To: Charles A. King who wrote (9977 ) 10/20/1998 9:18:00 AM From: Charles A. King Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 13091
China, Vietnam PMs Laud The Stability Of Socialism 07:09 a.m. Oct 20, 1998 Eastern BEIJING (Reuters) - Stability in China and Vietnam amid the Asian financial crisis has shown the ''advantage of socialism,'' local media quoted Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji as telling his Vietnamese counterpart, Phan Van Khai. Zhu and Khai, the first Vietnamese prime minister to visit China since the two communist neighbors normalized ties in 1991, discussed the Asian crisis and their growing bilateral ties in a meeting Monday, the China Daily and Xinhua news agency said. ''Although they suffered from the Asian financial crisis to different extents, the two countries have both managed to maintain social stability and economic development, and this has fully demonstrated the advantage of socialism and the development potential of both nations,'' Xinhua quoted Zhu as telling Khai. Khai expressed admiration for China's efforts in maintaining the stability of its currency and in realizing its eight percent economic growth target, Xinhua said. infoseek.com :80/Content?arn=a0055LBY338reulb-19981020&qt=china&sv=IS&lk=noframes&col=NX&kt=A&ak=news1486 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ So the communist countries of the Far East can now lord it over their supposedly free enterprise neighbors who are mired in a deep depression. The most credible potential customers to visit GRNO in a long time are people from Red China. It is ironic to me that the government most interested in actually producing jobs for their own people using the capitalist free enterprise model while cleaning up their environment and producing valuable distillates is not the government of the USA or of South Carolina, but of Communist China. For somebody whose formative years were the McCarthy era, it is a world turned upside down. Charles