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Foreign Investment: Investing in China’s infrastructure

Posted March 18, 2008

"China is smart.  It is focused on its domestic economy.  And though its land mass is nearly as large as the U.S. and it is actually surrounded by the world’s bad guys, China spends about 10 times less each year on defense than the U.S. does." — Andy Carpenter

Blogger’s note: Investor’s Daily Edge contributor Andy Carpenter may start out writing about theology, but he ends up revealing China’s infrastructure plans for the next few years. And you can bet he’ll find some great ways to turn a profit on all of that yuan flowing into highways, harbors and airports.

by Andy Carpenter, Investor’s Daily Edge

Baltimore and Boston – (TFN):  The concept of impermanence can drive a man crazy.  It can cause him to lay awake each night and wonder which thought will be his last. 

Add that to a biological experience – human life.  It’s one that none of us actually asked for … an unfathomably random event.  Consider that and perhaps you might begin to explain what would drive a man such as Eliot Spitzer to risk it all with a 22-year-old prostitute.

Some people cloak their fears in the warm embrace of a religion.  Shinto, Jew, Tao, Muslim, Christian, Buddhist … they all explain some purpose to this mess we live.  It’s not luck of the draw.  Rather, it is God’s will that we are not cats or huskies or dung beetles … that we struggle.

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I suspect Eliot Spitzer addresses his fears by creating a hyper life.  One in which each moment has to be extra amplified in a manic effort to deny tomorrow.  It’s his answer to the question of impermanence.

So, we should enjoy a moment of Schadenfreude, then leave the poor schmuck alone, lest we invite scorn and public humiliation at out lowest moments.  It’s a lesson Governor Spitzer likely learned this week.

Still, how we react to someone else’s anomie is what separates us from nature’s scavengers.  Compassion would put CNN out of business.

The Church of Sangfroid

A foundation built upon religion is, of course, what state-sponsored Communism lacks.  So in that sense, China is more Spitzer-like as it moves forward at warp speed.

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If the Chinese want to kick someone’s ass, it will not be because God wants them to.  Unlike the warring Gods of Christiandom and Islam, China will need no heaven-sent message to go after what it wants.

But China is smart.  It is focused on its domestic economy.  And though its land mass is nearly as large as the U.S. and it is actually surrounded by the world’s bad guys, China spends about 10 times less each year on defense than the U.S. does. Read on to learn where China is spending its money this year.

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