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Europe
Not A Chinaman's Chance
2011-09-15
...One thing the Europeans should realize is that, unlike the politically correct West, China is nearly impervious to the invocation of victim status and practically indifferent to the whole panoply of quasi-religious causes that are held so sacred in Europe. Talking about "justice", "global warming", "humanitarianism" and "economic rights" cuts no mustard over there. It's cash and carry. As is, where is. Or else it is, "do I know you?"

It will be somewhat entertaining to watch Brussels put on the customary show; dispatch their legions of special rapporteurs, ambassadors extraordinary and plenipotentiary, who will gyrate, grovel and simultaneously unctuously demand things with an old-world hauteur, only to discover it doesn't work with representatives of an even older world. It's sad in a way and not a little pathetic.
Posted by:g(r)omgoru

#2  Good old-fashioned parochialism. Thinking that everyone thinks the way you do, because everyone you know thinks the same way.
Posted by: gromky   2011-09-15 13:26  

#1  One of the big delusions the Europeans have isn't that the Chinese _will_ help, it's that they _can_ help. They've been paying for all of their recent expansion of capability by inflating their currency, but in the long term they've been putting forth the idea that they can put all the manufacturers in the US and Europe out of business, but that the US and Europe will still be able to afford their stuff afterwards.

It doesn't work. IMHO.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2011-09-15 13:12  

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