Posted on 09/12/2010 3:16:50 PM PDT by Oakeshott
Deep in the Amazon jungle, huge chunks of red earth are torn out of the ground at Carajás, the biggest iron ore mine in the world, to be transported halfway round the globe to the steel mills on China’s eastern seaboard. There they are turned into the backbone for millions of tower blocks in hundreds of booming Chinese cities.
Last year, China overtook the US to become Brazil’s biggest trading partner. The two large developing countries may be on opposite sides of the planet but their growing economic ties over the past decade have become among the enduring symbols of shifts in the global economy.
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I did not register to have access to FT. I do not know if "booming Chinese cities" counts if tens of millions of apartments in those cities are empty.
I recall a scene from Monty Python's Flying Circus' The Meaning of Life where a grossly overweight restaurant patron is urged by waiters to keeping eating.. until he literally explodes.
china will learn the same lesson we are now learning in mexico.
economic prosperity survives based on stability and predictability of statutory law, not cheap labor and corrupt leaders who have pauperized their people to cut a deal for themselves.
You need to visit Brazil and China again (assuming you have been there).
The rate at which the world is changing will shock you.
economic prosperity survives based on stability and predictability of statutory law, not cheap labor and corrupt leaders who have pauperized their people to cut a deal for themselves.
You are describing the current administration in the UNITED STATES! China is going more capitalist and we are going socialist. I live in WV. It is a third-world country in places!
my worldview is derived from the wsj, ft, ibd, barrons and myriad web sources.
i do not have high opine of the unfree nations of the world, regardless of momentary prosperity derived via americans evacuating this realm.
someone hit me with that exact point regarding mexico during the nafta debate in the 80’s. those peoples are currently evacuating their selves and families from the thirdworld spithole that i did not understand and never visited. this is a repeating theme as we devolve the first world into penury.
soon we can all starve together. excepting some of course. the third world is inherently unstable and will remain so. only thing they can count on are those foolish enough to invest their cash assets they intend to nationalize; and their staple mechanism... violence after the fact. most of those trying to escape the civil governments they have perverted to the point where they are economically intolerable will remain easy beans for those who forage the remnants of capitalism and literally eat the souls of their natives.
no comment about the wv thing, i got cajun family.
the most virulent parts of wv that you think are thirdworldish would be considered a paradise to the average asian peasant.
there are people who are eating dirt, their communist government is, out of pure necessity, putting on airs. china is presently arming themselves to teeth, to show all on earth how developed and capitalist they really are.
they intend to control global commerce. they are communist pigs. as soon as enough retards in the west are willing to relent due to their own financial mismanagement... the world will get treated to the tender mercies of the chicom regime.
In the 1800's, China sent gifts to their neighbors. Now, they are intent on keeping the rest of us at bay.
I wouldn't like to have a Huey siting on a pad next door to me, either! We are the aggressors in their eyes! Communism has failed in China and they are getting ahead of us! It still has repressive tendencies, but order is necessary among a billion+!
more likely 3,000 years of history will prove you wrong.
the chicoms are firmly in control, they are pigs, and no amount of favorable propaganda will change reality.
best case long term scenario for china is revolution.
most likely, anarchy followed, by global aggression.
followed by whoknowswhat.
maybe armageddon.
Unlike the relatively free economies of the West, the chicoms have control-freaked themselves into a box. They have committed to endless demand from the West for cheap crap built by virtually slave labor. As that ends (how many more i-thises and i-thats are people going to buy?) they will turn around and find that the local factory workers, having been exploited by their local communist party officials, can't support an internal economy and the economy will collapse. The key difference is that the collapse can't happen without blowing up the communist party and kicking off a major war.
Guizhou: China’s Undiscovered Pearl
By James Ruggia
Published on: September 13, 2010
In recent columns in this space I’ve been looking at the maturing of China’s travel product, including the country’s hotels and tour products. Just as the glittering glass and brass of China’s first generation of international hotels has given way to more nuanced properties, so has a new generation of destinations emerged beyond the original iconic cities on the country’s east coast.
China has now been open for almost 40 years, so experienced American travelers have learned to look beyond the Great Wall to a broad diversity of climates, cultures, ethnic groups and activities. Guizhou, for example, is the latest Chinese province that wants to make its case with the American traveler. Located in China’s rugged southwest, Guizhou is not among the first provinces that come to mind when you think about the People’s Republic (PRC). But in 1934 and 1935 it was at the epicenter of Chinese history when it was the scene of some of the most important moments in the Long March.
The place of the Long March in the hearts of China’s citizens is comparable to the place the Exodus holds in Judaism. Today, the achievement seems almost as miraculous. The Red Army essentially trekked 8,000 miles to create modern China. It was in Guizhou, that Mao Ze Dung emerged as the leader of China’s revolution along with such other leaders as Cho En-Lai and Deng Xiaoping. Years before Mao declared the foundation of the PRC in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in 1949, Guizhou became the PRC’s first province.
It still makes your head spin when you contemplate the changes the PRC has undergone since then. Guizhou clearly wants to join in those changes, especially the soft revolution that tourism has wrought throughout China. Until recently the charm of Guizhou was one of China’s best-kept secrets because tourists have been daunted by its remote location and its rugged terrain. Today, adventure travelers regard those obstacles as attractions and China’s new high-speed rail network has made it much easier to access the province. Links are being created from Shanghai, Cheng-du and Xiamen to Guizhou’s capital, Guiyang.
On Sept. 7, a delegation led by Wang Fu Yu, the deputy party secretary of Guizhou, promoted the virtues of the province at a private dinner at the New York Academy of Science. Even working with a translator, Wang showed himself to be a seasoned orator, describing Guizhou with passion as “an undiscovered pearl.” The terrain of Southwestern China is characterized by mountains and canyons that are shot through with swiftly moving rivers. “We have 1,360 rivers, 800 gorges and canyons,” Wang said. “About 92 percent of our land is mountainous.”
The scenic beauty created by these conditions is highlighted by such attractions as Huangguoshu Waterfalls, the Golden Brocade Cave, Red Maple Lake, the Maling River Valley and the Shizhang Cave on the Chishui River, the Fanjing Mountain Botanic Garden, the Maolan Karst Primeval Forest, the Chishui Primeval Forest and the bird reserve at Caohai. In fact, there are 130 different nature preserves that take up about 6 percent of the province’s total area.
But Guizhou’s landscape is only part of its appeal. The cultural richness of China’s 56 different ethnic minorities has been one of the country’s best tools for attracting people to return to China on repeat trips after they’ve already taken the popular Golden Route of Beijing, Xian, Guilin, Shanghai, Hong Kong and the Yangtze Cruise. Guizhou’s cultural tapestry is richly woven. “Minority peoples represent 40 percent of our population,” said Wang. “Visitors can experience these cultures in some 18,000 different villages.”
If Guizhou can establish one of its attractions as an icon, it could find itself as a participant in multi-province tours of the southwest. Sichuan lies to the north, Yunnan to the west, Guangxi to the south and Hunan to the east. Guizhou covers an area of about 67,958 square miles with a total population of more than 35,245,000.
The years 2011 to 2015 will mark the 12th Five Year Plan cycle for Guizhou and Wang says tourism will be a major part of it. “Last year, we earned CNY80 billion ($11.8 billion) and this year we’re looking at CNY 100 billion ($14.7 billion), about 10 percent of it coming from foreign tourists,” he said. “We are investing and within three years, we’ll have about 20 five-star hotels in the Guiyang.” If you are looking for more information on Guizhou and its attractions, visit www.gzgov.gov.cn/enggov/.
James Ruggia is executive editor covering Pacific Asia and Europe for TravelPulse.com
or just a communist lover.
visit mexico, last decades undiscovered pearl.
as i see things involving communists, always in a dour light, china will lash outward this round and things will get ugly.
the one thing the chicoms fear is revolution, a chinese forte; the rule rather than the exception of the last half of the 20th century.
imagine three billion palestinians with aircraft carriers and nukes.
I'm WASP American VN Vet, patriot, and realist! Have you read the news lately? Have you ventured past the Post office and grocers lately?
The world is not just within our borders, and we are not bound by those borders. Reality trumps your "Hope and Dreams". China would be foolish not to take advantage of anyone gullible enough. Evidently Obama found the same gullibility in the American Voters.
You sound like you would prefer Obama's world!
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