[faulkner]

Its not a place focused on the individual consumer which is not the kind of economics anyone is used to, or works. There are so many things fundamentally wrong with business in China.

Perhaps you think business conditions in Third World republics like India, Brazil, and Argentina are better? Come on, in India, despite 50 years of democracy, they have yet to enact basic labor and land reforms that allow private businesses to hire and fire people as they wish to or buy property when they want to.

[GOP_1900AD]

In the long run, we will be glad that we have economic contacts with these countries. Especially during the next great global crisis, be it war or others.

[GOP_1900AD]

Furthermore, you appear to be quite out of touch with the changes that have happened in India. Whereas in Europe, there are only faint rumblings of rightist backlash against Socialism, in India, the rightists are in power. It's the greatest thing to happen from a Western perspective in a really long time. In the meanwhile, our useful idiots continue to coddle Pakistan, who are niether rightists nor particularly fond of the West (recent lip service notwithstanding). Now would be a good time to embrace India, before things get too chaotic. Who knows, they may be OUR lend lease plan if things get really hairy!