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What’s Really Driving China’s Growth

It’s a fat guy on a donkey. Really. That’s what’s driving China’s growth. It sure as heck isn’t China’s government. Economic growth and prosperity stands on the shoulders of countless people making self interested... ...full story at The China Expat

from The China Expat on Tue, Mar 25 2008

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