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Chinese gearing up for SUVs
Washington Times ^ | 6/14/04 | Dale McFeatters

Posted on 06/14/2004 2:44:07 AM PDT by kattracks

Edited on 07/12/2004 4:16:20 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

When Chairman Mao Tse-tung, author of the little "Red Book" of goofy socialist platitudes, was running Communist China, he could look out contentedly on tens of millions of his countrymen clad in identical gray suits, pedaling silently and docilely to work on identical black bicycles.


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TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: china; suv; trade

1 posted on 06/14/2004 2:44:07 AM PDT by kattracks
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To: kattracks
"Chinese gearing up for SUVs "

Chinese human rights violations pale next to this!


Can the Democrat Party and their vast armies of indignant SUV fighters be far from an invasion?

2 posted on 06/14/2004 3:36:48 AM PDT by G.Mason (A President is best judged by the enemies he makes when he has really hit his stride…Max Lerner)
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To: kattracks

Ha! City streets in China are not made for SUV's. No room to zoom!


3 posted on 06/14/2004 4:49:57 AM PDT by Dr. Marten (I donated to the Demcratic Party today, but I forgot to flush it down the toilet....)
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To: Dr. Marten

I was in Beijing recently and saw lots of Cherokees and other SUVs.


4 posted on 06/14/2004 5:07:38 AM PDT by dinodino
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To: kattracks
Chinese gearing up for SUVs

Beginning of the fall?

5 posted on 06/14/2004 5:15:55 AM PDT by A. Pole
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To: kattracks

Chinese competition is why OUR gas prices are rising.


6 posted on 06/14/2004 6:03:52 AM PDT by eccentric
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To: kattracks

Good God ! I can see $100 a barrel....


7 posted on 06/14/2004 7:08:06 AM PDT by traumer
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8 posted on 06/14/2004 7:31:52 AM PDT by TBarnett34 (Pres. Ronald Reagan (1911-2004): Rest in Peace)
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To: dinodino

I was just there this past March and will be moving there in August as well.

I didn't say they didn't have them, I just said their streets are not made for them. YOu may have noticed that there are no parking lots, on-street parking, parking garages..etc. Most of the autos in China are compact cars, not huge SUV's. (btw, SUV's just started appearing in China within the last couple of years. When I was there in 2001, there were hardly any American vehicles.


9 posted on 06/14/2004 9:45:03 AM PDT by Dr. Marten (I donated to the Demcratic Party today, but I forgot to flush it down the toilet....)
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To: G.Mason

The Chinese like their SUVs. Next they might like some roads.


10 posted on 06/14/2004 9:48:07 AM PDT by RightWhale (Destroy the dark; restore the light)
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To: kattracks

Turn your back on a Chinaman for 15 minutes and he starts a business. This is one of the strengths of the culture. I'll bet a lot of these SUVs and vans are destined to be jitneys.


11 posted on 06/14/2004 9:52:32 AM PDT by sphinx
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To: RightWhale
"The Chinese like their SUVs. Next they might like some roads."

Then I guess there is nothing to the rumor that each Chinaman that buys an SUV gets ten slaves to make the roads to wherever that Chinaman wants to go? ;)

12 posted on 06/14/2004 10:00:30 AM PDT by G.Mason (A President is best judged by the enemies he makes when he has really hit his stride…Max Lerner)
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To: G.Mason

And here I thought that SUV's could go off roading.


13 posted on 06/14/2004 2:25:09 PM PDT by pragmatic_asian
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