Re:Re-use of old term (Score 1)

China's growth is not purely the result of Hong Kong, that is like saying that the entire growth of the USA is entirely down to New York - both act as financial centres, but do not produce goods for export. Part of the reason for China's amazing growth is in fact its totalitarianism, when the government wants to do something and has its mind set on it, it always gets its own way. If it wants to build a dam to provide hydro electric power then it will moves 100,000s of people so that it can. If it wants access to Zambias natural resources then it will send Chinese convicts to build roads there . Totalitarian governments can achieve amazing things, like the pyramids in egypt or like the temples in South America, because they can do absolutely anything they want. Whilst a top down strategy means that there are situations where resources are wasted amazingly, like in the old USSR when Shoe Factories only made a single size because they did not have to respond to public demands, a country like China, that was and is so relatively backward can make huge strides in growth even whilst wasting resources on a massive scale. This is especially true when the country has so much in terms of manpower.