teacher

Another country thinks France sucks. Cool. My campaign against the cheese drinking surrendering beret wearers gathers momentum. Now let's see that gavel about the cheese drinking thing. Is it just me or is cheese you can pour a little creepy? I think it's champs that gets all upset when I dog the French. It's okay to say worse about Republicans though. Go figure.

Funny thing. How come the French look gay in berets but Army Rangers look tough?

Isocrates

China is being forced more and more towards the path of democratic ideals, with the world's attention on China's political treatement of Taiwan in the near future, capitalistic market ideals, and pressure from the United States of America.

There's a coming paradigm shift of the Communist Party's policies, and it may change the Party forever.

As many have stated, one byproduct of the outcome is resistance. Many observers have extrapolated the situation in Taiwan to the beginnings of a new world war.

If we go in the extreme opposite direction, what do we find?

Judging by the incentives such as an exploding growth rate of capita, higher standards of quality for consumer goods and living, and the basis of world approval, a domino effect of increased democratic freedoms could ripple outward from China to neighboring poorer countries.

The effect was already seen worldwide, in a sense, after the raising (or fall, in some views) of the Iron Curtain.

What will it take for China to sway it's current views? What powers and who will have that influence?

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