This is not new; 19th-century missionaries dreamed of converting the Chinese to Christianity in 30 years, and in recent years businessmen have dreamed that if a few hundred million Chinese all bought toothbrushes or blue jeans, we'd get rich.
其實這也不是新鮮事了。十九世紀時，美國傳教士們曾夢想僅需卅年就能把不信基督教的中國變成基督教國家。多年來，美國商人夢想中國大陸市場會像神話那樣，他們夢想，如果幾億中國大陸顧客都買美國製牙刷或牛仔褲，我們便會富有了。