[wagglebee]

Why the hell does he want a house in China?!

[chemical_boy]

why else, but kiss ChiCom Butt

[SolutionsOnly]

Don't make it too nice - It might get seized!

[glock rocks]

Because he can?

When one earns lots of money, one can do interesting things.

[joesnuffy]

Rupert the red has some big deals pending in Chi com land...

[July 4th]

News Corp. has been allowed to operate in China with relatively little government oversight. China allowing a foreign company to provide domestic entertainment is a BIG deal there. So this is maybe Rupert's way to show that he's staying.

[Clemenza]

While others on this site complain and use stereotypical, out of date language about Chairman Mao and the "ChiComs," I'll continue to enjoy the business I get providing consulting services to thriving, private businesses in Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Shanghai.

BTW: My clients hate the government in Beijing more than you can imagine. China, however, is a highly diverse society with a large and growing private sector.

[Teplukin]

Why the hell does he want a house in China?!

The same reason Murdoch moved to the US a decade ago - to be in close proximity to power. But now power is gradually moving from the West to the East, as the trade & budget deficits makes Americans debtors and the Chinese our creditors.

Murdoch is a businessman and a very good one at that. He can divine the tea leaves as well as anyone. He know that creditors call the shots. And he has decided that it is important to be in their good graces, as it is to be in the good graces of Saudi Princes and Sheiks.

Murdoch might own FoxNews, but I would still classify him more as a mercenary, than a true ally.

[SevenofNine]

Is current Mrs Rupert Murdoch is Chinese national
I THINK SO that probably real reason he is buying a crib near Forbiben city

[eno_]

Seen any pictures of Chinese cities lately? It's a happening place.

[Max Combined]

"The 21,000 square feet home will have two stories underground and will be built from traditional grey bricks and roof tiles, including some from a former house on the site."

Sounds like a nice crib. Too bad he is so old that he won't be around long enough to really enjoy it.

[perfect stranger]

http://www.q-and-a.org/Transcript/?ProgramID=1001

Q & A with Roger Ailes

[Paul Ross]

He is buying influence and position for his son, who manages his Hong Kong operations.

[Paul Ross]

This is all part of a recent spate of activity. He's also buying a 3-floor penthouse in SoHo!

Murdoch flitting to record £22m penthouse, if neighbours like him
By Melissa Whitworth in New York (Filed: 18/12/2004)

Rupert Murdoch is buying one of Manhattan's trophy apartments for a record £22.6 million.

The 20-room penthouse apartment at 834 Fifth Avenue occupies three floors in a building opposite the entrance to Central Park zoo. It includes seven bedrooms, 12 bathrooms, servants' quarters, a library and a solarium covering about 8,000 sq ft, with 4,000 sq ft of terraces over the 14th, 15th and 16th floors. The monthly maintenance is £11,000.

The building on Fifth Avenue

But even the media tycoon's fabulous wealth will not spare him one of New York's most humiliating rituals: the approval process by the co-op board, in other words the neighbours.

The sale of the apartment will go through after Mr Murdoch, 73, has had every detail of his life, personal and financial, scrutinised by the board's members. The contract also requires the new owner to pay in cash.

At the moment, Mr Murdoch, whose personal fortune is estimated at £4 billion, lives with his wife, Wendy Deng, and their two young daughters in a penthouse in Manhattan's SoHo district.

The 6,000 sq ft apartment is in a building known as "the SoHo Chateau" in an area of Manhattan that was designed to provide accommodation for struggling artists.

The new apartment belonged to Laurance S. Rockefeller, the grandson of the oil tycoon John D Rockefeller. He bought the building in 1946 and turned it into a co-op six years later. He died in July aged 94.

Mr Murdoch's neighbours are a collection of the rich, famous and infamous, including the disgraced former chairman of Sotheby's, A Alfred Taubman.

Edward Lee Cave, an estate agent, said: "It is one of the five best apartments in the city. It is everybody's wish list complete, because the first thing people say is, 'I want a terrace,' then they say they want Fifth Avenue, then they say they want high ceilings."

[montag813]

Is he going to move in there with Hillary? Murdoch is a phony. Boycott FoxNews.