.Sup wrote:
China is developed cos of us buying their products. It can go other way too if you know what I mean.
What you people don't realize is that if the Western World broke economical and trading ties with countries such as China, or alternatively if China pulled out of deals with the West (to a lesser extent this also applies to the Middle-East and Saudi's)- we would all be fucked. Our actual countries and home-economies rely all on high-level industry and services, we need these huge backyards full of sweatshops and manual labour in order to keep us going. Japan and the USA use China and the rest of Asia, Europe has it's (developing) colonies in Africa in the like. We look down on these countries and their political actions, but if we didn't deal with them, we'd probably in serious trouble. The US and UK are is mega-debt to China, and by mega-debt I mean most likely to never be paid back; unpayable..
Sure, us pumping money and job opportunities into China helps it 'develop' to a lesser extent. As if China wouldn't just start dealing it's huge amount of resources and agriculture to other countries in the event of a Western pullout... think about it. China could get wealthy without even needing to really deal with other countries; in fact I'd say that out of all the countries in the world, China are probably in the best position to become self-sufficient. They're just into their stage of industrialisation and huge-expansion... stages that mature economies in the West had over 100 years ago. Right now all of us (UK, US, some European states to a lesser extent) have progressed along and are now in the back-pockets of these less economically developed countries that are doing all our dirty work. I think in all of our arrogance and self-importance, we really do underestimate how bad our economy and living-standards would become if we had a sudden pullout from these countries (i.e. a mass and total boycott of all products). It wouldn't benefit us... China could take the financial hit, we definitely couldn't. Don't you know China owns about $500 billion dollars worth of US Treasury securities? This is just an example to open your eyes... China isn't dependant on the Western world to carry on 'developing'. Their Eastern-Provinces with industrial cities that produce a great amount of our clothing, small-manufacture goods and computer parts are bringing a lot of work and finance to the local economies there... but in the bigger pictures China is probably nearing a stage where it could dust us off their shoulder and move forward without us.
Edit: HAHAHA please stop posting! Boycotting sponsors now? FUCK YEAH! Let's hit American corporations and influence their profit-margins* this financial year, that'll teach the Chinese a lesson over their tyranny in Tibet! God, none of you guys are Economics majors are you? The Chinese government's care-cup is empty for McDonalds and Western companies.
* By 0.00000001%- a total value of around $24.73.
Last edited by Uzique (2008-08-08 13:34:14)
