What a welcome corrective to Reg Little's patronizing article.

This article is an improvement on the absolute fiction one reads in the business pages of the Murdoch press.
I didnt visit China in the 70s when it came close to being the most democratic society( especially for women) in modern history. I visited in 2005 travelling to Shanghai,Jenin and some coastal towns. What can i say except environmental nightmare, the air is toxic, there are beggars everywhere , one woman had a clearly dead baby in her arms. The people I stayed with were Party people and had everything. They were embarrassed by the stench of poverty and repression of one.one billion people- particularly the Uiger whose oil reserves have been appropriated-analgous to mining companies in Australia sealing Indigenous Australian gold and uranium-I digress- it is every man for himself in China. I hear the overnight millionaires and billionaires, Party people of course,actually someone said once that former communists make the best capitalists, give China five years at most, certainly before 2020 to implode from health plagues, civil war, environmental catastrophes cause by mining and damming and the list goes on. China has stopped even pretending to provide education and housing to its citizen. It certainly cant feed everybody. All it does is exploit men and women( and of course women can always be more exploited) as slave labour to construct dystopian cities, consisting mainly of office blocks but very little housing except for the rich. Who knows what will come to pass in China? There is no reference book.