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Strategies & Market Trends : 2026 TeoTwawKi ... 2032 Darkest Interregnum -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TobagoJack who wrote (117426)	3/24/2016 12:02:31 AM
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We were wrong on our beliefs that the world there would be an upheaval. The world is just evolving into something new. Much better development than the past wars and carnages of the past. See Japan developing into a new kind of animal. Did anyone but Elmat notice? no. I have been watching them Message 30515165 We have been living, since 2001, through the is aftermath of the Financial Collapse. Great Unwinding is proving to be a better name than Dark Interregnum and the new era rising. The Europeans chameleons who change their color to fit any new environment (they can go fascists, then social democrats and then as pan Europeans and will evolve into any new animal the environment requires) have more survival success capabilities that the Chinese. Not because the Chinese are inferior or not survive. It is just that the Europeans have been through too many changes and are more adaptable. The Chinese are too adapted to rigidity and cannot muster the flexibility to capitalize on changes

To: TobagoJack who wrote (117426)	3/24/2016 2:15:53 AM
From: Snowshoe	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 217739

True? ... Declining Hong Kong Port Heralds a Grim Future: View March 16, 2016 by Bloomberg By Adam Minter (Bloomberg View) — A little more than a decade ago, Hong Kong was the world’s busiest port. Giant vessels competed to get into the city’s berths, waiting to load and unload containers filled with goods manufactured just over the border in China’s factory towns. Back then, Hong Kong still expected that its freewheeling commercial culture could change China for the better. And trading — accounting for almost 25 percent of the city’s economy — seemed like just the industry to lead the way. Now those expectations are colliding with reality. Last week, the local government reported that cargo flowing through Hong Kong dropped by 13.8 percent in 2015, capping a dismal year in which the city’s port declined to the world’s fifth-busiest, dropping behind one-time also-rans Shanghai and Shenzhen. It’s likely to get worse: Last year, Deutsche Bank predicted that the volume of cargo moving through Hong Kong will decline by as much as 50 percent over the next decade. That’s not just an economic blow. For a city that has long valued its independence and distinctiveness from mainland China, it also threatens something of an identity crisis. Full story: gcaptain.com