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arthurborges@... 16th Mar 2010
All I fathom of your contribution is that you do have a grasp of yin/yang. As one proverb goes, "To be truly happy, you need a good enemy."

The fall of the USSR has triggered disruption that have cost millions of lives as the USA experienced a self-made existential threat: it had no real enemy left and the only way it could cope with that was to go on a Crusade against an enemy it had to drag up out of the 12th century and the days of King Louis IX.

Although Chinese society has her share of rip-off artists, this is essentially a society based on tight family ties and strong social networking that places strong emphasis on win/win solutions in problem-solving situations.

Any "fireworks" would be lose/lose.

Not Chinese.
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