So, you are bona fide now? And, "uh-oh... she's counted to three". Like.. three is the end of the world???
Truly enjoyed reading your research. I disagree that you're slow in noticing the trend. The big 'tilt' of the picture, and your uneasiness with it, CAUSED you to do the research. Intuitive? Yep.
Now then... also loved the post that the 500B is AFTER all other funds were IOU'd to the hilt.. we must NOT forget that cute little accounting trick.
Back in college, I read this incredible book whereby the author gave wonderful examples which proved his theory that 'authors are the poet laureates of history'. Basically, they write... THEN it happens. Sci-Fi has seen this happen time & again. Butttt... give me a little time here....
Wayyyyyyyy back in time (when the dime novels about the West circulated on the Eastern shore), a famous author described the 'mountain man' as burley, wearing leather jackets with leather fringe about the arms, and totally void of social mannerisms. The book was a hit. Better yet, the "jacket with the fringe" became the identifying mark of the mountainman. Marketing began... everyone going West wanted one.. and voila! The mountain man we know today, was born! Previous to that broadly accepted novel, there wasn't a mountain man in the Rockies who even owned a jacket like that. Better yet, they'd never SEEN a jacket like that. Again, the authors were the "poet laureates of history". Basically, "if they write it, it will happen". This brings me to Court... and to Asia...
Every periodical is pushing Chinese investment... that's where the money will be... that's where the demand will be. And, given that broad-based intellectual support, it follows that money will actually be poured (literally) into that region. It's happening already. And with that massive injection of capital, an area that is 'backward' seeks modernization. Previous untolerated changes in political views are accepted in order to submit to the change. With the wealth of the world aimed at one focal point, then what happens? "if you write it, it will happen". There isn't enough resources on this planet to materialize the industrial revolution in China that is being anticipated in writing. And, if they get just half way through the idiological distance projected, it will be (and IS) to the detriment of all other existing competition. These poet laureates, much like the focus of 'tech' poet laureates, will manage to move money from the pockets of otherwise prudent investors into investments which are at risk in countries which have an absolute lack of legal systems to support the investment. But... it'll happen anyway. And folks will make money in one form or another. But, it will always be to the detriment of other existing forms of competition. Ahhhhh! We are back to 'everything is relative', no?
