China: Chinese protesting more as social problems grow(deteriorating situations)

San Francisco Chronicles ^ | 05/01/05 | Kathleen E. McLaughlin

[TigerLikesRooster]

Ping!

[r9etb]

Nothing like having a few million more boys than girls running around. China's got a rough road ahead, I think.

[proxy_user]

"In a lot of ways, what we're hearing about in Zhejiang is more typical of what is happening all over China," Tanner said. "They have more problems than they have money and political systems to cure them."

I thought money was part of the problem. It is much easier to maintain rigid controls over an impoverished society.

[Dallas59]

I'm waiting for the Chinese to borrow the European excuse..."It's the fault of America.."

[pissant]

Hopefully a revolution is in the works.

Memo to the CIA: Get Busy!

[worldclass]

"Everyone knows they are playing with fire," Davis said. "Mass anger continues to bubble up from below, and it could boil over at any time.''

China reminds me a bit of pre-ww1 Russia....a fast-growing economy with internal dissent growing. What will be the spark to set it off? Or will China start a militaristic foreign policy to stave off internal collapse? Should be interesting to watch.

[Danae]

Keep your enemies busy inside their own borders and he will leave yours alone. A distracted chinese government is good for us.

[MisterRepublican]

Hmmm. Maybe communist Chiner is on the verge of a USSR style "revolution"?

[bowzer313]

I just talked with a very capable young man over the weekend who was offered a major project as an executive for a steel company to help them build their Chinese market share. That would be considered a major career boost for someone in the steel business, given that the Chinese are using more steel than any other country right now. It would have required frequent travel to China.

He turned the job down flat. He didn't want to commit to being in a place with rabid anti-Americanism, constant riots, medling Communist apparatchiks, blatant graft and payola, and all the rest of the guff that goes with working the Chinese market. Might this be a growing trend?

[MrNatural]

China syndrome ping

[TigerLikesRooster]

Yeah, I think that all of the things you mentioned are definitely growing. The man made the right decision. He may not make much head way in this deteriorating environment.

The prospects are much better for doing money laundering for crooked officials and businessmen. :-)

[superiorslots]

Quote: He turned the job down flat. He didn't want to commit to being in a place with rabid anti-Americanism, constant riots, medling Communist apparatchiks, blatant graft and payola, and all the rest of the guff that goes with working the Chinese market. Might this be a growing trend?

I'm afraid not. There are many americans that would do this job. They have no scruples that they are short changing the american dream.

My brother has a client in michigan that was bragging that he sent his own company to china and hired 1500 chinese at 53 cents per hour and the less skilled ones at 37 cents per hour. He said the chinese even gave him a parade and treated him like a king. What about the americans that gave him a start by buying his product and the employees who helped him out all throught the years.

[traumer]

Make it 40 million more boys than girls running around (that's what I read lately). And - yes - we can help too...

[.cnI redruM]

They essentially have. They have a modernization program they call Assassin's Mace that is designed to make their military competitive against ours..

[JimSEA]

"They have more problems than they have money and political systems to cure them."

The many coal and hard rock mine disasters are an indication of just what the CCP elite think of the "people". The government could fall but what direction is still up in the air. If the intense anti-Japanese and anti-American attitudes intensify as the CCP falls, it is not necessarily good for us. The undercurrent in China is complex and I doubt anyone can really forcast the future there.

[r9etb]

I'm waiting for the Chinese to borrow the European excuse..."It's the fault of America.."

Considering how many Chinese girls are adopted by Americans, they may have a point. ;-)

[r9etb]

ACLU?

[r9etb]

China reminds me a bit of pre-ww1 Russia....a fast-growing economy with internal dissent growing. What will be the spark to set it off? Or will China start a militaristic foreign policy to stave off internal collapse? Should be interesting to watch.

Russia tried the militaristic foreign policy approach, and lost to the Japanese in 1905, and to the Germans in WWI. I think we won't see the Chinese get really aggressive until the internal dissent really starts to ramp up.

Along those lines, the recent anti-Japanese stuff is rather convenient, doncha think? I suspect that the Chinese government is behind it.

[DTogo]

Time for another brutal crackdown on public protestors, that the Chicoms won't put in their own history books.