Isn't that taking it a wee bit out of context?:o

"Innovative" is an understatement.

Actually, the Nazis did it, too.

Yeah, like all good Communist governments China is beginning to struggle under its own weight, all it'd take is a wrong move by the leaders and its government overthrow time. It's how the Dragon goes down that is the question, whether it goes down quietly, or it tries to take Taiwan with it. :hmm:

Innovative I wouldn't call the Chinese, quite the opposite, but they are culturally on a very high education level which still gives them strong fundament and basis, no matter the commies around or not. Their kingdoms and empires and their society for millenias has been extremely resistant to any changes. If they adopt to modern standards so easily today, then this is because they have opened their culture a bit under european pressure a century ago (and earlier), and by that became a people of very great and far-reaching international traders (Chinese trader communites are dominant in large aprts of South-East Asia), and secondly: they are masterful copiers. But the time they need to import new technology from the West will sooner or later come to an end: what western economical dreamdancers who think of a huge market for decades to come do not see is that the chinese very selectively buy that kind of machinery and equipement that enables them to build the end products themselves, including these machineries. So, sooner or later the massive traffic of goods tom china will come to a stall - and reverse (like it already is the case with textilres and shoes). Airbus seems to stall, the future competitor to Boeing will be the chinese. They already have exported a shipload of land rovers to germany some months ago. The cars are opf terrible quality and security standards are non-existent, but they are cheap. When Japanes Toyotas arrived in Germany thirty years ago, everybody was laughing about their poor qulity and the miniature space inside. Today Toyota can be called the most modern car manufacturer in the world, producing cars with an exceptionel positive statistic in technical malfunctions. Or think of Clocks. Cameras. It will be not much different with China's way in the near future. I am also convinced that sooner or later the communist party regime will come to an end, all by itself, and the transition will go almost unnoticed. I also think that if there will be war in the china region, then it will not be started about Taiwan, which may be taken as a supeficial excuse eventually, but about maritime ressource fields. so such a war will not be a war bnetween China and Taiwan (and powers supporting Taiwan), but a direct confrontation of China versus Japan and the US. I am not informed about Australian and Indonesian interests and capacities in that region.

Very well said Skybird :up:
Spratly islands anyone?