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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (554)	5/23/2001 4:27:45 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 2279

Re: And that wealth is Hong Kong. I disagree, I think Hong Kong is merely the gateway to the Chinese market.... It acts as a financial dispatcher for foreign investors eager to tap the huge Chinese market and/or the Chinese manpower. For instance, China is expected to harbour over 250 million mobile subscribers by 2005 --they won't be ALL located in Hong Kong!! Re: And do you know the difference between Communism and Fascism? Because we're seeing China in transition from the former to the latter. I for one believe that the EU is closer to Fascism than China. We should also keep in mind that China still is a developing country and that Democracy is, and will always remain, an ongoing process. After all, it took the US about 90 years to abolish slavery, and about 200 years to officially outlaw segregation. And the price for achieving democracy in the US has been high: civil war, the roaring twenties (prohibition, Al Capone, KKK), Vietnam, McCarthyism, Malcom X, Martin Luther King, Waco,... and counting! Besides, I think the current trend in the global economy is drawing the corporate universe toward COMMUNISM!! Indeed, when all the mergers and acquisitions on a worldwide scale are over, we'll be left with monopolies, duopolies and cartels in each and every major industry. So, how can you tell the difference between a Soviet economy run by bureaucrats and a so-called capitalist economy run by technocrats? The car industry, for instance, is already split among a handful behemoths who are not the least excited about exacerbating competition between their respective brands --talk about a "market" economy! Today's corporate executives behave like bureaucrats of the late USSR: they've got an unchallenged grip on their captive markets and they milk them dry just as Soviet apparatchiks would do on a five-year plan... Gus.