On May 18, 11:18=A0pm, Jim Walsh <jimNOwalsSPA...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Mon, 19 May 2008 05:01:35 +0800, rst0wxyz wrote
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> > On May 18, 9:01=A0am, Jim Walsh <jimNOwalsSPA...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >> 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.
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> >>> 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
toda=
y,
> >>> 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.
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> >> Hey, why can't you face facts?
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> > I am stating the facts of China.is way behind in everything.
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> >> Your superstitious belief in centuries of
> >> starving Chinese has been repeated rebutted, but you cling to it like
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life
> >> jacket.
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> > No, it hasn't. =A0The facts remained;
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> > =A0 =A0 =A0Even today, China remains a very poor country. =A0For the
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t
> > decade, China has been doing the catch-up game. =A0What China has,
most
> > Western countries have. =A0A lot of Western countries have, China can
> > only dream of. =A0One big mis-step in China, and China may not recover
> > at all.
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> Agree with all of the above, but it doesn't refute your silly "centuries
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f
> starvation".
Have you eaten yet, Jim Walsh?
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> > China is still a very "unscrutable" country. =A059 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. =A0I 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.
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> Actually, no. It is waaay better than the Qing Dynasty.
Have you been to any rural villages in China, Jim Walsh? Tell me, Jim
Walsh, waaay better than the Qing Dynasty in what area? which rural
area of China are you talking about? Name a few items that are waaaay
better than the Qing Dynasty time.
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> > 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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> Whatever. Still missing the point. China was the sick man of Asia for a
> relatively short period of time in its long history.
One thing is for certain. You have no point. You have no idea what
you are talking about.
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