[TheForge] Steel Prices

[Andy Vida]

Peter Fels And Phoebe Palmer wrote:
> 
> It's sort of a classic joke on the conservatives who have been
> slavering  for decades over the opportunity to exploit the potentially
> vast market that China represents.

	Their flaw lay in the assumption that the Chinese are
	nothing better than quaint little yellow monkeys without 
	the brains or drive to do what we do as well as we do, or
	at least did it.  Forget the most obvious racial and
	cultural biases that underpin this attitude; the gross
	underestimation of a people that have been "doing it"
	at least 30 times as long as we have here in the USA
	should have given fair warning to all intelligent adult
	business people to take good care and caution.