[alephnerd]

> IR isn't a calling, it's a sentence

Policy (of which IR is a subset) is a calling (ie. job).

If you don't have an academic or professional background in the spaces you are discussing about, you're just noise (which I am increasingly becoming)

> So was Han, so was Tang. Basically all the good periods.

That's a very rose tinted view of a past without modern healthcare, with rampant feudalism and slavery, and an extremely stratified social system.

> Fast forward to Xi's COVID: great excuse to kick the foreigners out. What. What do you mean our forex is tanking? Come back, investors! We're "open for business"!

Foreign investors were leaving before COVID. The 2015-16 Market Crash was rough and both the US and China began cracking down on cross-listing Chinese entities in Western capital markets, preventing investors to have the ability to re-coup investments.

[contingencies]

It is pompous to suggest that only 'academics' and 'professionals' have insight.

One does not "discuss about", one "discusses".

Those periods of ancient Chinese history most celebrated for their cultural and technical achievements are generally agreed upon by scholars, I simply provided the most referenced subset. By your logic, anything pre-modern is horrific. I would tend to side more with the inverse perspective.

As an actual foreign investor in China, I did not and do not care about listing rules, because they're irrelevant to most businesses in most situations.

[naravara]

They don’t have a monopoly on insight but they do have one on career prospects in the field unfortunately.

(You can always cheat your way in if you have fuck-you money though, so hedge fund managers always get a say too.)