Time Magazine looks at the explosion of Christianity in China. When Mao seized power in 1948, there were approximately 800,000 Christians in China. Now there are an estimated 65 million. Amazing.
And this Tech Central Station article explores the economic benefits that companies like WalMart have brought to rural China, where peasants now have an opportunity to earn previously unheard-of wages and perhaps escape the poverty that has trapped them for centuries:
"... rural Chinese peasants surviving on less than a dollar per day do not regard economic growth, or Wal-Mart factory jobs, as a cancer. When a Mongolian student at a U.S. workshop on globalization heard U.S. college students denounce sweatshops, he shouted: "Please give us your sweatshops!"
It is now somewhat chic in contemporary Christian circles to bash WalMart as a "capitalist oppressor," but contrarian articles like this one deserve our attention.
Absolute abuse -- whether it occurs in our country or in another -- should never be tolerated. Yet it seems that there is much disagreement as to what we should consider "abuse."
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