Strange excerpt from article about Chinese space program.

denverbill

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Wed Oct-15-03 09:11 AM
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Strange excerpt from article about Chinese space program.

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China's leaders long ago replaced their leftist ideology with sweeping economic reform, and resort instead to flag-waving nationalistic appeals to bind their nation together - a strategy reflected in Beijing's successful campaign for the 2008 Summer Olympics.

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http://apnews.excite.com/article/20031015/D7U6JFNO0.html

Now, I realize that China has been implementing gradual economic reform and is allowing more capitalism, but 'long ago', and 'replaced their leftist ideology'? It's practically Orwellian. I guess the idea is that China isn't Communist anymore, which is why it's acceptable to trade with China but not Castro.

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ixion

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Wed Oct-15-03 09:16 AM
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1. it's never really been communist, it has been totalitarian

and in that regard, I don't think that much has changed. Actual communist/socialist countries are rare, and have never existed on a large scale, though some have been labeled as such.

just my two cents. ;-)

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Jackpine Radical

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Wed Oct-15-03 09:30 AM
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3. Socialist examples?

Well, there's Scandinavia.

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htuttle

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Wed Oct-15-03 09:25 AM
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2. Wasn't it Peng's 'Five Pillars' paper that renounced Communism?

Edited on Wed Oct-15-03 09:33 AM by htuttle

I think that's when it was -- if not more recently. Their new economic model seems to be:

1) Attract the world's industry to China with cheap labor
2) Bury the West economically by exploiting step 1

We may have been happier when they were Communist...

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cspiguy

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Wed Oct-15-03 09:33 AM
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4. well, we aren't building too many truck plants in Cuba

so I guess companies feel China is a more reliable (less likely to nationalize it and give us the finger) business partner.

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Brian Sweat

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Wed Oct-15-03 09:43 AM
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5. For some reason, we care more about a country's

Edited on Wed Oct-15-03 09:52 AM by Brian Sweat

economic system, than their political system.

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