From: ylq@lems23lems.brown.edu (Yan Shen)
Subject: Re: "When China Wakes" by 'The Economist'
Organization: Laboratory for Engineering Man/Machine Systems
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 15:33:44 GMT

In article <C0CwA9.Esr@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu>, bihkyan@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Yang Yuanxin) writes:
|> In article <1993Jan4.151341.9634@cs.brown.edu> ylq@lems23lems.brown.edu (Yan Shen) writes:
|> >In article <C05DtJ.510@ulowell.ulowell.edu>, cshi@cs.ulowell.edu (Chunde Shi) writes:
|> >|> In article <1992Dec31.150304.16478@cs.brown.edu> ylq@lems23lems.brown.edu (Yan Shen) writes:
|> >|> >In article <C03MI3.C1w@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu>, bihkyan@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Yang Yuanxin) writes:
|> >|> >|> In article <1992Dec31.000053.4966@news.acns.nwu.edu> carl_@nwu.edu  writes:
|> >|> >|> >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.)
|> >|> >|>   
|> >|> >|>   It's definitely a lie. I can't find this on People's daily(which I
|> >|> >|> like a lot), but I can see it on Central Daily every day I think.
|> >|> >|>  
|> >|> >|> >
|> >|> >|> >Carl
|> >|> >|> 
|> >|> >
|> >|> >Yes, from 1966 to 1976, China shook the world with catastropy---culture
|> >|> >revolution. Any lunatic wants to glorify this dark age, go ahead. 
|> >|> Whose "catastropy"? Old colonists? yes.
|> >
|> >Gee! you must be insane. Let me refresh you memory with few phases of CG: 
|> >"The ten-year interior turmoil", "CR is a retraction of history". more ?
|> >Don't always resort to convenient excuse like "Old colonists" first. 
|> >
|>   It's my turn to say GEE!!! you must be insane.
|>   From when did you guy learn CG's words so well? 
|>   Don't you think CG is a big lier?
|>   Why did you line with CG?
|> 

As a Chinese adage goes: "Exerting poison to tackle poison." 
Relax and calm down a little bit. 
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