Guest speaker in class said China had 40,000 riots last year (1 Viewer)

[meatwad1]

Someone has been hitting the alcohol tonight... hard!

Also, ratio of 6:4 men:women does not equal 2 dudes left out for every 10 dudes... as stated above.

6:4 = 12:8

or

3:2 = 6:4 = 9:6 = 12:8

so, for every 9 guys, three may be left without a woman. For every 12 guys, four might be left without a woman. For every 10 guys... 3.33 may be left without a woman. I'd hate to be that .33 guy... that's gotta hurt.

Check out the big brain on Brett!!!

 

[Mr. Retukes]

Predicted that communist regime won't last another 10 years in China.

3 years to go...

 

[cstu]

'MERICA!!!!!!!!!!!

'EATIN OUR FOOD FROM A SINGLE BOWL!!!! IN MY PARENTS' BASEMENT....WHERE I'M LIVIN....HAPPY BIRTHDAY....I'M 43.

I'll send a special prayer to anyone who identifies that quote correctly.

http://www.kfc.com/food/classics/famous-bowl.asp

 

[cstu]

Could be an underestimation.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protest_and_dissent_in_China

...In 2006, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences estimated the number of annual mass incidents to exceed 90,000, and Chinese sociology professor Sun Liping estimated 180,000 incidents in 2010...

...An estimated 65 percent of the 180,000 annual "mass incidents" in China stem from grievances over forced land requisitions, whereby government authorities—often in collusion with private developers—seize land from villages with little to no compensation. Since 2005, surveys have indicated a steady increase in the number of forced land requisitions. Every year, local government expropriates the land of approximately 4 million rural Chinese citizens. 43 percent of villagers surveys across China report being the victims of land grabs. In most instances, the land is then sold to private developers at an average cost of 40x higher per acre than the government paid to the villagers...

Nice to see the proletariat being protected from the land owners.

 

[SaintsInDome2006]

The end of Communism in China?

Interesting article that says that Communism is almost done in China. No guarantee it's replaced by something better though.

Thanks for posting, great article.

I don't know why there hasn't really been a "China" thread before.

Shambaugh says a powerful indicator of just how little faith exists in the system is the number of wealthy Chinese elites with offshore assets and property, offshore bank accounts and children studying in western universities.

“These individuals are ready to bolt at a moment’s notice, as soon as the political system is in its endgame – but they will remain in China in order to extract every last Renminbi possible until that time,” he says. “Their hedging behaviour speaks volumes about the fragile stability of the party state in China today.”

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The mummy in the crystal coffin

Hanging directly above Tiananmen – “the gate of heavenly peace” – at the south entrance of the Forbidden City, a giant portrait of Mao Zedong stares out across the eponymous square to the imposing mausoleum where his mummified corpse lies draped in a Communist flag. Every morning of the week except Monday, long lines of Chinese tourists snake across the square as they wait for a glimpse of the great helmsman in his crystal sarcophagus.

A decade ago it was common to witness loud emotional outbursts and swooning pilgrims dropping to their knees in the presence of China’s dead “red emperor”. But on a recent weekday, the dominant sentiment among onlookers seemed to be indifference or mild disappointment. “I waited in line for an hour for that?” said one middle-aged man with a regional Chinese accent. “I’m pretty sure that was just a wax dummy; what a waste of time.”

Personally I think that property and freedom are interconnected. China cannot have economic liberation or growth without individual autonomy. They are basically stuck. I also think that letting Hong Kong in and allowing them to retain a lot of the freedoms (maybe nearly all of them) with an expectation of future free elections is more or less a ticking clock waiting to go off inside the country.

The problem though in practice is as in the USSR/Russia you have these apparatchiks who are ready to pounce on the prime property for themselves.

 

[timschochet]

It hasnt been Communist for quite some time. (In a sense it was never Communist, because true Communism is an unworkable form of government.) For the last few decades China has basically been a dictatorship that welcomed and protected private enterprise.

I have always believed as Saints does, that the expansion of trade and a free economy eventually should lead to a free government. But how long this takes , and how bloody the transformation might become, is anyone's guess.

 

[Rohn Jambo]

It hasnt been Communist for quite some time. (In a sense it was never Communist, because true Communism is an unworkable form of government.) For the last few decades China has basically been a dictatorship that welcomed and protected private enterprise.

I have always believed as Saints does, that the expansion of trade and a free economy eventually should lead to a free government. But how long this takes , and how bloody the transformation might become, is anyone's guess.

That depends on whose business you're talking about. Things will continue to get worse for foreign companies. After the Chinese "learn" their technology and business processes, they will make it harder to complete with their domestic clones.Google: http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-0614-google-china-20140614-story.html#page=1

Microsoft: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/09/01/us-china-antitrust-microsoft-idUSKBN0GW1FD20140901

 

[The Z Machine]

The crazy part is most of the business owners and high level managers are Taiwanese. This is because the Taiwanese figured out how to work with the west at least 15 years before the Chinese started getting serious with it.

 

[cstu]

China cracks down on internet.

Beijing: Google has been steadily strangled, and Gmail finally blocked more effectively than ever. Instagram and Flickr recently went black, while Microsoft Outlook was hacked. In the past few days, virtual private network (VPN) services, the tools that many people use here to evade online censorship, came under renewed attack.

Brick by brick, China is building its Great Firewall steadily higher, experts say. It infuriates netizens, exasperates foreign business executives, and appears to contradict China's pretensions to be a global superpower — and its celebrated opening to the outside world.

"China's long-term goal is to make the internet act like an intranet, cutting off access to all encrypted sites, so that government bureaucrats can tap into anything that anyone is saying, at any time," said one foreign IT executive, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the subject.

 

[cstu]

 

[SaintsInDome2006]

Golden Mao Statue in China, Nearly Finished, Is Brought Down by CriticismZHUSHIGANG, China — Just two days after images of a giant golden statue of Mao in the bare fields of Henan Province spread across the Internet, the statue was gone — torn down apparently on the orders of embarrassed local officials.

Villagers said demolition teams arrived on Thursday morning, and by Friday morning, only a pile of rubble remained.

The 120-foot-tall statue, which local media reports said cost $465,000, had been under construction for months and was nearing completion when it began to attract attention.

Some commenters on social media denounced the extravagance of the colossus in a poor, rural part of China, where the money might have been better spent on education or health care. Several quoted Shelley’s meditation on the ruins of a monument to a long-forgotten autocrat (“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone stand in the desert. …”).

Others pointed out the historical irony of erecting the statue in one of the provinces worst hit by the famine caused by Mao’s Great Leap Forward.

...

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/09/world/asia/china-mao-statue-henan.html?_r=0

- Let's put this down as a positive development.

 

[Slapdash]

China cracks down on internet.

Beijing: Google has been steadily strangled, and Gmail finally blocked more effectively than ever. Instagram and Flickr recently went black, while Microsoft Outlook was hacked. In the past few days, virtual private network (VPN) services, the tools that many people use here to evade online censorship, came under renewed attack.

Brick by brick, China is building its Great Firewall steadily higher, experts say. It infuriates netizens, exasperates foreign business executives, and appears to contradict China's pretensions to be a global superpower — and its celebrated opening to the outside world.

"China's long-term goal is to make the internet act like an intranet, cutting off access to all encrypted sites, so that government bureaucrats can tap into anything that anyone is saying, at any time," said one foreign IT executive, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the subject.

Which is what we do too, except we pay to put flaws in the encryption standards so the NSA can break it.