That is why if we sell to them (instead of buying from them) we would make a lot of money.
A recent Forbes article described the Pearl River Delta. Hong Kong sits on one side and Macau sits on the other side of the estuary.
Since 1990, nine cities excluding those two have grown together, coalesced, into an area the size of Vermont and New Hampshire. The population of that area is 68 million people. The Pearl River GDP makes it the 13 th largest economy in the world. Number 14 is Russia.
It is a serious mistake to judge China by the past of decades ago. There has been great change and there will be even more. The young people will not tolerate the ways of Mao and the dying old men