[cridgit001]

My economics teacher showed us a video about how China has boomed so much. Imagine the US and Japan cutting their way through the jungle of economic growth, they are in the head of the pack but are moving slowly because of having to chop their way through everything be it new technologies and what-not. China on the other hand was way behind US and Japan but since they(US & Japan) have already cut out the path be it technology or infrastructure wise, they can now plunge head on and run in their economy while it "seems" that the US and Japan are merely clawing their way through. So of course they are going to have "booming" economy, look at the standard of living between the 3 countries, US and Japan being about the same while China is far below. Lastly, I think Japan would be doing itself a disservice trying to ally so close with its communist neighbor. Seems like China's people are suffering more than their government wants to let on.