[chemainus]

BULLSHIT...that's what LORAL and CLINTOONIA said...and Bush certainly does have a hand in what technology and manufacturing processes are exported ...wake up whoever you are and stop drooling that liberal balderdash !

[maui_hawaii]

I have to agree with you. Just 'investing and hoping' doesn't do crap.

From another thread...

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In 1979, China set a radical new course when Deng Xiaoping, the successor to Mao, effectively began to dismantle doctrinaire communism by declaring that "it matters not if a cat is black or white, so long as it catches mice" --

With that statement has China ever abandoned its strategic goals for ultimate super power and power over Asia? What is the "mouse" they are after?

China did not abandon its goal of a utopic China, they just tried a different method of getting there.

The only way they can do what they so desire... is to oppose the US.

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Investing in China makes rich dictators.

[mlocher]

thanks for your kind words of encouragement. i speak from first hand experience. the chinese are a spiritually void society just wanting to know more about the west, its ways and capitalism. true, the peasants are no different than our pagan western societies of a thousand years ago. but the more contact the west has with the citizens (if you can call them that) the sooner there will be an overthrown government from within.

i suggest you wake up and smell the coffee and open your windows and doors. there is an exciting world of folks out there, many who hate us, but many more who aspire to be like us.

[mlocher]

wake up whoever you are and stop drooling that liberal balderdash !

let's see, conservatives rely on the free market to solve problems while liberals shy away from free trade and turn to protectionism. i think you must be looking in the mirror as you speak...