Uh, Is that where one buys crap products, from a bellicose, communist enemy that produces said products with slave labor, with stolen technology and all the while selling out their own country to make a fast buck? That free trade? Yes, I know what that means.
I think that's a tad overstated. If they were using slave labor, China's economy would resemble North Korea's. As to stolen technology, that has been the growth path of the economies of East Asia, including relatively wealthy economies like Japan, Taiwan and South Korea. Heck, ripping off other people's inventions has been how underdogs caught up since the dawn of time. Re-inventing the wheel in pointless and wasteful. And this stuff about selling out their own people is just silly. How is an economy that started out 1979, before economic liberalization started, with 5% of Mexico's GDP per capita and has attained 50% of Mexico's GDP per capita in the past couple of years, be said to have been the result of "selling out"? In 1979, China had 80% of India's GDP per capita, compare to 4x India's number today. Ultimately, a lot of your conclusions are the result of bad data.
Historical data on GDP per capita:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_past_and_future_GDP_%28nominal%29_per_capita
Enthused “bump” to that.