China: More than a �Fong Kong� nation

Friday, March 10, 2017

Beijing is among the world's most vibrant cities PIC: EXPEDIA.COM

The slang words used for fake or counterfeit goods have for long discredited China as a leading culprit especially in the eyes of local consumers. Mention the name and people go off the rails about the country and its “fakes”. Staff Writer MPHO MOKWAPE, currently in Beijing, China, shares a different perspective about a country that is not so ‘fong-kong’ after all

China, the most populated country behind India is positioning itself as the new dream, the emergence of the ‘Chinese Dream’.

This is the dream that no one saw coming because for decades America had been holding the golden medal as the ‘I have made it’ economy.

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China: More than a �Fong Kong� nation