To the Repugnant Gold Speculator in Asia

Because of capital controls, you can’t even deploy capital freely—so “investing” becomes permissioned behavior, not ownership.

Your market is in gridlock.

You wouldn’t want to hold equities long-term when the system itself doesn’t treat the stock market as a legitimate wealth engine.

Real estate is propped up by central planning.

Your currency is weakening, and you think buying nationalist gold is a hedge—yet you can’t even move that gold into the global market and monetize it elsewhere.

Once you actually accept all of that, the outcome is obvious: you don’t “diversify” your way out.

You radically decouple.