Thursday, 1 October 2009

China is 60

Happy Birthday, People's Republic of China.

60 years of communism. Of control and censorship and disrespect for human rights.

60 years of major change and rapid economic development and growth. But also of killing half a million people per year (recent years) with cancer caused by its terrible pollution and industrial wastes.

60 years of an amazing journey from being a country that used to be bullied and forced to buy opium by mean powerful countries and trade with and cede colonies to them , to a mega powerful country that produces almost all consumer products for the world, with a powerful army and navy, producing 100 billionaires in a year...

Happy Birthday.

1 comment:

derek said...

more like, "when will you grow up". and they still aren't smart enough to manufacture high-tech components! go japan/korea/taiwan