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Heads Up: China Rebuilds

FYI, Austin and I have a piece in this week's dead tree edition on China's massive stimulus program.

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  • 1

    Look foward to it!

  • 2

    Just did a quick scan of the piece ... looks interesting ...
    Photos are stunning!
    Were they taken by either of you or someone else?

  • 3

    Though pleasing, the Time had been blocked once again.

  • 4

    Could someone confirm for me whether this website is blocked in China:
    http://www.yhcqw.com/index.html
    Thanks.

  • 5

    I just received a confirmation from Joel in Beijing. He wrote:
    "Service to the Yanhuang Chunqiu website was suspended over the weekend (Wu Si said the service provider was ordered to do so because the site was alleged to host reactionary writings -- see RFA), but it is now working again in Beijing."

  • 6

    I have just discovered how ignorant most Chinese from the mainland are. Most of them always insist on blaming their government for all their bad experience and fail to realize they are deceptions created by Americans to mislead them. Chinese rarely remember contributions from their leaders but blame their own faults on their government. I guess in a way most Chinese have been misled by the misconceptions from outside democracy thinking if a nation is democratic and have voted for the election of their leaders then they will have full control of the government.

    In a given planet, there can only be one nation who can truly be democratic and independent at the same time. All other nations can either be undemocratically independent or “seemingly democratic” but being controlled by another stronger nation which in this case is the United States. Their leaders of those small nations are nothing but puppets. They have no other choices. This is the reason why the U. S. is so anxious in converting other nations into “democracy”

    Communism or my own “revisionism” is the perfect political system without outside interferences. For it to work perfectly, citizen must be relatively well educated, unselfish and well trained. My own interpretation of “revisioism” as being a political system which can be easily refined and improved. More importantly, we need an extremely long foresight to be able to look into the very distant future and not restrict short term gains. China had surived the latter therefore should be posed to become successful. People of a communist country must also be able to take sacrifice and not operate totally on profit. The failure of PRC's communism at its early stage were simply due to American embargo and boycott in many different areas such as commerce and technology transfer.

    Today, most Chinese can still not fully understand the meaning of communism, still refuse to accept the fact that their leaders are also one of them. In reality their leader's belongings can also be shared and whatever that leader does is not only for his own good but are for other citizens also. This is the exact opposite to U. S. chief executive who fuctions exclusively for their own personal gain. They work only for the sake of being reelected. The minute their terms are over, they will be long gone and left behind mountains of unresolvable problems. In fact, it is their duty to be gone and to be relieved after their terms are over.

    To put it very simply, Chinese must begin treat their leaders as their parents. They are very harsh, domineering and prone to make mistakes but somewhat responsible, naturally caring and they are permanent. Always remember that any social improvements toward perfection today will be limited by depleting resource and damaging Environment. Communication within the world's biggest Chinese bureacracy is difficult. If a better system can be established for leaders to give more attentions to their subordinates. With renew respect and trust from their citizens, China could be the ideal government in world history. Confusing as this may be, but before China can progress further, they must fully understand their own situations

  • 7

    Perfect Government.

    (Revision of Above Post)

    By: Jordan C. Fan, Prophet of Environment.

    I have just discovered how ignorant most Chinese from the mainland are. Most of them always insist on blaming their government for all their bad experience and fail to realize they are deceptions created by Americans to mislead them. Chinese rarely remember contributions from their leaders but blame their own faults on their government. I guess in a way most Chinese have been misled by the misconceptions from outside democracy thinking if a nation is democratic and have voted for the election of their leaders then they will have full control of the government.

    In a given planet, there can only be one nation who can truly be democratic and independent at the same time. All other nations can either be undemocratically independent or “seemingly democratic” but being controlled by another stronger nation which in this case is the United States. Their leaders of those small nations are nothing but puppets. They have no other choices. This is the reason why the U. S. is so anxious in converting other nations into “democracy”

    Communism or my own “revisionism” is the perfect political system without outside interferences. For it to work perfectly, citizen must be relatively well educated, unselfish and well trained. My own interpretation of “revisioism” as being a political system which can be easily refined and improved. More importantly, we need an extremely long foresight to be able to look into the very distant future and not restrict short term gains. China had surived the latter therefore should be posed to become successful. People of a communist country must also be able to take sacrifice and not operate totally on profit. The failure of PRC's communism at its early stage were simply due to American embargo and boycott in many different areas such as commerce and technology transfer.

    Today, most Chinese can still not fully understand the meaning of communism, still refuse to accept the fact that their leaders are also one of them. In reality their leader's belongings can also be shared and whatever that leader does is not only for his own good but are for other citizens also. This is the exact opposite to U. S. chief executive who fuctions exclusively for their own personal gain. They work only for the sake of being reelected. The minute their terms are over, they will be long gone and left behind mountains of unresolvable problems. In fact, it is their duty to be gone and to be relieved after their terms are over.

    To put it very simply, Chinese must begin treat their leaders as their parents. They are very harsh, domineering and prone to make mistakes but somewhat responsible, naturally caring and they are permanent. Always remember that any social improvements toward perfection today will be limited by depleting resource and damaging Environment. Communication within the world's biggest Chinese bureacracy is difficult. If a better system can be established for leaders to give more attentions to their subordinates. With renew respect and trust from their citizens, China could be the ideal government in world history. Confusing as this may be, but before China can progress further, they must fully understand their own situations

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