Whew...a long article and even longer comments...what interested me the most was all the info on the tremendous job losses in China...Laopo has a friend in Donguang, a major Pearl River delta manufacturing center, and it is certainly happening there with factories closing left and right... With unemployed masses of people in the cities perhaps my prediction was wrong and the destabilization of China will occur in the cities and not in the countryside... Yeah, that's what caught my eye too. I hadn't heard the bit about so many factories closing. Disheartening to say the least.