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Politics : Ask Michael Burke
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To: Merritt who wrote (45946)2/8/1999 5:29:00 PM
From: RealMuLan  Read Replies (2) of 132070
 
Merritt: quite agree with your comment on Russia and China. However, I want to point out one difference bet. Russia and China, which contributes a lot to the different behavior and results in their economic reform. This difference is: China had suffered too much under foreign powers during the period of 1849-1949 to trust any foreign advise at all. And Russia, on the other hand, being a member of powerful Western countries, ethnically and religiously, at least until a few years back (I am trying not to use "imperialist countries" here because I think the term itself might offend some people here), has no historical reason whatsoever not to trust Western powers of their own group. So they go ahead with their advise for the "Shock therapy". Now it is Russian themselves have to suffered the terrible "consequences".

But if anyone counts Russia out in the future, they will be deadly wrong. After all, Russia still has enormous nature resources and human resources. They will for sure recover from this mess, and be a "superpower" once again.
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