Little time to waste as China rises - smh.com.au - By Paul Sheehan - January 21, 2006
All of which means the Chinese will be coming to Australia, in large numbers. Even though China is much poorer than Australia, with about 400 million people still living in poverty, 25 million middle-class Chinese can now afford a holiday in Australia.
But China has made a devil's pact in order to quickly transform the living standards of the people. The developed world has not only shifted much of its manufacturing to China, but much of its pollution. The skyline of Hong Kong has thickened with the towers of commerce, but friends in Hong Kong told me last week they had never seen the grey haze over the city so thick, drifting in from the factories on the mainland.
Power always comes at a price.
[Maybe 25 million middle-class Chinese may decide to help change grey haze?]
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