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To: elmatador who wrote (44069)	1/4/2004 5:29:29 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 74559

ElM, the concept of putting the two together is easy, but too many of the poor ones act like thieves and want to receive but not give. India for example didn't used to allow capital out once it went it. We capitalists don't like a one way street for capital flow. Friends in India, going home after earning a load of loot in the international world, had to decide whether to move back because once they took their money in, it couldn't come out again. They went anyway because home is where the heart is [which I understand - compare Beijing with Waitakere golf course and it's hard to imagine them on the same planet; I know where I belong]. But, if Russia, China, India and Brazil did go global, as you say, the outcome would be little short of fantastic. The vagaries of human nature [such as India voting itself poor for half a century after booting out the Poms] could mess it all up and probably will. Hu Jintao seems to think a war with Taiwan might not be a bad idea. Seems stupid to me, but that's how megalomaniacs think. Even if Taiwan votes to be independent, it would be independent in a similar way to New Zealand being independent of Oz, the USA and Britain meaning barely independent other than organizing roads, airports and some aspects of immigration and bits and pieces. Of course, we Anglophones are far more sensible than the absurd Mandarins and don't go to war over a spot of independence [not since the Kingdom concept which led to the American Independence war was ditched and democracy gained more ground anyway]. Mqurice