Posted on 03/25/2015 2:33:39 PM PDT by Citizen Zed
True. Probably why nobody would take that route.
Via Panama, about 10,000 miles.
Via Cape Horn, about 15,000 miles.
Via S. Africa, about 12,500 miles.
Interesting site. http://www.sea-distances.org/
The funny part about a lot of the comments on this thread is that people don’t seem to see the very large elephant sitting there.
“Communism never works” because Venezuela is selling out to China.
Yet China has for 60+ years been a fully Communist country. At least in theory and name.
And China has gone from waaay below Venezuela to gaining on the USA.
Either China isn’t “really” Communist, or Communism CAN work.
China is getting to the point where both Mao Zedong and Josef Stalin would be horrified at what the country has become. Communism in that country is more like a veneer than anything else.
It is still ruled by commies, real wealth comes from cronyism, the vast majority are still poor
I quite agree. I think modern China has a lot more in common with its old dynastic system. The Party members stand in for the mandarins, and since Mao there has been no Emperor.
Historically, without an Emperor China falls apart due to spectacular corruption in the mandarinate (Party).
We’ll get another example of how communism screws up a country...which will be blamed on capitalism.
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