On Mon, 19 May 2008 05:01:35 +0800, rst0wxyz wrote
(in article
<3874ae80-0f75-4d73-8286-4ece051d4cf3@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On May 18, 9:01 am, Jim Walsh <jimNOwalsSPA...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> On Sat, 17 May 2008 14:13:41 +0800, rst0wxyz wrote
>> (in article
>> <1f4c0e9b-f99a-4091-a21b-981df1765...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>):
>>
>>> On May 16, 10:36 pm, David <da...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>>> wrote:
>>>> As recently as 1820, China accounted for 33% of the world's GDP.
>>
>>> What was "the biggest economy in the world" before the industrial
>>> revolution, before steam ****ps traveling all over the world, before
>>> air travel all over the world, was meaningless. What counts is today,
>>> the last century, after the 1800s. At the time when it counted the
>>> most, China fell flat on its face. China became the laughing stock of
>>> the world, the coolies of the world, the beast of burden of the
>>> world. As with Con****ius, China only has the past to live for, and
>>> continues to live in the past.
>>
>> Hey, why can't you face facts?
>
> I am stating the facts of China.is way behind in everything.
>
>> Your superstitious belief in centuries of
>> starving Chinese has been repeated rebutted, but you cling to it like a
life
>> jacket.
>
> No, it hasn't. The facts remained;
>
> Even today, China remains a very poor country. For the past
> decade, China has been doing the catch-up game. What China has, most
> Western countries have. A lot of Western countries have, China can
> only dream of. One big mis-step in China, and China may not recover
> at all.
Agree with all of the above, but it doesn't refute your silly "centuries
of
starvation".
> China is still a very "unscrutable" country. 59 years have passed
> since I left China as a little boy, very little has changed today in
> the rural village area where I was born. I said it before, and I'll
> say it again, in the rural part of China, it is only a few steps from
> the Qing Dynasty.
Actually, no. It is waaay better than the Qing Dynasty.
> For today's young people in rural China, going to work in the cities
> must be like going to "gold mountain" of the old days.
Whatever. Still missing the point. China was the sick man of Asia for a
relatively short period of time in its long history.
--
Love, Jim
(I often delete parts of the previous post and I often remove excessive
crossposts.)
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