Quote from FightTheFuture:
Bye bye baby China, you corrupt one party system, lack of oversight, mismanged house of cards.
You are just a baby, a child. Blah Blah, blah...
Quote from xiaodre:
You're thinking is revolutionary!
To think, I had read history books that put China as the origin of many of the most useful inventions mankind has ever come up with...
oh, and as one of the (well, so I was taught! But you cannot find good teachers nowadays) oldest continuous civilizations, the one that came up with paper money (ahem) and decimal mathamatics (ahem)...
Listen, you gotta write a book to get this new shit out! This is new shit, and it must be brought to light, man!
At least an ebook! At least think about it!
Quote from xiaodre:
You're thinking is revolutionary!
To think, I had read history books that put China as the origin of many of the most useful inventions mankind has ever come up with...
This may be true but it did not stop China from being overun by Mongols in the 13th Century and essentially servile to England by the mid-19th century.
Russia, France, Portugal, Germany, Japan all had colonies in China. All these countries were feeding off the Chinese carcass.
China in those days was the gifted genius who invented amazing things but had no idea how to monetise their inventions because their political system was a failure.
This was quickly expoited by the foriegn powers.
Quote from Alex_in_Oz:
I believe the Chaina story is going to be a repeat of the Japan story. Remember the Nikkei was 39,000 in 1991?
Then a long term decline and a rally to 15,000 from 7,000 5 years ago. Woefull.
Same business plan, same end result.
Don't get me wrong, I like Chinese food, women, architecture etc.