Simply more evidence to refute the idea that China is going to go western anytime soon. It's still under an iron grip, and anyone thinking otherwise simply doesn't have a grip on reality, or has a vested business interest in the status quo in China.
I wonder what the Vegas oddmakers have on China screwing up from a PR standpoint on things like this and having the world boycott their 2008 Olympic coming out party.
Don't worry, Bill Gates says China's commies are just peachy.
Would you be a content and complaisant citizen, if you lived there?
you read this and it makes you want to go down to google HQ and strangle those commie-loving bastards.
the best way to understand this stuff is to compare it to the US supreme court decision to allow governments to expropriate land by immenant domain in order to put up more profitable businesses.
this is really bad law and suggests that the supremes have seriously lost their bearings.
I have heard people in both parties come out against this supreme court ruling as states and municapalities are already starting to abuse the court ruling.
china has the same problem with government expropriation of land .... only they have it in spades.
In china the local governments can take whatever land they want whenever they want0--and they do so. The governing officials are driving their people ca ca by their helter skelter property expropriations.
With the two new conservative judges (assuming alito is confermed) likely within a couple years the US expropriation law will be overturned.)
The chinese don't have a simliar orderly means of changing the rules but from half a world away it looks like the ccp has been pretty good a protecting their interests and perogatives. So before things get out of hand my betting would be that its likely the party would make some adjustments.
Is it just me, or do these guys look a little gay? Like maybe... uh... one from column A and two from column B.
Not to worry. Microsoft and Google will help keep things under control...
Difficult to put down a riot in China, since two hours later you want to riot again.
Rimshot!
Thank you, thank you; I gotta million of em'...
for later read.
BTTT
A Chinese couple we know spend time both here and in China. They do very well so their one child has been quite comfortable. A few years ago they explained to us that the father took the daughter on a trip through China at the peasant level (no tourist hotels etc) so she could see the "real" China and know that many of the people live in extreme poverty. A "hotel" with many people to a room, no beds, large holes in the walls (they described the snow blowing in from outside), etc.
Is China falling apart?
No, that's just the way gangsters operate. It'll be a long time before the country is civilized.
Wal-Mart and Microsoft and many others are the economic engine helping the brutal dictators of China keep murdering and enslaving the Chinese people. America should be ashamed to be trading with this beast.
I certainly hope so as that is the only way to rid it of it's Communist/Marxist/Maoist dictatorships.
Time to airdrop some rifles?
"Is China falling apart?"
yes,besides this, 40% of commercial loans are worthless in Red China.
Where is WalMart gong to get all their junk? PS - I spent $7.60 for a piece of junk Chinese plastic garden hose nozzle and it lasted 2 mos.
The hardware store had the old fashioned , made in USA metal one and it will last 15 years like the last one.
Only when China is embarrassed by the publicity of their evil deeds will any reform have a prayer of taking place.
Yes.