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[Cyclonepride]

Originally Posted by chengyushen

This is the dumbest post ever on cyclonefanatics! And I am sure you have never read something truethful about china let alone visited china

I came from China and have lived in US for many years and I call both places home. Todays China is 100% different from your imagination. China now is a captalism society (aka "free society"). People can critize everyone, including the communist party chairman on the street or internet, without fearing anything (of course, they still only have limited freedom on this matter on newspaper or other public media)

I accredit China's fast development to the free market competition (captalism), and chinese people's hardworking nature. Chinese people generally working longer hours than US workers, and my friends there have more pressure than I do. For a simple example of comparison, road construction there typically takes weeks, while here in US it typically takes months or years. That is how we are catching up.

Of course China has its own problems, but a military invasion will certainly send both countries to stone age.

Please don't take this the wrong way, but the bulk of the information I can find on China suggests a society which is opening up, but is not nearly what could be considered a free society. I'm not suggesting that the US take aggressive action towards China by any means (or vice versa). China seems to have an advantage in getting some projects done by forcing people to relocate from their homes, with some compensation, though not necessarily fair market value.

So I guess I would have to agree that the common image of China may not be an accurate picture of reality, but it seems like your version may gloss over the ugly realities as well.