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It's an absolutely enormors thing worth celebrating for the Chinese.Because Chinese finally receice some deserved rights.
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It's an absolutely enormors thing worth celebrating for the Chinese.Because Chinese finally receice some deserved rights.
There is no political in-fighting.CPC shows no tolerance for corruption.
Some people imagined a struggle between different political factions in China after Bo's case, and some Chinese believed it. But they overestimate Bo's personal influence.
China stands in need of liberation . Until then China is going to support the evil axis and veto at the security council.
Are you, by any chance, an avid believer in Dubya ideology (i.e. neoconservatism as formulated by Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, and co.)?
The question no one is asking is, Did Bo's wife really kill Neil Heywood or was she framed as a way to bring down her husband? THAT'S what inquiring minds want to know.
This TE article asserted that "Bo Xilai ... openly cultivating public support"
If he, or any member of his family had broken any law ... they still have to answer for it
IS Bo above the law ?
IS his wife or son above the law ?
ANSWER == No... nobody is indespensible
Nobody is above the law
NB; The Bo Xilais will come and the Bo Xilai's will go --- BUT China will be here forever, and ever more
"ZHUNG GUO wan sway.. wan sway,,, wan, wan sway"
The crème de la crème in China was, is, and will always be above the law.
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@ Coastalmidwesterner
Your comment shows your prejudice....
sorry...that wasn't clear.
It was directed to East wind ....who should change his name to "Eastern gas"
seriously bro, go apply for at job at the Global Times or Xinhua or any other "news" network and be done with it.
Isn't it time you left The Economist and went back to your worthless hate-filled little life?
@ Coastalmidwesterner
Your comment shows your prejudice....
As does every single one of yours....for the 6 years you have been posting daily on this website.
Seriously, if you aren't a fifty-cent poster, then you have absolutely NO life. Sad.
China right now is basically like a whole bunch of little boys being raised in a Catholic church.....
One day those little boys are going to grow up and get revenge for the years of molestation and abuse.
That's why it's common practice among officials to get Citizenship in other countries for their families.
A good analogy of that would be....don't rob a bank without a getaway car...
Why does nobody mention Li Peng in all of this? His family is the ulimtate example of China gone bad. He dominated and pillaged the coal and electricity bureaus. When 5 generation companies were set up, what an amazing coincidence his son got given one of them and his daughter another! He only had 2 kids or no doubt he would have kept all 5. State Grid is under his control and is the worst monopoly in China. He has pillaged billions and protected other crooks like Bo Xilai. These corrupt officials are protected secondarily to preserve the communist party, but primarily to prevent the corruption of previous officials being revealed. Li Peng needs a protege to make sure he and his family are never prosecuted for their corruption and his role in Tiananmen. behind the scenes he pulls the stringe. Wen Jiabao is subservient to him - remember Tiananmen, Wen was #2 to Zhao Ziyang and went pleading with Zhao to the students. Li Peng resisted the students to stop his own corruption being exposed. It was Li Peng protecting Bo Xilai. It is the corrupt using the corrupt to maintain the system where one generation protects another. It stinks - and they are all part of it.
@Anfield Road
Give it another 5 years, and both Jiang Zemin and Li Peng (and their respective families) would go the way of Bo and co. This is another situation where Sir Winston Churchill's famous quote applies (...it is, at best, the end of the beginning...)
I hope that time will come sooner than 5 years.
I wish that would happen tomorrow
@ Coastalmidwesterner
Your comment shows your prejudice
I also experienced what you claimed to have experienced --- when I visited New York and London
Similarly, in London , I was almost mown down by a car when I crossed a side-lane--- which had clearly had a zebra-crossing. The driver of the car who almost killed me looked really angry and agressive
Generally- in big cities, people are less civil and more inter-personal
You claim to come from the Mid-West --- but when I see videos clearly how the Whites used police-dogs on Blacks in the American South and Mid-West --- and how the 300-pound White policemen bashed the skinny Black youngsters who dared to protests--- I guess what you are saying is that --- only White folks can expect civility from Whites
BLACKS LIKE the TYSAON boy will end up dead --- if they dare to venture into White neighbourhoods
You are accusing the American-Chinese of bad behavior as an excuse to prove your myth of WHITE-SUPREMACHY
Wow-- the KKK , inbred rednecks and "white-power" ---and white-trash are out in force ---in this forum---in order to put the "Ch***K in their place"
The American South and the Midwest are culturally and historically different. Slavery was banned in the Midwest before they even became states. Everybody knows this.
Your statement would be the equivalent of me saying that Japanese imperialism 100 years ago was terrible and China and Japan are in East Asia, so Chinese people should be ashamed of World War II atrocities. No, that makes no sense. Neither does your comment. Feel free to criticize American flaws, but get the history right, okay?
Whose "TYSAON"? You mean Mike Tyson? lol
Oh look this little racist thinks that he should make fun of Chinese people with poor English skills just because he's immigrated to Canada for a few decades so he's learned a bit better English.
Canada should have never let your racist ass in. Seriously go back to Burma; your pathetic obsessive racism has no place in Canada.
Also you made a grammatic error in your short sentence. "Whose" is a possessive form of "who." The word that you were trying to go for is "who's", which is short for "who is."
"Really the only multi-cultural countries in the world are USA, Canada, and Western Europe"
This coming from someone who doesn't even know that Western Europe isn't a country.
Right, obviously I didn't know that Western Europe isn't a country.
Grammatical errors/syntaxical ones...at the end of the day you are the one who looks like a guy WHO'S trying to be smart but demonstrably isn't.
Which grammatical errors did I make?
Maybe they didn't teach you this at Charleston Community College, but If you're going to cry grammatical errors you need to at least point them out.
Seriously go back to your worthless life; this website is obviously too smart for you.
am tired of things about bo, wake me up when he's gone forever and there's not more news about him, zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...............
Comrade Chinacat,
Be careful. I think you should pay more attention. Bo Xilai is serious stuff. Don't think because you are a cat, with nine lives, you will get away. If you are not careful, you could find in stew pot in some restaurant in Guangzhou.
wow, 16 recommunded, that's quite silly, and you did nothing better since once again you spreaded the rumor that the Chinese eat anything that moves, lol, just for your info, I might be a big cat, the tiger, the antional tresure that's not allowed to be eated, and the Canto people, well, do they include hkers, I heard that tons of them across the border to mainland to eat erotic animals, and you wonder why I don't like them hugely??............. Comrade B, you just don't understand, I am sad because Bo's supposed to be anti corruption, but he seems the biggest corrupt official on earth, rumors are billions of yuan he and his wife trandered to overseas, and the anti mafia he was said to be good, but his wife and his guy killed the man from the UK, rumors are his wife was investigated in 2007, then why on earth our comrades in Beijing didn't find anything at that time? I just can't help thinking perhaps you were right when you said the ccp was corrupt to the core, from the top to the bottom, then when on earth we will get a powerful nation on earth, speaking as a very patriotic Chinese, you know..... :(((((((( !!!!!!
You are obviously trembling, look at your spelling, all wrong. Don't be afraid we don't eat you, at least not alive.
I felt strong when Chongqing police arrested one thousand people in one action. This happened 2 years ago (?) already, very strange. One thousand suspects was a huge number, and no one can just do that, there must be some un-just/innocent-people inside which people don't know.
Bo deserved it. and police/Rumour found out his wife poisoned Heywood.
BTW Mr Heywood can't be innocent at all when he was a inner-circle of corrupted Bo. Heywood's wife and mother's month were shut until now. Either they are afraid of Heywood's wife safety or something they don't want China/people know---a secret document of Bo's dirty business (also related to Heywood).
It surprising Bo Xilai attracted so much attention, money and power.
According to rumors, Heywood funneled 800 Million pounds for Bo's family. Was Bo Xilai the exception, or the norm? Imagine if you were the Head of Shanghai, Guangdong, Zhejiang, how much money do you expect them to have made ?? If he is an exception, what you said is very true "Why didn't Beijing do anything?"
How Beijing can do anything, most of them are UN-cleaned !!
How can you expect a minister's salary of low, CPC push/encourage them to corrupt.
When its too good to be true, it usually is. Chinacat, when a soon to be ex-comrade like Bo Xilai, creates a lot of Buzz, then one should be skeptical.
I am very surprised, most of our Chinese posters did not suspect Bo Xilai's corruption. Bo Guagua (his son) went to private schools in the UK and the US for 13 years (starting when he was 11). That is about 600,000 dollars. Bo Xilai's official salary is less than $700 / month (maybe less). How could he afford it?
Bo Xilai has a hypocrite and too confident. If he said his wife was still working, at least he could say his wife was paying for his son's tuition, but he sad his wife stays at home.
While some Chinese newspapers mentioned Bo Xilai and the "Chongqing Model", Wen Jiabao and Hu Jintao never visited Chongqing or at least since Bo Xilai took over. How many times has Wen/Hu visited Guangdong. Many times, and they eat many cats when they were there. People in Beijing had more pressing issues than Bo Xilai, he was not even a Standing Committee Member, so they were not that worried until now.
some of us might have thought he got some support from extended family like a rich uncle or a aunt perhaps.... as for cat eating, I know you are just joking, the cats in Guangdong has been eaten all and no one left, lol.
"I felt strong...." I think you meant to say "I felt wrong...", and i think this is a much serious wrong than a few typos that I made, for your info, I blame the computer I used had not spell check, now I send post from a computer with spell check then you can admire my perfect spelling if you like. lol
of course he thinks "most of them are UN-cleaned!!", that's why he said "If he is an exception, what you said is very true "Why didn't Beijing do anything?"" ie he thinks Bo is not an exception, ie there are others corrupt, ie that's why bo was not punished, you just repeat what he said, see, I think my understanding of English is better than you, even my spelling is bad, ha!!
wait!! perhaps he means bo's an exception?? now I am confused, must have had little sleep, zzzzzzzzzzzzz....
A cat's computer don't have spelling check? hmmm.
Never heard of that, may be a program don't have spelling check. Are you using lenovo. Mine has everything.
You are wrong, that was a mis-typing of "strange", not "wrong" as you said.
BTW you are a defendor of Bismarck, but he was always insulting you.. Are you so itchy that need Bismarck's curse as treatment.
@ Bismarck
I invented a chinese hotpot named "Bismarck hotpot" and used Bismarck meat, Bismarck ham, Chinese cabbage, ginger, 5 herbs..and sea salt...I am hoping I can sell it in China, and I will know how many enemies you have in China.. :D
Bo is only a scrafice of political battle. The culture is the inevitable step in the process of social development.
The world in peace where China in divide
The culture shock works both ways. When I first landed in the US ten years ago, I was shocked to see that people could buy arms freely and could kill other people as freely. Then, one day I saw on the television a general showing pictures which no other people except himself could interprete. He explained that these pictures showed clearly that Saddam Hussein was making weapons of mass destruction and that they must invade the country and kill all the villains. What I asked my friends what was this unfortunate country and where was it, I was told that it was Iraq and it was situated in the Middle East, more than 10,000 kilometres away. I was shocked. First, from the pictures I could not understand how one could see weapons of mass destruction and then that the US intended to lead a coalition to invade a country 10,000 kilometres away because of the supposed weapons of destruction, even though that country was no a threat to the US nor did it intend to attack the US. When I asked what would happen, my friends told me that the US and its allies would kill the villains in Iraq. When I asked who were the villains and who would be killed, I was told that the villains were Saddam Hussein and his cronies and the coalition armies would kill as many Iraqis as possible by using weapons of mass destruction including cluster bombs and after the killing would have been done, they would sort out the villains from the non-villains by checking how each of them was killed. When I told them that the non-villains would be dead already, they told me that it was much better that way because otherwise they would have turned into villains. This was a real culture shock for me.
Did anyone force you to come and experience this culture shock from China? I don't think so.
Imagine you are a Chinese guy in China, coming from the interior and moving to Shanghai. You land in a place whose predominant inhabitants are loud-mouthed Yankees. They don't respect your way of life. They refuse to adapt or make any effort to learn anything about the culture which they live in. And they criticize your communist party and its atrocities in Tibet openly, like you just criticized America's policies in Iraq. Pray tell me, how would you react?
You have already experienced this culture shock for 10 years too long. You are not obligated to experience it any longer. Feel free to leave.
Sure as hell beats Burmese culture. At least America mostly kill only foreigners; the Burmese love killing themselves, and launch terrorist attacks against Thailand to boot.
So how many new accounts have you created in the past week to bash China and the Chinese people? 10? 20?
Wow those rude Chinese drivers not stopping for you really must have pissed you off, and the fact that you feel the need to create 23043924 new accounts to recommend your own posts over and over again is quite sad. I suggest finding something more productive to do in life.
I have no idea what you are talking about.
Learn to address the issue, not attack the messenger. I don't like to get into a pissing match with anyone. But coastalmidwesterner has a point. Why don't you try to focus on that.
Someone has been creating tens of new accounts in the past week to bash the Chinese, and I assumed that you were one of them because your account was also new.
But what point does coastalmidwesterner have? That all immigrants to the US should adopt Midwestern Caucasian Christian American culture?
Pretty sure that train of thought, if made into law, would cause numerous Constitutional violations.
And what, do you think the Mexican, Cuban, Indian, etc immigrants do not get on the nerves of native Americans just as much as the Chinese ones do? Your ancestors, unless they were Puritans who came on a boat from England 200 years ago, probably the did same as well.
Immigrants learn to adopt, add to, and change American culture with time.
Either you want America to continue to be a country of immigrants or you don't. If you do, then learn to put up with different cultures.
I did not say what you just claimed I did.
Is it too much to ask that when you are in a different country, you should try to learn a bit about the place, its culture and its people? I travel all over the world. And I always try to go out of my way to be courteous to the locals. I am always aware that I am in their country and not the other way around. What is so difficult about stopping at the stop signs so pedestrians can cross? It is a basic courtesy, and it is the law.
The problem is that most immigrants to the US today come from uni-cultural countries, so they haven't learned how to adopt to other cultures quickly.
Really the only multi-cultural countries in the world are USA, Canada, and Western Europe.
And Australia, NZ, Singapore, and Hong Kong....
Anyways I don't like their annoying habits any more than you do, but I understand why they have them. Moving from a uni-cultural society to a multi-cultural one must be difficult. But their kids will be 100% Americans and love America, just like the vast majority second generation immigrants are.
No one forced me to go to the US and I no longer live in the US. But my point is that the Americans have got the culture of crime and killing which do not exist in other countries. By the way, I do not need your advice. I go where I want and I leave when I want. It is stupid on your part to tell me what to do and what not to do. Though I doubt you have any grey matter, still I hope you understand.
There are two types of multicultural societies, immigrant societies and multi-ethnic "empires". There are many more immigrant societies than those in North America and Western Europe. Here is a list
1) Singapore
2) Malaysia
3) Guyana
4) Suriname
5) Trinidad
6) Brazil
7) Argentina
8) South Africa
In the first five the majority race makes up only 40-60% of the population. They are more multicultural than the US / Canada.
firing at the wrong person
Please see the comment on the piece in the print edition: the son of Bo is studying with the daughter of Xi at Harvard!
It is good for the authority to conduct the case judiciously because it has been quite common for many a rich dude in the West to die from a dangerous combination of over-sex, over-drug fixes and over-alcohol boozing.
In the meantime this political establishment is slowly falling down.
That means it is neither a working system nor indeed the best aiming one, on a human as well as economic respect.
Dream on, Davy Jone.
whatever the result is, BO's falling down or not, this is a political game among the top tier leaders.
It doesn't matter that who wins at lase, but what is the key to the future China is the winning party can smoothly and successfully carry out the reform both in politics and economy ,esp.in the democratic process.
I just hope that sooner or later the Chinese shall quit bullying the whole world...harming every other country's economy. That's what they actually do, as they make labourers work like slaves, giving them tiny wages, say tips, using coarse and unhealthy stuff in their manufaturing products; in the end they succeed to be competitive at most, it's their real piracy. Furthermore, on the international political stage, they protect murky and dangerous tyrants. If the Chinese establishment is crumbling on itself, that may simply be good news.
Yea you should hope that China stops driving global economic growth (which really it mostly is responsible for since the financial crisis) so that you can go back into recession.
You should also hope that such a recession spirales out of control, since rich world countries are up to their eyeballs in debt and can no longer afford QE stimulus without doing more harm than good, and that you lose your job as a result.
Maybe hope that you lose your house/flat as well so that you have to live in a cardboard box in the street?
Indeed, it's really unlikely to believe that a great deal of this trouble has not been caused by that Chinese piracy. On this way other firms throughout the world should just do the same: cheaper wages to labourers, cheaper and coarse manufacturing stuff, despite any good rule and human respect.
The sooner the Chinese shall quit doing so, the better. Spiral would just be accepting what they do, thus doing the same all of us, despite our own will, in order to survive this Socialist country's too free market.
Dime, please, are you a Chinese politician, bureaucrat, a Chinese troublemaker whatsoever?
Actually I'm an American financier.
But you sound like a socialist who wants to have capitalist levels of wealth in a socialistic system. If only you would learn some global macroeconomics and realize the irony....
BTW do you know why Sweden has a GDP per capita of $51k USD while the UK has a GDP per capita of only $34k, despite the fact that Sweden offers much more social welfare than the UK?
It's because the Swedes figured out how to incorporate least-destructive socialism into its free trading capitalistic economy.
It seems like that you socialist Brits have zero understanding of macroeconomics and most of the agenda you call for would be highly destructive to the wealth-generating capitalistic parts of your economy.
You even think that the city of London (which is probably the only part of England and Wales that isn't a shit-hole) is way too capitalistic for your tastes. It's really no wonder why the Irish left (Ireland is far richer per capita compared to the UK today) and why the Scots want to leave.
But hey why be more like Sweden when you can be more like Greece, right?
Wrong, it sound much more like the USA's tactic!! Where are China's war ship, no where you can find other than near Shanghai. And it is not even a functioning war ship.
Are you graduated from Ivy school, your economic theory is like alternative or pracebo medicine.
BTW you forgot just 150 years ago every one is copycat !
I am just a European who is risking the own job and turns the own glance the way tricksters are. No use trying to finger the Americans - if ever they are the least evil - no use either to dodge the subject on the welfare, the Swedes and so on.
Come on, saying that is placebo medicine, pretending that is less of a problem...then saying that is Western propaganda...usual awful as well as useless argument.
Nobody is dodging the subject. I was just pointing out how your protectionism beliefs actually goes against your own interests.
You seem to think that British companies "allow" things to be made in China because of greedy shareholders. In reality things are made in China because it increases the cost-benefit ration for companies, which increases efficiency, which increases total wealth.
Like it or not globalization is here to stay and will only get stronger with time, and to the general benefit of all, although there may be some individuals who lose.
yeah!so that your yankees can become the dictator of world
You seem to think that British companies "allow" things to be made in China because of greedy shareholders. In reality things are made in China because it increases the cost-benefit ration for companies, which increases efficiency, which increases total wealth..."
In other words, your latter phrase confirms the previous one's subject. I am no protectionist, I just hope tricksters shall quit, nothing else. Chinese rulers' economic misdeed is what I pointed out in my first post. You continue trying to dodge the subject, although you wish to deny it.
Globalization you mean will put all of us into shambles, at a bunch of tycoons' benefit. All of that has been started by China on a worldwide range.
Wtf are you talking about? Wtf is a "trickster"?
Seriously go learn at least the basics of economics before spewing your garbage.
No further dictator in the world sir; China, sided by Russia, and aided by their fellows, say mainly Iran, North Korea, Venezuela, so on, is already keeping this role. All these countries are doing so, at China's service. No use to mud on the US and the West. No use in any case to speak about "clash of civilization", better to speak about clash of West's and East's economic and financial interest, if ever. No use of you repeating commonplace such as American imperialism and other meaningless argument.
That's simple, it's those people who mingle political and economic interest together, for their own purpose, skilfully.
Do you mean Chinese leaders never did that?
You should seriously learn some economics before forming opinions on economics. (This should be common sense right?)
Why don't you make your way to your local university in whichever city it is that you live in and ask an actual economist what he thinks about "tricksters" and what he thinks about British-China trade?
I find it interesting to note your funny view on China's little trouble at the top. China is not run by one or two guys but a group of elite persons with ample political experience. The downfall of one or two bad guys might not interrupt the on going development of the country. The projection of China's continuous rise will remain the same. China has a very clear national goal to stick to. The death of a Briton might accidentally be a trigger point to allow the good guys to cause action against the bad guys. Law should be the main tool. Any change arising from this incident should be a sign of upholding the law and order in the country, besides the more consolidation at the top.
I am not surprised that you have a bunch of standard anti China words. There are so many guys like you who are so biased and lazy. Why not go widen your knowledge about China by reading materials published in the east. I am often annoyed to read the anti China comments in standard wordings. Surely, you are one of those feeling upset by the China's rise. But dont forget there are ups and downs for each and every great power in the world. China is on the track up and you got to change your mindset to accept the reality. Having said the above, do you still think that China will fail and its fall will benefit you, emotionally?
Regarding the death of Neil Heywood, no one will feel sad for him as no one will think that he was a good man. This time, the bad guys should pay the price.
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I just hope that sooner or later US shall quit bullying the whole world...harming every other country's economy. That's what they actually do, as they make labourers workless, giving them tiny social welfare, don't quality control imported products, and Not design safety products to produce; in the end they succeed to run to the bottom in the manufacture. Furthermore, on the international political stage, they protect murky and dangerous tyrants like Saudi Arabia kings and princes, Saddem Huessen, Mubarak, Goldenman Sachs, Lehmann Brothers, Freddie Mac etc. If the US establishment is crumbling on itself, that may simply be good news.
You have a good point. When Mr Heywood is one of Bo's closed circle, how innocent/good he can be?
My friend.if i'm not mistaken .you have not been to china.why you say that chinese like slaves?I admit that china has many problems,such as corruption.many chinese still live in poverty.but like any country has its own problem .it seems that the economist like to torture the issue related to china ,that people happy to see something bad news happen in china will stir up our interest .China needs change,especially political change.but please don't exeggerate the whole in one issue,and you say china protests dangerous tyrant .you are wrong!china just do business with those country ,does it harmful to you ?
Dear BrightTony, your comments look rather biased with a victim mentality. When the Chinese sell you cheap goods, you benefit from the lower price. But should I accuse you of exploiting the poor slave labourers in China? Can you honestly tell me you avoid buying cheaper Chinese goods as long as you have other alternatives to buy? When they use coarse stuff in some of their products, it is reflected in the lower prices. People around the world are not dumb; they know they get what they pay for. So it's fair. When they use unhealthy stuff in their goods, the goods get rejected, or they get punished for that. There are laws in every market to prevent unhealthy stuff enter that market. And don't tell me your country, or other developed world countries, don't export low-quality products, or products with unhealthy materials. And when any one does that, the market and/or the regulator of the importing market will punish them.
Speaking of unhealthy stuff, what about the invasion of western fastfood such as McDondald and KFC? Shoud China ban them?
As to protection of "murky and dangerous tyrants", please don't tell me your government conducts its foreign affairs policy by morality rather than national interest. Someone wise once said words to this effect: governments have no friends, only interest.
Your government will protect tyrants as well, if it suits your country's interest. Examples of such are ample.
By the way, I'm not a Chinese politician. I'm simply a Chinese living in Australia. I might be a bit of a trouble-maker for you, but generally I'm pretty well-behaved.
Happy Friday!
If I may, I highly recommend that you try to gain more understanding China and its people - the history etc. Then you will understand that all they are doing (low-cost manufacturing etc) is just for the 1.3 billion people to survive, with very little natural resource per capita. Starting from near zero, after all the wars from the mid 19th century (I suspect your country may well be one of those several who bullied China then), to the prolonged anti-Japanese-invation war, to the civil war, followed by the all the political and natural disasters 1950s - 1970s.
They are just trying to survive. They are not neither interested in, nor capable of bullying around the world.
I don't feel I know enough about the China situation to comment, I just want to draw attention to a few issues I have with your comment; in which I hope you were using hyperbole, or you risk undermining yourself.
You seem to be, relatively, objective, especially considering this is an internet comments page, but you lose credibility with some comments; such as 'which is probably the only part of England and Wales that isn't a shit-hole'. If you think that is true I suggest you actually go and visit some other cities and broaden your mind. Personally, I prefer them to most major American cities which generally have less history and whose growth hasn't been as organic. I have also travelled round Europe and for me there are few European cities I would rather visit than places such as Cambridge, York, Edinburgh and St Davids; Rome, Venice and Krakow off the top of my head.
You attack the idea of socialism referring to 'you socialist Brits'; several philosophers have used variations of the phrase you can judge a society by how it treats its weakest. Britain has universal healthcare, something I believe, should be afforded to everyone, our education is, generally, very accessible.
Compare this to America; if I was unfortunate to be "weak" or poor I know where I would rather live/grow up.
I will agree that the UK could learn from Sweden, particularly about labour unions. I can't remember the name of the theory, on labour unions, but it suggested that countries with high levels of centralisation of union leadership and those with very little union power are the most efficient, whereas the UK with its fragmented unions and leadership actually increase inefficiency.
You raise the point about Ireland, whilst GDP per capita may be higher in absolute and relative terms the economic outlook is not great; I have met many Irish young people, including some of my friends who have had to leave to search for jobs. With the UK lowering the corporate tax rate they might lose further business. I suggest you also read further into the Irish boom and how reliance on corporate deposits actually led to them having to be bailed out by the UK, amongst others.
I would also like to know where you got your GDP per capita figures from, quickly looking at the CIA world fact-book, Irish and Swedish GDP per capita is around the $40k mark, in PPP terms, though this is higher than UK GDP per capita it is nowhere near the $51k you quoted – I think you were using nominal instead of PPP.
I would like to add I am not anti-American, in fact I am quite fond of it, I love the sports, some of the cultural - particularly what Americans would call the "socialist atheist left" but who in this country would probably be in the centre of the political spectrum, and particularly enjoy the food!
1. I was using nominal GDP.
2. I was mostly joking about the London vs rest of England/Wales part, as a rebuttal to what the OP said about China; sorry if it offended you.
Just FYI, nominal GDP per capita is a better indicator of purchasing ability of non-essential consumer goods such as iPads, because iPads are sold internationally (not including value added tax, tariffs, and sales tax) at a constant price which is adjusted nominally.
PPP is a better indicator for one's ability to afford local food and housing, as those prices are determined by local currency mostly irrelevant of currency strength on a global market.
Whatever your knowledge skill about economics, doesn't matter; I am just relying on what I read, the trouble China has been doing to almost everybody else, worldwide. I reply that I have already pointed out which reasons I found my argument on; that's actual fact, not theory or doctrine, whatever economic science may be. However, if you really had something better founded and really actual, please, enlighten me and anybody else who may lack of your good "in-depth" knowledge. To finish with, the real "depth" we can look at, we are all foundering, thanks to China.
The problem is that I have no idea what you're talking about, because "tricksters" isn't actually a word that is used in economics.
Also no credible economist thinks that China has a negative economic effect on the rest of the world. Most actually concur with the belief that China was almost solely responsible for saving the world from the 2008 recession from turning into a global depression.
Seriously you should read more about this subject before making the claim that China has a negative effect on your economy.
What you say is substance lacking. These are about the same arguments as Berlusconi's, when he ruled Italy - unfortunately he may still - and said that whoever criticized him was just an envious fellow or an adversary aiming to oust him. Everybody else is a lazy guy...Come on, that's paternalistic as well as hollow!
Yes indeed, I agree with you, on this real respect. I have in fact nothing to blame on the people, in China. I am not going, of course, to say the same about those political and business rulers, say those fellas whom somebody calls "political and business élite". Are they an élite? That's the real bad matter for every working citizen, in China and in any other country worldwide.
To pro-Chinese I wish to say: you have not yet given me a real argument, against what I said and the reason I strongly criticize China's establishment. I wish to invite all of you to do.
Still have no idea what you're talking about.....
Please, give me a concrete example on why China may not be that harmful for our economy, what instead may be good on that. I am not interested on what you say an economist would think. Because you identified yourself as an American financier, I wish to ask you a for a political or economic or financial explanation.
General definitions and assumptions are only meaningless.
You should learn how to Google for yourself....
I have neither the ability nor desire to teach you global macroeconomics on the Internet. Perhaps you should pick up a macroeconomics textbook?
Mr Dime, I have read now, among the on line sources you propose, Bloomberg's. I will read the other two. I can say that it does not defuse in any way my opinion on China's economic, domestic and foreign policy as piracy; say that has nothing to do with the topic.
In the meantime what we can guess from this article and others The Economist has published until now, China has great problems within, these ones being kept secret as much as possible, however likely to rise up.
Come on, who can believe it's the undisputable? Just those people who side with whom they believe to be the winner.
Come on, China is a system while Berlusconi is an individual. Your high hope for China to collapse on grounds of a little top posts shake-up is a laughable stuff. Your adverse comments on China are routine remarks adopted by the west. They are very biased and self-centered. To have a broader view, China has out-performed the west in many ways. China is the over achiever. But China has adopted changes ever since it joined the WTO. Foreign policy has been tactful and low profile to tie in with its national aim to rise peacefully, despite the west's constant finger-pointing gestures over China's affairs.
China was a peace loving country. Chinese have long been the friendly people liking doing business than bullying others. A short time isolation caused backward in military strength and subsequent devastating attacks. The lesson has been learnt. But China is back for business. Again, they embrace fair trade and harmony. For self protection, they got to be properly armed.
Referring to your wish to see China's collapse. Its you who lack substance and consideration. You did not think through the issue and the consequence. If China falls, who will take its place? Dont you know that the world is facing a serious financial downturn. High unemployment rate everywhere. Much desperation for the young men everywhere. Even the pensioners might face a downscale of their entitlement or allowance. So, how can you be so daring to have such a wish which might cause so much to so many people.
The success of China is the spilt milk for you. With or without you blessing, China will prosper. Chinese will enjoy a better quality of life and national pride. I hope the good days can wash away the pain of the bad days started in 1840.
You and I are living on the same planet. The rise in the east is perhaps seasonal or perpetual. Who knows? Yet the upward force is too huge for you to suppress or curse.
Dont whine. China might give you a ride for better life. Hostility wont do you any good. Be nice and bright, Tony!
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It's clear from your post that you haven't done much economic reading at all and even clearer that you understand NOTHING about global macro-economics.
China's trade policies are mercenary. This is common knowledge. It's currency, SOE's and State-Owned banking system, restrictions on foreign enterprice and "law" media, communications, etc. are all geared towards maintaining a trade surplus and accumulating foreign currency.
That is the reason the global economy is screwed in the first place. IMBALANCES, the causes of which are at least partly if not mostly caused by China's trade policies and political economy.
1-Dime Agent,
Such shallow sources?
Anything better?
If China slows down, the world will speed up.
Ever wondered why inflation is much higher than interest rates in China, what that does to property prices and the relationship with the RMB?
It's simple...
If China lifts interest rates and the RMB, China's consumers will be better off. (higher interest on savings and more buying power in international markets).
This will be good for the world economy as it can stop digging itself deeper into debt and start producing more to sell to Chinese consumers.
You should go read a book as you are almost 100% WRONG and most economists would vehemently disagree with you and your shitty sources.
1-Dime Agent,
Such shallow sources?
Anything better?
If China slows down, the world will speed up.
Ever wondered why inflation is much higher than interest rates in China, what that does to property prices and the relationship with the RMB?
It's simple...
If China lifts interest rates and the RMB, China's consumers will be better off. (higher interest on savings and more buying power in international markets).
This will be good for the world economy as it can stop digging itself deeper into debt and start producing more to sell to Chinese consumers.
You should go read a book as you are almost 100% WRONG and most economists would vehemently disagree with you and your shitty sources.
Like your mums?
You need to back up your ridiculous claims with sources if you want anyone to take the time to respond to them.
Until you go, go back to your worthless low-income life.
If it's not because products manufactured in China are so cheap, that you country may suffer from serious inflation.
If it's not because products manufactured in China are so cheap, that you country may suffer from serious inflation.
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Hellickson squares off with Weaver in return to Rays
Tampa Bay looking to maintain lead for second AL Wild Card
The Rays broke through on their West Coast road swing Tuesday night, and just in time -- the rest of the American League Wild Card contenders are storming the gates in the opening days of September.
With the Angels perking up and the teams having split the first two games of a four-game set, it will be Jeremy Hellickson returning to the Rays' rotation against fellow right-hander Jered Weaver of the Angels on Wednesday night at Angel Stadium.
Tampa Bay, currently holding the second Wild Card slot, took its first victory on the road trip in five tries, putting a stop to a five-game skid that cut into the Rays' advantage in the standings. Through Tuesday's win, they have four teams on their tail -- the Yankees (2 1/2), Orioles (3), Indians (3 1/2) and Royals (4 1/2) -- and remained 5 1/2 games behind Boston in the AL East.
On Wednesday, they'll put their mound hopes in the right hand of Hellickson, who is back after being optioned to the Minors for a week to get back on track. He didn't pitch in a Minor League game, resting for a day and then spending the rest of the week working out at Tropicana Field with teammate Jake Odorizzi.
Before being sent down, Hellickson couldn't get through the fifth inning in five of six starts. The break wasn't exactly what Hellickson had in mind, but he's ready to roll now that he's back.
"I'm just ready to get back out there," Hellickson said. "The last three or four days have felt like three or four months. So, I'm ready to get back out there. Try to get back into a nice little groove again."
Hellickson has a good track record against the Angels. He is 2-1 with a 2.29 ERA in four career appearances, including a win at Angel Stadium in July 2012 in which he pitched six shutout innings.
Weaver, meanwhile, allowed just one run in 14 innings in his two starts on the Angels' recent road trip. His last time out, he pitched six shutout innings at Milwaukee, allowing three hits and three walks while striking out three.
Weaver is 8-3 with a 2.79 ERA over his past 12 starts, and he knows the Angels' rotation has had its difficulties but can be key to the club getting some winning momentum down the stretch.
"It's been a rough patch, but we're throwing the ball well right now and getting out there and getting some wins. It's nice to see," he said.
Weaver is 4-2 with a 3.93 ERA in eight career starts against the Rays and hasn't beaten Tampa Bay at home since June 2008.
Rays: Rare error in the middle
Second baseman Ben Zobrist committed his second error in the past five games after not committing one since May 13, but the Rays' double-play combo remains in rarefied air when it comes to errors.
Through Tuesday, Zobrist (five) and shortstop Yunel Escobar (six) have combined for just 11 errors, best in the Majors. They won't set the Major League record, however -- that was nine by the '99 Mets (Edgardo Alfonzo-Rey Sanchez) and '10 Yankees (Robinson Cano-Derek Jeter).
• Wil Myers had two hits in his previous 31 at-bats, but he went 2-for-4 with a pair of doubles Tuesday night.
Angels: Grinding it out
The Angels have entered September on one of their better rolls of the season, and veteran catcher Chris Iannetta says he knows the club will give nothing short of its best effort down to the end.
"We knew it. It's good that other people are recognizing that we still care. We're professionals and go about it the right way. Every night there's a game, we try to win," Iannetta said.
• J.B. Shuck, putting together another Rookie of the Year-caliber season for the Angels after Mike Trout's otherworldly debut a year ago, could give the club back-to-back rookie hits leaders. That would be a first since the 1981-82 Twins (Gary Ward, Kent Hrbek). He went 0-for-4 on Tuesday but is at 108 hits, nine ahead of Detroit's Jose Iglesias in the AL.
Worth noting
• The Angels lead the season series 3-2 with two games to play. The Rays won the 2012 series, 9-1.
• The Rays scored as many runs Tuesday as they had scored during their five-game losing streak.
• The Angels are nine games under .500 this late in the season for the first time since 1999, when they were 10 under as of Sept. 3.
John Schlegel is a national reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Lewis looks to build on strong second-half run
Smyly eyes first win in Rays uniform in opener of four-game set
The Rangers begin a seven-game homestand on Monday when they host the Rays in the first game of a four-game set at Globe Life Park in Arlington.
The Rangers lost their weekend series against the Astros, while the Rays won their series against the Cubs. In Monday's opener, Texas right-hander Colby Lewis (8-8, 5.50 ERA) will start opposite Tampa Bay left-hander Drew Smyly (6-10, 3.98 ERA combined between the Tigers and Rays).
The 35-year-old Lewis, who missed all of the 2013 season on the disabled list, is coming off his second career shutout in a 16-0 win on the road against the White Sox on Tuesday. Lewis allowed only six hits with seven strikeouts and one walk.
Since the All-Star break, Lewis is 2-2 with a 2.30 ERA in four starts covering 27 1/3 innings. He's just happy to be pitching -- in the past two years, Lewis has had surgeries on his right elbow and hip.
"I've been blessed to have the opportunities to come back multiple times," Lewis said. "I just want to keep throwing the ball well. We're going home, happy to be going home. I feel like everything is going well. The body feels really good. I wanted to get back to where I was. Physically, I feel I achieved that and now it's about being more consistent. That's what I want."
For the Rays, Smyly will be making his second start since he was acquired from the Tigers as part of the deal that sent David Price to Detroit on July 31. Smyly lost his first outing in a Tampa Bay uniform, allowing three runs in 5 1/3 innings as the Rays were shut out by the A's.
"I think I'm real comfortable around everybody," Smyly said of adjusting to his new team. Just playing good baseball. Hope we can go to Texas and get some wins."
Rangers: Rios re-injures sprained right ankle on play at plate
Alex Rios aggravated his sprained right ankle sliding into home plate in the top of the fourth inning on Sunday against the Astros. He was replaced in right field by Jim Adduci to start the bottom of the inning.
Rios will be re-evaluated on Monday in Arlington.
Rios was making a start in right field after sitting out the first two games of the series at Minute Maid Park in an attempt to give the ankle more time to heal. Rios sprained it on July 19 at Toronto and missed three games from July 20-22 due to the injury.
Rays: 15-K, no-walk performance one for the books
In Saturday's 4-0 win over the Cubs, Rays pitchers Jake Odorizzi, Kirby Yates and Jake McGee combined to strike out 15 batters without issuing any walks.
While Saturday marked the second time the Rays have thrown a shutout with 15 strikeouts and no walks -- and the fourth time a team has had 15 or more strikeouts and no walks in a shutout this season -- it is only the 19th time it has happened in the Major Leagues in the past 100 years.
"I was amazed by it," Rays manager Joe Maddon said. "I knew we had a lot of strikeouts after the game. But I didn't know that we didn't have any walks, that didn't compute. And then to see zero and 15, it's pretty impressive."
Worth noting
• Rangers outfielder Mike Carp, who left Saturday's game at Houston in the third inning with tightness in his left groin, is improving and is listed as day to day. He did not play in Sunday's series finale.
• The Rays are still trying to become the fourth team in Major League history to reach .500 after being 18 games below. Tampa Bay was 24-42 on June 10.
David Adler is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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DoD details furloughs under sequestration
Friday - 1/25/2013, 5:16pm EST
By ROBERT BURNS
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WASHINGTON (AP) - A top Pentagon official says that if Congress does not come up with a way to avoid mandatory budget cuts by March 1, hundreds of thousands of Pentagon civilian employees will face furloughs and reduced paychecks by April.
Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton Carter told a small group of reporters Friday that the furloughed employees would lose one day of work per week for the remainder of the budget year, which ends in September.
The automatic budget cuts, known as sequestration, would force a 9 percent cut to all defense programs.
"This is painful to us," Carter said
DoD eliminating 46,000 temporary civilian workers
The Pentagon has about 800,000 civilian employees; they have not yet been officially notified of furloughs. Carter said the furloughs would be expected to save $5 billion.
Carter said the Pentagon already is eliminating all 46,000 of its temporary civilian workers in anticipation of budget cuts. In earlier broad guidance issued to DoD components, Pentagon leaders told the services to consider cutting temp workers to save costs. The services were also granted the authority to freeze civilian hiring and cut maintenance spending.
The services must deliver their specific cost-cutting plans to DoD leaders by Feb. 1
Services freeze hiring, cut spending
In the wake of DoD's initial guidance, many of the services have responded by instituting new hiring restrictions. The Army immediately froze civilian hiring and mandated a reduction in base-operations support to about 70 percent of 2012 levels.
DoD's payroll agency, the Defense Finance and Accounting Service, has also halted new hiring and reduced travel and overtime costs.
The sequestration cuts were initially scheduled to go into effect at the beginning of the year, but Congress postponed them until March 1, as part of a broad deal to avert the "fiscal cliff."
DoD officials say the threat of sequestration — coupled with the possibility of a lack of long-term funding through appropriations — has combined to create widespread budget uncertainty at the Pentagon.
Congressional appropriations expire March 27.
War efforts also affected
The Afghan war effort eventually would be harmed by across-the-board budget cuts, even as the Obama administration intends to shield the military's combat mission from the reductions, Carter said.
"There will be second-order effects on the war," he said. Deferred maintenance on weapons and other equipment, for example, will eventually erode the combat fitness of military units deploying to Afghanistan, he explained.
The U.S. has about 66,000 troops in Afghanistan, with an undetermined number of withdrawals expected this year and in 2014.
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, have repeatedly warned that the threatened defense cuts, amounting to about $50 billion this budget year, would hurt national security. Carter said he feared that the message has not been heard widely enough in Congress and across the country.
Carter also disclosed that he will remain on the job as deputy defense secretary in President Barack Obama's second term. He said Obama had called him after nominating Chuck Hagel to be his next defense secretary, asking Carter to remain.
"I agreed to do that, and I'm enthusiastic about doing that," he said, adding that he believes Hagel will be a good Pentagon chief.
Carter had been mentioned as a possible Obama choice for energy secretary.
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