Saturday, December 25th, 2004
Gap between rich and poor grows ever wider in China…
by Warren
…which is apparently going to cause more social unrest in the Middle Kingdom. People tend to forget that, yes, China is an enormous market and a giant pool of cheap labour, but the whole reason they went Communist in the first place was because they were cheesed off at the inherent inequality of their system. It wouldn’t surprise me if that happens again, and this time they don’t have communism to fall back on.