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Thursday, June 14, 2012

Africa: ''China's promised land''

From Asia Times Online

''Since it will take long before China will have developed sophisticated financial markets (which do need solid legal backing), the expansion will have to take place through voluntary associations between "trusted" families. This is what happened among Jews within the larger European community, or happened elsewhere in the world among tribes which, for one reason or another were discriminated against (such as the Chinese in Thailand), and where the countries had no reliable legal framework. What shape and form these voluntary organizations will take, I do not know. But people are ingenious in the ways they can adapt - even if the adaptation has long-term neurotic consequences, which are not anticipated, and whose origin will be long forgotten when they surface."

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