Tolkien -- Enemy of Rome

[Goffredo]

China and India can take of themselves and can exploit weaker peoples even more ruthlessly than we can. Don't worry about them.<br>
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Regards the rest of world lets not forget that we (we should include China) use most resources but we also PRODUCE most too. Of course production includes pollution but then again the sensitivity towards pollution and even PEACE grows and will give promising results only if it becomes a major policy in our "democracies", not because we produce and damage more but because there is some form of control of what governments do.<br>
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Just think of the havoc that the great damn in China will create and think of the damage to the environment that has been done in Russia (my lefty friends in Italy always seem to ignore these facts). People of all races religions and sex do stupid things but precisely for this reason an open "democratic" system is, in my opinion, not only the best but the ONLY way. There simply is no working alternative!<br>
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p.s. The great weakness of the Chinese system that I see is that it is not "democratic" and once the people get economically better off it will be a matter of time that they will also want to think on their own. I am optimistic for China but their political and ecnomic system will go thru a severe crisis soon and what will be interesting to see how it ends up. We went thru deep crises before and not only economic ones. Their country has lived for 50 years in an artificial situation and they have a lot of growing up to do. The people of China will surprise not only you but their leaders too. <p></p><i></i>