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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (4498)	2/24/2006 7:33:14 AM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 219940

:0) <<Happy Meal and Starbucks coffee>> ... and here, silly me, having just given up both. The former used to be a once every month habit and the latter, a weekly fix. now i am helping with balancing the account by selling a real estate and buying gold eagle coins

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (4498)	2/24/2006 3:13:19 PM
From: energyplay	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 219940

The US has lots of golf courses - they were good enough for Japan, why Dubai ? Not all countries and "allies" are the same. Canada and the UK have a different relation with the US, so does Austrailia, the rest of Nato, and Japan. Pretending otherwise is silly. ******** The mentions of patriotism and nationalism before reform and innovation - I expect one reason is to try to displace the role of family in what is still Confucian society - to try to make sure that family interests don't always trump state interests. Buying condos in Vancouver, Swiss bank accounts, etc. may be best for your family, but the state would prefer you build another widget factory. The other reason is to counter balance those "reform" and "innovation" values - can't have reform that threatens certain "national" interests, which might just happen to coincide with certain officials lining their pockets... I don't see China heading towards fascism, but pretty much continuing to be corpratist (there are some similarities with fascism, but more concern with economic actions instead of beliefs) tempered with small but increasing steps toward "reform". Considering that what China has done the past 10-12 years has WORKED, I would not expect major changes.