[Old_Mil]

China is quite an enigma, isn't it?

At every turn, they are doing the exact opposite of what the free trade lobby tells us is good for us and yet as a nation they continue to grow their economy and prosper.

An interesting dillema which begs the question "if manufacturing is so last century, why do the Chinese seem to want it so much in this one?"

[jonassen]

An interesting dillema which begs the question "if manufacturing is so last century, why do the Chinese seem to want it so much in this one?"

Because every country has to go first from an agricultural society to a manufacturing society, before becoming service and information based. China is still largely an agricultural society. There are still 700 million Chinese farmers. That's a mindblowing number.