[sima_yi]

I just returned last week from China (trip #6 over the last twenty-three years). If you had not seen the huge, huge improvement in their economy, you would not believe it.

The thing I took away from this latest trip: As China becomes more and more capitalist, and less and less Communist, the more prosperous its people become. As the United States becomes more and more Communist, and less and less capitalist, the less prosperous its people become.

The numbers bear me out.

[bert]

You must remember that to many here, change, that is a revision to all aspects of the status quo, can not be understood.

Since Mao defeated Chang Kai Shack and made China a miserable place, China must remain a miserable place. There can be no allowance for the reasonable assumption that the people of China didn’t really like to live in chains and shackles.

[warchild9]

My wife just returned from a business trip to Singapore, Hong Kong, and Seoul. She says it was astonishing, how advanced they are and how pathetic the United States has become.

And, yes, she went to visit American clients who’ve screwed us by moving their businesses to slave labor countries. They’re flourishing, with 20% rates of growth, and better. Even their worker drones are doing better than ever before.

Now, she wants to move to Singapore (she was born and raised in Cuba). I’m thinking Switzerland, after I finish the loooong process of obtaining tenure.

[spetznaz]

I just returned last week from China (trip #6 over the last twenty-three years). If you had not seen the huge, huge improvement in their economy, you would not believe it.

I remember my trip to Beijing late 2010 ...I was not expecting that. Shanghai is even more advanced in terms of infrastructure. Interesting as well is the fact that many of the people are really capitalistic ...it is just the government that is communist, and even then it appears more and more that they are communist in name only.