AssassinsMace
Lieutenant General
It comes down to this... who wants to be Poland?
Pollution from heavy industries, dominated by SOEs.
Other countries too paid the price of progress.
Calculating by per capita, China's pollution is still below the US...
True, but that was then and this is now. I don't have a dog in this fight, it's the Chinese public that are up in arms on their diminished quality of life.
True, but that's probably due to the plutocrats helping SOEs, because they have their hands in those cookie jars. Nevertheless, Huawei (reportedly a private firm) is doing very well indeed.
You are concerned with the plutocracy in China. Guess what, according to
China is behind the US, the UK, India, the Philippines, Singapore, etc, in plutocracy. To rank behind Singapore and Malaysia is not a surprise at all, even though they are democratic countries.
I like The Economist, and read it regularly. However, one must ask oneself these questions:
1) Shouldn't Hong Kong be part of China's statistics? I mean, it's part of China, is't it?
2) Wouldn't China have higher "corny-captialism" rankings, if most of its rich actually stayed in China?
3) Wouldn't China's index be worse if some of its students-turned-billionaires actually returned to China?
4) If 3 is true, then US index would fall a bit. Yes?
I like The Economist, and read it regularly. However, one must ask oneself these questions:
1) Shouldn't Hong Kong be part of China's statistics? I mean, it's part of China, is't it?
2) Wouldn't China have higher "corny-captialism" rankings, if most of its rich actually stayed in China?
3) Wouldn't China's index be worse if some of its students-turned-billionaires actually returned to China?
4) If 3 is true, then US index would fall a bit. Yes?