> Anyway, Russia as another China doesn't do much to answer the questions
> I raised.
My point is that a culture of 1.3 billion people which is boldly defying the rule of Wall Street -- and getting away with it -- might just have a few things to teach the rest of the world about how to resist neoliberalism. Shanghai these days is a gigantic open-air spawning grounds for export-platform lizards; nothing but chip fabs and electronics firms as far as the eye can see. If it had a government interested in long-term development instead of safeguarding the pocketbooks of the oligarchs, Russia could be raising packs of Eurolizards, Pikachu-style, in former KGB military factories.
-- Dennis