China is the cancer of the world, page-43

it suited the west. In fact the way it worked was that as China emerged from the corrupt regime of the post Maoist era they looked to improve the lot of their people. Producing goods for the west which was hungry to find ways of reducing labour costs was a no brainer really. So it suited China to meet the greed and need of the west. Don’t believe for a second that it was any altruistic sentiment operating

the same happened post WW2 with Japan though that was fuelled a little by collective guilt.