Yeah, I tend to agree with you. As long as they have a small group who run everything and have absolute power, they may not care what people do economically.
this is a threat to our livestyle - a big one.
A friend of mine is a project leader for Bayer Engineering. He's in China in the moment. He consideres the situation to be 'not at all funny'.
He says these guys will roll us in leaves and smoke us in about 10 years (we = EU)
Now will you stop chearing !!!
They will get used to smoke western civilizations you know...