[TigerLikesRooster]

China is like "10 post-war Japans all developing and growing rich simultaneously."

If China can pull it off. My view is that China is likely to tear itself apart in its maddening headlong dash, disregarding all other precautions.

China started further behind either S. Korea or Japan and tried to go in much shorter time than these countries were able to do. This requires that everything goes right for China. In today's unstable environment, that is asking too much.

[formosaplastics]

If democracy really were the catalyst for economic development and releasing a country's potential, all of today's Third World republics would be outperforming China economically as we speak. But they're not. Those are the facts. At some point, you have to start acknowledging simple reality.