What are the chances that if you left your knapsack in a public park in Manhattan for an hour you would get it back? Suppose your cell phone slipped out of your pocket on a train. How likely is it that it would be turned in?
China is one of the few places in the world where knapsacks and cell phones are returned to the owners. How safe would you feel walking the city streets of Manhattan late on a week night? In China walking alone at night is not a problem. In fact, 94% of the people living there say China is very safe. It has among the lowest rates of criminal offenses and homicides in the world. Pretty good for a poverty-stricken totalitarian state!
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