p51dray

Traum gave REASONS why he thought China act wrongly in this matter.  Even if he hates China, so what?  Learn to attack the basis of his arguments please.  

US sailor bring in foreign income into China; Chinese tourist to HK only cycles Chinese money within China.  It's not advantageous from an economic point of view.  

I also don't think that a few thousand US sailors will cause trouble for the HK populous.  The much larger mass of mainlanders who visit HK probably cause more trouble for HK when you look at it in aggregate.  

The basic premise of peter's arguement is since US pissed China off, China has the right be vindictive and bash the US when she needs help.     But should China grow up?  Probably.

p51dray

原帖由 peter236 於 2007-12-3 22:08 發表


Point for point, Traum just could not suppport his arguments. China did the right thing by standing up strong against foreign bullies. Like Traum said before, making money is not everything. We shou ...

Perhaps I need to make my point more clear with an example.  Chinese mainlander A spends $1 at HK -> HK wealth increase $1, Mainland wealth decrease $1 -> net increase in wealth in China = $0.  An US serviceman spending his salary in HK on the other hand... well I will let you connect the dots.  

You bought Chinese tourism into the argument to show the relative insignificance of the additional inflow of wealth bought about by the arrival of US Navy battle group.  I don't think anyone is arguing against that; I was just trying to point out that China is effective forgoing some income just because they don't like the US.  

Yes US should grow up too; this doesn't mean China shouldn't.