China to USA: you ate too many hamburgers.

Quote from bone:

Friedman and Krugman both are on the Soros payroll.

Fat American tourist versus eleven year old girl in China working 16 hour days breathing heavy-metals laden smog while sewing Nike shoes for 28 cents per hour.

Here's a picture: Fat American, wearing those Nikes sewn with exploited Chinese child labor, suffers a massive heart attack because some Chinese peasant offered him one of his daughters for $5 because the peasant wanted to try for a son under the yoke of the Communist regime's family planning controls. But, the fat American is in luck, because he can get a brand new replacement heart courtesy of the Communist regime's involuntary prisoner organ donor program.

USA to China: thanks to you we can eat all the hamburgers we want.
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can any moron just pay and become an ET sponsor? stick to what you know - peddling those consulting scams instead of spewing drivel on a country you know nothing of.
 
Quote from nutmeg:

The Chinese system is autocratic, rife with corruption and at odds with a knowledge economy, which requires liberty.
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What exactly can you do in this country without paying someone off?

Not exactly corruption per se but you have to ask permission to do anything and pay a required fee.
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in china you just do it and get it done, no bullshit. People living in the area? Pay double the price and move everyone out in a week. Local government agency dragging their feet? the guy no longer works there tomorrow. If beijin says done, it gets done.

In the us, you got to get 100 levels of approval, do environmental study, traffic study, agree with the labor union, make sure states are agreeing with the plan, hold meetings with the local residents make sure they ok with the number of trees installed... get the govt agencies owning the land to agree, THEN comes submitting proposals, cost analysis. By the time this is all done and tens of millions wasted, the project didnt even break ground yet.

that's the difference.
 
Quote from MohdSalleh:

Har har har

:D


Too Many Hamburgers?
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
Published: September 21, 2010

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/22/opinion/22friedman.html?src=me&ref=general

To visit China today as an American is to compare and to be compared.

And from the very opening session of this year’s World Economic Forum here in Tianjin, our Chinese hosts did not hesitate to do some comparing.

China’s CCTV aired a skit showing four children — one wearing the Chinese flag, another the American, another the Indian, and another the Brazilian — getting ready to run a race.

Before they take off, the American child, “Anthony,” boasts that he will win “because I always win,” and he jumps out to a big lead. But soon Anthony doubles over with cramps. “Now is our chance to overtake him for the first time!” shouts the Chinese child. “What’s wrong with Anthony?” asks another. “He is overweight and flabby,” says another child. “He ate too many hamburgers.”

For the U.S. visitor, the comparisons start from the moment one departs Beijing’s South Station, a giant space-age building, and boards the bullet train to Tianjin.

It takes just 25 minutes to make the 75-mile trip. In Tianjin, one arrives at another ultramodern train station — where, unlike New York City’s Pennsylvania Station, all the escalators actually work.

“How can you compete with a country that is run like a company?” an Indian entrepreneur at the forum asked me of China.

“We are not ready to act on our strength,” said my Indian friend, “so we’re waiting for them [the Chinese] to fail on their weakness.”

Will they? The Chinese system is autocratic, rife with corruption and at odds with a knowledge economy, which requires liberty.

Yet China also has regular rotations of power at the top and a strong record of promoting on merit, so the average senior official is quite competent.

Listening to Prime Minister Wen Jiabao of China tick off growth statistics in his speech here had the feel of a soulless corporate earnings report. Yet he has detailed plans for his people’s betterment, from universities to high-speed rail, and he’s delivering on them.
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Who loaned US the money to buy the hamburgers and may not see anything in return for that loan?
 
This article is similar to the article in the this year's Time mag with Edison on the cover and another article by Andy Grove. It's amazing the conservatives refuse to understand reality.
 
I work with Chinese every day and my impression is not all that good.
Overall they are unruly, arrogant, smelly (yes unclean), spitting, bad toothed, white (European) hating bunch. Give me the Japanese culture, their cleanliness and orderliness any-day.
I know that the Chinese work hard and they are well educated, disciplined (well some of them) but I'm still fond of the Japanese culture over the Chinese. I fully accept the Chinese resentment of Japan over the atrocities and crimes committed in war...
The Chinese for some reason cannot accept to wait in line, they are ultra cheap as well. They came to the USA and they akin to some other minorities refuse to assimilate, learn the language or accept the host country's culture.
 
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