total

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market capitalization of 2.1 trillion

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dollars

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so what's going to happen in the worst

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case scenario if the us government

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delist all the chinese companies from

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the u.s exchanges

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that could create a major blow to

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investors they'll lose a lot of money

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and it's going to be a huge

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impact on the financial markets

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will the u.s government do this i'm not

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sure i think it's unlikely but you never

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know

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and that's why personally for me when i

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invest in chinese companies

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i avoid the chinese companies listed on

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the u.s markets

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through abs american depository receipts

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i feel more comfortable owning chinese

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companies

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listed directly on the hong kong

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exchange

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or listed on the shanghai exchange

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now if for some reason you're not able

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to invest in the hong kong or shanghai

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stocks

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because your broker doesn't allow you to

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then my suggestion would be in the long

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run

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it is safer to own chinese etfs

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exchange traded funds when they own the

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companies

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that are listed on hong kong and

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shanghai rather than owning the ones

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listed in the us because there is a risk

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they could be

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forced to delist from the markets and if

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they are forced to delist

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as an investor you may have problems

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getting your money back

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again this is a small risk but it could

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happen now there's a fourth risk you

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have to be aware about which is what we

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call the variable

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interest entity risk or vie risk

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now this applies to again china stocks

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listed

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on the u.s markets now first you have to

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understand that according to chinese law

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foreigners are not allowed to own

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chinese companies

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in sensitive sectors like internet

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business

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okay so how was alibaba and tencent

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and jd.com which are internet companies

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how do they get

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foreigners to own their shares well they

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created a loophole

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and what they did was they created a vie

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structure

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to bypass this chinese regulation

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so what they did was this so for example

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this is the actual alibaba for example

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down here this is alibaba company now

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again as

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foreigners you can't legally own shares

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in the actual

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alibaba company so what they do is they

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create another company

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which is a wholly foreign-owned

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enterprise in china

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and another shell company which is in

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the cayman islands

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all right and so what happens is that

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using a bunch of

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contracts and agreements when you

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buy the alibaba in the u.s

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you're not actually buying the real

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alibaba you're actually buying shares

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in a cayman registered shell company

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that owns another foreign

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company in china that has got contracts

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and agreements

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with the actual alibaba company i know

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it sounds a bit complicated but

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basically

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they did this to bypass this chinese

17:35

regulation so i have to tell you that

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technically this is

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in a gray area it is not technically 100

17:42

legal so again understand that if you

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own u.s listed shares in alibaba or

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tencent

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or jd or pinto you don't actually

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own shares in the real company you own

17:57

the depository receipts

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in a company that has a contract with

18:02

the chinese firm that promises

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to deliver the portion of profits to the

18:07

chinese firm

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now here's the uh scary thing

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you have to understand that shareholders

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in these

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vie structures own no real assets

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and you have no legal recourse should

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the chinese decide to

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void the whole situation or the chinese

18:28

parent company decides to move assets

18:30

elsewhere

18:32

so in the worst case scenario if the

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chinese government were to play

18:36

bastard and they say well i'm sorry this

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vi structure is illegal

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everyone who owns us uh listed baba or

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tencent

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or pinto auto you actually don't own

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anything

18:47

you have got no legal recourse you are

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actually owning a shell company all

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right so

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now will the chinese government do this

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i doubt so if they do this they're gonna

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basically destroy their reputation in

18:58

the world

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and their whole financial market is

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gonna suffer

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so i don't think they're gonna do this

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but again

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there is a very small risk if they

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pursue this nuclear option and that's

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why i keep telling people that

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if you want to invest in china stocks

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and you want to be 100

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safe buy the actual chinese shares

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listed on hong kong or shanghai and not

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the ones listed in the us

19:25

because you're not really buying the

19:26

company you're just buying a shell

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company

19:28

with agreements with the real company

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the fifth risk is that

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in china any business that is

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detrimental to the social good of the

19:37

country will get

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whacked eventually like i never invested

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in the chinese education companies like

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edu or tal

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and the reason is because i myself i am

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in the education business in singapore i

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own many learning centers where we tutor

19:51

kids in english and mathematics so i

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understand the

19:54

business and industry very well and the

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reason i didn't invest

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in the chinese companies was i felt

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uncomfortable and the reason is because

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again the chinese

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education companies they overly pressure

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the students there they

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hard sell them uh tutoring packages they

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jack up the prices and a lot of students

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there

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you know they study like crazy and they

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are suicidal many of them

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and a lot of parents uh they can't

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afford to have kids so

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i felt it was really really

20:25

unsustainable and that's why i stayed

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away

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from those stocks and thank goodness

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because now they've collapsed right

20:32

so again i say if you want to invest in

20:34

china you have to really

20:35

understand the business you're buying

20:37

you have to really understand the

20:38

industry

20:40

that it's in and if you and if you

20:42

actually understand

20:44

uh what's happening in china you'll know

20:46

that it was not a sustainable situation

20:49

and this crackdown on the education

20:51

companies was

20:52

a long time coming just to share view if

20:55

you

20:55

read some of these twitter feeds you

20:57

understand what's actually going on in

20:59

the education

21:00

industry over there all right it's like

21:03

it says over here right

21:04

like this guy he says it is referring to

21:07

his uh

21:08

teenage cousin a student right he's done

21:10

nothing

21:11

since the age of six other than study i

21:14

was sudden

21:15

seeing just how messed he became as a

21:17

product of the education system

21:19

being wired to do nothing other than

21:21

mindless studying so much so that he had

21:23

trouble picking out his

21:24

own clothes in the morning even at age

21:26

18. i saw my aunt

21:29

a bird through her paycheck to send her

21:30

son

21:32

through after-school programs just so

21:34

he's not disadvantaged relative to other

21:36

kids

21:36

ironically regular schools became a

21:38

sideshow while after school programs

21:40

became the main battleground for kids

21:43

my cousin would sleep through regular

21:44

school so he can have enough energy

21:46

left for after-school programs and many

21:49

regular school teachers complain

21:51

and they left their jobs to teach after

21:53

school because of the better pay it

21:55

affected the system in a major way so

21:56

basically the private education

21:58

system was really screwing up the public

22:00

system

22:01

and again causing parents to overpay for

22:04

tutoring and all this thing and that's

22:06

what caused the government to step in to

22:08

stop all these things not because they

22:10

are bastards or they want to

22:12

hurt investors but they had to balance

22:14

the societal good

22:16

with capitalism so as you guys know i've

22:19

always been investing in china as part

22:21

of my overall investment strategy so let

22:23

me share with you what's

22:24

my strategy moving forward if you take a

22:27

look at my portfolios

22:29

china makes up roughly about twenty

22:31

percent

22:32

of my overall portfolio the other eighty

22:34

percent being

22:35

us companies so the recent sell-off in

22:38

chinese stocks has definitely

22:40

impacted my portfolio's value in the

22:42

last couple of days

22:43

uh if you take a look at my right now my

22:46

up-to-date

22:47

uh year-to-date performance you can see

22:52

it's up about 21.41

22:55

uh from january to july for the year

22:59

now this was actually close to like 28

23:02

return for the first seven months but

23:04

because of the sell-off

23:05

it's down eight percentage points and

23:07

i'm only up 21

23:09

for the year so uh that's the impact

23:12

that the china

23:13

stocks sell off has had on my portfolio

23:16

uh if you take a look i'm owning 10 cent

23:20

alibaba and jd and for 10 cent my

23:23

uh average price was three eight nine

23:27

uh and now it's down to 450 it was at

23:29

700 so it's it dropped a lot

23:31

and reducing my profit temporarily

23:35

for alibaba my average price is 217

23:39

and now it's 180 so i'm currently down

23:42

like 18

23:43

below my purchase price and as an

23:46

investor that's fine

23:47

because as long as you know it's a great

23:48

company it's under value

23:50

it will rebound eventually it's going to

23:52

double and triple in the future

23:54

so short term it's a bit down uh no

23:57

worries made

23:58

all right and like jd.com i'm also

24:00

slightly below my average price of 290

24:03

now it's like 247

24:04

and again note that my chinese companies

24:06

i own are the ones in

24:08

on hong kong i've got etfs like the ashr

24:13

and the gxe china ets they sit on the

24:16

u.s markets

24:17

and they are still um higher

24:20

than my average price because i bought

24:22

them some time ago

24:24

uh but it's been down quite a lot since

24:26

the last couple of months

24:28

so you can see if you add up like for 10

24:31

cent i've got a four percent

24:33

exposure right alibaba five percent

24:36

exposure jd.com one percent exposure

24:39

for my china etfs five percent and one

24:42

point six five percent so if you edit

24:43

all together

24:44

basically my chinese exposure is 22

24:47

percent right now so what's really

24:50

important is as an investor

24:52

you must always diversify your portfolio

24:56

and not put too much into one

24:59

sector or one industry or one country if

25:02

it is a

25:03

developing emerging market so i always

25:05

tell people that

25:07

don't have more than 25 exposure to

25:10

emerging markets

25:11

uh china or anything like that so this

25:14

ensures that when it's a sell-off your

25:15

portfolio doesn't get too badly

25:18

hurt in the short term so what's my

25:21

strategy moving forward am i gonna buy

25:23

more shares now that it's

25:25

cheaper am i holding or am i going to

25:28

sell anything

25:29

now as an investor your decision about

25:31

whether to buy whole or sell must be

25:33

based on understanding the business

25:36

behind

25:37

the stock and not just selling because

25:39

you get emotional and you panic and oh

25:41

my god

25:42

and the worst time to sell is when

25:44

you're panicking when you're emotional

25:46

because you tend to sell

25:47

right at the bottom and the moment you

25:48

sell it bounces back up again

25:51

so you got to be cool about it right so

25:53

even if the price is way below your

25:55

purchase

25:56

price or is way down from the high you

25:58

got to look at it

25:59

logically from the business business

26:02

perspective

26:03

so the first question to ask would be

26:06

okay

26:06

so from the regulations and the policy

26:09

changes

26:11

how has it significantly altered the

26:14

fundamentals of the business

26:16

so based on what the government has done

26:18

has it changed the fundamental business

26:20

of alibaba

26:22

of tencent of dd of pintuator

26:26

of jd of the chinese education companies

26:29

and if so by how much

26:31

all right so that's the first question

26:32

to ask the second question would be

26:35

currently are the shares of the business

26:38

significantly undervalued or are they

26:40

still overvalued

26:41

and the last question would be will

26:43

these companies

26:44

continue to grow over time will they be

26:47

worth a lot more

26:48

six months a year two years from now so

26:51

the answer

26:52

depends on the individual company so i'm

26:55

just going to give you a few examples i

26:57

won't go through all the companies i'll

26:58

just go through

26:59

some of the companies and let's begin

27:01

with alibaba

27:03

so alibaba is the biggest e-commerce

27:06

company in china they've got over 60

27:09

market share and they're also into

27:10

the cloud enterprise so

27:14

uh currently the the price is down about

27:17

41 percent from the high as i'm speaking

27:19

right now it's still going down in the

27:20

market so maybe it's down to

27:22

about 42 or 43 percent from the high

27:24

right now

27:25

and if you calculate the intrinsic value

27:28

i'm not going to go into that but

27:29

basically that's what we do

27:30

in our programs now even taking into

27:33

account

27:34

uh that they are no longer having

27:36

exclusive merchants taking into account

27:38

that

27:39

uh certain regulations were imposed on

27:41

them no more nipo

27:43

the valuation i get is still about

27:48

313 us dollars for the us baba shares

27:52

and for the ones on hong kong exchange i

27:54

valued at about 303 dollars taking into

27:57

account all the regulatory

28:00

actions so currently it's trading at

28:03

well when i took this screen captures

28:05

for 191 right now i think it's down to

28:07

like 180 went down a bit more

28:09

so currently it's like about 40 40 to 43

28:14

under value right now so am i going to

28:17

sell alibaba of course not

28:19

why because it's still a great business

28:21

all right the sales are growing

28:23

profits are growing cash flow is growing

28:25

it's got huge cash it's got low debt

28:27

it's a great business

28:28

and to me this sell-off is purely

28:30

irrational it's purely

28:32

irrational panic now i'm not saying it

28:33

can't go lower of course it can go lower

28:35

in fact

28:37

when does the price bottom the price

28:40

bottoms

28:41

when there are no more sellers left when

28:44

are there no more sellers left

28:46

when the last person who wanted to sell

28:49

has sold and we call that capitulation

28:51

so capitulation is when the week holders

28:54

they panic they give up they sell and

28:56

once everyone

28:57

who wanted to sell has sold then it

29:00

bought them so it may bottom today it

29:02

may bottom tomorrow i don't know where

29:03

it's gonna bottom right but eventually

29:05

it will bottom

29:06

and over time it is gonna go back

29:09

uh way above its intrinsic value of 303

29:12

dollars so for this guy

29:14

i'm holding it will i be buying more i

29:17

won't be buying more

29:18

why because i already have a five

29:20

percent allocation

29:21

in my portfolio and that's my maximum

29:23

allocation but if i didn't have a five

29:25

percent allocation i would

29:27

buy more to that allocation so the

29:29

important thing is diversification

29:32

always have a fixed maximum allocation

29:35

of a stock in your portfolio once you

29:37

reach that maximum

29:38

you don't add more shares you just you

29:40

know hold it until it

29:42

eventually goes a lot higher uh that's

29:45

alibaba now for 10

29:46

cent um it's also

29:49

40 percent drop from the high right now

29:52

i think it's dropped to like 450 as well

29:54

so it's about you know 42

29:56

from the high the intrinsic value is

29:59

about

29:59

733 hong kong dollars and again this is

30:03

taking into account

30:04

all the regulations and fines imposed

30:06

upon them and based on their intrinsic

30:08

value they are still 37

30:10

undervalued so for tencent i think it's

30:13

a great company

30:14

and again i'm not selling anything in

30:16

fact i may be buying a bit more 10 cent

30:18

because

30:19

i'm slightly below 5 so i may add a bit

30:21

more shares to get

30:22

back to a five percent allocation if you

30:25

look at

30:26

past crashes of the stock you can see

30:29

that

30:29

uh this was back in 2018

30:32

when they uh the video games were

30:36

banned temporarily by the chinese

30:37

government at the time

30:39

uh the price fell 47 percent from the

30:41

high

30:42

before it eventually bottomed and it

30:45

went back up right so remember that

30:46

every panic will end

30:47

every crisis will end and when it ends

30:50

it will eventually rebound to what

30:52

is the fair value so you gotta uh

30:55

understand that right so right now it's

30:57

down like 40

30:59

45 percent it may go down a bit more all

31:01

the way down here you never know

31:03

but eventually when it bottoms it's

31:04

going to be a huge upside

31:06

for 10 cent holdings now if you take a

31:08

look at alibaba you can see that

31:11

again previous crashes this was down 53

31:15

back in 2015 and in 2018

31:20

2019 it was down like 39 so so far down

31:23

about 45

31:24

again it could go a bit lower even down

31:27

to 50 percent you never know

31:28

but again if you understand the

31:31

fundamentals of the business

31:33

you're cool with it right you don't

31:35

freak out you don't sell just hold it

31:36

it's going to go back higher again

31:38

and again does it apply for all

31:41

companies we hold all companies

31:43

no so for example dd now i don't own dd

31:46

shares because in the first place i

31:48

never like

31:49

the business model right to me uber

31:52

and grab and all these right healing

31:54

apps

31:55

they're in a very very low profit margin

31:58

industry and they compete with public

32:00

transport

32:00

so i never liked the business model in

32:03

the first place so i never bought it

32:04

right

32:05

um but if i did own it for example

32:09

i wouldn't want to hold on to it for too

32:11

long i wanna get out all right but again

32:13

uh i always learned that if you want to

32:15

sell a stock because it's a lousy

32:18

business uh don't sell at the low

32:21

remember nothing drops in a straight

32:22

line you'll like drop it go up you drop

32:24

it goes up so wait for a bit of a rally

32:26

to get out

32:28

if you don't believe in the business

32:29

anymore

32:31

personally for me like i said i don't

32:32

own this and i wouldn't want to own this

32:35

or even though it is slightly

32:37

undervalued

32:38

why because dd first of all it's not

32:40

making money it doesn't have consistent

32:42

profits

32:43

i don't think it's got a strong mode but

32:45

in addition

32:47

um the chinese government is really

32:51

pissed off at them

32:52

because they kind of like went against

32:55

the uh

32:56

advice of going ipo without clearing

33:00

their cyber security

33:02

uh uh violations

33:05

and you can see china's regulators

33:07

suspect dd's u.s listing was a

33:09

deliberate act of deceit

33:11

a portrayal that shows severity of

33:13

mistrust

33:15

and deity is at a risk of unprecedented

33:17

penalties

33:18

so the government is now thinking about

33:20

how to punish them and they said it's

33:22

going to be unprecedented so it could be

33:23

anything from a huge

33:24

fine to force the listing to withdrawal

33:28

of their

33:28

us shares so no idea how it's gonna play

33:31

out it could get really ugly so

33:33

uh i wouldn't hold on to dd uh

33:37

personally all right so again there are

33:39

many many examples

33:40

uh i can't go through all of them but

33:42

those are a few examples

33:44

finally in the edutech company or the

33:47

private education company

33:48

um i think it's over i think because of

33:51

the regulations they have completely

33:53

dismantled their business models so i

33:54

don't think those

33:55

companies like edu or tal i don't think

33:58

they're ever going to get back

34:00

i don't think they're ever going to be

34:01

where they were in the past so

34:04

i don't hold those stocks and if i did

34:06

hold them i

34:07

i wouldn't have much hope in them in the

34:09

future right so it depends on the

34:11

individual companies

34:13

so let me summarize this pretty long

34:15

video uh with this

34:17

statement should you own chinese stocks

34:21

yes you can make a lot of money but you

34:22

could lose money as well if you

34:24

run foul of these regulations so number

34:27

one only own chinese stocks

34:29

if you truly understand the underlying

34:32

business

34:32

that you know it's a great business it's

34:34

got a wide mode

34:36

and it's not going to uh

34:39

go against any of those risks and

34:41

regulations i talked about

34:43

okay and if you're not confident enough

34:45

to pick

34:46

the right companies because there's so

34:48

many of them if you're not confident

34:50

then the best thing to do to get

34:51

exposure to chinese markets is to buy

34:54

the chinese etfs exchange traded funds

34:58

but to ensure that the etfs you buy the

35:01

companies they

35:02

hold are not listed on the us markets or

35:05

not too many of them at least

35:07

because again remember that these u.s

35:09

listed adrs

35:11

are constructed using those vie

35:14

structures which are technically illegal

35:17

and the us government could also force

35:19

them to deal it so there's

35:20

there's a bit of risk over there so i'd

35:21

rather hold etfs

35:23

that own chinese companies that are

35:25

listed on hong kong

35:27

or shanghai by owning ets we eliminate

35:31

company specific risk the final thing to

35:35

always understand is that

35:36

in investing in any market or any

35:38

company

35:40

never put all your eggs in one basket

35:41

because you never know what's going to

35:42

happen

35:43

okay always diversify to ensure that

35:46

each company and each sector has a small

35:50

allocation so if happens

35:53

your portfolio will still grow your

35:55

wealth will still

35:56

grow every single year all right so it's

35:59

all about diversification

36:01

and again finally remember that um

36:04

although the risk is small it's always

36:05

safest to haul

36:07

the chinese companies listed in hong

36:09

kong or shanghai because you

36:11

own the actual shares of the company so

36:13

i hope this presentation has been useful

36:15

it's been eye-opening and you've got

36:16

questions do

36:18

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36:19

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36:21

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36:22

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Interactive Summary

The video analyzes the recent sell-off in Chinese stock markets caused by government crackdowns on various industries, such as big tech and private education. The speaker explains the government's perspective—balancing economic growth with societal stability—and categorizes the risks for investors. These risks include anti-trust measures, data security concerns, potential delisting from U.S. exchanges, the complexity of Variable Interest Entities (VIE), and government policies against industries detrimental to the social good. The speaker advocates for deep understanding of business fundamentals, diversification, and favoring shares listed on the Hong Kong or Shanghai exchanges over U.S.-listed ADRs to minimize regulatory and structural risk.

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