Mr O,

Your concern about billeting migrants is commendable but
unnecessary.
The Morrison government has on its agenda a plan
to settle migrants in regional Australia - outside
the big cities like Sydney and Melbourne.

As for singing Kumbaya? Perhaps "We are One but We are
Many," would be more appropriate. Or even Aretha Franklin's
"Respect," might go over well.

Then you could also be taught the words.

There's a good chap.

" China and India. They have similar populations, simmilar location and size, with about 70 years of operating their political systems. China with an authoritarian regime, India with its democratic regime."

Well democracy v. authoritarianism isn't the issue. Its capitalism v. socialism that matters. When China was totalitarian AND socialist, it was and remained poor. Only after it rejected socialism and introduced a market economy did it start to somewhat prosper. Equally India for most of the past 70 years was socialist and stagnant, as all socialist societies are. Only recently has India begun to allow the market to work, and the results are stupendous.

Now capitalism can operate in a totalitarian environment for a time as we've seen in China. The issue is, can the leader's thirst for power be restrained indefinitely to allow the market to operate. What's happening in HK now suggests...no.

If you truly want to compare the systems try these....North Korea v South Korea; West Germany v. East Germany.

The rioters and looters, using the death of one person as an excuse for behaviour that comes naturally to them, have now caused the deaths of another four people.

In Australia, totally unconnected (with reality) people have decided to hold a protest in Sydney, because 'it is just the same here with Aborigines as it is in the US'. No wonder China thinks that the West will be a pushover.

ttbn,

It's not the West that China sees as a pushover. It's people like you.

Paul,

It's arguable that India may be more socialist than China, not that either one is all that socialist. Certainly China is far more repressive and chauvinist and - Mhaze - more capitalist.

Interesting logic, Paul: Most people in China are comfortable, is that what you're suggesting ? Perhaps so: but perhaps at the cost to the Tibetans, Uighurs, Kazakhs and other minority groups, and to the millions in the labour camps. On the same logic, the US justified the slavery of a minority for the comfort and benefit of a minority of the dominant majority. I've seen current numbers for labour-prisoners in China which were/are higher than those of slaves in the US.

But eventually, as we're seeing, the slaves and their descendants revolt.

Joe

Foxy,

Respect? I'm too busy working out what makes the world tick to worry about respect. But thanks for the offer anyway.

Yes, we can send millions of migrants to the country. But where will they live, where will they work, where will their kids go to school, and where will they find hospitals? No, they definitely must be settled in the cities so that large corporations can make billions out of residential development and selling consumer services.