Good News For Foreigners in China- Get your Chinese Pension

Excellent news from China. Apparently foreigners who are forced to work in the middle bowel/country, will be eligible for a pension from this great country. I am clicking my heals in joy! Lets see, that means that your current author and humble servant may be able to receive a pension from China, if I decide to inhale noxious fumes for another 20 years.
Ok, in 20 years or so, I will be eligible for about 1000 rmb per annum, which after considering inflation and pain and suffering, the money the chicoms will be offering yours truly will be worth about one half of one jiao….

chinadaily:
” Foreigners working in Beijing will be covered by the municipal’s pension system, Beijing Business Today reported Thursday, citing the 2011 working plan of the Beijing Bureau of Human Resources and Social Security.”

Good News For Foreigners in China- Get your Chinese Pension

Excellent news from China. Apparently foreigners who are forced to work in the middle bowel/country, will be eligible for a pension from this great country. I am clicking my heals in joy! Lets see, that means that your current author and humble servant may be able to receive a pension from China, if I decide to inhale noxious fumes for another 20 years.
Ok, in 20 years or so, I will be eligible for about 1000 rmb per annum, which after considering inflation and pain and suffering, the money the chicoms will be offering yours truly will be worth about one half of one jiao….

chinadaily:
” Foreigners working in Beijing will be covered by the municipal’s pension system, Beijing Business Today reported Thursday, citing the 2011 working plan of the Beijing Bureau of Human Resources and Social Security.”

Chinese and Horrible Manners

From factsanddetails.com

“Overseas Chinese are among those who find mainland behavior to be the most uncouth. A Hong Kong newspaper ran a picture of a mainland mother helping her child pee on a wall at Hong Kong Disneyland and reported that many benches at the theme park were unusable because middle-aged Chinese men were sleeping on them. A Hong-Kong-born, London-based Chinese wrote a guidebook in which advised Chinese “Don’t ask foreign women how old they are” and “Don’t clean your ears in public.” Some mainlanders find mainlanders to be intolerably uncouth. In the essay the The Ugly Chinese writer and social critic Bo Yang criticized his countrymen for being too loud and too crass.

Chinese kid relieving himself in public.

LA Riots and China

Back in the early 90’s the land of milk and honey had a pretty ugly incident, it was called the la Riots. Supposedly the riots had something to do with the ‘man’ holding people down, or maybe it was the alleged murderer OJ and the fact that he allegedly killed his wife, oh no, maybe it was that scag fiend Rodney King getting beaten in the streets, my history is a bit fuzzy.
In any event, those poor downtrodden innercity people got fed up with their treatment and one day decided to have a rather large bar-b-que and los Angeles buildings were the pit. Sociologists would blame the events on the perceived repression of the minorities by the institutional prejudice that holds them down, keeping them in their ‘place’. Thus, a sociologist may argue, the ‘repressed masses’ rose up in order to feel a sense of control over themselves and their situation.

Confused by all of this rhetoric, I would merely state that what happened at that time, vz the looting, was nothing more than a group of entitlement minded people who upon seeing a flaw in the system (ie. inadequate police assistance), took advantage of the moment and decided to steal. After all, if you can get a shiny new TV that doesn’t say Rent-a-Center on it, why not go for it? I am not saying all of those fine upstanding citizens who stole from the innocent shopkeepers were bad people. Actually i can see where they are coming from. When you see your neighbor carting in a new sound system and wide screen TV, it makes it seem less bad if i were to sneak down to the local Pay less for a new pair of Reeboks. Thus, the mob mentality may have kicked in prodding the normal human being to act in an less than civilized manner.
What does this have to do with China?
At present the Chinese communist party is committing the biggest land grab in history. imho they are systematically selling the resources of the commoner, and becoming wealthy in the process. 80% of all billionaires in China are family of communist party members and 90% of all millionaires are the same. If we were to subtract the number of Hong Kong’ese from this data, the numbers would probably be much higher.
Thus, the typical china-man seeing the level of corruption in this place, reasons that he should sell his child for a cell phone, or maybe entice his niece into prostitution, as Deng Xiao Ping said. ‘to be rich is glorious’. When you are stuck in the same little hut and your neighbor with less education is now driving a Mercedes, why not take a piece of the pie for yourself?

Chinese Tourists

“Georg Arit, a German sociologist who has studied Chinese tourists, told the Los Angeles Times, “Chinese are rude to people they don’t know. Unfortunately, when it comes to tourism, you don’t know most of the people you meet.” He also said Chinese tourists were notorious for consciously breaking rules. “You’ll see people flouting ‘no smoking’ signs in luxury outlets, knowing few will complain when they’re spending $10,000. There’s also a feeling that ‘foreigners have been trampling on us for 200 years, and now it’s our turn.’”

Great Quote from China on IPR Protection

China is funny, they will say whatever it takes to make us feel good. Irrespective of what they actually do, they will always attempt to say the right thing in order to get a better bargaining position when negotiating with us or before big meetings. I just saw a quote whereby china is pledging to “actively increase cooperation with the US on intellectual property rights protection.”

Hmm, this is 2011 and yet it seems to me that in order to join the WTO and host the Olympics there were already to have done this. But its China so we’ll roll our eyes and say, ‘what the heck, what can you do.” Then shrug and waddle down to the nearest dollar store and trade US currency for toxic toys.

In 2010 China Registers 82,000 Aps for Copright Protection- Copyright Protection in China – WTF

In the following from teh chinadialy, China is registering aps for IPR protection. I find this humorous as probably 99% of all Chinese businesses are running a pirated version of Windows and 95% of the members of the Chinese government as well.

excerpt:
“BEIJING – Applications for computer software copyright protection in China have almost quadrupled, from nearly 21,500 in 2006 to nearly 82,000 in 2010, the Copyright Protection Center of China said in a statement Wednesday.

The number of computer software applications for copyright protection saw an annual growth rate of 37 percent, on average, between 2006 and 2010, even as the total number of applications rose to 240,000 during this period, according to the center.”

China Backtracks on Hum.an Rig.hts Pledges- Surprise!

File this under “No kidding?”

Beijing – China has failed to deliver promised improvements to civil rights and has tightened controls on expression, assembly and association over the past two years, a report said Tuesday.

‘The rollback of key civil and political rights enabled rather than reduced a host of human rights abuses’ addressed in a national action plan issued in 2009, US-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) said.

The group’s report argued that the action plan was ‘undermined by the government’s commission of human rights abuses … despite progress in protection of some economic and social rights.

‘If this plan had been vigorously pursued – and had not been accompanied by a slew of government-tolerated abuses – it could have marked a real change in the Chinese government’s human rights performance,’ Sophie Richardson, HRW Asia advocacy director, said.

The report highlighted China’s continuing ‘practice of sentencing high-profile dissidents such as imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo to lengthy prison terms.’

It said the government had also expanded restrictions on media and internet freedom over the past two years, and ‘tightened controls on lawyers, human rights defenders, and non-governmental organizations.’

Beijing allowed ‘increasing numbers of enforced disappearances and arbitrary detentions, including in secret, unlawful detention facilities,’ while ‘torture of suspects in Chinese custody remained routine.’

The action plan had committed the government to ensuring that capital punishment was ‘strictly controlled and prudently applied.’

But statistics on death sentences and executions remain a state secret, and ‘evidence suggests that mechanisms to prevent abuse of the death penalty appear to be inadequate’, the report found.

‘The Chinese government’s failure to meaningfully deliver on the National Human Rights Action Plan’s key objectives will only deepen doubts about its willingness to respect international standards as its global influence grows,’ Richardson said.

The release of the report came as rights groups lobbied the US administration of President Barack Obama to raise a range of issues and individual cases during talks with Chinese President Hu Jintao in Washington next week.

China Redefines Manners

from factsanddetails.com

“Some blame China’s bad manners on Mao for setting a bad example. On Mao, Mao friend and writer Edgar Snow wrote, “Some people might have considered him coarse and vulgar” He then described how Mao liked to scratch himself and conduct meeting naked when it was hot. He also said Mao occasionally “absent-mindedly turned down the belt in his trousers and searched for some guest”—namely fleas and lice.

During the Cultural Revolution good manners were condemned as bourgeois and a means of inhibiting people and keeping them down. At that time it was considered a compliment to be call a dalacocu—“a big, rude guy. “

Deng Xiaoping, a notorious spitter, didn’t set a very good example either. He was not shy about hacking and spitting in public, and he often had a spittoon situated next to his chair when he met with world leaders.”

Theroux on China

From factsanddetails.com

The Chinese, Theroux wrote “talked very loudly in that deaf, nagging and interrupting way, as if no one ever listened to them and they had to shout to be heard. The radios and televisions were always tuned too loud, too, the volume at maximum. Why? Was there a national deafness, or was it just a rather unfortunate habit?” [Source: “Riding the Iron
Rooster” by Paul Theroux]

Chinese often cackle when they laugh. “The Chinese laugh,” wrote Theroux, “is seldom a response to something funny—it is usually Ha-ha, we’re in deep shit or Ha-ha, I wish you hadn’t said that or Ha-ha, I’ve never felt so miserable in my life.”