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Some truth about the Chinese economic "miracle," to counteract the hype.
1 posted on 12/25/2010 10:57:29 AM PST by mojito
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China to me seems like a house of cards. Too much, too fast, too rigged, too controlled. I think overall they are in worse shape than we are.


2 posted on 12/25/2010 11:00:49 AM PST by Free Vulcan (The cult of Islam must be eradicated by any means necessary.)
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All other migrants who work in Shanghai, though, must return by night to the shantytowns or shoddy workers’ dormitories at the city’s periphery, far from the cosmopolitan city center.

In practical terms this is little different than New York or San Francisco or LA, where you have a bunch of rich people who live in the city center with the poor support personnel banished to the outer rims at night.

4 posted on 12/25/2010 11:10:00 AM PST by garbanzo (Government is not the solution to our problems. Government is the problem.)
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Remember the fake educational statistics from 3 weeks ago, saying that Shanghai led the world in science and math score?

I wonder what the test real scores were from West Shanghai, where the slave population lives, most of the real population?


5 posted on 12/25/2010 11:10:23 AM PST by FormerACLUmember (Character is defined by how we treat those who society says have no value.)
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No they are not inventing anything new-

They are just copying everything from everybody else.

They do not have the technology to produce a 10 megapixel IP camera. -

probably 3 years behind us,

but they will steal the technology and copy it to try to catch up.

10 posted on 12/25/2010 11:44:57 AM PST by bunkerhill7
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Looks like a good article - bttt.


12 posted on 12/25/2010 12:11:54 PM PST by Tax-chick (All the ends of the earth have seen the power of God.)
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Looks like a good article - bttt.


13 posted on 12/25/2010 12:12:05 PM PST by Tax-chick (All the ends of the earth have seen the power of God.)
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Still the same, although not surprising, after decades of trying. Communist China is always so vain and pretentious. Why so? Why is painting “gold” on its face so important? If Chicom wants to prove something, the best way to prove is to really guarantee its people with the basic human rights, happiness, and good life— rights given by God to every birth (NOT by any government).


16 posted on 12/25/2010 4:07:00 PM PST by mulan (not)
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I have to question the bias of the author, and his impartiality, since he serves as an advisor to South Korean president Lee Myung Bak.

I have visited both Shanghai and Seoul, and from a foreigner's perspective, they are both vivid, vibrant cities with a bustling nightlife. Notice that the author is silent about Shanghi's nightlife, although he does (correctly) mention that Beijing is dead after 8pm.

Bottom line is that all three of these cities are nicer to visit and safer than any large American city. I would rather visit one of these 3 than visit, say, Chicago.

17 posted on 12/25/2010 4:30:27 PM PST by nwrep
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