Letter

In response to smart-appliances-smarter-economy-reviving-chinas-growth-

Uninformed or uninterested ?

Why is our TV news made up of 25% US politics, 25% China bashing, 10% share prices, 15% sport, 10% prediction of the timing of the next election and a little bit of news? Increasingly I hear that people get their news from YouTube and other freedom of speech nutters.

TV and news articles such as this showing the innovation and adaption by China are few and far between. China may not be a democracy, but show me a country that is. Australia isn’t and the US certainly isn’t a democracy.

If the first weeks of the new US administration are any indication, by the end of its term we will be a world at war, if not with the climate then with each other. Perhaps democracy has run its course. Perhaps it’s time to look elsewhere for a system that works. Whatever we do, don’t look at China.

— Bob Pearce from Adelaide SA