London Sunday Times Admits August 18, 2008
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Even as the nation is supposed to be keeping a keen tally of the gold medal count, dissenters are daring to raise the issue of how much the Games have cost the people of China.
For all its export might, China is still a poor, largely agrarian country with perhaps 700m farmers and 150m migrant workers. The size of its economy is huge but, measured by wealth per head, it ranks 109th in the world, comparable with Swaziland or Morocco.
It faces an acute crisis as its people live longer but fewer are born; the old lack pensions and healthcare must be paid for. Half the population does not have clean drinking water and 16 cities are among the most polluted on earth.
So why, asked the mainland Chinese writers in a Hong Kong magazine named Kaifang (Opening Up), did China blow more than £20 billion on the Games?
They calculate that the total costs may exceed £30 billion, more than the Chinese government will spend this year on education or public health or relief for the Sichuan earthquake. These are questions that would make any ruler nervous.
There are some estimates that there are 300 million migrant workers. Imagine, there are as many people in China wandering around from place to place looking for work as there are in the whole United States of America.
As for the question in the fourth paragraph — because they want their excess population to die. China may well win the medal count for these Games, or at least finish in 2nd. And it probably will win the race for the most number of Gold medals. The reason is obvious — because these were their Olympics, they were able to spam the Games with 11,000 athletes. Meanwhile, the Good ‘Ole has almost 1,000, and Australia, which is 3rd in the medal count at the time of this writing, doesn’t even have 500.
And raw numbers will factor into any future analysis of China, even geopolitical. They could lose a half billion people in a war, invasion, etc., and not miss a beat or even care. In fact, the Regime would probably like nothing better. Imagine a 100 million-strong Army overrunning Taiwan, Japan or Korea.
The Scramble for Africa July 24, 2008
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How China’s taking over Africa, and why the West should be VERY worried
On June 5, 1873, in a letter to The Times, Sir Francis Galton, the cousin of Charles Darwin and a distinguished African explorer in his own right, outlined a daring (if by today’s standards utterly offensive) new method to ‘tame’ and colonise what was then known as the Dark Continent.
‘My proposal is to make the encouragement of Chinese settlements of Africa a part of our national policy, in the belief that the Chinese immigrants would not only maintain their position, but that they would multiply and their descendants supplant the inferior Negro race,’ wrote Galton.
‘I should expect that the African seaboard, now sparsely occupied by lazy, palavering savages, might in a few years be tenanted by industrious, order-loving Chinese, living either as a semidetached dependency of China, or else in perfect freedom under their own law.’
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Yet Sir Francis Galton, it now appears, was ahead of his time. His vision is coming true - if not in the way he imagined. An astonishing invasion of Africa is now under way.
In the greatest movement of people the world has ever seen, China is secretly working to turn the entire continent into a new colony.
I don’t find anything in the article that gives one reason why the west should be worried. I don’t mind it at all that China is going to get bogged down into the impossible imbrogliana that is Africa. Judging from the history of European colonialism of the continent, and of empires in general, then eventually a good percentage of Africa will get to move to China, so that Shanghai and Beijing can experience what Chicago and Detroit have for decades, and it would bog down China — in addition, Africans will forget about the white world and turn their ire and jealousy toward China.
Captain Oblivious March 24, 2008
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I plan to spend most of today (and some of tomorrow) on an airplane [but not a slow boat -- ed.]. Along with a delegation of regional and state officials, I am traveling to China to suggest that the central geography, moderate climate, established transportation infrastructure, and lower costs of St. Louis make us the perfect choice of that country’s Ministry of Commerce for a new air freight hub.
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It is a simple economic reality that more and more US goods will be going to China over the next several decades. An airfreight hub in St. Louis makes perfect sense.
You actually think that the Chinese government wants an airline hub in the middle of America because they want to make it easier to sell American manufactured goods in China? Actually, it’s more like the other way around.
To assume that is to assume (just as obliviously) that America still manufactures anything. If there are going to be any goods transported from America to China via this airline hub, it will be raw materials to help China grow and sustain its own manufacturing base. The items manufactured in China will then go in the opposite direction, to razzle and dazzle the patrons at Big Box Mart.
Kit Bond: Damn the National Security Concerns — Full Sinification Ahead October 16, 2007
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House Republicans have introduced legislation calling for the Bush administration to block the merger of a U.S. computer-security equipment company and a Chinese firm with close ties to Beijing’s military and a history of illicit exports and industrial espionage.
Sen. Christopher S. Bond, vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, meanwhile, said yesterday he favors the Treasury Department review of the merger, but does not want Congress to pre-empt the administration’s national-security investigation of the deal.
The senator’s remarks and the legislation came in response to the announcement last month of the planned $2.2 billion purchase of 3Com, which sells hacker-prevention hardware to the Pentagon, by the investment company Bain Capital Partners and China’s Huawei Technology.
Mr. Bond, Missouri Republican, said he does not want congressional and public pressure to derail the proposed deal like the failed effort by the United Arab Emirates’ firm Dubai Ports World last year to buy operational control of six U.S. ports for $8 billion. That deal was approved by the Treasury Department but later canceled over concerns that terrorists might infiltrate U.S. ports posing as Dubai company employees.
I do. After all, regulating foreign trade and commerce is one of those Constitutionally-mandated Congressional duties. They should focus on these kind of issues before they obsess about nooses hanging on trees and providing 24-year old men and women with childrens’ health insurance.
And, by the way, Mr. Bond, do you have a political death wish? I mean, this state could produce another Claire McCaskill quite easily.
Fast Track Eugenics October 4, 2007
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Embryo selection gets even more interesting when we consider how a nation such as China might use it. Imagine that in ten years China forces all its college students to get genetic tests. Students with intelligence genes in the top 1% of the top 1% of humankind are then forced to donate sperm or eggs. China then uses the sperm and eggs to create a billion embryos each year. The genetic intellectual potential of all these embryos is checked. Those in the top 10,000 are implanted into women. Each of these embryos has the intellectual potential to be in the top one-billionth of humankind. Now because of environmental factors many of these embryos won’t turn into intellectual titans. But let’s say that one in ten does. This means that each year 1,000 people with the scientific ability of Einstein will be born. By 2035 they will become adults and start doing scientific research. I imagine these Einsteins will be rather helpful to China’s economy and military.
A November 2001 article in American Renaissance speculated that the Chinese government would soon become the world’s first “full-fledged eugenic state,” and if this method comes to fruition, it will only take decades to achieve the same eugenic effect that “traditional” eugenics would have taken centuries to accomplish.
Russia Claims North Pole August 3, 2007
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Russia ought to be more concerned about southeastern Siberia and the increasing Chinese population there, before China annexes it by default.
