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To: j-at-home who wrote (267904)	11/18/2003 10:24:36 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) of 436258

Chinese society is self-sustaining with little interest in emulating the West. Oh.. that's a real misjudgement J.. The last time I figured out the stats between their per capita GDP, and the amount of their trade surplus with the US, it came out to something like 200 million people being dependent upon good trade relations with the US. The Chinese need us, just as we need them. They need us to buy their goods, providing them the capital they require to grow their economy, create jobs, and modernize. We need them to produce cheap parts which we can turn into higher value products. But with more and more US manufacturing going there, I fear that we're going to lose some of the strategic industries upon which a modern state must rely in times of crisis (war). all tied in a relatively homogenous environment Don't know about that either. Ever see a Chinese person from Hong Kong try to speak with someone from Manchuria or Bejing? They have an incredible number of language dialects, each effectively separating them from one another culturally. But as a people, they really seem to like Americans (related to me by a buddy who lived there for 9 months last year). Hawk

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