Comment Re:Proving something? Anything? (Score 0) 293
carsamba wrote:
"China has been a world power for -let me see- all known history, and is Chinese first and anything else a distant second. They are a pragmatic people, move with slow but sure steps."
I think you may be forgetting something that happened in China within the years of 1959 and 1962. In an attempt to fast track the process of industrialization, China came up with the "Great Leap Forward". Factory, school, and hospital workers abandoned their work to smelt iron. China was trying to use their access to cheap labor to avoid having to import heavy machinery. As a result, it is said to be one of the worst economic disasters in history.
This is one example of China's fast track solutions that failed. They do appear to be slow and have sure steps but history seems to tell a different story.
Read more:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward/
"China has been a world power for -let me see- all known history, and is Chinese first and anything else a distant second. They are a pragmatic people, move with slow but sure steps."
I think you may be forgetting something that happened in China within the years of 1959 and 1962. In an attempt to fast track the process of industrialization, China came up with the "Great Leap Forward". Factory, school, and hospital workers abandoned their work to smelt iron. China was trying to use their access to cheap labor to avoid having to import heavy machinery. As a result, it is said to be one of the worst economic disasters in history.
This is one example of China's fast track solutions that failed. They do appear to be slow and have sure steps but history seems to tell a different story.
Read more:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward/
