The growing Chinese middle class which could reach 500 million people by 2025 will be the great locomotive for commodities demand in the coming decades benefiting countries such as Argentina according to an Asian affairs and trade expert. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rules500 million middle class Chinese people can eat all the soy that Argentina can produce, and lots, lots more.
Sep 06th, 2011 - 06:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Millions of 'american' black people picked billions of cotton bolls. But they never became prosperous themselves.
I would not want the Argentinians to become - and become known as - the soy-slaves of China, tied by silken bonds to the surplus production of a billion nouveux riche Chinese.
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