TSJones wrote:Most of the Chinese who post here are either in Taiwan or US and Canada. Like the Indians that post here, they identify with the mother country and not the country they live in. It's all about the jobs. They see no particular thing they like about the US other than the jobs and economic access that they can't get in their mother country.
That is not to sterotype all the immigrants to the US. A lot of them do not feel that way. I am only referencing those that post here on the forum. Those who live in India (we are excluding the Chinese here because they mostly do *not* live in China) seem deeply convinced that the US economy is headed for the pits. I submit that is wishful thinking. The Chinese who post here assume ultimate economic superiority by China within a specific year! Such statements as "by the year 2020 China's economy will be larger than the US" may or may not happen. They are assuming a straight line graph. Who knows? It might happen. Or, it might not, it all depends because stuff happens.
The Gold Bugs who post here seem to think that the US must fail for them to succeed. Maybe, maybe not. But they make all kinds of bombastic statements that are entirely misleading in support of their belief systems. And they repeat propaganda of those who make careers of dealing in or advertising of gold.
The statement by Liu that all Americans believe that democracies are best for capaitalism may have a ring of truth to it. But China is no example of the opposite. It is merely responding to 50 years of communism and being released to pursue capitalism. There is nothing special about their top down hierarchy.
1. mainland Chinese are more active than you think,although most of them are silentr readers.
some of the discusssions here are also translated into chinese and reposted in Chinese websites,which is not unknow to indians here.
2. CCP does build Greatfire wall in cybespace but it can hardly isolate CHinese netizens,because most Chinese are curious to the world outside CHina and can break though the great easily with proxy or other tools.
3. West medias also builds one huge great fire wall in the minds of west guys and india guys here.it feed west guys and india guys take it granted that some paticular cases are universal ,such as " democracy is good and autocracy is bad".
Moreever,the greatfire in the mind make west guys and indias used to second-handed informaiton feed by west medias and lose interest in reading,seeing what is happening in the world by themselves.
that is why many indians here even didn't know privated sectors has been the main sector in CHina for decades......
4. China is already the global largest industry country,which industry capacity is by far larger tha USA. the simple case is that CHina outputs more and buys more than USA.
word that USA's nominal GDP is still ahead of CHina is purely a digital game,which give more confidence to those guys who can not accept the changed world.
so, Such statements as "by the year 2020 China's economy will be larger than the US" just tell us that most west guys and indians guys still are not used to the world today.