Posted on 06/05/2019 5:01:05 PM PDT by vannrox
...even if you have to wade through the rage at John McCain and Mr. Cotton Neocons.
In my day I've done some traveling (as evidenced on my profile page)...most of it being for pleasure (my career didn't require international travel).
I've seen a good portion of the "First World" as well as a fair portion of the Third World (Africa,Asia,South America).
Although it's possible to see unfortunate areas just about anywhere you go in the "First World" the undeniable fact is that the typical resident of all such countries lead good,comfortable lives.
OTOH wherever you go in the Third World you'll see breathtaking poverty and backwardness wherever you look.Yes,there are rather nice pockets of relative affluence there...but they tend to be populated by government officials and "friends" of government officials.
As for China...although what you see in several of their major cities (Beijing,Shanghai,Guangzhou and a few others) is pretty impressive I guarantee that if you travel 5 miles outside the center of those cities you'll see 14th Century backwardness and poverty...poverty that rivals anything I've in Africa or South America.
IOW,China is a country where about 75 million people can afford a Buick but the other 1.1 billion people are forced to work 14 hours a day,6 days a week for a dollar an hour just to avoid starvation.
I think I learned all I need to know about communist China at Tiananmen Square - if I hadn’t learned it through the so-called ‘Cultural’ revolution.
(Do they now allow two children per couple?)
Yes. And now they have an imbalance
to deal with. Too few women.
China has adopted some free market reforms, and people there have experienced better standards of living than in previous decades. But their living standards are still much less than ours. And, the people do not have any political freedoms, which we take for granted.
I thought the ‘one child’ policy resulted in too few women. Hasn’t the ‘two child’ change evened the score?
It takes time, I guess. And their overall birth rate has fallen, to boot. Now they’re trying to get more women to have more babies.
When I was a child, post WW2 Japan was largely third world.
So was most of Asia, and the Pacific Islands.
When I was stationed in South Korea, the poverty there exceeded what I had seen in the Philippines.
Today neither Japan nor South Korea are very third world (though most of the Philippines still is.
I guess it’s ‘not nice to fool with Mother Nature’, eh?
Camazotz
I remember as a kid the iron rice bowl and having to finish my supper because people were starving in China. It’s odd to hear of them having a low population growth problem.
Communist China is a tyrannical government that will, if it thinks it has to, murder its own citizens to achieve some goal, as it has unashamedly done to tens of millions of them in the past.
No thanks.
Those in China monitoring your post may spend a few days doing so before they send a report to their superiors.
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ok
Well, there’s still about 1.4 Billion of them.
And so many of them men, without prospects for wives....
Most of them do so because of the activities of the United States.
Virtually all of Europe has benefited because of the Pax Americana the U.S. has extended over the world since WWII. They do not pay for their own defense or the preservation of order, freedom of the seas, and international commerce that Pax Americana maintains. The same applies to Australia.
Korea - Just look at the difference between North and South, and you see where America has influence, and where it does not.
China, We have, over the last 30 years given red China 1 trillion dollars of aid, and they have stolen (with a wink and nod by the U.S.A.) another 1 trillion dollars of intellectual property rights.
Thailand, Vietnam, the Philippines. Yes, you can buy sex cheap there. I don't call that a good way of living.
swinging door theory....ALL these people still rushing in, not out.....
and in China, you get the commies running the churchs..
China is Aokay as long as you have no principles nor morals or values..
The divorce rate in China increased to 3.9 percent over the last year, with 3.63 million couples bringing their marriage to an end, according to the latest data released by the Ministry of Civil Affairs. The rate has been rising for twelve consecutive years since 2003.
https://www.whatsonweibo.com/divorced-yet-why-china-has-a-soaring-divorce-rate/
China blames it on social media. And they may have a point. With surplus of males, disgruntled wives can find a new man easily online.
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