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<blockquote data-quote="John Roberts" data-source="post: 58469" data-attributes="member: 126">Re: Discussion of Whether China is Any Good or Not (Was: Mythbusting)+1/2 While I don&#039;t know about 99.99% that is an important distinction that few make. As I have posted before China is on an evolutionary path that we (US) went through hundreds of years ago. More recently I recall back when japan was the cheap factory for the west, and even the japanese rejected Japanese goods as inferior. Times change. China is a very old country but their adventure in capitalism (actually a variant on capitalism) is only a decade or two old, really gaining traction after they got Hong Kong back from the UK (a 99 year lease that expired in 1997). It seem&#039;s they haven&#039;t embraced Hong kong&#039;s democratic principles as enthusiastically as capitalism. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":-)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :-)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":-)" />JR</blockquote>

[QUOTE="John Roberts, post: 58469, member: 126"] Re: Discussion of Whether China is Any Good or Not (Was: Mythbusting) +1/2 While I don't know about 99.99% that is an important distinction that few make. As I have posted before China is on an evolutionary path that we (US) went through hundreds of years ago. More recently I recall back when japan was the cheap factory for the west, and even the japanese rejected Japanese goods as inferior. Times change. China is a very old country but their adventure in capitalism (actually a variant on capitalism) is only a decade or two old, really gaining traction after they got Hong Kong back from the UK (a 99 year lease that expired in 1997). It seem's they haven't embraced Hong kong's democratic principles as enthusiastically as capitalism. :-) JR [/QUOTE]

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