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I don't buy his predictions, (remember "Rising Sun"?) but anyone who thinks China is not a REAL threat is dreaming. They are actually closer to a capitalist country than we are in many areas, with more individual freedoms than we have, if you are not 1) a political dissident, or 2) a member of a "non-approved" religious sect. The economic opportunities there are staggering, and people are getting rich by the boatload. The labor pool there is astounding as they have more UNEMPOLOYED people (300 million+) than we have PEOPLE.

I don't believe they will prosper in the long run, as I am a Christian, and I believe that they will pay for the oppression of true believers in what they do to the "house church" movement. It is interesting, though, that they also have more Christians than we do, the church is growing faster, and the quality of zealousness among their ranks puts ours to shame.

The problems will come when some of the wealth being gained begins to lift the wage standards from $0.28 cents, and people want to enjoy some of their freedoms. The soviet bloc saw that freedom realized is like a cancer to a totalitarian system. It metastasizes and eats the heart out of the system. Combine that with the idea of the dignity of man and the fearlessness that a religiously energized populace (above) has, and you have the makings of a revolution, peaceful if possible, violent if necessary. That is why China brutally oppresses its religious minorities.

One problem with Freepers is they think that when some guy like this points out the real trends in an ascendant power, they act like he is bawling out that capitalism has failed and that the glorious socialist paradise has arisen. He is NOT saying that. Present plan has me selling my business and retiring in 3 years, with plans to teach English in Bejing for a couple of year afterwards. I want to be where things are happening, and China is such a place.

The Chinese economic system is closer to that of Nazi Germany than to the Red China of the Maoist era or the USSR under glasnost and perestroika or Lenin's New Economic Plan.

I think you used my post to go off on a tangent, because you have made some assumptions that would have been impossible to conclude from what I posted.

Anyway, Good Luck with your future plans.

Present plan has me selling my business and retiring in 3 years, with plans to teach English in Bejing for a couple of year afterwards. I want to be where things are happening, and China is such a place.

Sounds like a plan. I'm aiming for Vietnam, which is lagging by far but will improve once the old Viet Minh fogies die off.

You should learn some Mandarin before you move to Beijing.