This thread is yet another random discussion thread. This one however would prefer it if there is as little perverted posting as possible; there is PM talk and Cara's OOC for that.

The point of this thread is mainly to avoid being a circle jerk; just random discussion and talking without constant eGrope flooding everything.

So as a topic starter, what do you think about the People's Republic of China?

And how many posts can this thread go on that subject?

As little perversion as possible? Dammit, getting out of this gimp suit will take a while.

China is a communist country.

That's all I know. sorry aaron.

I see china as a state corporation.

Well this has not gone as hoped.

The PRC plays the game of "Oh American you Imperiarist scum! We hate you!" and attempts to play some kind of retarded Cold War game with us (Though sadly they won't be anywhere near US level anytime soon, even the Soviets had issues) but at the same time suckles on the West for their economy, added with shifty, morally questionable (Though who hasn't done some silly shit) and downright stupid business practices, have created the "Chinese Bubble", which within the next 10-20 years is due to come crashing down.

Already we've seen the stagnation of the Chinese economy, however in an attempt to boost this, the Chinese super-charged their already expanding military industrial complex, purchasing and refitting a former Russian carrier and using its experience to create their own, attempting to produce a 5th generation fighter, and a number of other military expeditions really just are fucking over China in the long run.

China is that guy who spits on you, but just happens to live in your house, eats your food, and so on.

I got some stuff made from China. Why don't we make more of our own stuff, we'd probably have more jobs available.

The Imagination said
I got some stuff made from China. Why don't we make more of our own stuff, we'd probably have more jobs available.

You can thank Chinese and American businesses for that, the cost of labor was always a factor in the West with unions, equal rights, and such, you couldn't do the things that happened in other nations. With the Sino-Soviet split in the 1960/70s, the United States began to woo the Communist Chinese, in order to take a vital ally away from the Soviet Union, meaning it would be just the Warsaw Pact, not Warsaw Pact and Friends, engaged in any large scale conflict with NATO.

As the United States and the West in general began to rapidity expand and industrialize moreso than even during the Second World War, the need for goods was much higher than the supply could manage, industry began to look for a much cheaper solution to produce their goods, enter the just now developing Chinese nation. With hordes of cheap labor, shaky and politicians so corrupt they make US politics blush, began to allow massive US industries to move into China, hiring workers for inhumane amounts of hours, in horrid working environments, criminally low pay, so on,

What happened was a massive increase in provided goods and a massive drop in cost of manpower. Profit goes though the roof, China enters an age of crazy prosperity, consumers in the west are satisfied.

I don't like this. How's Canada? Maybe i'll just move there haha.

Canada is a nice place from what I hear.

You listen to the wrong people.

I remember studying China in college (business studies).
Last i heard it had begun to dawn on them that what they were doing was not sustainable; now they're trying to build up some kind of service industry to replace the fit-to-burst manufacturing base.

Let chinese corporations make Special Economic zones in hope of opening more jobs for americans.

Chinese workers fill up all the corporations set up.