Also, capital from China must be at least an order greater than capital from all of Middle East combined. Not defending their decision not to do anything when your Arabs and Iranians were buying up real estate, just that it was a drop in the bucket and pretty easy to ignore. Chinese capital, on the other hand, is becoming cumbersome for quite a few countries now
Due to history and geography, in Vancouver's case it's largely money from Hong Kong, Mainland China and the United States.
For London for example, it's from Russia and other places.
Money from Asia is being referenced because it's a concrete example.