tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3957485821352000404.post7647526331350182069..comments2024-02-16T12:16:30.137+08:00Comments on HANTULAUT: Is China Becoming A "Show-Off" Nation ?gram.konghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17668147820217032682noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3957485821352000404.post-50087555414509180502010-11-15T19:43:22.098+08:002010-11-15T19:43:22.098+08:00We can't expect a country so vast with one of ...We can't expect a country so vast with one of the longest history to change overnight. Given China long history,what it has achieved and shown to have achieved in it's "short" modern era are indeed spectacular. A very simple yardstick is if you ask every Malaysian Chinese who has relatives in China, are their lives better generally than during pre-Deng era? Certainly the answer Thonghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17695864943700263293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3957485821352000404.post-12917683367191871012010-11-15T19:42:52.361+08:002010-11-15T19:42:52.361+08:00We can't expect a country so vast with one of ...We can't expect a country so vast with one of the longest history to change overnight. Given China long history,what it has achieved and shown to have achieved in it's "short" modern era are indeed spectacular. A very simple yardstick is if you ask every Malaysian Chinese who has relatives in China, are their lives better generally than during pre-Deng era? Certainly the answer Thonghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17695864943700263293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3957485821352000404.post-16484292457348590202010-11-15T16:18:04.031+08:002010-11-15T16:18:04.031+08:00HL, I have travelled into rural China too. Their o...HL, I have travelled into rural China too. Their open latrines and our interior kampung jambans are not too different. <br /><br />China's massive development (sanitary toilets as a measure?) will soon reach the rural areas say in 10 years but there is tap water and electricity almost everywhere now? When will our interiors be given tap water and electricity?<br /><br />Y1Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3957485821352000404.post-54443097822507998542010-11-15T14:30:41.060+08:002010-11-15T14:30:41.060+08:00Westerners usually look down on Asians, even those...Westerners usually look down on Asians, even those who live in Australia and NZ ( to think that they are actually in the Asia-Pacific!). How many times we heard of stories of Asian students in those countries riding on trains or even just waiting for a bus have been humiliated and spat at? Bro, I am not exaggerating here it is the reality that exists there. So with China showing off their Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3957485821352000404.post-3594809169703584572010-11-15T03:58:02.769+08:002010-11-15T03:58:02.769+08:00Y1,
Even worse in rural China.Y1,<br /><br />Even worse in rural China.gram.konghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17668147820217032682noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3957485821352000404.post-1583031677968076052010-11-14T23:39:58.868+08:002010-11-14T23:39:58.868+08:00Try visiting the interiors/kampungs of Sabah &...Try visiting the interiors/kampungs of Sabah & Sarawak, and our people have no choice but to defecate outside their own homes!<br /><br />Y1Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3957485821352000404.post-5319169775768436782010-11-14T13:40:15.287+08:002010-11-14T13:40:15.287+08:00bless you, eddy, for being forthright!bless you, eddy, for being forthright!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3957485821352000404.post-16308274374163662562010-11-13T21:57:09.001+08:002010-11-13T21:57:09.001+08:00Bro HL, for all those great sporting spectacles, t...Bro HL, for all those great sporting spectacles, the Chinese Government will have to address the disparity in income level sooner than later between the rich and the poor before it becomes a political problem.<br /><br />I think GDPs are misleading if it is meant to show a nation's wealth. We should use the Purchasing Power Parity standard to have a better insight of how things are in a eddyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14778796377342661967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3957485821352000404.post-25792927395821305102010-11-13T13:12:16.503+08:002010-11-13T13:12:16.503+08:00While the GDP is $6,600 now, what was it just 10 y...While the GDP is $6,600 now, what was it just 10 years ago?<br /><br />How about Malaysia's current GDP of I think about $7,600 which has been more or less stagnating for the past 20 years?<br /><br />Y1Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com