well, you know, china isn't exactly immune to the same types of social ills our society has.
* widening gap between urban middle class and rural poor
* rampant pollution tied to inefficient industrial production
* government corruption
some are unique to china:
* the aborting of females in a society that prizes male heirs. the country will be full of homos or ronery guys getting mail order brides from vietnam. dont' laugh - it's already happening!
* some chinese are picking up the petty bourgeois habit of keeping dogs as pets instead of eating them
all this is magnified by the sheer size of the country.
to wit, their strength (size and numbers) is also their weakness.
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