China Destroys Fake Apple Stores- Puts Up Fake New York Skyline

The wantchinatimes reports that China is knocking off New York City just outside of Beijing. After all the blustering about Chinese being innovative, what have they done on their own? They copy German and Japanese trains, poorly at that. American movies, songs, cars,meds, drinks, well you get the point. And now having racked their brains over what to do next they are copying cities. Sure Las Vegas may have in eiffel tower, but thats vegas. (I actually just visited this area at night and it has that Bangcock red light district appeal or maybe a subtle Tijuana flair.)
What kind of loser will be proud to call the ‘chinese New York City as his home?

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“the most ambitious knockoff of all is in the works: a financial center in the likeness and on the scale of Manhattan. Developer Vincent Lee wants to copy New York City — literally, according to a report from the Atlantic.” (photo and excerpt from wantchinatimes.com

China’s Hack Addiction- CCTV Hacks a Scene From Top Gun

In an attempt to build her credibility around the world, CCTV has allegedly shanzai’ed some footage from the movie Top Gun and claim it as their own. How sad is it when you have to hack fighter scenes from the 80′s….

Click the link to see the video, how hilarious…

from here

On Jan. 23, China’s state broadcaster, CCTV, ran a story about an air force training exercise that contained some suspicious footage.

Around the segment’s one minute 12 seconds mark (see above), as the China-U.S.-oriented blog Ministry of Tofu pointed out, “the way a target was hit by the air-to-air missile fired by a J-10 fighter aircraft and exploded looks almost identical to a cinema scene from the Hollywood film Top Gun.”

Viewers were led to believe that what they were seeing was a live fire exercise. But according to Ministry of Tofu: “A net user who went by the name “刘毅” (Liu Yi) pointed out that the jet that the J-10 ‘hit’ is an F-5, a US fighter jet. In Top Gun, what the leading actor Tom Cruise pilots an F-14 to bring down is exactly an F-5. Looking at the screenshots juxtaposition, one cannot fail to find that even flame, smoke and the way the splinters fly look the same.”

Not convinced? The Wall Street Journal’s China Real Time Report put the videos side-by-side.
http://s.wsj.net/media/swf/main.swf

The seemingly doctored footage has been removed from CCTV’s website. But Real Time China Report notes that Chinese media has in the past been caught red-handed lifting fictional U.S. material in news reports.

“In 2002, the popular Beijing Evening News tabloid translated and published as genuine a satirical news article by The Onion about U.S. Congress threatening to leave Washington D.C. unless the city built them a new building with a retractable roof,” writes Josh Chin. “Five years later, the state-run Xinhua news agency infamously used an x-ray image of Homer Simpson’s head to illustrate a story about the discovery of a genetic link to multiple sclerosis.”

CCTV has declined to comment in media reports.

America Say Goodbye To Your Pensions-20% of Chinese Companies Listed in USA Stock Market Accused of Fraud

Many Americans are betting their retirement and pensions on the stock market. China now has companies listed in the American Stock Market and being Chinese, they may do things different-they have a different definition of morals, ethics and cheating. More than 20% of all Chinese companies listed in the USA stock exchange have been accused of fraud.
I say kudos to them, we dont really need our hard earned money do we? This is pretty scary and if we allow it, then we are fools and deserve it.
China does not play by the same rules, check your portfolio, talk to your brokers….

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“More than 20 of the Chinese companies listed on the United State’s exchanges have been accused of fraud, China Business News reported Monday.

About 80 percent of Chinese companies listed on the US market meet the nation’s standards, but 10-20 percent of the firms provided false information, the report said, citing Stephen Paul Monticelli, president of Mosaic Investments LLC, a San Francisco-based company that has invested in Chinese firms over the past five years.”

Carcinogens Found in Chinese Oil, Public not Warned for Over Five Months

This is how the Chinese operate, whenever they have bad news, they smother it or let it leak slowly. In this case, the chicoms hid the fact that an oil that the people were consuming had carcinogens in it for over five months. Basically they allowed people to eat poison instead of informing them. I guess this is called Chinese population control excerpt chinadaily: “CHANGSHA – Local health authorities have admitted waiting five months before announcing that secret recalls had been ordered for a brand of camellia oil that had been found to contain excessive carcinogens. The oil was manufactured by Jinhao, a well-known edible oil maker based in Central China’s Hunan province.” Benzoapyrene is highly carcinogenic and will accumulate within the human body, causing long-term health problems, according to health experts.An official with the provincial bureau of quality and technical supervision confirmed, on the condition of anonymity, that in March, the bureau found excessive amounts of a harmful element known as benzoapyrene in a sample of Jinhao camellia oil. The official also said that the high levels of benzoapyrene resulted from the processing of the oil. He added that the company has resolved the issue by updating its equipment.

Two Faces of China- Seeking the Truth in the Middle Kingdom

This photo, to me is pretty symbolic of China. It is a facade put in front of a dilapidated old building to make it look modern, it was put up for some passing chicom party members to see, thinking that the “new building” showed the development in the area. In reality there was no new building, but an elaborate hoax of a facade, with nothing behind it….is this symbolic of the true China? This type of thing, ie. hiding the truth from the chicoms is as old as the communist party. When Mao made visits to the villages during one of China’s most ill-fated moves, the “Great Leap Forward”, plants were also planted, in barren fields, just so that Mao would see them and assume all was ok. Alas, all was not ok and millions starved. In China this slight of hand is so obvious that you will be exposed to it, should you come. The thing is that China wants you to see only Shanghai and Beijing, basically the places that have been ‘cleaned , and prettied up’. In those places the people have been educated not to spit (hasn’t worked) and to stand in lines (also has not worked). For them, if you venture into either place, they are content. You can hurry along your way , go back home and never see the dark or dirty of China. So, to me it is much more important to see the ‘real china’. The places that the brochures don’t tell you about. The people who really know and understand China have visited the villages, they have seen both ends of the spectrum and still like this place. In order to really say that you have been to China, you must do this as well.

How Much is That Virgin in The Window- Operating for Virginity in China

This is common in Asia, so of course China is no exception, especially with their proclivity for faking things. They have an operation, as described below, so that girls can repair their hymen, so that their man will assume them a virgin. In the excerpt below, it is being performed on Chinese women over 20 who are looking to marry and their man wants a virgin… I don’t know how important this is today, I mean to have a virgin and all, but I would say irrespective of whether or not she’d been tapped before, if a girl tells me shes a virgin, and can give a toe curling, white knuckler of a hummer, then I just have to assume that she’s been around the block before. …. or maybe its just me… excerpt: “Zhou, 44, said most of her patients are sexually active young women who are about to marry and have told their future husbands they are virgins. She said a smaller number want to forget a bad relationship and “start over,” and a few have been victims of rape. Zhou is one of many Chinese doctors performing the procedure, which is also done in other countries. She said she restores as many as 20 hymens a month, and the number is increasing. For as little as 5,000 renminbi, or about $737, for a 20-to-30-minute procedure, Zhou is giving women a second chance at having a first time”

Germany Says China is Stealing Her Success

Excerpt from an article in Der Spiegel. The article talks about how China is stealing economic success and no one is doing much about it. This article is about 3 years old and incensed the Chinese when it came out. The question is why we allow this to continue. “The speed of China’s economic growth has been amazingly fast – fast like the hands of a well-trained pickpocket, according to some economic observers. An article in Germany’s Spiegel International this month calls China out on what the publication deems to be ethically questionable economic practices. “It used to be jeans and Adidas,” says Spiegel. “Now, though, China is becoming adept at stealing much more technologically advanced products – like passenger jets and magnetic railway systems. Is this the beginning of an economy based on thievery?” Spiegel cites a trade mission to China this week, led by German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier. But this time, widgets and washing machines aren’t the focus of the trip. “Politely put, these business executives are concerned about what some would call the German-Chinese technology transfer,” Spiegel reports. “But to be blunt, they’re really incensed about China’s growing large-scale theft of ideas and patents, trademark and product piracy. ‘We have to discuss the Chinese government’s attitude on this question,’ Steinmeier said.” While China has been in the copycat business for decades, critics say the copyright-infringement abuses have never been worse.”Fully 70% of all illegal copycat products come from Asia, and most of that comes from China, in what has mushroomed into a $300 billion market,” says Spiegel. “And the issue is no longer just a pair of poorly copied Adidas running shoes or a plastic version of a Gucci watch. More recently, the Chinese and others have taken to pirating expensive, high-tech knowledge, allowing them to duplicate entire machines and systems.” German companies have reported attending trade shows in China only to find that their own products are on display. But some of the knock-offs are so poorly made that consumers who don’t know the difference mistakenly begin to think less of the genuine articles. “More than half of the companies affected by patent theft have had these experiences in China,” Heiko Beploat, of the German Machinery and Equipment Manufacturing Association, tells Spiegel. Some forms of copyright theft are difficult to prove, however. Spiegel points to the fact that China is launching its own magnetic levitation train service – less than two years after the rollout of Germany’s Transrapid magnetic train system (a version of which is already operating in Shanghai). Spiegel says the announcement “smelled of espionage.” “Suspicions are also mounting in Europe,” concludes Spiegel. “European Union Industry Commissioner Gunther Verheugen plans to make the issue of patent theft and industrial piracy a focal point of his agenda this year. And if his efforts are unsuccessful, the EU Commission will address these problems at this year’s meeting of the World Trade Organization (WTO).”

Toxic Milk in China is So Yesteday, Now They Have Babies Sprouting Chests

China has fought with a ton of natural disasters this year, as well as a ton of man-made ones. For instance, they had some more tainted milk cases, for which they are still punishing poeple, and then they have babies sprouting chests, due to either milk or fertilizer. The question is what kind of people inhabit this place and govern them that these types of occurrences are so commonplace that they are hardly newsworthy. They need prayer…. chinadaily “BEIJING – Chinese police have arrested six suspects and detained 41 others who allegedly participated in distributing melamine-contaminated milk after a national crackdown in 2008, food safety authorities said Friday. The latest melamine-tainted milk powder was first discovered in northwest China’s Gansu Province, and police traced the source to the Dongyuan Dairy Factory in Minhe County of neighboring Qinghai Province.

Chinese Gift Turns Baby Blue- Thanks for the Great Product Quality China

Living in China brings me the opportunity to buy things here. I guess it is like perennially being in a Wal-Mart… But anyway, I was making a purchase for my baby nephew and decided on a little blue Chinaman outfit, it was like those worn by the people of the Qin dynasty. The thing was cool, had a furry color and was a vibrant blue color. I shipped it off and was told that the boy loved it and would not take it off. The funny thing was that he slept in it as he was so enamored with the outfit. Then when my sister went to take it off, she noticed that the poor kid’s skin had turned blue, as if the ink from the outfit was actually merely permanent marker or something. So she went to the bathroom and tried to scrub it off, but to no avail. So, sadly, the kid walked around with blue skin for 4 or 5 days, until his body naturally got rid of skin layers and he turned back to his beautiful baby hue… Thanks for a memorable present China…

Product Recall Alert Volvo Recalls- Oh Not Yet, China has not Finished the Purchase Yet…

China’s Geely looks to purchase Volvo on Monday from Ford. What will this do to Volvo’s vision of not having one person die in a crash in a Volvo vehicle be realized in the next five years. Unless China makes some serious changes in the way they do business, I fear that dream will never never never be realized.