RE: Trade debunking

Real briefly, as time has run out for now.  Russia is no longer communist.

China's a different story.  Personally, as far as geo-politics goes, India
scares me more (even tho it is very British).  Population is approaching
that of China.  And if it hasn't already surpassed it, it will soon.  (NOT
commenting on China's method of population growth, just that it is an
important element in any society.)  Look at the size and resources of India
compared to China.

They both have nukes, and war has traditionally been used as a method for a
government to bring an unruly populous (sp?) into one mind-set, over the
mellenia.  I've seen positive movement in the India/Pakistan situation
lately, so try to remain hopeful in that part of the world.  I missed out on
the final results, and implications, of the recent election in Taiwan, which
involved a lot of these same issues, 4 years later.


| -----Original Message-----
| [mailto:midrange-nontech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Mark Villa
| Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 2:15 PM

| -->I'm looking forward to when Indian, Chinese, and perhaps
| -->Russian, companies
| -->uproot the dominance of American "think-tank-consultancies"
|
| I sure am one that does not get it.
| In a past life I stayed deployed all the time to protect and
| defend against
| communist countries.
| Now my job is again being controlled by them.
|
| I see a pattern here.
| The difference is between being proactive and reactive and what kind of
| country are we?
|
| Here is a 2000 article that tells me that we should have woke up
| before the
| vote to make sure the voting machines worked.
| http://search.csmonitor.com/durable/2000/03/15/p11s1.htm
|
| Mark Villa in Summerville SC