Chinese Treatment of AIDS victims

[Charles Brown]

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There seemed to be a pervasive notion that if only China could keep up
economic growth, it could outgrow all its ills, and all the mistakes and
problems would be buried in the past.  And the public bought into this in a
big way.  When I had visited Warsaw Pact Europe before 1989, no one ever
seemed to buy into the idea that the state was doing fine and the problems
would all just go away.  People didn't really seem to want capitalism, and
they weren't always sure what they wanted, but I can't remember ever talking
to someone who didn't think something was fundamentally wrong.  Even in
Vietnam, I had no trouble finding people who thought something was deeply
wrong with the country.

I still haven't quite managed to figure out why its different in China.

Scott Martens

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CB: One hypothesis might be that there isn't that much fundamentally, systemically wrong with the current system , and it is as the government portrays it, poverty left from the past system that is the main problem.