Screw it. Let's build the Nuclear Rocket we've been teased about lately and explore the solar system already. The annual cash involved can't be more than the rounding error for Medicaid or Social Security. Better than seeing the money wasted on new union concessions for federal workers or funding a new exit ramp in Mississippi... Besides, whose going to do it, Belize? Uganda? USA all the way, baby!
"The US companies are just doing business, no more and no less, and that business helps along that change."
This is true up to a point: Foreign investment tends to raise living standards by creating jobs and economic growth. Some estimates suggest that, by 2015-2020, per capita GDP will reach the critical level where populations tend to "demand democracy". i.e. Their workforces start to demand rights and privileges commensurate with their wealth and education.
But the point was that the specific actions of Cisco and others, by aiding the information-squelching of Beijing, are clearly counterproductive to China's modernization.
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Screw it. Let's build the Nuclear Rocket we've been teased about lately and explore the solar system already. The annual cash involved can't be more than the rounding error for Medicaid or Social Security. Better than seeing the money wasted on new union concessions for federal workers or funding a new exit ramp in Mississippi... Besides, whose going to do it, Belize? Uganda? USA all the way, baby!
No, how do we sell this to 'W'?
Whoa...
"The US companies are just doing business, no more and no less, and that business helps along that change."
This is true up to a point: Foreign investment tends to raise living standards by creating jobs and economic growth. Some estimates suggest that, by 2015-2020, per capita GDP will reach the critical level where populations tend to "demand democracy". i.e. Their workforces start to demand rights and privileges commensurate with their wealth and education.
But the point was that the specific actions of Cisco and others, by aiding the information-squelching of Beijing, are clearly counterproductive to China's modernization.