Posted on 12/06/2010 11:14:04 AM PST by FromLori
China's economic figures are unreliable and not to be trusted, according to Li Keqiang, one of the country's most senior officials.
The 55-year-old is widely tipped to become China's next prime minister and is currently the country's executive vice premier, with responsibility for macro-economic management.
However, in private talks with the US ambassador in 2007, when he was still just the head of the Chinese province of Liaoning, Mr Li cast doubt on China's much-vaunted economic statistics.
A diplomatic cable leaked by Wikileaks, the whistle-blowing website, reveals that Mr Li described China's gross domestic product figure as "man-made" and "therefore unreliable".
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
I have long thought they were fudging numbers
The Chinese lie when the truth would serve them better.
I didn’t need Wikileaks to know that.
Fudging the numbers? They must have learned that technique from the US.
“We can always fool the foreigner.”- Chinese proverb.
As for Mr. Assange, it appears he collects state enemies the way some kids collected stamps or baseball cards.
Me either, but there are those who won’t believe it if it is triple-sourced.
I wonder how long before they really rebel against bernanke’s printing?
Our Chinese Overlords have problems of their own
Check this part of the story out:
Auction Failure
The World Is Playing A Game Of Currency Chicken And The Result Will Be A Crash
Admit it, everyone. This Assange guy is doing better journalism than anyone out there right now. This is the real deal.
The Big Fall...
about as accurate as computer climate models?
Climate models, GDP models, and unemployment measures are all more reliable than global population counts and any federal bureaucracy’s or agency’s books.
Li Keqiang is a top-5 leader in China. His faction and supporters must be working 24/7 behind the scenes now to protect his @ss, because he committed the gravest sin one can commit - he publicly embarrassed the Party.
Admit it, everyone. This Assange guy is doing better journalism than anyone out there right now. This is the real deal.
Probably is. So far, the only one who has been able to embarrass all of the major enemies and threats to the USA: The Clintons, Saudi Arabia, Communist China, etc...
But, I bet the Free Trade Globalists who support Free Trade with Communist China probably have taken over now the “most likely to off Julian Assange” sweepestakes.
Seems the biggest critics of Assange are now limited to Economic Anti-Americans and Globalists
“Top Chinese official doesn’t believe GDP figures,” because to agree with them would be to work against his abominable trade imbalance. Poor China girl. She so poor. Give her the tiny remainder of our manufacturing facilities, because we Americans are so relatively lazy, stupid and worthless.
Our Nation needs this good housecleaning.
Globalism is falling under its own rottenness, BTW. Cheers to the depression brought by political correctness! We’ll finally see appropriately small government and the end of the din of bureaucratic hens.
Thanks for the link on the game of chicken.
Join the club, we've got jackets.
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