Beijing: When a young Chinese woman dispatched 30 Mercedes Benzes to pick up her one dog from the airport last month, it fuelled growing public anger towards an emerging new class in China.

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Look to the East. The Pond Dragon has awaken and is soaring high. See how money makes the world go round? Everybody shun China then. But the there are still lots of prostitutes from China all over the world.

News emphasising the economic rise of China may have overshadowed the plight of the poor there.

In China, the very poor still populate the cities and the rural areas.

Corruption make some businessmen and officials rich. 78% of the population is living in poverty. Men become robbers and thieves while women prostitute the world over. See it

This is how revolutions started - when the richer gets richer (and shows off) and the poor gets poorer (and gets angry). History repeats itself.

I agree that revolutions may arise with the widening income gap. Maybe one solution is for China to improve its taxation. To narrow the income gap, the Chinese govt could most probably make those who have obscenely high annual income pay higher taxes.

There is a danger of the big divide between the rich and the poor, if the income gap continue to widen without control.

Yes, that's why Singapore is inviting china women. Unfortunately, these are cheap women coming to make big & fast bucks from old singaporeans!

When they were all riding bicycles, addressing each other as 'Comrade' and wearing the same attire with the colour choice of all of three, the same crowd was mocking the material poverty.

Now, economic liberisation (whatever you might think of it) has brought the inevitable income disparity and the same crowd is criticising the flaunting of wealth. This reaction is less about social evolution that it is about the prejudice of that crowd.

How do you know that it's the same crowd that is criticising the flaunting of wealth? It could be those who missed the days of Maoist communism, those who can't compete in a world of economic liberalisation.