You can be sure that, when it does fall apart, the Chinese leadership will be gone with the goods.
Unless the our Messiah, The One, the one we've been waiting for gets a second term, then all bets are off!
I don’t know if the design or the materials were inferior. I think there’s a reason we don’t make the roofs of American airport terminals out of Styrofoam, however....
and how much foreign aid money does the US give to China??
and why??
BEIJING | Mon Nov 14, 2011 10:47am EST
BEIJING (Reuters) - Hu Xiao says his job as one of China’s executioners is usually not very complicated, except for the time when a prisoner he was about to kill stood up and ran toward his loaded rifle.
The rare glimpse into the ranks of China’s executioners appeared in the Beijing Evening News newspaper Monday.
Hu, a veteran judicial police officer, described the routine of shooting prisoners convicted of murder and other capital crimes in China, which rights groups say carries out more judicial killings each year than anywhere else in the world.
“In fact, it’s not as complicated as outsiders think. We all use rifles, stand about four meters from the condemned prisoner with a barrel one meter-long, take aim, press the trigger, and that’s that,” Hu told the newspaper.
Most prisoners taken for execution are so terrified they collapse on the ground and cannot stand, Hu said. The exception was an ex-soldier convicted of homicide, he said.
“At the time of execution, the criminals kneel on the ground, but this former soldier actually stood up and ran forward. The result was a moving target that was taken down,” said Hu, himself a former soldier who has worked as a police officer for 19 years.
“These people all deserved what they got for their crimes.”
Something else is falling in China, home values are down 20% to 40%. Realtors are going out of business. We sold our apartment there last year. Wild profit. Family said we were crazy to sell then. We, however, had the crystal ball of having seen the same pattern happen in the U.S.
I'm no fan of "Chinese infrastructure" -- or what passes for it -- but what do you expect the architect to say, "Yeah, I knew I should have spec'd more fasteners...oh well!"
No no no you’re seeing this all wrong! That’s not failure - that’s future work for Chinese construction workers! Just like when Khrushchev had to point out how inferior our highly-automated factories were, in contrast to Russian ones that created many more jobs!
In fact, shouldn’t government be looking at ways to make things fail sooner, so as to put more people to work?
I spent a lot of time working in China during the boom, China IS a facade, crappy construction covered over with a gleaming coat of fine plaster. It's all about appearance, no substance, must be a leftest thing. Wanna $25 dollar copy Rolex ? ... or would you rather know what time it was !
Fareed Zakaria is deeply saddened.
In China, you first say YES to any competitive bid or contract.
You then figure out how to make money on it, and start the negotiations only after you sign the contract....