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To: Willie Green

What the article said is irrefutable but it doesn't tell everything. Millions upon millions of Chinese are unable to sustain themselves in their villages if they stay there.

The migration to the cities is not only choking the cities but those millions upon millions of peasants will be unemployed.

You will see Russia - where you have billionaire oligarchs side by side with extreme poverty - amplified 100 times. The political reality for China is chaos within ten years.


11 posted on 11/23/2004 8:53:30 AM PST by matchwood
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To: matchwood

Well so much for communism in effect. . .


14 posted on 11/23/2004 8:56:52 AM PST by Tempest (Click on my name for a long list of press contacts)
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To: matchwood

I don't think so. There is a large middle class in China that wasn't present in Russia. Also, the infrastructure is more vibrant. I think it will be an uncomfortable transition, and unemployment will be a problem until they finalize capitalism, but I don't think they'll collapse like Russia did.


19 posted on 11/23/2004 8:58:47 AM PST by Little Pig (Is it time for "Cowboys and Muslims" yet?)
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