A new town, Songjiang, rises on the outskirts of ShanghaiJulien Daniel / MYOP
China's 60th Birthday: The Road to Prosperity -- Time Magazine
Sixty years ago Mao Zedong stood before a sea of people atop Tiananmen Gate proclaiming, in his high-pitched Hunan dialect, the founding of the People's Republic of China and that the "Chinese people have stood up!" The moment was marked with pride and hope. The communists' victory had vanquished the Nationalist regime, withstood the vicious onslaught of the Japanese invasion and overturned the century of foreign encroachment on China's territory. Moreover, Mao and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) came to power without significant external support — theirs was largely a homegrown revolution.
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My Comment: I was in China in 1988. I go back now .... I cannot recognize the place. Their mindset is that anything and everything is possible, and damn the consequences.
On a side note, we should be grateful that they are focusing their energies on raising their standard of life. If their energies were (instead) focused on their military establishment, we would be living in a very different world today.
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