On May 18, 9:01=A0am, 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]
>):
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> > On May 16, 10:36=A0pm, David <da...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > 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 =A0traveling all over the world, before
> > air travel all over the world, was meaningless. =A0What counts is
today,=
> > the last century, after the 1800s. =A0At the time when it counted the
> > most, China fell flat on its face. =A0China became the laughing stock
of=
> > the world, the coolies of the world, the beast of burden of the
> > world. =A0As 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
li=
fe
> 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.
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.
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.
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