CHINA: Portrait of a People

Communismn is just a cover up. The communists are fascist in reality.

look, i don't think those of u who dislikes china's manufacturing industry are all racists bigots or whatever, i just think a lot of u completely miss the point...

I personally have concerns about unconstrained industrializations as well, but it's all about trade-offs and balances there: it's either put in a tougher labor law and drive some of the investments away, or give the ppl SOME jobs. THINK about WHY the working class in developed country lost their jobs in the first place...

if you are the manager of a shoe-making company, u will definely consider relocating ur production to country like china, Vietnam, simple reason: labor there is just dirt cheap, tax is low,and they work harder!! besides, ur own country does not want any low-value-end industry anyway! china needs, caz they got shit load of poor poeple to feed! so, u r doing a bit favor for them!!

i can't tell whether u r just being sarcastic, but what u said IS true, unfortunately. People tend to criticize or despise China because they compare it to all the developed countries, which is just absurd I think. When the Chinese say they are proud of themselves they mostly mean to compare to their OWN lives 30 or 40 years ago, everyone in his right mind knows that China still lags behind in technologies, standard of living, social progress and political freedom compared to the "West".

not really!!! im not comparing CHina to developed countries, becasue, China is not even on par with those developing country counterparts, far from close! in what aspects China stands out better than any those poor countries? u dont even know..!!

Again, depend on which SPECIFIC country you are comparing to, you could be right...
here's a few common indices that may help to put things in better perspective about China:

GDP per capita (PPP) by IMF: roughly $6000, which is somewhere between Ukraine and Egypt.

Human Development Index: 0.772, which is between Thailand and Jordan.

Global Hunger Index: 7.1, which is between South Africa and Venezuela...

Hence, if you are comparing China with countries like Argentina, Mexico, Russia, Iran or Malaysia, yes, you are absolutely right, China definitely has a long way to go.

But if you are comparing it with India, Philippines and such, well, it's a different story then...

So point here I guess is that there is third-world country, and there is a different third world country: there is more disparity among developing countries than among developed countries.

by the way, I think I know quite a few things about China, more than u think. I lived in Shanghai for two years and have been going there frequently lately, apparently many of its indices rival those of Singapore. Honestly I felt the quality of life there was an OK among the residents (not the migrant workers of course).

it's like looking at somebody who finally found a job and starts feeding himself without food stamps, and a bunch of rich kids come along and laugh in his face saying "haha, u can't afford a BMW"...

uhm...do u know what u r talking about? I mean, communist government forces ppl to go into sweatshops, really? forcing 100 million ppl through all that migration is not an easy task, u know

first of all, why do u think those migrant workers actually do NOT want to work 12 hrs a day? think about their alternatives then maybe u will understand...I KNOW it's an ethical issue to allow ppl to work that much, or u can simply push them back into poverty back in countryside...