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2011-04-23, 13:49 | Link #13222 | |
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The blog post is despicably bad. It is totally ignorant of the low income families who are suffering in the Chinese cities, completely oblivious of the mounting wealth gap in the society, and it is a shameless attack on one small step (inadequate in most Chinese eyes) toward a improvement. The old tax code is so bad that it literally borderlines on taxing the beggar. (It was an old policy introduced more than 15 years ago when 2000 RMB/month still worth a lot.) Now the change is bad for the world. Sure, Chinese cheap labor is bad for the world economy, but taxing them more is good. What kind of messed up logic is that! What a shame! What a shame!
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2011-04-23, 14:02 | Link #13223 | |
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2011-04-23, 17:56 | Link #13224 | |
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UPDATE - McD fires the employee who filmed the beating - the victim's not a woman... it's a man dressed like a woman http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/...beating-640128 http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/...beating-102975 |
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2011-04-23, 18:23 | Link #13226 |
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Yemen's Saleh agrees to quit in return for immunity
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/...73L1PP20110423
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2011-04-23, 19:29 | Link #13227 | |
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I once talked to a German businessman who has operations in China. He said that requesting for graduate level workers are a nightmare - the government keep sending junior officers from their "CIA" who asked more questions than they do work, and often act suspiciously with documents. I do actually suspect that some of the government scholars at my local universities are agents, either of influence or penetrators into government organisations. Thank goodness whoever trained them in macroeconomics completely sucked, they couldn't understand how US got into debt, and why Donald Trump is right about China and US being strongly dependent on each other when it comes to trade. For those who kept saying about "China's financial surplus", here is something interesting : I know using GDP alone can be rather lame (thus please ignore Singapore), but here gives a rough picture of how China is spending their money. Of course, gg for Japan if they don't buck up. The thing about China is that the wealth calculated seemed to be "personal wealth" rather than collective wealth. It is kind of strange that a socialist-oriented political system has pretty much a top financial end rather than a more evenly distributed wealth with a gigantic middle class (for China's case as they have a large population). Yuan continues climb to end at record; revaluation seen unlikely I wonder if this is an empty rally. A sudden increase of a currency always sound like bad news. Still, no government interference is a good sign that at least they are letting the market run on their own. OTOH, I wonder if this is the cause.... Third day of Shanghai strike threatens China exports Nothing will happen to China's exports UNLESS this turns into another Tiannanmen. I hope the CCP know what they are doing this time round.
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2011-04-23, 20:56 | Link #13228 | |
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They don't really need oil. It is possible to build a modern society without it. The country is resource rich, and occupies some of the most fertile land on Earth. There is a reason it has over a billion people after all. The problem is you're right about China having a lot to learn from the rest of the world. The opposite case applies too. Humanity would be a lot better off if a 5th of its population wasn't suddenly cut off.
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2011-04-23, 20:59 | Link #13229 | |
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If you want to say that if they do it, the rest of the world will overtake them again, you're probably right. Doesn't mean they won't be tempted, though. |
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2011-04-23, 21:13 | Link #13230 | |
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2011-04-23, 21:14 | Link #13231 | |
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2011-04-24, 00:22 | Link #13232 |
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You put a lot of efforts in your post. That I appreciate. And thanks for letting me know in your first sentence that my efforts in the graduate school is to "siphon out of technology". Otherwise, I might have to read the rest of the post.
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2011-04-24, 00:30 | Link #13233 | |
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2011-04-24, 01:03 | Link #13234 | |
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He went down to Vietnam where it is "significantly cheaper" (in his own words).
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2011-04-24, 02:07 | Link #13236 |
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Isn't China still worried about Taiwan? I was under the impression that was one of the items on their "to do sooner rather than later" list. It would make sense in a military fashion with them projected at having a five aircraft carrier fleet in the near future.
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2011-04-24, 04:08 | Link #13237 |
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Ottawa tells Canadians to leave Syria as death toll climbs to 120 in 2 days
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/...rticle1996495/
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2011-04-24, 04:20 | Link #13238 | |
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However China and most of the country currently is not self-sufficient and will not be self-sufficient while holding onto current lifestyle/ standard. And there's probably so few exceptions that it can be neglected
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2011-04-24, 08:03 | Link #13239 | |
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2011-04-24, 09:12 | Link #13240 | |
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nobody likes being forced to work on a weekend, and a dictator's security forces are no different. how would you feel if instead of being able to rest on a weekend, you had to spend it beating pro-deomcracy protesters to death ?
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