[logic]

The chinese have never been known for inventiveness or originality, but they can copy great. Just like Japan and Taiwan started out. After they get the economy stimulated with the huge trade surplus, then develop western type schooling to teach engineering (amoung other things) then look out, they will be a power to be reckoned with. Not that they are not now a power to be reckoned with, but after they advance a little more, they will be a power we will not be able to overcome.

The thing that chaps my hide is that we are funding our own overthrow as the leader of the world. Why we allow Chinese goods to be sold in this country with little to no import tax when the chinese tax our products going into china at about 1000% is not only stupid on our part, but I would call it abominable!! And the same thing goes on in so many other countries. Establishing trade treaties with other countries is one of the few things the constitution allows the federal government to do and it is one of the things they do the worst!! What would our economy be like if we had equal trade with all the other countries we trade with?? We are supposed to be for free trade, but what we have is nothing close to it! OK, OK I'll stop my rant, but only for now. I reserve the right to rant later...... : )

[The Pheonix]

A lot of Western journals, including TIME, FORBES, FORTUNE, etc, had quoted that China is currently producing about 500,000 Hi-tech engineers and Hi-tech techicans annually. A British Space-website had said that China had put 30,000 Space engineers into one special city, all working on China's Space Programme

Prof Needham of Oxford University had published a multi-volume study on Chinese inventions, and these includes paper, compass, gunpowder, paper-money, civil-service, the ship's rudder, the ship's water-tight compartments, Capitalism (the Tang Dynasty), rockets, flame flower, bronze bells casting techniques, numerous discoveries in the Sciences of Astromony, the water-wheel, paddle-boat,etc etc etc