Read this post then click on the ‘you should check it out link’ therein. The author is a woman who wwas sentenced to purgatory – Guangzhou China for a year and has some good insight into what this zoo is all about….
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Archive for February 24th, 2011
Chairman Mao Game- Reblog from Weathering the Journey
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2 2 The Chinese Rabbit
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Why The Chinese Hate Their One-Child Policy Burdens
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China has a history of children taking care of their parents but according to a Chinese survey (which are typically pretty lame) 99% of the one child burdens born after 1980 said they wont’ be able to take care of their folks when they get old. Maybe its just good old fashioned greed… |
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“Rights Lawyers” Disappear in China…
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Post from this site:
“Three high-profile lawyers “disappeared” last week, and one had his leg broken trying to visit Chen Guangcheng, a blind lawyer under house arrest in rural China.Chinese legal expert Elizabeth Lynch said in a recent post on her China Law and Policy blog: “Human rights lawyers directly challenge the state in order to protect individual’s legally guaranteed rights; only when these lawyers are able to more freely function in society will China have any meaningful rule of law.” Police forced their way into the Beijing apartment of lawyer Tang Jitian on February 16, according to the the US-based Human Rights Watch. Jiang Tianyong was arrested in Beijing while visiting his brother last Saturday, and Teng Biao, a lecturer at China University of Political Science and Law, was arrested the same afternoon. Police searched his home the next day and seized two computers, as well as several books, documents and DVDs.” |
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China and Housing
Posted by w_thames_the_d on February 24, 2011
China is having a problem with the affluent buying houses as doesn’t everyone want to own a piece of property that within a couple of years will look like a dungeon… but aside from that , Chinese have few investment options, its either a house or a car or RMB, or a state controlled/manipulated stock market, so they opt for the houses. The government in order to show how bright they are , are making it more difficult for the rich to buy homes through certain restrictions. Beijing and China have some already and three others will enact controls soon. |
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Nursing Care For Chinese
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Within 5 years, approximately 470,000 elderly will require nursing care in Beijing. As little respect as they have for humanity here, it seems to me that the depression that plauges China’s elderly will surely increase. |
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Chinese “Logic”, 75% of Chinese Airports in Debt, So They Will Make 45 More- WTF
Posted by w_thames_the_d on February 24, 2011
This is pretty funny. China has 175 airports and only 45 of them or 25% of them are making cash. So tkhe chicoms in their infinite wisdom are going to ….. build 45 more… Yeah, this is how China rolls, they build things, streets, buildings , cities , that eventually turn out to be ghost ghost towns. In reality it is a tremendous waste of resources, but what can you do…. excerpt from here: Out of the country’s existing 175 airports, around 130 are in the red with combined loss of 1.68 billion yuan last year, Li Jiaxiang, head of the Civil Aviation Administration of China told reporters. Government subsidies for airports amounted to 6 billion yuan from 2006 to 2010, and Li pledged continuous financial aid as airports would be a boost to local economies, especially in remote areas, in the longer term, he said.” |
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China Fact- Beijingers are Old
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In Beijing 326,000, or 14.4 percent of the population is above the age of 80 years. |
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China’s Huawei Defeats Motorola, Chalk one Up for the Chicoms
Posted by w_thames_the_d on February 24, 2011
China has an oxymoron , I mean a ‘high tech’ company called Huawei, who by the way supposedly got its start after ‘allegedly’ boosting its own tech from western companies. But in any event, this company started by a secretive member of the communist party who once was an official in the Chinese Red Army, sued Motorola over some business they have with Nokia. I am not familiar with the specifics but had heard of the case. In the excerpt below the chinadaily states that Huawei won and ‘Motorola cannot divulge Huawei secrets to Nokia’. This idea is common sense is it not? Isn’t confidential information only to be used by the two contracting parties privy to this info? In my life in business, that is what it meant at least. My other question is that I wonder how this case would have played out in China. Huawei, a ‘private’ company run by an ex-officer of the Chinese military and a member of the communist party gets sued in China by a foreign firm…. how many of you think the US firm would prevail? chinadaily: |
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Chinese Cell Phone virus Allows Calls to Be Monitored
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from the chinadaily “A new mobile phone virus has been discovered to have infected 150,000 people in China allowing hackers to remotely monitor calls, according to the Beijing Times on Wednesday. The virus, named X Undercover, takes advantage of existing vulnerabilities in smart phones by forcing the three-way calling service to secretly open. Conversations and text messages can be monitored and copied after the virus breaks into the calling sequence, said Zou Shihong, a security expert with NetQin Mobile Inc. he virus can also secretly video the phone’s owner, retrieve call and text records as well as pinpoint the user’s latest GPS position.The virus is sold online from 3,000 yuan ($456) with hundreds of seller boasting about its eavesdropping range and latest upgrade features.” |
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