That was meant tongue-in-cheek, I hope?

China is a country of what, 1 billion people, I believe? Yet "only" about 100 million of them actually work - less than 10% of China's population. Most of that 100 million workers are making approximately $100 dollars a month. It is still a mostly agricultural country, though farmers are leaving in droves. The cities to which the farmers are migrating -- already stressed by over-population, no health services, and poor infrastructure -- will start crumbling unless some action is taken. The great majority of their population is illiterate; they have very little intelectual property. The patent and copyright laws are basically non-existent. And we have not even mentioned their political system. (No communist country has EVER been successful.) I can go on...

There is NO doubt that China has some incredible potential. What people fail to mention is that China also has immense problems. Will China some day eclipse the US as the World's superpower? Probably. But not in our lifetimes and probably not in our kids' lifetimes...

Juan

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