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Tag Archives: China
China’s Hurt Feelings
Blogger FangKC queried the archive of the People’s Daily, the Chinese Communist Party’s mouthpiece, and discovered that 19 countries and organizations have been officially accused of hurting the feelings of the Chinese people. You can anticipate some such as the … Continue reading
Posted in Around the Web
Tagged blogger, China, Chinese Communist Party, Chinese people, FangKC, hurt feelings, japan, prc, United States
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The West as Nuclear Proliferator
(NYT) The New York Times has a fascinating little chart today, illustrating the primary sources of nuclear weapons proliferation over time. In looking at the diagram, one cannot escape the overall impression that until recently the West has been the … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign affairs, Technology
Tagged Africa, Asia, authoritarianism, chart, China, civic culture, communications, democracy, diagram, DPRK, eastern bloc, English, espionage, former soviet republics, government, individualism, infographic, lingua franca, military intelligence, networks, New York Times, North Korea, nucelar research, nuclear proliferation, nuclear weapons, political dissent, prc, proliferation risk, rogue states, Russia, scientific community, Soviet Union, Technology, technology transfer, trade, translation services, Transportation, USSR, western democracy
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The Voice of Murder
The subject of the bloody 1965 Indonesian mass murder of suspected communists is not often openly discussed history even in today’s Indonesia. Given the pervasive silence, estimates vary on the actual number of people killed, but it’s generally accepted as … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign affairs, History
Tagged 1965, antidemocratic, Asian communism, Associated Press, Autocracy, banyan tree, Cambodia, China, CIA, clove cigarettes, communism, communist, Darmo, death tool, decapitation, democracy, freedom, Hamid, History, Indonesia, Indonesian, Indonesian massacre, islam, Islamic clerics, Javanese sarong, mass graves, mass murder, murder, Nahdlatul Ulama, nationalism, PKI, pogrom, preemptive murder, prisoners, purge, Quran, religion, sledgehammer, Suharto, Sukarno, Sulchan, US, Vietnam
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China Pulls a Lapham – UPDATED
China space mission article hits Web before launch A news story describing a successful launch of China’s long-awaited space mission and including detailed dialogue between astronauts launched on the Internet Thursday, hours before the rocket had even left the ground. … Continue reading
Fannie and Freddie Taken Over
Redstate A good description of what just happened to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and some reasons why. This made me laugh. “If we were in China, they’d probably have “committed suicide” with bullets inexplicably entering the backs of their … Continue reading
Posted in Around the Web, Economics, MikeR's Page
Tagged China, Chinese, Fannie Mae, finance, Freddie Mac, government interventioin, GSE, mortages markets, mortgage crisis, nationalization, RedState, suicide
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China and Provincial Secessionism
Extremely interesting post from Seth Weinberger on the opportunity for pulling China in the pro-Georgia camp, after the SCO failed to endorse Russian actions in Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Seth is as mystified as I am that the Russian foreign … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign affairs, Lee's Page
Tagged Abkhazia, China, expansionism, foreign policy, Georgia, ideology, Mao, prc, Russian foreign ministry, SCO, secession, secessionism, separatism, Seth Weinberger, South Ossetia, taiwan, tibet, United States
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China and the IOC Sham
Jeff JacobyTwo interesting points here. One, that China is not yet ready to be a free society, and two, the political sham of the modern day Olympics. “When thugs host the Olympics, thuggish behavior can be expected.”
Further Proof That China Cheated
Caches of Chinese Government documents found on a Chinese search engine show Chinese Olympic Gymnist Age as 14, too young to compete in the Olympics. Will the IOC do anything? I’m not sure I’d put money on it..
Lego Olympics
On your mark, get set, Lego!
Twittering Your Repression
Chinese journalist Zhou Shuguang was abducted by the security services in China on a manifestly fatuous charge. Incredibly, he used Twitter to keep the world informed throughout the ordeal.
Posted in Around the Web
Tagged abduction, China, journalist, police, security, Twitter, tyranny, Zhou Shuguang
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US Easily Defeats Greece
Looking like the Redeem Team is exactly that so far. Greece fell 92-69 in Beijing, securing our quarterfinal berth.
Posted in Around the Web
Tagged basketball, Beijing, China, greece, olympics, quarterfinals, redeem team, redeption, Sports, US
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Yaoch!
The United States pulverizes China 101-70.
Securing a Society for Sport
China’s Olympic security crackdown is as impressive as it is draconian. Plus, the largely pro-Western Uighurs are suffering rough treatment due to the Turkestan Islamic Party’s activities.
Posted in Around the Web
Tagged China, crackdown, ETIM, olympics, security, sport, Turkestan Islamic Party, Uighurs
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China’s Olympic Designer to Boycott Olympics
Chinese architectural designer Ai Weiwei, who conceived the now famous “Bird’s Nest” Olympic stadium design for the Beijing games, will not attend the opening ceremonies in protest against Chinese dictatorship. He has some powerful words of explanation in the Guardian … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign affairs, Lee's Page, Sports
Tagged Ai Weiwei, authoritarian, Autocracy, Beijing, bird's nest, boycott Olympics, China, design, designer, dictatorship, games, government, protest, stadium
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Surprise, Central Planning is Still Stupid (Even in China)
(photo: 2 Dogs) Modern China has a curious capacity to make otherwise very sensible capitalists instantly forget every experience they’ve ever had with government central planning. The Western businessman on a trip to Shanghai looks up and sees all those … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign affairs, Lee's Page, Uncategorized, Urban planning and development
Tagged aesthetic, American, bridge, capitalists, central planning, China, commercial, construction, cruise, disaster, Dongguan, Far Eastern Economic Review, government, Hongko, housing, Houston, international, largest, Los Angeles, planning, project, public works, republic, shipping, shopping mall, skyscapers, Soviet, terminal, urban planning, vessels, Waigaoqiao, Yangpu, yangtze
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Breathe Strong
Blue Sky Days by Derek Chatwood.
Posted in Around the Web
Tagged art, Beijing, China, Derek Chatwood, illustration, olympics, pollution, poster
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Putting the Nazis to Shame
When it comes to robotic goose-stepping goons, the PLA is hard to top.
China & Russia: Models and Modalities
Francis Fukuyama chats with Robert Kagan on a number of interesting things: Flash | WMV | MP3 (via: The American Interest). Of immediate interest is Kagan’s notion that the the emergence of global multipolarity induces an imperfect, baseline bipolarity of … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign affairs, Lee's Page
Tagged authoritarianism, bipolarity, Burma, Calvin Coolidge, China, China Model, Cuban Revolution, diplomacy, eastern, flash, Francis Fukuyama, imperial, internationalism, Kremlin, Lenin, Mao, Moscow, mp3, multipoliarity, nationalism, Nikolai Bukharin, oligarchy, power, revolution, Robert Kagan, Russia, russocentrism, sinocentrism, Soviet, Soviet Union, Stalin, tibet, Trotsky, Tsarist, unification, vassal states, video, western, Zimbabwe
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The Price of Chinese Silence
From The New York Times: Mr. Yu’s daughter had died in a cascade of concrete and bricks, one of at least 240 students at a high school here who lost their lives in the May 12 earthquake. Mr. Yu became … Continue reading
Posted in Developmental economics, Lance's Page
Tagged China, Communist Party, earthquake, totalitarianism
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Doing Their Dirty Work
How many of you were as excited to find out we were torturing or helping out the torture of China’s non-terrorist-but-oppressed Uighurs? That line about releasing all Uighurs despite their status as a dangerous threat is extra-rich, too: why release … Continue reading
Journals from the Earthquake
My China correspondent, Chris Bartlett, happens to live near where the earthquake in central China struck. He sent me an account of what happened there. He also reports now that, thanks to an “earthquake warning” from the government, tens of … Continue reading
Sins of Omission – Updated
The sin of omission that Hillary is committing with the re-telling of the Indiana plant moving to China (while not mentioning that it was sold to China during her husbands tenure,) is starting to gather some light. The following story … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic Politics, Election 2008, Keith's Page
Tagged Bayh, Bill Clinton, China, Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Magnaquench, trade
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Clinton to Keep Defense Jobs Here
Here’s an ad some of you may not have seen. But now (wonder of wonders) since Indiana is a battleground state in the Democratic primary, it’s been getting plenty of air play during the local news programs. Hillary Clinton: Right … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic Politics, Election 2008, Keith's Page, Technology
Tagged Bill Clinton, China, Election 2008, globalization, Hillary, Hillary Clinton, Indiana, jobs, Magnequench, smart bomb
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Olympic Flame Snuffed Out
Another embarrassment for China. PARIS, April 7 (UPI) — The Olympic torch was doused Monday in Paris as demonstrators protested China’s civil rights record and involvement in Tibet, police said. After the flame was snuffed, the torch was put on … Continue reading
Looming NoKO Disaster
It’s not the one you might think. The most interesting observation: “Not to be overlooked is the massive economic cost of reintegrating an antiquated North Korean economy into the modern economic world. The contrast between a backward North and a … Continue reading
Posted in Around the Web
Tagged China, crisis, cummunism, economic collapse, japan, North Korea, stalinism, world effects
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Tragic News for Leftists
Due to free markets, capitalism and freedom in general, the world is getting wealthier. The last quarter century has witnessed remarkable progress of mankind. The world’s per capita inflation-adjusted income rose from $5400 in 1980 to $8500 in 2005.Schooling and … Continue reading
Into the Fair Tax Black Market
photo: Simón Pais-Thomas Toronto police recently seized shipments of 10,320,000 counterfeit cigarettes from China (PRC authorities themselves intercepted nine billion in 2007). Chinese made counterfeits bearing fake American branding such as Marlboro, are produced “in underground operations, caves and old … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Foreign affairs, Lee's Page
Tagged black market, Canada, China, Chinese, cigarettes, counterfeit, crime, fair tax, Huckabee, illegal, Marlboro, retail, sales tax, smoking, tax, utopian
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Walls and Ladders
(photo: Sébastien Boymond-Pfahrer) Howard W. French notices that attempts to evade and promote evasion of China’s Great Firewall –which blocks vast regions of the web from the Chinese public– are taking off inside the PRC. Li Xieheng, who coded the … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign affairs, Lee's Page
Tagged , censorship, China, Firefox, Flickr, gladder, Google, great firewall, James Joyce, Li Xieheng, prc, proxies, Ulysses
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African wages, high and sticky?
Hat tip: Tyler. Chris Blattman has a conjecture, possibly high wages in Africa are holding back growth: One thing that has always struck me in the African countries I have worked is that the real wages (i.e. wages adjusted for … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Developmental economics, Economics, Lance's Page, social science
Tagged Africa, blog, China, Chris Blattman, government, India, NGO's, wages
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The Scale of the American Economy
Click to enlarge I thought the map Lance posted from the other day (originally from Strange Maps), which expressed the GDP of foreign countries as US states, based on their approximate equivalent GSP, was a pretty interesting visualization. However, I … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Lee's Page
Tagged , American, business, chart, China, Economics, economy, GDP, Germany, GSP, image, map, regions, scale, states, strange maps, UK, United Kingdom, US, visualization
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Labour regulations in China and India: Economic Freedom in Relief
This is a stunning statistic: …the annual expansion in China’s trade has been larger than India’s total annual trade during last several years. Tyler Cowen hones in on this point, amongst a bounty of good points: The most important factor … Continue reading
The Green Party and National Security: An Interview with Alan Augustson
A few weeks back I posted a facile little rebuke aimed at the national security implications of Green Party presidential candidate Alan Augustson‘s political platform. Alan responded to this in such a way that I realized I had little idea … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Interviews, Lee's Page
Tagged alan, alan augustson, alternative, alternative energy, augustson, biodiesel, China, Chinese, defense, Democrats, elucidates, Environment, environmental, exploration, facile, fuels, gasoline, global, gm foods, green, green party, greens, instructive, international, military, national security, peak oil, prc, Republicans, security, Terrorism, warming
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