China and the world: challanges and opportunities

Comments on Richard Rigby “The challenge of China”, 7/02/2010, http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2010/02/07/the-challenge-of-china/comment-page-1/#comment-96074

While I agree with Richard Rigby on many of his points, I think we should not over-state some of the issues.

Globalisation does not mean every country will be the same and some differences and possibility significant ones will remain between nations, although the world is getting more similar in the process.

While the Chinese including their leaders may need to rethink their approach to their formulation of "nei wai you bie" (meaning there is difference between domestic and international matters), the essence of that formula is likely to remain in the foreseeable future.

Just pause for a while and think about how the Australian government has treated foreign investments, especially more pointedly at the Chinese investments, can't one see the application of that formulation in Australia?

We are used to this, why is it difficult for the Chinese to have loot after their own national interests?

That is just one of the issues that I might have a different view from that of Rigby's in this article.

I feel overstating the challanges may make people forget and miss the opportunities that should arise and present tehmselves and should be grabbed in the next decades to come.