China economic superpower

Analyst predict that a slowdown/recession in the US will not have a major impact on China at all, because of the ever growing middle class and domestic demand

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[madhat1979]

@mquiroz90 no, that's just a fact.

Everyone think the lifestandard in China is about the same as Europe or the US but it's really much and much lower.

The average income in China is lower than for example Iran or Bosnia, it only seems great because you have to multiply it with 1.4 billion people.

Sure there are some rich chinese, but the main population are still poor factory workers who will probably never can buy what the average American or European can and will buy.

[madhat1979]

@mariamole011 Black and Muslim? well NO, most of the spanish and greek population are Christian and white.

They just have a wrong aditude, mainly because for over 10 years they get truckloads of money from west europe, the greek don't have to pay roadtaxes because all the roads in Greece are payed with money from Germany, France, UK, Holland and Denmark.

[drfaul]

@madhat1979 yes- some people have to make sacrifices for the benefit of all. thats not a gently, but an effective way.

we Germans don't want no longer atomic energy. so we have to build thousands of new windmills, cables and energy storages.

in every little village some super democratic people gather for protests. they collect signatures and prevent the build preparations.

a world wonder like the three gorges dam could never be build in the system of my country.

[madhat1979]

@drfaul I don't judge the chinese government for controlling so many people, but I do for manipulating them.

When the three gorges dam was build, over 30.000 people where forced out of their houses, same for the build of the Olympic stadions in Beijing.

China say they are democratic but you can't demonstrate against State dessisions or else you get jail for 20 years.

[drfaul]

@madhat1979 i can't judge about a government that has about 1,3 billion people to manage out of my tiny little Germany.

the poor/ rich gap isn't a real chinese problem, it's a global problem of the way our finance systems are working.

[madhat1979]

@drfaul there is a lot of dissatisfaction between the population, a lot of factory workers barely can come around just because their salary hardly rise to keep the western clients.

Another problem is the fast growing gap between rich and poor, or the way the government acts against the population.

[drfaul]

@madhat1979 so i don't have it from TV. my father worked as a glasses designer in the last twenty years in hong kong, korea, taiwan, macao and shanghai. i was 8 times in china and talked to a lot of people from very different social classes.

i think, the migrant worker and the farmers are in bad situations, but it will be better 'cause the problems are well known.

[madhat1979]

@drfaul Still. I don't think the way China does things is the normal way.

Just take the censorship on media for example, the chinese population is "happy" because they don't know better.

This kind of promotion movies remind me of the propaganda form the USSR in the 70's and 80's where you saw dozens of happy Russians while everybody knew that a lot of russians lived in poverty.

[drfaul]

@madhat1979 the average chinese citizen thinks he is happy, though. and they are most optimistic to future times.

i think- we as europeans can't really understand the collective concept of the chinese society. we are pure individuals and they are a single part of their whole great country. that makes them happy and proud. yet don't mistake it with nationalism. it's much more binding- and much less vulnerable for racism.

greets- faul :=)

[madhat1979]

@drfaul I live in holland, the 5th strongest export country, so we have the same problem.

But some western countries also have a strong internal economy, China doesn't have that BECAUSE they're a low cost country, the average income in China is 1500 dollar a year, that's less than Iran or Bosnia.

The only thing that makes them strong is there are 1.4 billion people who has nothing to say, in fact: china is just a few people govenment with 1.4 billion slaves.

[drfaul]

@madhat1979 plz don't think i don't like the USA. i love this country- especially the NASA.

[drfaul]

@madhat1979 yet that are just the results of the international globalization.

i am German. we are the second strongest export nation after china. although most of the people here couldt by an iphone, we are desperatly dependant on foreign consumption.