Michael Whitaker (born 17 March 1960) is a British Olympic equestrian rider, who competes in the sport of show jumping. He was ranked 5th by the British Showjumping Association in March 2014. (wikipedia)
Some of the rhetoric has been embarrassing, even xenophobic.
China is a very special market, a very important market.
Those would be significant openings. It would get government out of those decisions.
Most of the time building permit activity has a direct bearing on actual construction activity, since developers do not want to expend capital to pay for permits only to be not working on their projects.