From: Michael Lorrey (retroman@together.net)
Date: Fri Jan 23 1998 - 09:36:02 MST
Paul Hughes wrote:
> I started taking a course in Chineese Politics and was wondering what
> peoples thoughts are on the rising power of China and what that portends
> for the rest of the world - especially on how it will impact on
> extropian goals. Any thoughts?
>
I'm curious how China is dealing with the Asian Market Flu. Did they cause
it to discredit free markets? Will they use it to justify more control in
Hong Kong? Has the level of international money basically voting with its
dollars on the asian concept of a "different, asian form of human rights"
showed that their arrogance is misplaced?
Certainly their current military modernization program is ominous, but they
haven't really done much in blatant agression in a long time, with the
exception of the 'exercise' they had near Taiwan a couple years ago in
response to the elections there. That they seem to be taking such a long
term strategy for eventual, peaceful reintegration of Taiwan with mainland
China indicates to me that they are at least a bit more rational than other
tyrants in the past. What I really worry about is 30 years down the road.
The population control program in China is having the effect of a much
larger percentage of the population being born as males. Sociologists have
commented in the past on the relative levels of agression of societies with
balanced versus imbalanced populations of genders. I wonding if having so
many frustrated males in the population 20-30 years from now will wind up
with a much more militarist regieme coming to power.
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