Quote from: slider1 on August 18, 2018, 12:41:50 PM
True.  China is a paper tiger. They're economy is based on a fraud. The commies are likely exaggerating their economic growth. Few believe their numbers. There's more on the black banking market than they let on, and it's their Achilles heel.  I predict their system will come crashing down soon enough. Much worse than what happened in Japan.  Then we will see more repression by Jing as he desperately clings to power. I just hope Trump doesn't strike a deal with them. Let them twist in the wind.

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Paper Tiger is an apt descriptive, despite the frenzied
yip-yap from gullible media assholery,  asserting China
is a soon-to-be world economic/military powerhouse.
The wise Greeks told us that past was prologue and
nation/states w/o a heritage have no legacy to guide them.
China's heritage, from the Shang in 1500 BC to the Manchu
in 1912, is of authoritarian dynastic rule and now Marxism.
So this is the key to successful capitalism??? Who knew?
Rome and Britain at their zenith of Empire, despite any warts,
radiated the values and virtues of self-discipline, responsibility,
courage, loyalty and honor, among many attributes.
Anyone notice any of these in the Chinese leadership in their
dealings around the world???