Re:The Great Chinese Exodus
by seanmcdirmid on Monday August 18, 2014 @05:41PM
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It's a great way of laundering grey money earned through nefarious means within china (great word play, by the way). A lot of corrupt officials and business men skimming money that isn't there's using them to buy property in the states so they can escape china before getting caught (the USA and china don't have an extradition treaty).
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Hi. I don't want to be pedantic, but you always make this mistake, and it just drives me nuts every time... " business men skimming money that isn't THEIRS using them to buy property"
"Their" indicates a person possessing something, as in "Their car was parked in the next street". "There" indicates a place, it's a bit like the opposite of "here", as in "put the blue shirts here, and the red shirts there"
Re:The Great Chinese Exodus
by seanmcdirmid on Tuesday August 19, 2014 @06:53AM
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Right, I make that mistake a lot. I correct it when I catch it though.