[Brian Allen]

This is the usual total fabrication of "economic growth" boasted about at around this time every year by the psychopathological self-appointed Peking-based pack of invading, conquering, colonizing, enslaving, mass-murdering, lying, looting, thieving gangster bastards that calls itself, "china." [The books MAY be done by August; not that it'll make any difference; Peking's psychopaths never retract lies]

"china's" actual 2002 growth MIGHT be 3% -- and is to a penny; just as that of the much-vaunted South East Asian "tigers" [Pussies, actually] used to be; entirely foreign investment driven -- and doomed to eventual collapse.

[goldstategop]

I would trade our anemic growth for some of China's. The Reds there are adopting capitalism and we're setting to punish success. You can be forgiven for thinking in which country the cries for income restribution bleats the loudest.