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A lot more people on the planet live near Beijing than near Iceland.
by xiaoma 10y ago
A lot more people on the planet live near Beijing than near Iceland.
- astrodust 10y agoIf you're talking about India and China, sure. If you're talking about America and Europe? Nope.
- xiaoma 10y agoYes, India and China are indisputable giants but also consider Japan (still the #2 or #3 economy in the world depending on the metric), Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore—all advanced economies with extremely educated and technical populaces. Then there's Vietnam, which is very poor but growing over 10% / year and highly educated despite the poverty. There are also hundreds of millions of people in Indonesia and Malaysia. I was speaking not of the US or Europe but the world in general. We don't live in the Eurocentric world of 150 years ago. The center of gravity now spans the Pacific.
- astrodust 10y agoIt will. It does not right now if you're talking about conferences. Participants are still largely from the Americas and Europe. Also this entire argument is utterly absurd. If you're upset about brutal domestic policies the last place you should be arguing in favor of is China.
- bjshepard 10y agoChina has very sane, good government, come actually experience it and stop believing CIA lies. The firewall is a rational way to keep the US deep state out.
- astrodust 10y agoWhile I'll grant you Chinese government officials are probably more educated and experienced than your average American ones, there is no justifying the pervasive political censorship in China. The CIA is not responsible for suppressing the Tiananmen Square incident. Stop spreading bullshit.