(23-06-2024, 03:36 PM)Lilith7 Wrote:China has plenty of their population that are quite content with their lot in life. With over 800 billionaires in China it can in no way be compared to the economic and draconian cot case that is North Korea.(23-06-2024, 11:53 AM)harm_less Wrote: From a business trip we made to China in 2012 with a (non-Chinese) interpreter it was obvious then that the Chinese population was heavily indoctrinated with the Chinese infrastructure and social foundations being the 'biggest, best, highest, oldest, fastest, etc.' Also the sheer scale of what we saw there made it feel that New Zealand was minuscule in comparison and that China could 'buy and sell New Zealand before breakfast' and hardly notice. Cities 2 hours drive apart with populations of >11 million and >26 million respectively was definitely an eye opening perspective for us.
Yeah...I'm quite frequently extremely grateful to various ancestors for having the sense to emigrate here rather than America, & having seen that & read a bit I'm also quite pleased not to have been born in China. Poor people; it seems only slighty better than North Korea.
This Guyon Espiner interview this afternoon provides great insight into our likely coming decades. Succinct and confronting international commentary and predictions.