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Strategies & Market Trends : Booms, Busts, and Recoveries
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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (61853)4/13/2005 7:25:45 AM
From: Ilaine  Read Replies (1) of 74559
 
Hu Jintao is playing the eons-old tribal nationalism trick on the local yokels.

It's a trick that works. But I think there's more to it than that. Competition for resources. The brain-dead military types see this as a zero-sum game.

I suppose if you look at it in the short run, competition can always be seen as a zero sum game.

But if you play it as a zero sum game, and smash the board after every win or loss, it gets pretty damned expensive and difficult to keep setting the board back up again.

But as we all know, the brain-dead military types don't have to put the board back together, and they get ahead by killing and smashing.

Americans, at least, have figured out that it's smarter to use the military to protect the playing field rather than smashing it. I fear that the CCP doesn't see it that way.
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