When China Rules the World

[Boris]

I don't know why you're so gung-ho about China when they don't even allow Texas Hold'em.

[tek]

Asians have little weewees, so it's not like we'd have to worry about them saying "where the white womens at"...

[Dynasty]

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I know somebody who could give her a fight.

Man, where did they find those three tiny women?

[pokerdirty]

dynasty, i'm so confused by this picture you have no idea.

[Wes ManTooth]

[Colonel Kataffy]

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backwards govt...

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Since Mao died, the government has been nothing if not competent. Certainly more so than the administration currently running this country.

[bobman0330]

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Backwards government? All the smart Chinese are growing the U.S.?

You, sir, need to pick up an Economist / Finanical Times / really any periodical even one as lame as Time or Newsweek to get a better sense of where China is in terms of its economy, government (this is not the communist China of yesteryear, not even close), and global initiatives as it begins positionining itself as the next (perhaps only) superpower.

It's still years off is my sense, but the incredible progress on the mainland - and as per capita income grows throughout the country - game over man.


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So, after 20 years they stopped actively trying to destroy their economy, and now they're no longer backwards from an economic point of view? Heavy state involvement in banks and financial institutions, bribery, corruption, intimidation of foreign investors, no political or human rights, no IP protection, fiddling with currency values, massive income and opportunity inequality between the coast and inland, no domestic consumption to drive growth...

Yeah, sounds great. I feel perfectly confident projecting the growth of the last few years indefinitely into the future. Just like S. Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, and Japan.

[Colonel Kataffy]

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So, after 20 years they stopped actively trying to destroy their economy, and now they're no longer backwards from an economic point of view? Heavy state involvement in banks and financial institutions, bribery, corruption, intimidation of foreign investors, no political or human rights, no IP protection, fiddling with currency values, massive income and opportunity inequality between the coast and inland, no domestic consumption to drive growth...

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Mere hurdles [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

[Blarg]

The per capita income was like $200 per year just a couple years ago. That can grow by 10% a year for a very very long time before the country resembles a modern one economically. The economy is extremely highly concentrated in just a few places the whole country is trying to get into, but can't. They need more taking over of the guys who really knew how to do it, like Taiwan, they way they did Hong Kong. It's like Einstein being ruled by a cage full of monkeys.