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Originally Posted by The Spaceman
There's little doubt the Chinese are producing increasingly high-quality goods. Now the questions are:
1. Can they continue doing so without wrecking their environment? (Google "China pollution" sometime. It's horrendous).
2. Can they continue doing so without treating their workers like robot-slaves?
3. Will their industrial revolution bring the same freedoms in their society (ie: more than 1 political party) that the Industrial Revolution brought to Western societies?
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Good questions, but as isolationist as America is currently, we probably don't care much. FWIW, I think China will one day in the future get tired of not having the freedoms of other industrialized nations and throw down some kind of revolt. It might be ugly.
11-21-2011, 03:26 PM
