Bookworm on Dec 01 2011 | Filed under: China
Andy Stern, who led the SEIU to its current status as a statist political powerhouse, has a lengthy op-ed in the Wall Street Journal today, touting the wonders of China’s economic model. His basic point: China’s recent economic surge shows that government should control the economy. To support this premise, he points, not to China’s [...]
Bookworm on Oct 24 2011 | Filed under: Abortion, China
Over the past week, China has been convulsed by a video that shows a little girl — 2 years old — clad in pink trousers, struck by two vans and then ignored by over a dozen passers-by, who cavalierly stepped around her broken, bleeding body: Little Yue Yue has since died, but China, in an [...]
Danny Lemieux on May 10 2011 | Filed under: Capitalism, China, Corruption, Economics, Uncategorized
Given this blog’s recent flogging of the China versus U.S. (“us”) question, here is a primary example of how China may surpass the U.S. by becoming more business friendly as it decentralizes while the U.S. risks having to learn the lessons of socialist history all over again as our over-regulated economy grinds down to a [...]
Danny Lemieux on Jan 23 2011 | Filed under: America, China, Uncategorized
Chinese-born pianist Lang Lang plays an old, Korean-war vintage anti-American song, “Battle on Shangganling Mountain”, at Obama’s state dinner for Chinese President Hu-Jintao. The Chinese, of course, just loved it. I can just feel the respect our competitors in the world have for us, now that international relations have been “reset”. This will not end [...]
Bookworm on Jan 20 2011 | Filed under: Barack Obama, China
From Sadie: The 2009 Nobel Peace Prize recipient gave a state dinner in honor of the leader of China. The 2010 Nobel Peace Prize winner, Liu Xiaobo, is imprisoned in China. All conclusions are obvious.
Bookworm on Mar 08 2010 | Filed under: China
Lately, you can’t read a Tom Friedman article without gagging. Oh, sorry. I didn’t mean to say that. Let me try again. I mean that you can’t read a Tom Friedman article without having him praise China to the skies as the example America should follow. (I gather that the Saudis have fallen somewhat in [...]
Bookworm on Nov 22 2009 | Filed under: Barack Obama, China
Why didn’t they figure out before November 2008 that there was no there there? The parody is good, but is it too late?
Bookworm on Nov 17 2009 | Filed under: Barack Obama, China, Media matters
Liberals assured us back in 2008 that, after the horrible Cowboy Bush years, we needed someone charming to bring rogue governments back into the American fold. So far, these same rogue governments have been resistant to Obama’s charm, whether in Russia or the Palestinian territories* or Iran, just to to name a few instances of [...]
Bookworm on Sep 29 2009 | Filed under: China
Okay, maybe I’m overreacting, but WHAT THE HELL IS THE EMPIRE STATE DOING HONORING A BRUTAL REGIME THAT KILLED TENS OF MILLIONS OF ITS OWN CITIZENS, THAT STILL PUNISHES SPEECH WITH TORTURE AND DEATH, THAT USES SLAVE LABOR, AND THAT SEES ITS POLITICAL PRISONERS AS ORGAN DONOR MACHINES? Just asking. And yes, I’m definitely a [...]
Bookworm on Sep 17 2009 | Filed under: Barack Obama, China
Obama’s foolish decision to pick a trade war with China has larger implications about his governing style, as Jennifer Rubin explains: [D]omestic political considerations and the good opinion of his base are more important to Obama than just about any other concern. That seems to be the motivating factor in a lot of what he does. [...]
Bookworm on May 26 2009 | Filed under: Barack Obama, China, North Korea
Clearly, predator nations smell blood in the water — and that blood is Obama’s manifest inability to cope with predator nations. At least, that’s how I read this, from BNO News at 9:30 ish p.m. PST: N. Korea says it is no longer bound to the armistice which ended the war and says the peninsula [...]
Bookworm on Apr 26 2009 | Filed under: China
The Dalai Lama spoke today in Berkeley, and reminded me strongly of Gandhi. This was Gandhi’s approach to the Nazis, as expressed to the English (who were, you remember, the nation against which he was rebelling): “I would like you to lay down the arms you have as being useless for saving you or humanity. [...]
Bookworm on Aug 22 2008 | Filed under: China
Catherine the Great’s beloved Grigori Potemkin used to be her advance man as she toured Russia. He become famous in history for building entirely false villages in the recently conquered Crimea to elevate the status of her new conquest: Potemkin villages were purportedly fake settlements erected at the direction of Russian minister Grigori Aleksandrovich Potemkin [...]
Bookworm on Aug 20 2008 | Filed under: China, Socialism
As you may recall, I was both impressed and dismayed by the opening ceremonies for the Beijing Olympics. I’ll quote the point I made that comes back again in this post: They were gorgeous. They also reminded me very strongly of the public spectacles that socialist countries have always loved: vast numbers of people moving [...]
Bookworm on Jul 24 2008 | Filed under: Africa, China
Burt Prelutsky today, in a longer column about Obama’s political failings, launches into a blistering attack against US aid to Africa: Speaking of Africa, when are we going to wean the dark continent? Are we ever going to get over this nutty notion that we have an obligation to keep pumping money down that particular [...]
Bookworm on May 23 2008 | Filed under: China, Communism, Immigration, Iran, Israel, Russia
There was a round-up of illegal aliens in Marin County. The story included the obligatory reference to the children who had to watch their parents being arrested for illegal activity: Wilson said children watched while their parents and other adults were taken away by authorities. Some were removed while accompanying children to the school bus, [...]
Bookworm on Mar 25 2008 | Filed under: China
Dennis Prager writes really movingly about the unfairness of a world that elevates Palestinians to “chief victims,” while ignoring the murderous horror that the Chinese have visited on the Tibetans. I doubt we’ll see a principled stand that has the world boycott the Olympics, but we should. I’m no fan of Jimmy Carter, but he [...]
Bookworm on Sep 15 2007 | Filed under: China, Women
In the late 19th and early 20th Centuries, a very common expression was that “the rich get richer and the poor get children.” In China, that’s been turned on its head. Not only do the rich (probably) get richer, they also get the children — and their Communist overlords are cracking down: Rich Chinese people [...]
Bookworm on Sep 10 2007 | Filed under: China
This is what happens in societies that don’t value women: Her relatives had always described her as a colicky baby. When Luo Cuifen was 26, she found out a likely reason why. Doctors discovered more than two dozen sewing needles embedded in her body, some piercing her vital organs. X-rays of her head and torso [...]
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