George, excellent post! One thing I want to point out is about those $300 million from Taiwan to Kosovo, that amount is the peanuts, nothing, nada, compared to what Guomindang took from the mainland in 1949. They basically took everything that could by moved, including 700+ tons of gold. The only thing left in China in 1949 was the land they could not move away, and of course, 500 million smart Chinese. China could not even product a nail in 1949, had basically no any national industry except some weak textile industry in Shanghai. The country was in such a destitute situation after 100 years of foreign invasion and civil war. And then here we are, in 1964, only 15 years later, China successfully explored its own nuclear bomb.
So they can discredit, curse, condemn the Chinese gov. all they want. The fact is because of the Chinese gov., China can be as strong as today. Chinese gov. made some serious mistakes for sure over the last 50 years. But this is natural, everything happens in China since 1949 is unprecedented in history, and thus experiments of some sort. It is only natural to make some mistakes. And every gov. on this planet makes mistakes. As long as they realize and correct them, Chinese people will forgive. It doesn't matter whether the Western world approves it or not, China will go its own way, and no superpower can force anything upon China, period.
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