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Very few countries had been able to transition from "cheap labour" manufacturing to high tech manufacturing, unfortunately. Most become stuck like Mexico and some South American countries where the economy just hovers around low-middle income and doesn't really get anywhere. I mostly posted...

Let me clarify what I meant a bit. I wasn't saying Singapore isn't competitive, I was saying that it's competitive in such a way that really isn't applicable to most countries in the world. Singapore, HK, and Switzerland are the equivalent of calling New York or Shanghai "separate...

Well, my post wasn't meant to devalue HK's achievements by any means. I just meant to say that countries should take these kind of rankings with a grain of salt...a poor third world country trying to imitate HK's "openness" will immediately get all of its natural resource stripped and all of its...

People still reference Epoch Times, why? It's so blatantly biased and fake people should've known by now. Sometimes I wonder if I should start an anti-china newspaper just to make some money since stupid people seems to eat it up.

Well I was just going down the list, so yeah Japan and Korea are two countries I would list, although not as high because they're notoriously protectionist in comparison to Taiwan and Germany. The reason why I don't regard HK as highly is because it is easier to be open when you're just relaying...

Am I the only one to think that this kind of ranking is kind of useless? It doesn't factor in a lot of stuff. "How well countries manages their economic and human resources" can be interpreted in a lot of ways. Hong Kong is a city that literally cannot "lose" because of its financial hub status...

Overspending on education, welfare and healthcare, is part of the reason why the states and so many European countries are in trouble. Education here in Canada along with the US and Europe IMO is basically a bubble...constant increase in price for something HR people thinks are "important" but...

In democracies they just arrest people for petty crimes (But don't punish true crime hard, because of "human rights") and tax the middle class to give to the rich...and then let all those people die by themselves. And then the government would tax the business (but leave loopholes for the big...

All politics are filled with lies and hypocrisy. Dalai Lama the "Buddhist" monk that engages in politics (sometimes violent) is the biggest lie and hypocrisy of all.

Now if only they could jail all the trolls on YouTube and forums celebrating the deaths of "terrorist" Muslims, "dirty" Indians, "uncivilized" Africans and "evil" Chinese from various attacks and invasions. No, this is not my opinion, just what I've garnered from reading so many troll posts...

Getting oil is one thing. Getting CHEAP and SECURE oil while preventing other "unworthy people" from getting some is another matter.

Actually I think its ONLY Germany, France had its fair share of riots, it just never get the attention from the media because the French protest/riots so often.

He simply took the script that Western politician use and switch all the names... I can't believe people are taking that speech seriously. :disagree:

Bad policies and Democracy are not mutually exclusive.

Please turn on the sarcasm detector.

That many idiot teens still means that there's a social / political problem...bad education, bad parenting, and a government that cut everything that benefits youth after getting them used to getting coddled.

You got masterfully trolled by Iran. And that was fast, less than one hour...

Wait a bit longer for the inevitable news blaming immigration from Africa / Middle East / Asia for causing this...along with a bunch of photos of only immigrants destroying stuff. Either that or it'll be news about how youth cannot get jobs because of "unfair" competition from China and India.

It should be a "no horse zone" instead. :no:

UK should allow the looters and rioters to exercise their (human) right of self-determination and give them a separate country. That way they can preserve their unique culture of destroying everything in sight and attacking random people. Its not fair the way the brutal police is suppressing and...