| Subject: Some thoughts inspired by Ng's article (2) |
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Mujahida
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Date Posted: 13:43:39 09/24/04 Fri
The world's largest debtor nation ?the United States, with 2/3 of its currency being held overseas, with heavy budget deficit, a historical record of volatile fluctuation in the floating exchange rates of its fiat currency, an endless war in Iraq and several more future wars on agenda ( eg. Iran, Syria and North Korea), is still considered by Hong Kong government as the safest haven from economic turmoil. Don't forget how good US dollars really worth also has to depend on the strength of the US economy. In the recent couple of years, US dollars has been sunk to toilet paper level. How much US treasuries have Hong Kong purchased this year when the US dollars sunk? How much direct and indirect loss & costs have the Hong Kong Sar Government incurred in all these no-insight and sure-lost bad investments? Keep the profit for oneself and share the loss with the others! Is that what capitalism with Chinese socialistic characteristics all about ?
No man is an island; no man lives alone. The other side of the capitalistic game is a game of fire. When you light a match, the match gives you fire and this fire can burn down a house. However, by the time the house is burnt, the match also becomes ashes. Whether you're the match or you're the wooden house, you cannot escape from being burnt. Thus, nobody is a winner in this game.
Except may be in mythology, what I have experienced with Chinese culture is that it has almost never really been a "people's-orientated" culture, not to mention about politics. Before communism, it was landlord who were suppressing peasants. With the return of Capitalist-Roader ?Deng Xiao Ping, the past two decades, Chinese communist cadres have successfully converted themselves and their children into capitalists, big landlords and people's public enemies.
Everything peasants and workers possessed before Deng's reform had been turned to ashes since the return of Deng. This so-called "capitalism with Chinese socialistic characteristics" is that without money, one will most likely be rejected and just die on the hospital's doorsteps and go to see Chairman Mao.
Fishermen have no more fish to fish, farmers have no land to farm. That's also what that story of seven Chinese hostages from Fujian Province captured in Fallujah, Iraq a few months ago reflect about the result of Deng's "glorious reform".
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