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Message: [QUOTE="SpitfireV, post: 525609, member: 51"] I'm pretty well acquainted with China and their culture so I was interested what your perspective was. Hope you didn't think it was an ambush! I would tend to agree but I think the ethnic issues aren't as much of a problem without support of a foreign state- and that comes back to the massive spending on internal security IMO. Corruption I don't think is an issue at all- it's the Chinese way of doing things, it has been for 1000s of years. Many Chinese grumble about it but at the end of the day they accept it as a fact of life and get on with living. Combine that with Xi's "anti-corruption" drive that is a mixture of both legitimate anti corruption and the clearing out of opponents and it creates a perception within China at least that the problem is being tackled. I'd probably add in there an artificially strengthened RMB too. [/QUOTE]