[lbo-talk] Kees van der Pijl

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

At 1:12 PM +0800 6/28/03, Grant Lee wrote:
>  > >Grant Lee wrote:
>>  >
>>  >>  Some would argue that Japan has done better because it was a "second
>>  >>  division" imperial power itself. (As was Australia.)
>>  >
>>  >Some would argue that Japan has done better because it had access to
>>  >the US market in the post WWII period.
>>  >
>>  >Ulhas
>>
>>  Had Japan been a colony of a European power or the United States,
>>  like the Philippines, neither of the above would have happened.
>>  --
>>  Yoshie
>
>Not necessarily. There have been examples of imperialised countries 
>becoming imperial countries.

"The members of the Group of Seven (G-7) are Canada, France, Germany, 
Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States, which 
together account for about two-thirds of the world's economic output" 
(@ <http://usinfo.state.gov/topical/econ/group8/g8what.htm>).  Japan 
remains the only non-Euro/American state in the club of the rich. 
China may be invited to join the club, as Russia has.  I can't think 
of any possible exception in the near future.
-- 
Yoshie

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