Duke, you’ve got lots of good points and cheers for roughing it on your travels down there. But I’m sure you’ve seen just how desperate the situation is for so many down there. I was just trying to point out that Chinese corruption, poverty, and pollution isn’t that different than the variety that you see in places like Peru or Ecuador. At least they have elections in Peru as opposed to China, but most of the poor people I met down there didn’t feel that their politicians did anything for them.
The piracy issue is a good one, they don’t respect western property rights at all. And of course they produce massive amounts of pollution and have a bad human rights record. Makes you wonder why we import so many goods from them, doesn’t it? Oh yeah, it’s because Bubba signed that free trade agreement with them back in the 90s. Thanks Bubba.
