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8. WE gave them the technology -wich was stupid- but do not discount the Chinese

Mon Jan 27, 2014, 09:39 AM

Jan 2014

I see the country as going through a modern version of the growth America experienced during our "industrial era".

And they will grow as a nation gaining the technology & the inherited knowledge of a wide labor base. Something we should have never given up was our manufacturing.

I hate to say but they will probably be the next world superpower-as if they are not already.

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Didn't "give" anything seabeckind Jan 2014 #9

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