Wednesday, August 13, 2008

The Chinese Illusion

It's long been my opinion that much of the numbers and specifics about the Chinese economic miracle of the 2000's is suspect, and now we have the most visible example of it, in microcosm.
Much of the Olympics Opening Ceremony is now having the curtain pulled back on it.  Everyone couldn't stop talking about how impressive the ceremony was, the day after.  Now everyone is talking about how much of the spectacular-ness of it was a choreographed illusion.  I'm sure the same will apply to the economic miracle there too. 



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