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- From: carl_@nwu.edu
- Subject: Re: "When China Wakes" by 'The Economist'
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.000053.4966@news.acns.nwu.edu>
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- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 00:00:53 GMT
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- In article <C03H2I.8Dp@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu> bihkyan@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Yang Yuanxin)
- writes:
- > In article <1992Dec21.040701.7085@mariner.amc.edu.au>
- lwang@mariner.amc.edu.au (Luo Wang) writes:
- > >In article <1992Dec10.224042.20113@cs.ucf.edu>, jinxiong@cs.ucf.edu (Chen
- Jinxiong) writes:
- > >>
- > >>In article <1g6ik9INNphm@uwm.edu> jiqing@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Jiqing Wang)
- writes:
- > >>>
- > >>>Here are some interesting points from "When China Wakes", a survey of
- china
- > >>>by <The Economist>, 11/28/92.
- > >>>
- > >>>1. China's economic performance in the past 14 years has brought about one
- of
- > >>> the biggest improvements in human welfare anywhere at anytime. Real GNP
- > >> ...
- > >>> kind become industrialized? The west cannot say it wasn't given plenty
- of
- > >>> warning. After advising it to let China sleep, Napoleon went on to add
- that
- > >>> "when China wakes it will shake the world."
- > >
- > > WHEN?
- >
- > about 1949.
- >
-
- About 1949, China turned from sleeping to nightmare until 1981.
- (Excuse me, you can't find this on People's Daily, which means what I said
- might be a big lie.)
-
- Carl
-