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CIA projection sees China 'crash,' North Asia boom
World Tribune ^ | 12/19/03

Posted on 12/20/2003 1:53:48 PM PST by truthandlife

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"Northeast and Southeast Asia will progress along divergent paths: the countries of the North will become wealthier and more powerful, while the largest states in the South -- Indonesia and the Philippines — will become poorer, more populous, and more unstable," the report states.

Very true. The Philippines has stumbled over reform and is now sunken in corruption and infighting. Arroyo may wind up leaving office in the same manner as the last president, ie at gunpoint.

Much the same with Indonesia and Malaysia. They advanced far enough along to realize that there was solid public support for Islamic hardliners. Now they have begun chasing those numbers without admitting how badly that could get out of hand. If those two countries fall to the religious extremists, as they very well could, it will greatly compound the misery in that part of the world.

21 posted on 12/20/2003 4:21:57 PM PST by Steel Wolf (There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.)
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my feelings exactly...

Indonesia getting poorer? hmmm. I think the opposite.
22 posted on 12/20/2003 7:29:57 PM PST by WOSG (The only thing that will defeat us is defeatism itself)
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Historic?

Because the feral gummint finally caught up with us old china hands?

More like tired and lazy and second-handed Tuesday-morning quarterbacking.

Many others and I have been demonstrating, proving, illustrating, prophesizing, predicting and promising the inevitable crash of the empire built on more than two and a half million square miles of other people's territories, states and nations and on its enslavement of the more than a billion medieval serfs by the Peking-based pack of psychopathologically-hesperophobic, lying, looting, mass-murdering gangster bastatrds that calls itself "china."

We wrote of the inevitability of the coming crash more than a decade ago and all that has happened since is that our predictions have proven themselves and the crash has become obvious to even those so hard up as to have been forced, like the authors of the cia's second-handed "report," to take the gummint's dole.

And now an agency of
23 posted on 12/20/2003 11:10:48 PM PST by Brian Allen ( Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God - Thomas Jefferson)
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"Much the same with Indonesia and Malaysia. They advanced far enough along to realize that there was solid public support for Islamic hardliners. Now they have begun chasing those numbers without admitting how badly that could get out of hand. If those two countries fall to the religious extremists, as they very well could, it will greatly compound the misery in that part of the world."

Malaysia is much better off than Indonesia, both in extremism and corruption factors. I will not even travel to Indonesia, whereas I feel perfectly safe in Malaysia.


24 posted on 12/21/2003 7:29:29 AM PST by international american
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