[adventured]

> If how the English treated First Nations is any guide, you'll get a reservation at the end of the day.

Only if your vast assumption about China is correct, which it isn't. Their economy is in free-fall.

China's imports just collapsed by 19% in January, exports collapsed by 11%. Trillions of dollars of capital is rapidly fleeing their economy. Their government is in the midst of an extraordinarily violent and widespread crackdown on individual liberty, murdering billionaires and disappearing high-level executives and journalists. And they're going to have to dramatically devalue their currency, which will have the effect in real terms of slicing their economy down to size, including their wealth.

I'm not worried about your premise in the least.

[philovivero]

I'm with maxerickson.

Where can I read about this? Of course if it's true, I could find a zillion dumb stories about it from various locations, but maybe you know a good, insightful, deep writup somewhere?

I'd never heard of this, so I am really fascinated.

EDIT: From a co-worker, the chairman of China is an old-school traditionalist Maoist who thinks all this Capitalism and Democracy BS has gone too far, and it's time to purge it all and have another cultural revolution. Still no good hard evidence links.

[maxerickson]

Where's a good place to read about the crackdown on the wealthy and executives?

[wavefunction]

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=chinese+crackdown+on+wealthy

[maxerickson]

Gee, thanks. How many of those articles do I have to skim to see if they mention a murdered billionaire to satisfy you?

This one at least mentions disappeared billionaires (if the first 3 do, I missed it):

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/chinas-crackdown-on-graft-media-...

But that could be detainment. And it doesn't go into executives.

Of course you are right, I was just being lazy, but I was trying to be smarter about it than typing an obvious search into Google and reading dozens of articles with the hope that I found one informing me about the claims made by someone I've in the past observed to be interested in the news.

[jarek]

I make no assumptions, I only contrast A_fow's experience with that of the Coast Salish