Ethan, there have been insults slung at me in this thread. Two posters on this thread have been needling and insulting me repeatedly and have continued it from other threads for the purpose of getting me angered. They were even gloating about it in the open. Those posts have been deleted by the AM.
I am not frothing. . . I use caps because sometimes it is easier to use them than to use HTML to put stress on certain words when necessary, or to get through to people who seem too dense to pick up the meanings after numerous, repeated explanations that everyone else has picked up. For example, on this thread the repeated idiotic claims that Apple was copying and infringing the patent of Dell's charger cable ties, or the claim there were no differences in the digital watch designs when the differences are blatant for anyone to see kind of require a bit of shouting at the idiot who kept on claiming it. . . and even insulting him for his denseness. . . which he did not like, after insulting me numerous times which I did not respond to, but he asked the AM to delete the entire on point, accurate response, based on a four word sentence about his denseness! That kind of idiocy sometimes requires shouting to get through the lead lined neutronium skull. . . but it doesn't.
Other than that, I do not use them. Now, "frothing all caps outbursts of yours" are not characteristic of my posts at all . . . and you know it. That is actually an ad hominem attack intended to make me appear deranged. Cut it out.
Please read my posts on China for content. Set aside your "Communist" bias for a moment and listen to what I am saying. I am an Economist, and do know what I am talking about. It does not matter what trappings children do for patriotism for Mother China. . . what matters is what is that country doing that we have to worry about on the world stage. They are changing their economy to a Capitalistic Economy. . . and doing so very rapidly. They see what works and are doing it. They saw what did not work.
As I told you, the Chinese, if anything, are pragmatic. in reality, they never left the feudalistic system. They just exchanged it for different masters when the nationalists and then the commissars took over from the Emperors and his satraps. For the most part, it was same jobs, different overseers. And under the Communists, add calisthenics and have office workers go to the fields for a work vacation every so often. . . and screw up what was minimally working under Feudalism because the new soviet (committee) system was, like any committee, incapable of making a decision to save it's neck.
The USSR had crippled the Chinese by selling them Soviet made hardware, but not the equipment to build repair parts for anything that was sold to them, from Railroad locomotives, to the aircraft and military equipment, automobiles, factory machinery, ships, everything. When the Iron Curtain fell, and the USSR was no more, the props were pulled out from under the Communist regime in China . . . and no financial aid was coming from the USSR to buy those repair parts. . . and the new URS wanted hard currency from China, which it could ill afford, to buy replacement parts. . . and under no circumstance would they accept the Rubles they had sent them before.
The Communist Chinese soon found themselves in deep doo-doo. It was actually over a period of about five to ten years as the shoddy Soviet built equipment fell apart. . . and China's economy started to also fall apart.
Pragmatically, the Chinese government realized something had to be done.
Buying more from Russia was not a good answer. More repair parts for failing junk wasn't going to be a long term solution. The solution was to buy new infrastructure and new machinery from new trading partners. That meant Korea, Japan, Indonesia, and the US. . . and that meant making products to TRADE back to pay for it. But how? They were just as cash strapped for dollars to pay for to these countries as they were to buy from Russia. . . and their crippled economy had nothing really to sell to earn it.
Their answer hit them in the face when they were handed the sovereignty over Hong Kong in 1997 and agreed to not change the economic system of that thriving Capitalistic enclave. When they realized that Hong Kong alone was generating more GNP than all of the rest of China, it hit them that what they had been doing was just flat out wrong. What China had was a large inexpensive labor pool but no way to use it effectively. . . but Hong Kong showed them how. So, using income from normal taxes received from Hong Kong income, China started opening other interior cities to be Capitalistic Enclaves. . . and then more and more. They invited foreign companies to come in and build factories, manage factories, and invest, the whole nine-yards of a Capitalistic structure.
That was so successful, and noting that the small private plots were completely out-producing the collecting farms themselves, ownership shares were opened to the workers of the collective farms and productivity boomed. That is still a work in progress. . . but it's happening. They're doing what works. . . free enterprise.
China established a low Capital Gains tax, a low Corporate income tax, and low workers income taxes. . . but retained the trappings of a socialistic society with universal health care, etc. . . (i.e. not very good health care, just universal, but a hell or a lot better for the ruling class). And of course the military which is necessary to absorb the surplus males. Iron hand rule on social things. . . religion, free speech, privacy, more than one child? forget 'em. But it is Capitalist. . . with minimal regulation.
So, Ethan, my point is that China is no longer "communist" but still a totalitarian state. . . I'm not sure exactly what it is, but it isn't communistic anymore. It is in flux.
Anything in flux can be very dangerous. . . and we need to face it as it is, not what it once was, if it ever was.
Wow, what a massive rant. I wonder what prompted it. I hope you used a tissue to mop up the frothy white build-up. Whatever the case, it's clear that Apple fanbuoys are more than willing to work for the Chinese Communist Party disseminating impassioned pro-Chicom propaganda and apologetics. This makes them a threat to national security of course.