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To: kas1 who wrote (8300)6/2/2001 12:07:50 PM
From: gingersreisse  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 10934
 
Some experts consider the growing Chinese need for oil, and for imported grains to be a stabilizing force. Chinese are purchasing more cars which run on (imported) oil, and eating more (imported) foods.

Fruits and vegetables from Viet Nam, grain from Australia, Argentina, and the US, and meat from New Zealand have made China a significant trading partner for many nations. The political support of an emerging affluent class is key to the Red leadership. Losing their food sources and oil would not be helpful.

If I had to pick a destabilizing force in China, it would be that the PLA is almost obsolete, and could be wiped out in a day by the US, with submarine cruise missiles. Desperate military leaders are rarely rational, and they have the experience of Iraq and Yugoslavia to consider. Both were purchasers of the same USSR hardware which the PLA employs...

GSR



To: kas1 who wrote (8300)6/2/2001 8:54:22 PM
From: Ibexx  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 10934
 
OTOT

Hi Kas, I know someone who is much to the left of Jack. <g>

Ibexx



To: kas1 who wrote (8300)6/5/2001 3:59:16 PM
From: Crystal ball  Respond to of 10934
 
TIME TO BUY MORE NTAP: 5/31/01 EXCERPT: Time to Average Down on NTAP? (2:02)Gregory Nie, Sr. VP and Chief Technical Analyst, First Union Securities. (Note majority say buy, rest say hold, NONE SAY SELL)
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-Crystal Ball
P.S. Thanks for the Kerouac compliment, as for the Birchers...well, if that's so, Greedspammer drove me to it,
better dead reds than dead or red, Communist China is THE scourage globally to manking, capitalism and free enterprise and free people everywhere....slavery there or anywhere is slavery everywhere.....eventually.