The truth is that today, even after all of these years of "miraculous" growth, the per capita gross domestic product of the People's Republic of China ranks it below such emblems of Third World poverty as Lesotho, the Congo, Senegal, Bolivia, Guatemala, and Honduras.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Chris Cox 1997 Keeper of the Flame remarks

On a recent day in November 15, 000 people were pushing up against the barbed wire outside the United Nation's mission to the Democratic Republic of Congo in Goma.

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