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Tag Archives: politics
CCP: we’re stupid, it was the economy
I was reading an essay on People.com.cn about another essay: Here is what the People essay says about the original, which was written by aguy from one Zhou Tianyong, a scholar at the Party School*: 文章总结说，由于革命胜利后，党没有从一个工作中心为阶级斗争的“革命党”转变为一个工作中心为经济建设的执政党，对怎样搞社会主义经济建设并不熟悉，学习了苏联模式，而且在资源配置方式上实行了计划经济，生产资料所有制形式上采取了一大二公的国有制、城镇集体所有制和农村人民公社社队体制，在对外关系上走了自我封闭的道路，发展上倾斜于国防工业和重工业。其结果是劳动生产效率较低，科技人员和企业没有创新和技术进步的动力来源，技术进步缓慢，投资建设浪费较大，与整个世界各国经济社会发展的差距越来越大。可以这样评价：建国后的30年里，在全球经济社会发展的竞争中，我们走了弯路，延误了时机。 Which more or less … Continue reading
Should Uighur use the latin or slavic alphabet?
That’s the debate going in one of the bbs threads on uighurbiz and something that i am altogether not familiar with. Of course I don’t know much about what happens in that region at all, but that is what informative … Continue reading
Foreign Policy/AT Kearney 2008 Global cities index: where do Chinese cities stand?
This recently published ranking is supposedly measures overall globalization, taken as some kind of composite of business activity, human capital, information exchange, cultural experience, and political engagement. New York, London, Paris, Tokyo and Hong Kong were the top 5. Beijing … Continue reading
Can a foreigner ever understand China (and other epistemological quandaries
These thoughts come after reading something on Brendan O’Kane’s Chinese blog: this was a post from two months ago, but I just read it now, including the comments. The post contains a video from the Onion, which we all know … Continue reading
Financial Times reports on China’s (political?) use of forex reserves
The Financial Times has a series of reports on the different government organizations and agencies in China that control the use of its massive, 1.8 trillion USD forex reserve. The State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE) is more secretive and … Continue reading
China: Not your typical “Party School” or the use and abuse of ideology
Blogger and author Chen Xingzhi on Bokee talks about his experiences at the Chinese Communist Party School, where they study Marx, Engels, Lenin, Mao Zedong, Deng, and Jiang Zemin. He is, of course, a Party Member and no doubt in … Continue reading
Hu Jintao loves Photoshop
H/t to Matt for showing me the link. Twin brothers, both devoted to the Party. Even whitey’s got to smile at that. addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fpeijinchen.com%2Fblog%2F2008%2F07%2F24%2Fhu-jintao-loves-photoshop%2F’; addthis_title = ‘Hu+Jintao+loves+Photoshop’; addthis_pub = ”;
Wenchuan: should we stay or should we go?
The debate rages on, with many Wenchuan local residents, according to a survey, inclined to get out of there while they can. This article claims that out of 768 people surveyed, over 90% of them wanted to leave and rebuild … Continue reading
Free Tibetter at the Euro Cup
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China, universal values, democracy
Skimming the Chinese media, I’ve seen a lot of cyber ink spilled on the issue of a debate on “universal values” that erupted between the Southern (Nanfang) group newspapers (don’t know off the top of my head which one of … Continue reading