Aussies joke - and hope - that China can save capitalism (AFP)

[Nambe]

Source: Agence France-Presse

A cartoon on the front page of Australia's national newspaper Thursday neatly illustrates an irony admitted by the government: communist China could save capitalism.
The illustration shows a Chinese man in a Superman outfit telling exactly this to a bankrupt, cigar-smoking Wall Street tycoon covering his nakedness in a barrel.

"Oh, you're just loving this, aren't you," the fallen high-flyer replies in the cartoon in The Australian.

Amid turmoil in the world financial sector, the International Monetary Fund predicted Wednesday that China's economy would grow at more than 9.0 percent next year while much of the West faces recession.

That's good news for Australia, whose own economic boom has been driven for years by China's insatiable demand for mineral resources such as iron ore for steelmaking and coal to fire up its industries. ...

Read more: http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=081009081613.i24wpu2h&show_article=1&catnum=-1

[tocqueville]

1. here it is

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/imagedata/0,,6290206,00.jpg

[Nambe]

2. Thank you tocqueville, I could not find it with my resources.

We lived in Sydney for quite a few years. The Australian was the liberal newspaper until Murdoch bought it a few years ago. I wonder if editor´s heads will role with this cartoon making international news.

[tocqueville]

3. it was difficult to find

you have to browse the cartoons on their web page, by going into the subfolders

[originalpckelly]

4. Of course being able to save capitalism comes at a cost...

people get shot and their organs are havested. Big mama regulates what you can say on the internets. No democracy. Yeah, it comes with a price, one day China will be a collapsed shell too.

[WriteDown]

5. You forgot about the environmental DEVASTATION n/t

[originalpckelly]

8. I remember seeing those nasty skyline photos...

blyuck! The place looks like an industrial hell-hole.

[redqueen]

6. Why is China still considered Communist?

[AlphaCentauri]

7. because, china will not follow the International Monetary Fund economic receipts

have you notice that all the governments that won do what the International Monetary Fund dictate are called socialist and communist