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Originally Posted by Racoon
China is as rife with corruption, unscrupulous practices, and pollution as any "Superpower" there ever was..
Thinking an exponentially rising China is a good thing to offset American Power is ridiculous. Its more of the same and usually worse!
Worse labor practices. worse product and environmental control..
They don't benefit humanity by their International policies.
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I tend to agree with you but they are changing especially on the environment front, possibly faster than the USA
I like to live in a society which has some modicum of free speech; although I see that being eroded daily by Corporate media takeovers, government paranoia and excessive secrecy and restrictive "anti-terror" laws.
So I would not like to live in China, whose "free speech" and human rights record is slightly worse than ours.
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What is China's contributions to philanthropical endevours across the world??
I'd be very curious.
You can complain, Boerseun, about Bill Gates giving billions to Africa, but I don't see the Chinese reallly trying to help out around the world.. 
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Just saw a TV show about Chinese buying up copper in Zambia? Pretty terrible conditions but a lot of that the fault of the local Governments inability to enforce labor laws
On philanthropy, they have a lot of ground to make up as many Chinese live in appalling,abject poverty.
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Jonathan Watts in Beijing
Wednesday December 15, 2004
The Guardian
China is set to complete the transition from aid recipient to international donor in the next year,
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China has been a significant contributor to relief operations in other countries over the last few years. Mostly the aid has come in the form of materials and medical care, but also in cash. According to the article published on the web site of Papua New Guinea's Embassy to the Americas, China's aid policy is one that fosters equality and mutually-beneficial development.
This year, China has again generously offered a helping hand to those in need. The Calibre writes that is has donated almost 40,000 euros to flood ravaged Uruguay. In March, China gave about 6 million euros in aid to Jordan for upgrading a local water supply network, CRI Nordic reports. China.org reveals that in the first 11 months of 2006, Chinese foreign aid extended to a total of 86 developing countries.
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China takes up civic work in Africa
It's sending 1,809 UN peacekeepers and 300 volunteers in a new Chinese 'peace corps' program.
By Danna Harman | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor
The number of Chinese peacekeepers worldwide is much smaller than the number that Pakistan supplies the UN – currently 10,173 according to UN statistics – or India, which has sent 9,471 of its nationals to participate in most of the UN's 15 current missions worldwide.
But, it's more than South Africa (1,188 blue helmets) or Brazil (1,277) have in the field – and far more than the US, which, unlike 118 other countries, puts no boots on the ground. (The US does, however, provide the largest chunk of the funding for these missions – 26 percent of the total. China, in turn, provides 3 percent.)
Since 2000 China has canceled more than $10 billion in debt for 31 African countries and has given $5.5 billion in development aid, with a promise of a further $2.6 billion in 2007-08, according to estimates by the Economist Intelligence Unit.
Beijing has overtaken the World Bank in lending to Africa: In 2005, China committed $8 billion in lending to Nigeria, Angola, and Mozambique alone – the same year the World Bank spent $2.3 billion in all of Africa.
In 2006, lending by China's Exim Bank was $12.5 billion – and is set to rise by more than $5 billion in 2007, according to the EIU estimates.
The loans China offered Africa in 2006 were three times the total development aid given by rich countries in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD),
and nearly 25 times the total stock of loans and export credits approved by the US Export-Import Bank for sub-Saharan Africa
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China takes up civic work in Africa | csmonitor.com
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Times Select Content China Competes With West in Aid to Its Neighbors
By JANE PERLEZ
Eager for stable friends, China is making big loans for big projects in poor Asian countries, competing with the World Bank at its own game.
September 18, 2006 World News
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Not a bad effort, in a few years really, maybe they remember what being poor feels like?
On the OATH
It sounds a bit like something I hear Americans reciting
Of course to take it in the USA would probably be illegal and would certainly reduce your job opportunities.
Article 20: Oath to the Proletariat and Party
Article 20.1 Upon joining all members must swear the following oath:
I, as a member of the International Communist Party, do hereby swear allegiance to the Socialist cause.
I pledge both myself and my nation in the fight against Capitalist and Imperialist oppression. The International Communist Party is the torch that shall spark the Revolution.
I shall defend the Party and its cause with all the resources at my disposal. I shall not take up arms against my brethren, nor will I disobey the mandates of the General Congress.
I will honour the rules laid out by the Constitution of our Alliance, and swear obedience to its Laws. I pledge my life and my honour to the good of the Proletariat, for it is through them that the Party is made strong. Let my comrades bare witness to this oath.
