How long before one chinese sells out the other?

[Braznor]

It took the Americans 60 years to shoot themselves through their own mouths. In the end, one by one all of you sold out each other to the lowest bidder.

Technology...check.

Jobs....check.

Manufacturing....check.

Common sense....check

I could go on about this all day. But in the end the truth on the wall is that everyone betrays their own at everyone point of time.

So how long do you think the same happens to China? I think it is a very shortlived phenomenon. China is a contradiction waiting to crumble.

 

[a777pilot]

There is a great struggle going on right now in China. It's between the ruling elite and freedom for the masses. It is an open question as to which will win. If the ruling elite are willing to kill tens of millions of their own people, like is the history of china, then freedom does not have much of a chance. Sad.

 

[GoPackGo]

And we sure what to continue to deal with them - Genocide means cheap shit!!!!

 

[Martin]

Not any time soon. China has a multitude of problems, but at the end of the day the rulers are able to bring home the bacon for a huge number of people, who will in turn tolerate them. You also can't ignore the intense nationalism that's linked to their economic growth - it is seen by Chinese as finally taking their rightful place in the world after centuries of weakness and humiliation.

I think we'll have to wait until they're much more developed and the nature of their growth and society changes (lower growth, an aging population, higher incomes) before we see any substantial changes.

 

[sandorski]

Not any time soon. China has a multitude of problems, but at the end of the day the rulers are able to bring home the bacon for a huge number of people, who will in turn tolerate them. You also can't ignore the intense nationalism that's linked to their economic growth - it is seen by Chinese as finally taking their rightful place in the world after centuries of weakness and humiliation.

I think we'll have to wait until they're much more developed and the nature of their growth and society changes (lower growth, an aging population, higher incomes) before we see any substantial changes.

Yup. Progress has a way of bringing people on board. They see their lives improving and in the case of China it is dramatic improvement. Everything is not hunky-dory there, as there are still many left out, but as the progress spreads there will be fewer and fewer malcontents.

It is when Regress happens that societies have increasing internal instabilities. Look at Greece and even the US for examples.