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Why China Could Turn Green

Austin was in Guizhou last weekend to interview Tony Blair and Jet Li for this piece: Why China Could Turn Green. (Read Time Asia's 2008 cover story on Jet Li here)

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  • 1

    Most drunks turns green when they have sufficient dosage of the required material.

  • 2

    CCP will turn BLACK before turning GREEN.

    Listen to what Gao Ren's wisecrack today:

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    Industrialization in the West reached its pinnacle in late 80's, momentum started to dwindle.

    China picked up in time manufacturing left-overs from the West simply because of pettiful labour costs + zero social costs, with the help of industrialists from HKG.

    HKG makers in Southern China were pushed out of the game in 2008 after they set up shops trained peasants into line workers, smoothed the logistics, brought in the overseas buyers - Boom, the the labour costs had to be increased 2-3 folds.

    Labour law review died down after HKG and Taiwanese factory owners took the exodus. Some way to scale down the production redundancy. Hurray the foresightful CCP!

    How long will it take for 1.3 billion oxymorons to realize that they are still at the very end of line in comparison to the nearly broke West and East after seeing through the statistic myth, and if they will ever be looked after like the jobless blacks in US with free schooling for kids and medication for adults?

    And if by one-in-a-million odds, when that happens, China will perhaps start buying everything from overseas as there is no longer the 'cost advantage' but extra hidden costs for corruption and bribery.

    How can a nation with almost zero innovation capability to sustain an economic up-swing by simply stealing technologies from others and depriving social benefits of the locals?

    Why the not-so-stupid Chinkies have not been able to come up with one single major world class technological breakthrough after CCP took over while war-time China schooling under KMT were able to seed 4 Nobel laureates?

    What happen to the ingenious 7.2 million engineers in China but to do copycats? No garage innovators or their chance to surface being denied some way? How will that be changed, if ever?

    There are several hundreds Wall Street type con-men in their thirties in China walking tall and talking loud, contesting with each other on collection of latest Ferrari or Lamborgini. China is perhaps the first country to jump into monetarian era before the industrialization is complete - too much easy money to be made in wheeling and dealing, with the power to guarantee an open cheque from almost any bank of their choice.

    Cheers

    Gull-Up Long

  • 3

    Dalai is hurting the easily bruised feeling of the Chinese people again !!! The Chinese Minister of Religion (An Atheist, of course) announced that he is afraid when he arrived the Republic of China recently. He is afraid of the man-made disaster Dalai will bring to ROC after the recent natural disaster. I do appreciate Chinese government's experience in having man-made disaster during a natural disaster, especially in the minor quake incident last year when majority of those killed were in poorly built schools. But does the Chinese government expect Dalai to be able to build poorly built buildings in ROC retroactively, or does the Chinese government think Dalai will deliver melamine laced milk to ROC ? Dalai need a lot of help to perform all these great deeds with Chinese characteristics.

  • 4

    Why would Chinese merchants pretend their Chinese honey came from, of all places, Russia, Poland and Ukraine ?

    http://y.gl.sl.pt

    We all know that (or we will be told) that these shipments are perfectly all right meeting all the Chinese food quality standards and are harmless to anybody. Here are some possible theories:

    1. These are actually CIA agents, trying to smuggle substandard stuff to Philippines and Thailand, but don't want to reveal their connection to CIA.

    2. These Chinese merchants don't want to tell how good their stuff really is, and using countries with substandard products to lower the price on their goods.

    3. These Chinese merchants realize the value added ingredients in their honey are actually beneficial to the consumer, just like the lead that is found in Chinese children.

    Whatever it is, all receiving countries should be thankful to these Chinese merchants for providing with top quality products.

  • 5

    Dear Ling Wu Liu,

    I have been procrastinating about writing this comment. How can I put it ... Don't you think that Austin is being a bit tongue-in-cheek with a title that suggests China is turning green? You do know what it means by turning green, I suppose.

  • 6

    Important announcement.

    New Wumao party member list:

    Tony Blair.

    Jet Li.

    Ling Wu Liu.

    Austin Ramzi.

    These people are paid by CCP as China's mouthpiece.

  • 7

    The Latest Directives from the Ministry of Truth as circulated by some Twitterers:

    "Leading up to the 60th anniversary newspaper columns that take a look back in history, must avoid articles that 'keep dwelling on the 60s and 70s'. Instead reviews should start from 1978, with a main focus on development and progress."

    "All websites need to use bright red color to promote a celebratory atmosphere for National Day, 'roll out the red carpet,' and quickly create a lively, celebratory, and glorious mood."

    P.S. There is nothing here about China "turning green". I wonder why.

  • 8

    your blog is very useful informationfor me.Thanks...

  • 9

    "P.S. There is nothing here about China "turning green". I wonder why."

    Red is green with Chinese characteristics.

  • 10

    Remember what a commie witch-hunt paranoid J. Edgar Hoover said:

    "Communism, in reality, is not a political party. It is a way of life, it is evil and malignant way of life".

    Maybe it has some truth. Come to think of it.

  • 11

    Comments on this post really show that Chinese are not racists:
    http://bbs.news.163.com/bbs/wsyz/150198571.html

  • 12

    Ban any more?

  • 13

    Will "the China Blog" be shut out? Maybe! This piece was posted nearly one week ago.

    Or you are being taken over by your new master CCP?

    Maybe you are in a cleft stick now. Censoring the like of me, you will lost your personality and dignity, if you have, while ignoring us, you will offend your big brother CCP, right?!

  • 14

    Any explanation for your block?

    The writers of "TIME": If you were not blind, deaf, or losing your remains of conscience, you should have noted what is happening in China, because you are outcomers, who must be much more sensitive to the unfairness, darkness, putridness, oddness and so on here. Yet now review your themes and topics totally please! Harmonious! really! right?

  • 15

    Here's what I posted on another blog, for testing if you have lost your face function of flushing:

    It's not the first time “the China Blog” censored me. They didn't obstruct all my comments, but leaving some meaningless words such as my questioning and complaining for their censoring behaviors, and preventing my real contents. When I re-posted my texts, I were notified a message pointing out the repeated posting, showing they had received them. A few comments had ever been delayed to display later. Now you can see what floods “the China Blog”'s comment part. Is that what they want to see?

    Now I can't help to suspect what has been done by those who have been longing for cooperation with the CCP regime therefore opening China's market. You must have heard the stories about the IT giants Yahoo, Google and Microsoft. Yahoo cooperated with the CCP secret police to detain several dissidents by offering their online registered profiles; Google's Chinese version censors most “sensitive” words; A recent report exposed the Microsoft's search engine “Bing” carried out much stricter censorship for Chinese netizens. For more details, see this: http://kristof.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/24/microsoft-and-chinese-censorship/

    And I have ever experienced the embarrassment of “BBC's James Reynolds' China”, and I have heard what happened in the Chinese department of “the Deutsche Welle(the voice of Germany )”, etc. Who should we trust now? The poor Chinese people may only be saved by themselves.

    http://underthejacaranda.wordpress.com/2009/07/29/rumours-about-the-gfw/#comments

  • 16

    Listen to what Gao Ren has to say today:

    國民黨失浩然正氣

    二十世紀六十年代,《紐約時報》有報道說,宋美齡是蔣介石的第三任夫人而非元配,宋當時正好在紐約,看後怒不可遏,立即命令駐美大使周書楷前去交涉,要求該報更正、道歉。周以為此事難辦,且報道屬實,拖延久之。因此惹惱了宋美齡,將周叫到寓所,宋問周何以不照指令辦事。周說這是在美國,讓人家更正道歉很難,宋不依不饒,爭執之下,周耐不住性子,說:「我是中華民國的大使,不是你的僕人!」宋美齡聽後伸出巴掌,掃了周一耳光,大聲說:「我就是中華民國!」
    我覺得宋美齡的話真有浩然正氣。今天在台灣,有誰說得出這句話?馬英九也沒勇氣說一句「我就是中華民國」,以致達賴訪台問題他召集閣僚開了五個鐘頭會所作的決定竟是如此烏龍。要營造兩岸良好互動關係談何容易,十年二十年也未必見功;要破壞則三兩天就足夠,就像紅衞兵「破四舊」,說破就破,但要「立四新」,何時才立得起來?

    毛澤東說:「台灣還是蔣介石當總統好。」指的是老蔣堅持「一個中國」。其實,老蔣治台最好,因為他本是治全中國的領袖,退守台灣,治小片海島,當然游刃有餘。蔣經國得其真傳,也有卓越成就。隨後就是「一蟹不如一蟹」,淪落到今天,連「台獨」女將陳菊都可耀武揚威。還有誰有資格彰顯「大中至正」?

    九七之前,我寫遊戲文章,說「港人治港」不如「國共合作治港」。現在想起,覺得我這主意是不錯的,至少不會將香港治得如今這個模樣。

    劉濟昆

  • 17

    The bridge of your flowers.

    A cold wind
    calls to mind
    the love for
    a tender decoy,
    while my delicate
    dream invents
    in the candle
    a reflection of
    love.

    Francesco Sinibaldi

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