Your ESP Ju-Ju must be powerful brother Chen. I haven't been here since August but had this urge to stop in and found your recent post. Your thread seems active enough, so I guess I should be flattered that you felt it necessary to dredge up a post from so long ago.
<<The idea that Moslems every where are going to rise up>> ... them are prophetic words, strategic partner. A lot has happened since those words. Any new thoughts?
<<Moslems can't seem to do it themselves>> ... whatever did you mean?
The Arabs are no long term threat to anybody and never have been. They certainly have not risen up in any great numbers. That is certainly just as clear to me today as waay back when. And Bin Laden isn't too happy with them either... hehehe :-)
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Sounds like Hitler ranting in the bunker about how the German people failed him just before he sucked a bullet.
<<And believe me NMD will completely defang EU, Russia, and China>> ... Oops, wrong again.
I am?? Based on what?? Could you at least provide some sort of reasoning to back your statement. BTW, we just had another NMD missile test which was quite successful.
To be honest, I hope main land China gets it's collect(ivist) act together and becomes more democratic and successful economically; capable of handling it's many social health problems such as Aids and it's long term pollution problems too. But the idea that Taiwan will collapse cause of the lack of oil, or that the main land leadership will want to suffer the loss of face of having 400,000 boats filled with refugees head across the straits for freedom is, well, ludicrous.
Strategic partner has such a ring... so, how does the mainland feel about N korea and it's cheating on the agreement about nukes?? Isn't it nice to have nutcases right next door. The US is lucky, we just got Mexico and Canada. Can we expect Chinese armies to come down from Manchuria while we and the S Koreans come up from the south and we can unite the pennisula once and for all??
"... do tell more, when, how, and whatever else of macro investment value."
Sure, always happy to oblige. I think the bottom is about in. There was an article back about 1990 in Barron's about the effect of the end of the cold war. It's slant was that recessions would not be that bad, but that recovers would be slower and last longer. So far, that has proved the case in the 90's as well as the current down turn. |
