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re: 日本 和中国
This is a very biased, one sided article. The Chinese grapes probably never looked so sour to the author.
While the author did raise some valid points, what he failed to do was to take a more long term view of the situation inside China.
Yes, China is still very backward in most areas outside of the more developed major urban areas; yes, China is still behind Japan and other major developed world economies in terms of world influence; yes, China has lots of problems; yes, China and the Chinese people lacks self confidence to be assertive and on and on ad infinitum.
However, what the author and most China critics fail to take into consideration or willfully ignore is the amazing economic muscle the once sickly weakling that was China has built up in the last 20 - 30 years. After an arguably self-inflicted near total destruction of her economy and infrastructures at the end of WWII, it took Japan more than 50 years and much hand holding and tons of money injected by the U.S. to get to where they are now. Unfortunately, their economy is stalling; has been for many years now. China still has lots of room to grow. Japan's future is not as rosy as the author would have you to believe. The country has many daunting long term social and economic issues the author conveniently ignored.
Lets face it, China is a much bigger country than Japan, that is a fact no one can deny. China has lots of resources and potential Japan could only dream of. China was a major world power many times over the long history of the country, long before Japan was known as just a little group of islands where bandits and pesky coastal raiders from the sea came from.
20 - 30 years may seem like a long time, but it is just a blink of the eye in the long history of the human kind. China will become great once again. It may take some time and China will make lots of mistakes along the way, but China must and will succeed, I have no doubt!
An example of something the China apologists amongst us should all be proud of:
http://money.cnn.com/2009/08/03/ ... n.fortune/index.htm
Now, that's progress if that ever was one ! |
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