[Young Werther]

I'm one of the dot.com discards. MBA and I'm moving inventory at the local Target Store at nights as I job search during the day! You wouldn't believe how many of the cases and cartons of American brand named product is "Made in China"! Barbie, Rival Crock Pots, Clothing, etc etc.

We will beat them just as we slew the Bear. Good old fashion Capitalism.

Next we draw them closer by inviting them to join the International Space Station partnership. Invite India and Pakistan and we can begin to use science and technology to positively effect international relations.

[Blackyce]

Less Communist but just as Fascist as ever. Fascist Capitalism....kind of reminds me of slavery in a way.

[beckett]

Jiang: ...free our minds from the shackles of outdated notions, practices and systems, from the erroneous and dogmatic interpretations of Marxism.

Historic words indeed.

[Cicero]

It's still structurally a Communist Party system. It remains to be seen whether that will be free and flexible enough to work. Not many checks and balances, I wouldn't think.

[FreeTheHostages]

"effectively jettisoned communism"


YSR.


I believe it when I see it.

[NewRomeTacitus]

That's it, the fat lady sings for Communisism in China. Dependency on international trade combined with the Hong Kong quandry has made their blinders slip enough to see that their system is a dead end. While xenophobia is part of their national character they haven't been so self-isolated to ignore how the rest of the world has moved on.
We in the U.S. usually overlook China's primary virtue of long term thinking. Communism is a flashing fad compared to a civilization spanning thousands of years. That they have become the world leader in cheap commodities shows that practicality takes precedence over ideology. The Chinese government is changing due to their nation's far older ingrained wisdom towards self-preservation.
My only worry is that their military hardliners may provoke Taiwan for their personal preservation. We can't forget how they subverted a sitting U.S. president for technological parity and openly spoke of their plans for a defeated America.

[PhilDragoo]

This is all crap.

This beetle still rattles his saber at Taiwan, grinds Hong Kong under one heel and Tibet under the other.

They spend billions on Russian warships, subs, Su-30's.

War with the great hegemon is inevitable, the sooner the better.

Falun Gong, Christians/Catholics, democracy advocates, labor organizers are all crushed.

The internet and media are censored.

Jiang pretends to peacefully transition, but places his Shanghai faction puppets to retain control.

The "renunciation of Communism" is a charade.

The beetles of Beijing retain totalitarian control.

Meanwhile they cannot feed, clothe and house their thirteen hundred million.

Their threats toward Taiwan become more shrill.

They dare not be so foolish as to test the resolve of this president--

He is not their bitch as was the last--

This one has said, "We intend to do whatever it takes to defend Taiwan."

Jiang & Co. would do well to "let it go"--

In due course the revolution of rising expectations will intoxicate their subjects who will then slough off dogmatic constrictions.

Free markets and freedom of political expression will be born there, but not bloodlessly.

[Pushi]

On a scale of earth-shaking events, where the fall of the USSR was a 10, this is an 8. This is a signal to the rest of the world that they are ditching Marxism. By nature, the Chinese are capitalists--it's in their genes. They are not going to let anything get in the way of their economic progress--even Taiwan. If we hold our ground on our relationship with Taiwan, the Chinese government will not risk a serious confrontation over it--or anything else, for that matter. They want open trade with everybody--Taiwan, S. Korea, Japan, South American countries, US, etc. etc. They want to put all those Chinese to work.

[William McKinley]

It was improper, he said, "to judge whether people are progressive or backward by how much property they own".

My God, between this and China voting for the Iraq resolution, China has moved to the right of the House minority leadership.

[Fiddlstix]

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