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Alan Browne wrote:
Lisa Horton wrote: I doubt most Americans would know that the native people of Taiwan are a distinct ethnic subgroup, which today, AIR, makes up around 40% of the population, yes? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republi...a#Demographics umm... 'han chinese' is basicly bogus if you are talking about ethnic groups, becuase the moment you look at it you will see that its just a a total hodge-podge of different groups with bascily only having lived in the territory now goverened by PRC and and speak a language out of the group that have approximately as much in common as modern icelandic and italian. -- Sander +++ Out of cheese error +++ |
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"Brian C. Baird" wrote in message .. . In article , says... Well, according to the anthropologists, we all came from one source anyway....... My pants! Really! - I don't think that was the source they were talking about....Unless you were around over two million years ago....... |
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"China has passed a law that gives them the "right" to use force to prevent Taiwan from declaring independence from the mainland." March 19, 2005 http://www.newswatchmagazine.org/wee...itor/index.htm Cody, http://community-2.webtv.net/AnOverc...otographyLinks |
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AnOvercomer 02 wrote:
"China has passed a law that gives them the "right" to use force to prevent Taiwan from declaring independence from the mainland." March 19, 2005 http://www.newswatchmagazine.org/wee...itor/index.htm We do read the news. If, for protest reasons, you want to avoid buying any product from China, you have to shop carefully. There is hardly a product kind that they don't make. Yes, Chinese automobiles will be washing up at a Wal*Merde near you soon... I hope China becomes a prosperous nation. Then they wouldn't feel so testy about Taiwan. But I also wish they would pull the pins and float their currency to level the playing field. Cheers, Alan -- -- r.p.e.35mm user resource: http://www.aliasimages.com/rpe35mmur.htm -- r.p.d.slr-systems: http://www.aliasimages.com/rpdslrsysur.htm -- [SI] gallery & rulz: http://www.pbase.com/shootin -- e-meil: there's no such thing as a FreeLunch. |
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"Alan Browne" wrote in message ... Andrew Price wrote: Swings and roundabouts. If, as you feel, they are maintaining an artificially low value for the currency, to facilitate exports, then they pay for that policy with the cost of their imports. Like Korea used to be: Export like hell, but import as little as possible. They have to import oil (and that will grow like crazy over the next 5 -10 years), wheat, minerals, wood, etc. But they do not import much high value material. Most of their MD-80s (DC-9-87's IIRC), for example, were built in China, not California. Their currency is currently pegged to the US$ where a large proportion of their exports are desitined. The thing is if chinas currency grew in value then the cost of living for the rest of us would go up cos they make everything as it is. |
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ian lincoln wrote:
The thing is if chinas currency grew in value then the cost of living for the rest of us would go up cos they make everything as it is. Think longer term. -- -- r.p.e.35mm user resource: http://www.aliasimages.com/rpe35mmur.htm -- r.p.d.slr-systems: http://www.aliasimages.com/rpdslrsysur.htm -- [SI] gallery & rulz: http://www.pbase.com/shootin -- e-meil: there's no such thing as a FreeLunch. |
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Alan Browne wrote:
ian lincoln wrote: The thing is if chinas currency grew in value then the cost of living for the rest of us would go up cos they make everything as it is. Think longer term. The longer term issue is how china will keep from falling apart due to internal pressures from way different development levels within on country. -- Sander +++ Out of cheese error +++ |
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