To: GPS Info who wrote (97785 ) 1/13/2013 9:36:40 PM From: TobagoJack 1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 217749 i am saying any and all problems in china, when fully exposed, is a good problem because given the imperatives, the political leadership actually do react and resolve, by aligning in imperative w/ their own agenda given that at the end of each day, merit matters in order to stay in office in the coke-n-pepsi land, to stay in office merely requires politicians to promise delivery of other people's money, and so one ends up with a lot of politicians devoid of merit re censorship, if all know the rule of the game and all do in china, then censorship is essentially ineffective at a very basic level just as all in china know the equity market is a rigged game and only to be played with small money as opposed to staked with retirement savings, and so a ferocious 'market' drubbing such as the most recent episode lasting several dozen months remains not even dinner conversation but mere passing note - iow, the level of the equity market is used as an indication on whether the officialdom is ringing the bell, as opposed to being something of consequence in its own state re <<As a corollary I would suppose that China's ambitions must not (unduly) consider the environmental or the human costs associated with these developments>> ... it is simply not true. though the priorities are stacked as people firstly must eat, then ... etc folks in the aged economies forget how their own economies got started from utter lack of historic perspective. talks such as the vietnamese do not care about their children dying and that is why the mother packed a grenade into a theatre full of g.i. soldiers is utter spin, and only folks indoctrinated by corporate media would fall prey to the bad assumptions of similar nature anywhere in the world people, as people, care about the same things, but with different priorities and moderated by group vs self and now vs future concepts