Gold is moving from West to East.
You may read about the roots of this phenomenon here.
This chart is from Nick Laird at Sharelynx.com.
Related: Germany Leads Western Gold Buying
"Quite a lot of what passes itself off as dialogue about our society consists of people trying to justify their own choices. Let me propose that if your beliefs or convictions matter more to you than people—if they require you to act as though you were a worse person than you are—you may have lost perspective."
Timothy Kreider, We Learn Nothing, 2012