Originally Posted by
Bettyboo
China is a serious player, a massive economy, massive wealth within its own economy, global export markets which spread far further than the 'West'. The wealth of Chinese individuals and corporations invested around the world is huge; Australia, East Asia/S.E. Asia and much further afield.
Mr sausage's description of China is about 30 years out of date, things have changed. At the same time, China has problems with self-sufficiency, energy, natural disasters, changing it's economic practices and more, but don't be confused, China has a lot of very smart people and education generally is on the rise while in a lot of Europe/US education has been dropping down since the 80s.
Cut and pasting while to articles is interesting to folks who like to widen their knowledge, I read a lot of the full articles that folks link to and cut/paste from - some I agree with, some less, so. Other people's approach is to presume they know everything and just troll/rant - this is the discourse space of ejits...