Originally Posted by sixxx(sic)six
You'd be pretty deluded if you thought that. China's improving, mostly because it's _abandoning_ Communism, but it's still far from being strong economically relative to it's size.

--- Who said China is improving. There has been massive ghettos of urbanised peasants without rights to healthcare or education -- a few massively rich crooks, and a bunch of people in the country living the same way they have for centuries. They only reason the basic lifestyle is OK in most rural areas is because of the massive infrasturcture for healthcare, roads electricity etc left over from the maoists.