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To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (123217)4/7/2001 10:50:04 PM
From: GST  Read Replies (1) of 164684
 
Skeeter: fair enough, but I was also trying to figure out if you have a mental picture of what these huge Chinese cities look like these days -- the people, the lifestyles, the stores. If you took the population of the world and divided it by the number of people you would conclude everybody in the world must be poor -- and of course we know that is not true of the world as a whole. Nor is it true in China -- although money is infinitely harder to come by than it is in the US. income distribution has gone from "everybody is dirt poor" to "most people are dirt poor but a growing number are not". With a population the size of China that counts for something. Is it a middle class society? certainly not. But it has an emerging middle class and this group is large if only because the population is large -- 1 out of every 4 people in the world live in China -- 1 out of every 4 Skeet -- pause for a moment and think about it. That is a lot of people Skeeter. So when I ask "have you been there lately" I am dead serious. Now ask me if they have challenges and problems and I will tell you they have problems and challenges that would make most people throw up their hands and say "it is hopeless". We are hosting almost every Mayor in China here in May in Honlulu for a conference with a strong environmental focus -- the urban infrastructure challenge is almost beyond belief. But so are the business opportunities to help build this infrastructure. Our fates are interconnected -- not to mention the fate of China in the context of other Asian countries and our relationship to Asia. Lose our place in Asia and we lose a big piece of our global role, our long term security, our long term influence, and our long term economic well being. Come on Skeeter -- think about the future.
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