On the 60th anniversary of the Communist revolution in China, their powerful role in the world was underlined yet again. The 2008 Beijing Olympics was an incredibly spectacular event. The opening ceremony alone cost an estimated US$100 million, featuring a cast of over 15,000 perfomers and lasted over four hours.
This year they were at it again. Celebrating six decades of Communist rule the Chinese held another remarkable spectacle: a parade featuring everything from women soldiers with mini-skirts and machine guns, to nuclear missiles and another spectacular firework display. Even the weather bowed down to communist supremacy. The forecast was for rain, but a gap opened in the cloud and President Hu Jintao's specatators were bathed in sunshine. Quite an impressive display from a country that was, thirty years ago, unable to feed it's entire population. Now they boast the world's third biggest economy. The Times today showed exactly how much Communist China has improved in the last sixty years. From 1949 to 2009 the average life expectancy has risen from 36.5 years to 73.5, the population has more than doubled up to 1.3 billion and the total grain output has gone from 113 milllion tonnes to 529 million tonnes.
Whoever said Communism was a bad thing?
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yeah but apparently the Chinese state is in he habit of framing innocent people, executing them so they can harvest their organs.
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