From: Scott Chase (osteopilus@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri 18 Mar 2005 - 11:49:49 GMT
--- Keith Henson <hkhenson@rogers.com> wrote:
>
> [Posted this on another list, but since it mentions
> memes . . . .]
>
> Re several threads on this list, I make a case
> rooted in the stone age that
> a lot of the populations of the world are either now
> stressed (such as
> those who dropped out of the middle class in the US)
> or are anticipating
> the world getting worse.
>
> Exceptions are the Chinese, and a few other
> countries where economic
> conditions are improving and look like they will for
> a while.
>
Not sure how you're excepting the Chinese. Better keep
an eye on recent news wrt Taiwan. Could become a "time
for war" sans xenophobia if Taiwan asserts its
indepedence as a sovereign state. The difference was
ideological (ie- civil war between Nationalists and
Communists resulting in Nationalists fleeing to
Formosa).
Check googlenews for "anti-secession law china"
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=7886771
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