@blatham,
blatham wrote:
Quote:They're coming to California too
Yes, I know. But of course the point remains that the direction of immigration is one way.
Yes and no. I have several friends who have lived mostly in China for the past decade - mostly doing business in their exploding economy ( one has built a very large business selling and installing solar panels in multiple growing Chinese cities; others ( including some retired senior military folks) are
venture capitalists working either with Chinese firms or U.S. counterpsarts doing business with them. All say living there is quite pleasant, and that the Chinese are like us in many ways and profoundly different in others.
All suggest in various ways that China is a bit of a mystery, but it is more likely seeking to find a modern version of its long-lasting traditional mandarin system of an authoritrian mertiocracy, than a Marxist state. Chunba clearly still sees itself as the "middle Kingdom" at the center of the world about it, and now at the end of an abnormal three century period dominated by foreign barnarians.
The problems of course were that the meritocracy degenerated over time into a self absorbed bureaucracy that couldn't deal with new forces, and the barbarians kept coming back.
