Re yr mate and China…Folks can be strange.
I had a hairdresser for maybe 20 yrs…he owned his biz and did OK we used to talk about the world and he had good insight especially into the high st economy, from all his clients and fellow shopkeeps etc.
The one day I called up and a girl answered, I asked to book an appointment, with Geoff and she said, the Biz was bust, closed down…so I had her cut my hair at her home and she told me Geoff had put ALL his money into a Nigerian scam, remortgaged his home and borrowed from his children and of course lost it all !!!!
He’d met the scammer at his gym !!!!!