And on whose blood has the Chinese economy improved? Have we forgotten the help given by the USA which treated China as a most privileged nation in terms of the economy? A rope for this Kolonna tal-Partit Reno Calleja so he can hang himself with it.

Maybe Reno Kolonna Calleja is talking about another China which for years did not execute petty criminals in order to harvest and sell their replantable organs?

He was busy having his corner house with basement and front garden being built on a homeownership scheme plot meant for young penniless couples.

In those years he was some chairman of Kalaxlokk or whatever. His house was being ‘finished’ by some three workers employed with the said parastatal company as sub contractors. If I recall correctly they were from some Mosta MLP contractor (Micallef, Ballut Blocks?).

He was already living in a ‘farmhouse’ on the outskirts of Zurrieq in Hal Far road.

Those were years like we are experiencing on TV. Some people say that Tripoli is normal and some others say that bodies are being picked up on trucks during the night.

Yes, those were the Golden Years of Labour rule, when we had Reno Calleja in parliament inciting the police to crucify an innocent person for killing Ray Caruana.

Reno Calleja has shown us once again on what pillars the PL is built.

In case he is too busy investigating war crimes by the civilian fighters against Gaddafi, here are some excerpts:

” Immediately after coming to power, the Chinese Communist Party mobilized political campaigns to purge “enemy classes” and fortify a “dictatorship of the proletariat” modeled after Stalin’s Soviet Union. During the 1950s, there were several attempts at land reforms, as well as a series of movements to eliminate counterrevolutionaries and institute collectives. In addition, there were the “Anti-Rightist Struggle,” and the “Great Leap Forward.” These mass campaigns involved beating, torture, and execution, and were responsible for as many as 15 million deaths. One million “rightists” were punished for up to twenty years in internal exile or labor camps. The “Great Leap Forward” alone caused an estimated thirty million famine deaths, the highest number ever recorded in famine history.”

“The Cultural Revolution was Mao’s tactic to secure his power. He encouraged his Red Guards—students who had pledged personal loyalty to Mao—to challenge local Communist authorities. This quickly led to violent conflicts and anarchy. Historians estimate that a total of seven million were killed during the decade of the Cultural Revolution.”

In 1969, when Dom Mintoff told Reno to look at China, China was ruled by Mao Tse-Tung. Mao was hailed as a revolutionary leader (not very different from Gaddafi in this respect), but he is also blamed for the deaths of millions of his own people.

Is Reno suggesting that the Chinese people do not have blood in their veins?

Mao’s policies caused unprecedented famine in China, while his large projects were built on the slavery of the Chinese people.

The modern economic revolution of China started in the late 70s, when Mintoff’s time to go had arrived, as confirmed by the 1981 elections.

It was Deng Xiaoping, who came to power in 1978 and who had opposed a number of Mao’s policies, who promoted the rapid reforms in China.

Then came the episodes of Tienanmen Square in 1989, which put China and its lack of respect for human rights in the limelight.

Even if this did not halt development in China, there are still many issues which Reno fails to analyse.

China has a high level of state ownership of enterprises, regional economic imbalances, production overcapacity, and a low growth in its agricultural production.

Above all, China remains a one-party undemocratic country and a place where human rights are not fully respected. Perhaps Reno Calleja, who for the last 20+ years has been travelling annually to China but living in democratic Malta of Dr. Fenech Adami and Dr. Gonzi, cannot appreciate this sufficiently.

Reno has been impressed by the economic growth rates of recent years, and especially by the fact that China’s economy could soon be the world’s largest.

However, GDP per capita is a far better measure than total GDP in assessing a country’s economic well being.

In the IMF’s 2010 GDP per capita table, China ranked in the 93rd place, while Malta ranked in the 38th place.