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Originally Posted by kwc
What I posted here is what being said by MM Lee Kuan Yew who is well respected throughout the world especially in asia. Whatever he says has certain amount of truth in it but also depends on how you want to intrepret with it as well.
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What a load of fallacies. Because he is respected, it must be true? If you're not going to back him up beyond that, I have no reason to share emotional sentiments rather than rational ones regarding his opinions.
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China being 50 years behind developed countries is a widely known phenomenon even among the chinese people. It is a no brainer for you to specifically point it out over here.
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I was responding to your idea that economic development was unpredictable. So it's a kind of a given that I would bring it up. Why wouldn't I? It's not like China is the first country in the world to industrialize. Is bringing up this crucial fact making you feel threatened for China?
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What you failed to figure out is that even at that low technological knowledge they have compared to developed countries, they still could produce more than 60 percent of goods to this world. What's not if they are as advance technologically as japan and USA.
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There's not much contest between China and the US. China still has a predominantly farmer population, lack democratic avenues for the people, and outside agriculture still relies on manufacturing.
The US makes Boeing and nuclear reactors while China exports tooth brushes and cheap DVD players. Advanced economies are post-industrial, they have a dominant service sector that runs the economy. China is still in the middle between agrarian and industrial. The only way you can ambiguously compare China to the US, is because of absolute rates from the giant population (that is quickly aging BTW), no one can argue against the fact that per-capita rates are much more relevant for the whole economic well-being of a nation.
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Another matter. Whether you be thankful to China, your country, your neighbourhood, your teacher, your mother, your father does not bother me. What you think does not hold any weight to me nor to this world
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My teacher, neighbor, mother and father are actual people with merits, and shortcomings. A nation though, is just a piece of land with arbitrary border lines and given special significant only via socially constructed myths.