Do Me for a Better Job- Living and Working in China

I have a friend who was sick of her job, so she told her boss she wanted to quit. She gave the excuse that it wasnt challenging and she didnt make enough. His solution was simple, he said that if she’d have sex with him, he’d promote her. Supposedly she said no, then quit. I asked what she could do legally, she looked at me as if i were urinating on her purse. “its china- what can i do?” she said.

China , North Korea an Iran

from wikileaks ” The U.S. discovers that North Korea has manufactured medium-range missiles and is trying to deliver them to Iran through China. The Obama team discovers this, informs Beijing and asks Beijing to stop the transfer. Beijing declines.”

The Communist Party in Chian

From ” The Party: The Secret World of China’s Communist Rulers (Richard Mcgregor)” the Party’s attitude is: ‘I can do it and you can’t. And because you can’t, I will.’ The Party’s logic is circular. There can be no alternative, because none is allowed to exist. ========== Deng Xiaoping’s crafty stratagem, laid down two decades before, about how China should advance stealthily into the world–‘hide your brightness; bide your time’–had been honoured in the breach long before Ms Clinton’s arrival. ==========

About the Chinese communist Party

This is an excerpt from, “The Beijing Consensus (Stefan Halper)” In his book he explains this schizophrenia in terms of how China attempts to manipulate the world, by hiding its communism. The goal of China is pretty clear, but is at times well-hidden from the masses. For instance, when abroad, the leader of China who conveniently hold the title of both president and head of the Communist party, is going to the USA, Germany etc. he is called the president, while on his visits to Cuba or North Korea, he’s the leader of the communist party. A veritable Jekyll and Hyde on the world stage, China and its global relations are the subject of this book. China’s dual nature—what former ambassador to China, James Lilley, has called a schizophrenia—is both a source of stability and a profound challenge to Western governance and the values that animate our culture. ==========

More on The Communist Party from Mcgregor

Here is another excerpt from Richard Mcgregor on the communist party in China. The Party: The Secret World of China’s Communist Rulers (Richard Mcgregor) “Since installing itself as the sole legitimate governing authority of a unified China in 1949, the Party and its leaders have placed its members in key positions in every arm, and at each level, of the state. All the Chinese media come under the control of the propaganda department, even if its denizens have had to gallop to keep up in the internet age. And if anyone decides to challenge the system, the Party has kept ample power in reserve, making sure it maintains a tight grip on the military and the security services, the ultimate guarantors of its rule. The police forces at every level of government, from large cities to small villages, have within them a ‘domestic security department’, the role of which is to protect the Party’s rule and weed out dissenting political voices before they can gain a broad audience.” ==========

China’s Communist Party- Per McGregor

The following are three quotes from the book The Party: The Secret World of China’s Communist Rulers (Richard Mcgregor) It is a great book and an excellent read. If you wish to do business here, or just to understand what the rise of China means, it may be a good choice to read. excerpt: The communists also once despised the pre-revolutionary comprador class of Chinese businessmen, but rushed without shame into an alliance with Hong Kong tycoons when taking back the British colony in 1997. The gap between the fiction of the Party’s rhetoric (‘China is a socialist country’) and the reality of everyday life grows larger every year. But the Party must defend the fiction nonetheless, because it represents the political status quo. ‘Their ideology is an ideology of power and therefore a defence of power,’ said Richard Baum, a China scholar. ========== The Party has made strenuous efforts to keep the sinews of its enduring power off the front stage of public life in China and out of sight of the rest of the world. For many in the west, it has been convenient to keep the Party backstage too, and pretend that China has an evolving governmental system with strengths and weaknesses, quirks and foibles, like any other. China’s flourishing commercial life and embrace of globalization is enough for many to dismiss the idea that communism still has traction, as if a Starbucks on every corner is a marker of political progress. ========== For all the reforms of the past three decades, the Party has made sure it keeps a lock-hold on the state and three pillars of its survival strategy: control of personnel, propaganda and the People’s Liberation Army. ==========

China and Law

“Since the definition of law stipulates nothing about the content of the superior’s wish, law may have any content whatever and still be binding. The separation of law and morality is secured: might makes right. Thus, law is imperative, preemptory, morally arbitrary, coercive, and an instrument of domination. It also, as we shall see more fully in a moment, aims above all at stability and order.” -FROM China Morals and Law -SSRN