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| Can Chinese Dictators Seize the World in Spite of Chinese Poverty? |
| 2006-09-15 |
| Posted by:Bernie |
| #2 I dispute that the chinese are poor. it is all in the wealth distribution, and also in the purchasing power parity. So what if many millions earn US$2 a day there if $2 a day buys them all their food, houses them and gives them leisure time. Then there are the millions of millionaires in china, and the wealth of the state. That 'poor' country is buying up all Australia's resources. I live in the resource-rich Northern Territory. All the mining companies up here have forward sold their ENTIRE PRODUCTION for up to 30 YEARS IN ADVANCE to china. Gas, copper, iron, tin, lead, zinc you name it they buy it. And they are most interested in uranium. Is this the action of a poor country? They have money to throw around. At bondi beach in the 80s we used to be swamped by busloads of Japanese tourists. Then in the 90s it changed: by the late 90s the Japanese had stopped comming and busloads of Chinese started appearing. They have money to travel. They infiltrated Australia with 1000 spies. It sounds like the plot of a b-grade movie yet it really happened, was in all the papers. We didn't act like we cared because we can't: we are a fly to their elephant. They want to pillage the south pacific for resources to feed their massive economic boom. They are infiltrating Papua New Guinea, the Solomons, (recently triggering riots against Chinese: the chinese airlifted nationals back to china for safety) sending fishing trawlers to poach fish using cheap indonesian labour to trespass in Australia's northern waters. they are wanting to expand expand expand. there will be a war before too long i fear and i think this trend to expansion is not being recognised by most people, maybe because they have not seen it at grassroots level the way regional people have. |
| Posted by: anon1 2006-09-15 23:36 |
| #1 Did the Nazis, Bolsheviks-Mensheviks, and Chicommies, Vietcong, etc. seize their countries and neighbors in their time??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2006-09-15 22:06 |