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SHAMAN is out! Let the third wind carry you to Loon and take a trip to ancient Urdecha!
Above: Hand prints at the Chauvet cave (from EvoAth)
Kim Stanley Robinson's main inspirations for this novel have been the discovery of Ötzi the frozen man in the Alps in 1991, with all his alpine gear, and his own personal experiences of living in open spaces while hiking in the Sierras.
When asked to write about exploration for Slate.com, Robinson wrote about this experience of hiking in the Sierra Nevada of California, through rough off-trail terrain, with whatever partial help maps and GPS can give you: "The Map Is Not the Territory". There's some great landscape writing in there.
Just last week we were crossing from the west shoulder of the Gemini to Upper Turret Lakes, on a broad ridge in the sky, which our topo map showed as smooth. But we could see a drop ahead, blocked by a knob that kept us from seeing how deep the drop was; it could have stopped us, sent us back ever so many miles. And there was a notch up the other side of the drop that looked vertical. Two potential stoppers, and we hurried along that ridge round-eyed, hearts pounding, ignorant of what we would find. It was an ancient feeling, a primate thrill. Exploration was alive.
As with Galileo's Dream, also based on past events, there is going to be loads of material to explore at in the internet and off about the setting and the the lives of the heroes of Shaman!
LiveScience interviewed Robinson on Shaman and its themes, its background, and the amount of real "certified" science that he put in it: "Looking 32,000 Years in the Past".
LiveScience: What kind of research did you do when writing "Shaman?"Kim Stanley Robinson: Mostly, [I read] the relevant materials. There was also that Werner Herzog movie, "Cave of Forgotten Dreams." I got the DVD of when it became available, because it's that very cave that I'm writing about. I have an archaeologist friend who lives across the street who read the manuscript and friends at [the University of California], Davis connected me up with an anthropologist that works with preliterate cultures in New Guinea highlands. Also, my own snow-camping experiences just [gave me the] direct experience of being out in the snow with camping gear only. That was a big help. It comes down mostly to reading the relevant scientific literature and also other prehistoric novels that existed before mine.
Robinson puts Shaman in continuity with his overall science fiction work:
LS: Does this book have a place in your science fiction work?K.S.R.: It has been part of the project all along for me — this science fictional project of what is humanity. What are we? What can we expect to become? How do we use technology? Is there a utopian future possible for us? In all of these questions, it becomes really important [to understand] how we evolved to what we are now and what we were when we were living the life that grew us as human beings in the evolutionary sense.
Apart from the interview, LiveScience also did an article on "The Real Science of Kim Stanley Robinson's 'Shaman'" that uses some of the same material but offers some new as well.
Above: The writer in his element, at the top of Mount Williamson, Sierra Nevada, from the Slate article
Goodreads also interviewed Robinson, not just on Shaman but on various of his works, taking questions from Goodread members. It's a great read!
GR: Have you ever attempted something on par with Loon's wander?Kim Stanley Robinson: No, nothing quite like that. It's a ritual initiation into a shaman's life and meant to be an extreme experience. Don't try Loon's wander at home!GR: You're already known for alternate history, notably The Years of Rice and Salt. But Shaman goes considerably further back. What inspired you to write about the Paleolithic era?KSR: It was partly the backpacking. When the body of the Ice Man was discovered emerging from a glacier in 1991, it occurred to me that his clothing and gear much resembled the stuff we took with us into the mountains. His materials were different, but the design and function were much the same. This started me thinking about the Paleolithic and the many thousands of years we lived that kind of life, and it became something I wanted to write about.This stayed a general desire until I learned about the Chauvet Cave, discovered in 1995, with its beautiful paintings that turned out to be 32,000 years old. At that point I felt I had found my story and characters. GR: Jared Diamond's recent book, The World Until Yesterday, looks to traditional societies for lessons on how to live. Shaman offers a similar look at an older way of life—much, much older. What do you think we can learn from looking backward?KSR: We can learn how we became what we still are now; this has to be instructive. Nowadays, with our powerful technologies, it feels as if we have detached from nature and can become anything we want, but in fact we are still the same animals we were 50,000 years ago. And we evolved into the animals we were then, and are now, by living a certain kind of life. The more we understand that, and contemplate what it was we were doing in the Paleolithic that we could regard as fundamentally human (meaning the things we did that made us human in the first place), the better we can judge our current range of potential behaviors: Are they good or just the illusion of good? Do the activities make us healthy and happy? Bringing in the Paleolithic can make these questions shift from what might seem mere matters of opinion to a set of physical facts that can't be denied without bad effects in our lives. So I think the Paleolithic lessons can be really useful and profound.
Some reviews for Shaman have come out:
NPR: 'Shaman' Takes Readers Back To The Dawn Of Humankind
Tor: A Moment in Time: Shaman by Kim Stanley Robinson
Though rather more modest in its scope and conventional in its concepts than Kim Stanley Robinson's staggering space operas, Shaman tells an ambitious, absorbing and satisfyingly self-contained tale on its own terms. At once delightful and devastating, it transports us to a moment in time, reverently preserved and impeccably portrayed... and if that moment is off in the other direction than this author tends to take us, then know that he is as adept a guide to the distant past as he has ever been the far-flung future.
Locus, September 2013, by Gary K. Wolfe
Finally, on a completely different topic, Robinson is featured, with many others, in a BBC show on "After the Gold Rush - The Poetry of California", where he talks about the impact of California's landscape on its writers. The podcast is available here.
Watch out the calendar of events (on the left) as it is updated with events, panels, readings, signings, as we celebrate Shaman!
SHAMAN just came out, September 3 2013; but before the host of interviews and readings that that one will involve, some non-Shaman material:
Adam Ford recently interviewed Robinson for 33rd Square (probably during the Humanity+ event last December). This resulted in a fascinating interview where Robinson discusses many of his ideas and worldviews, from science fiction, transhumanism and the role of technology to optimism, Buddhism and self-actualization. It is well worth your time and summarizes many of his interviews in the past few years. The interview is on YouTube in 5 short parts, below is Part 1:
Kim Stanley Robinson is featured on the very KSR-focused cover of the August 2013 issue of Locus Mag. The magazine features a conversation with Stan, "Making Worlds".
From the beginning of my career, I've done the Solar System set a few hundred years in the future. So for this new one, I stole from myself: the city of Terminator on Mercury comes from The Memory of Whiteness. But when I tried to describe the rest of the Solar System, it began to get so detailed it was goofy. That was when I thought of Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner, and how he had used John Dos Passos's USA Trilogy methodology. My lists, extracts, and quantum walks all have their equivalent in Dos Passos. Using his method clarified things a lot. With it, I could tell the lovers' story, and the mystery they're involved in, and all the rest of it. Instead of using the typical expository lump, which is the famous problem of science fiction writing (and I'm often criticized for being a monster in that regard), I was able to chop the exposition into little bits, make it more something like little prose poems scattered through the text. It's sort of an internet version of the Encyclopedia Galactica of the 1950s, which I think was one of the things people loved about science fiction, actually: learning about a far-flung civilization by way of direct description. But my impression now is that a lot of new readers don't remember Stand on Zanzibar, and never read the USA Trilogy, so they think I've done something new and peculiar. Some have complained, but I feel those people are a little too narrow-minded about what the novel can be.
Will human civilization on Earth be imperiled, or enhanced, by our own world-changing technologies? Will our technological abilities threaten our survival as a species, or even threaten the Earth as a whole, or will we come to live comfortably with these new powers? Baruch S. Blumberg NASA/Library of Congress Chair in Astrobiology David Grinspoon convenes scientists, humanists, journalists, and authors to explore these questions from a wide range of perspectives, and to discuss the future of human civilization in an anthropocene world.
Full eventDate: Thursday September 12, 2013 from 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.Place: The John W. Kluge Center, Room 119, Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress, Washington, DC, USA
Robinson will also be participating at A Science Fiction Symposium at Williams College in Massachussetts on October 24:
Please join us on October 22nd, 23rd, and 24th for a Science Fiction Symposium that will include readings, panels, and lectures by leading writers and thinkers from across the United States. October 24th will include a panel discussion as well as a 4pm Reading. Participants will include Samuel R. Delany, Kim Stanley Robinson, Elizabeth Kolbert, David Hartwell, Paolo Bacigalupi, William Gibson, Terry Bisson, and John Crowley. More information will be coming soon. Sponsored by the English Department, The Margaret Bundy Scott Fund, American Studies, Environmental Studies, Africana Studies and the Oakley Center.
Full eventDate: Thursday October 24 2013, 4pm to 9pmPlace: Griffin Hall, 3 844 Main St, Williamstown, MA 01267, USA
More SHAMAN-related material very soon!
You could say Red Mars's 20th anniversary is being celebrated in Grenoble, France, close to the Alps!
The public library of Grenoble hosts the exhibition "Mars la rouge" ("Red Mars" in French) with many of Ludovic Celle's photomontages around the future colonization of Mars in general, and on the world of Kim Stanley Robinson's book more specifically. The exhibition opened in June and (with a summer break in July) is still open for the world to visit and marvel until September 7th. So take your sailboats, space elevators and hyperloops, and come to Grenoble!
The work of Ludovic, a good personal friend of mine, have been featured on KSR.info before.
The montages -- made on open source software and photos on the public domain (a very conscious choice on behalf of the artist) -- are large and feature marvelous wild landscapes you should be able to see when exploring Mars, with the addition of the beginnings of a human presence, be it a rover dwarfed by the Noctis Labyrinthus canyons, a small tent holding some green inside, the plume of a distant mohole, or the thin line of the space elevator.
The images are accompanied by a short text explaining the artist's inspiration from Robinson's book, but there are many influences melding here: the crude realistic shots of NASA exploration missions and the ISS, the landscapes of Jordan or the United States, the modern efforts at urban agriculture, the process of discovering the very city you live in, and personal journeys. A book exhibit with several of Kim Stanley Robinson's novels along with some quotes from Red Mars complete the expo.
The largest exhibit is definitely the Mars trilogy photomosaic, at 2.50 m wide (about 8 feet) and featuring some 600 pictures, ranging from the technical engineering work to the entirely mundane of building a place to live in. More on the mosaic here.
Local media Cause Toujours also interviewed Ludovic Celle. The video in French has been subtitled in English and can be viewed below (subtitles can be turned on by clicking at the bottom right of the video); Ludovic talks about his inspiration, his work process, his feelings when reading Robinson's books, his other ecology-focused interests that feed and at times can clash with his passion on the subject of space exploration.
More on the expo (with pictures of the expo and of the montages themselves):
Ludovic promises more expos of his work in the future, on urban ecology and agriculture, and, why not, on Green Mars!
"This is how we always startIt's time to be reborn a manGive yourself to Mother EarthShe will help you if you ask"
Kim Stanley Robinson's next novel, "SHAMAN", is coming less than two months from now, on September 3 2013!
Watch Stan himself introduce his novel:
Robinson, a Davis, California, resident and fellow science fiction author Tobias Buckell participated in UC Davis' 44th annual Whole Earth Festival. They were interviewed by Davis Enterprise:
"There are a lot of people who say, 'If we have to change capitalism, well, OK, we're doomed, because we can't change capitalism.' But we can. It seems to me that science and democracy together are actually capable of changing the laws for the sake of our survival and the sake of our kids and their descendants."
Robinson said that he disagreed with scientists resolved that the best tack is adapting to climate change, rather than trying to halt it or reverse course.
"They look at me like I'm an old hippy utopian idiot and say, 'No matter what you think, we're at 400 parts per million. Nobody is stopping using carbon at any successful rate. In fact, it's going faster than ever. We're just being realistic, and you're the one being unrealistic.'
"And then I say, 'No, no, no, you're the one who is being unrealistic. You're being pseudo-realistic, because you're saying the future is certain.' I'm saying as a science fiction writer, nothing is certain."
Most importantly, Robinson and Buckell did a joint panel on climate change, as covered by Steven Rose's blog: "Kim Stanley Robinson: Back to the Prehistoric Past for a Greener Future", which serves as a nice introduction to SHAMAN:
Robinson read an excerpt from his novel, Shaman, set in a prehistoric ice age. But this is no pulp-/Hollywood-/ One Million Years B.C.-inspired novel. Robinson takes his science fiction seriously; he writes hard science fiction. Strangely, however, Shaman does not seem to be his typical hard sci fi. In fact, with references to tribal magicians and mystic journeys one would think it's closer to fantasy. But, after the reading, Robinson used the tribe from his this alternate (pre-) history novel as a model for how modern day humans are capable of planning ahead to save themselves from future ecological disaster such as an arctic meltdown. He explained how we can collectively come to solutions to prevent the disastrous effects of global warming.
Kim Stanley Robinson visited the Museum of Modern Art in New York in June for a panel discussion, as part of the MoMA PS1's series of talks "Speculations: The Future is _".
Each did a keynote address. Stan's talk, "What Is the Future For?", greatly summarizes all his latest ideas on science, (post-)capitalism, the utopian process, climate change, the paleolithic way of life, our relation to the physical world... Watch it below!
Watch John Crowley's address and their joint panel together with Q&A, which covers many many topics.
The City Atlas provides a summary of Stan's talk, with a particular focus from the Q&A on cities' role in participating in a better planned, more sustainable future.
I have often framed this problem as science versus capitalism…For me, science is the effort to try to reduce suffering, the effort to try to make life more comfortable for human beings, to understand the world better and to manipulate it for various human goods…I think of science as a utopian good that can make things better.
[...] I think cities are important because they are so densely populated…and I think that a lot of city life is fairly paleolithic in a strange way because it gets away from the automobile. Cities encourage face-to-face interactions with other individuals, so I like it for that. And I think that rooftops need to be used for urban gardens and that cities need to be greened, less for the auto and more for people and public transit.
Earlier, in May, Stan participated in a talk organized by the newly-opened Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination and the Helen Edison Lecture Series at UC San Diego: "The Literary Imagination". Fellow writer Jonathan Lethem, A C Clarke Center Director Sheldon Brown and Stan discussed the writing process and each other's writing. This event marked the opening of the Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination at UC San Diego.The long discussion includes both writers reading from each other's works, a highlight of the talk and a joy to watch and hear! Lethem read three "Lists" from Robinson's 2312, and Robinson read Lethem's hilarious list "Proximity People" (direct mp3 link).
The discussion also included a very interesting part, separate from the above video, in which both writers discussed a common influence of theirs: Philip K. Dick (direct mp3 link): Dick's social realism, Dick's fantastic elements, Dick's adaptation in films, favorite novels. Robinson famously wrote his PhD thesis on Dick's works, which has been expanded and edited separately as The Novels of Philip K. Dick.


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BACKGROUND: Several surgical procedures have been used to treat idiopathic megabowel. A structured approach to the surgical management of megarectum/colon is reported. METHODS: Twenty-eight consecutive patients with megabowel referred for surgery were reviewed. All patients had conservative treatment for 6 months. Those failing to improve underwent full-thickness biopsy of the anorectal junction, anorectal physiology studies, colonic transit studies and evacuation proctography. Surgery involved excision of the abnormal large bowel and formation of an anastomosis (coloanal or ileoanal) using 'normal' bowel identified either by a defunctioning stoma or colonic motility studies. RESULTS: Eight patients responded to conservative management. Two patients were lost to follow-up and one died from unrelated causes. Two of the 17 patients who underwent full-thickness biopsy were cured by the procedure. Anorectal physiology, colonic transit and evacuation studies did not aid selection of the surgical procedure performed in 15 patients: proctectomy and coloanal anastomosis (six), restorative proctocolectomy (three), panproctocolectomy (one) and defunctioning stoma (five). At a median follow-up of 3.6 years, 13 of 15 evaluable patients had a satisfactory outcome. CONCLUSION: Approximately 40 per cent of patients with megabowel referred for surgery responded to conservative treatment. The remaining patients may be treated successfully by surgery. The use of either a 'diagnostic' defunctioning stoma or colonic motility studies may aid in the choice of surgical procedure. |
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Title: The British journal of surgery Volume: 88 ISSN: 0007-1323 ISO Abbreviation: Br J Surg Publication Date: 2001 Oct |
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Interesting! Stoking animosity between China and India has becoming a favorite sport for the editors of the Economist.
Is this some evil plot by the imperialists? After all, divide and conquer was the favorite tactic of the British imperialists in the good old days.
Or is this a cheap gimmick by the magazine to increase circulation? After all, China and India represent the two biggest potential markets. I am sure this article will be followed by a storm of comments and this article is pretty eye-catching.
I believe that trade is the only win-win game left in the world. Hopefully wise people from both countries realize this and both will benefit from the blossoming trade relationship. Otherwise, some condescending Europeans (likely the British) will jump out and volunteer to teach China and India how to resolve matters in a "civilized way" (like how Britain and Germany resolved their problems in the 1910s and 1940s).
As mentioned by Mr. Brahma Chellaney , an expert on Sino-Indo relations, India needs to sign a mutual protection pact with Japan. This will raise India to the stature that it desires for itself and justify its nuclear arsenal to protect a non-nuclear ally. Not only will this act as a deterrence against Chinese aggression, it will also lead to the balance of power in Asia. The only risk might be a highly improbable WWIII being fought in the serene Himalayas in 2050. India-Japan-US-UK-France against China-Pakistan-North Korea (if it hasn't imploded yet).
It should be quite clear by now: The liberal arts English major graduates of the Economist is openly inciting conflicts between India and China"
Don't fall into the trap. Let India be business partners, growing to be friends. Let them feed their hungry, raise their living standards, and become prosperous developed nations in short order.
It is for these reasons, that I do not pay to read this junk publication, the New York Times, and the like propaganda tools. I shall never pay!
Sigh....some people just can not stand a peaceful world.
In the brief periods when they themselves are not busy waging wars or enslaving entire continents, they start sowing seeds of dissension among others.
India and China should define their relationship as competitive sportsmen. This is admission of rivalry and race, which will push each other to person at their optimum.
This will mean the heat of competition, the abrasion of contact with the fierce desire to win.
But it also holds underneath the highest order of respect for each other, the tips that the greatest of competitors willingly share with each other, the fierce pride one feels for the other, the firmness of the handshake after the sport and the quiet drink in the evening
China is destined to be the greatest economic power in the world. India has to maintain its current attitude of self-respect and challenge. Only then will the relationship work.
At this point India as the legal guardian of Kashmir, By the terms set on the separation of India and Pakistan, needs to deman that China return the territory that belongs to Kashmir, but illegaly given away to China by Pakistan.
Chins is aging rapidly ,and it does not hold a candle to the power that India's ally the USA posseses.
Time to become more assertive towards what is turning out to be a conniving bully.
Shame on the author. It will be proved that chinese and indian people could get long with each other.
Both countries' people have strong will to take more responsibilities and make more contributions to the world. So reasoningly all of us know that the cooperation of 25 billion people will influence not only the asia but whole world as well.
We are developing countries, we were weak before. so disputes made by history are common. So we know there are a lot roadblocks on both countries' development ways. We are facing the difficults and cope with them.
come on Chindia!
No matter how big their disagreement and suspicion resulting from past wars India and China have come a long way.Ultimately they are bound to get on with each other from current levels of mutual interaction.
Neighbours tend to hold grudges of multiple sorts, there being many examples around the world.
What India and China share in common is their demography - with significantly divergent dynamics - fast economic growth, millennia-old cultures and a legitimate ambition to ever greater world prominence.
More than enough to keep both countries focused, showing respect for each other's sovereignty and deepening their relationship across the board.
Save a few more common points they are relevantly different multifold from political set-up down to the chores of daily living and activity.
Yet both remain essentially interested in getting up to ever higher levels of material development.
An aspirational desire as much as a dire needs still pervasive given the low starting points of not many years ago.
India and China face daunting internal challenges and any number of priorities to busy themselves with in the foreseeable future.
There is hardly a gain to be had in stoking mistrust between the two from unresolved issues left by history.
Both peoples would profit nothing from raised border tensions and would certainly stand to lose a fair deal.
Border settlement holds the KEY to a growing partnership for PEACE AND PROSPERITY for both CHINA and INDIA. There is so much the two countries can co-operate on to benefit each other. But China's stand does not recognise this.
It is not the case here that India 'invaded' and occupied any territory that China had RULED for centuries. But reading the quote from Global Times, one may think that this is what India had done. Not at all.
China seems in no hurry to come to any agreement on the border. During this official visit by Premier Wen Jia Bao, there was an Indian expectation that the 'Border Talks' will be speeded up. "NO", said the Chinese Premier.
If one takes this policy with China's considerable military help to Pakistan, one can see why Asian security will suffer. China clears wants to keep India 'off balance' on the security front.
It is interesting that Chinese Premier did not touch on 26/11 or the Pakistani Terrorist Outfits like LeT.
But within the next two decades these Terrorist Groups will reach Xinjiang and possibly Southern China, via B'desh and Burma. Al-Queda has already declared China as an 'enemy of Muslims' after the riots in Urumqi and other places.
China as the stronger power in Asia, should show some responsibility for Asian security. Instead, she is playing 'power games' with the sole aim of getting more and more land, islands and sea surface for the Empire of China.
I hope China will change her policies so that Asian Security will be enhanced.
China needs the Indian market of nearly 600 million consumers who are already buying many China products, such as mobile handsets, mosquito bats (you will be amazed how much money is generated out of such 'low-tech' items), shoes, car tyres, toys, industrial machines and so on.
India will eventually have close to one billion consumers for China products. The mutual trade is projected to reach 100 billions within the next five years!!!
China should view India differently. No point in getting stuck on hatred for the Reverend Dalai Lama and the Tibetan exiles who are living in India. They don't pose any threat to China, at all.
There are not many choice for India other than strengthening there relationship with US. China is growing fast and capturing market fast. They have various products and technologies to offer and this help them to capture the markets very quickly. This is serious threat to US, EU, Japan and India.
China maybe less transparent but they also less corrupted and do not have much bureaucracy, they do their research, make the decision and execute it. This means they can act very fast. On other hand India cannot cope with such speed of Chinese.
It is inevitable that in these big boys political and economical modern warfare, small nations which are vulnerable will face greater damages. Decency, democracy and fairness, etc shall disappear slowly.
COMMUNISM or one party policy is Great Wall which is protecting China unity while DEMOCRACY is the strength of US.
India has no other choice than following with their current system but they should not create regional foreign policy which influenced by individuals. India made an error in their policy towards to Sri Lanka and as a result Sri Lanka will never be a loyal friend of India. Also the India relations with Tamils in Sri Lanka and in their own country is greatly damaged, it will take immense effort from India to repair it.
Before India demand the land from China ask people in Kashmir what they really want? I mean hold a referendum and see where do they what to stand with India or with Pakistan of on their own.
Seems this article did not get based on fact comprehensively. India was more inclined to pose a aggressive gesture in territory issues, together with increasing number of Indian soldiers and military works on the disputed borders.
Every one around the world knows that the US owns the largest and widest interest areas and never withdraws from other countries' conflicts. Couldn't US just leave others themselves to deal with their own issues without acting some actually evil "mediator"? How did what US behaves in the politic stage live up to the peace principles?
Last but not least, cannot some countries stop being submissive to some seemingly powerful countries? It's like a fox following tiger.
India, being a democracy, will naturally gravitate towards other democracies (democracies do not wage war on one another, their people prevent this). China's government fears being encircled by a ring of democracies, two of which are nuclear armed, one with an equally large population and economic growth, the other with the ability to destroy China economically in the event of war.
Chinese citizens may be friendly and peaceful, but that does not mean their government is. The same can be said that the Chinese government may have much money, but most of their population does not, even the ones toiling away in slave labour factories.
Newspapers can embelish China/India uneasiness, but it doesn't mean that it does not exist.
It's pedantically evident that the US led block does not want to see anything good to happen between China and India.
And thus its media machines are running full tilt to drive home that point, as this article did.
And the other point being, India needs to kick the habit of hedging its national security on its dependency of other powers.
Time and again history tells that it may taste good for a temporary fix, but invariably, it always come back to haunt you.
Sitharth wrote:
There are not many choice for India other than strengthening there relationship with US. China is growing fast and capturing market fast.
Perhaps if we look beyond that simple minded notion, we might see differently.
India has grown much more slowly, then China, because of the constraints of democracy. I would rather have a democracy where the corrupt are defecated on in public, them where the whistle blowers are thrown into prison.
It is so much better that we don't have an authoritarian regime wher people like the ones who blew the whistle on Melamine in Milk formula are thrown into prison, or where the man who bought out Volvo got there because he was the one that bribed best.
I would rather have a slower growth, where the ruling party does not take power for granted, and the parties learn the hard way from the mistakes they make.
In any case - China is in a race against time because it's population is aging rapidly, more so then japan's did at this stage.
And most important - China's economy is expected to grow at 8% by 2012, whereas India's will keep going at 10.5%. Morgan Stanley figures.
China has recently become a bully - this strategy is very different from the one that the US adapted at the turn of the 20th century, whens t it rose to become a world power.
And in the matter of the countries relationship - if China had been more sensitive about India's problems in Kashmir and less threatening in it's approaches with Burma ( where China itself has fears of the Drug Trade_) as well as understanding that the Tibetens were refugees who deperately needed help, then the relationship would improve considerably.
At the moment China dictates and expects India to follow.
nkab wrote:
Dec 17th 2010 8:48 GMT
It's pedantically evident that the US led block does not want to see anything good to happen between China and India.
Looking through this blog - I thought it would be easiest to have a rational discussion with you NKAB.
The point of this depenendency on the US is that it is only a partial dependency - Before that it was the USSR.
And why not? if they can afford to carry the cost of helping India's defense, then it is a financial benefit to India.
Our real problem is Pakistan - and we are never sure if China has it's foot in that door as a threat to India or as a benign help to Pakistan. If it wanted to help Pakistan, then there are much better propositions then building a railway in Kashmir.
Pakistan is desperate for help on the flood plains of the Indus river.
The other problem is that a country like India, likes to be traeted as an equal, not as a subordinate- after all it will eventually catch up with China.
Even though we disagreed about the attendance in Oslo, China should be more tolerant of this, since we are just becoming more assertive and we like our Independent attitude.
We have had some major disagreements with the USA in the past - but they have never frowned upon us for this. We have continued to buy gas from Iran, and the USA has been very tolerant here too.
That is not the attitude that we get from China.
What are you doing here on this topic? I am waiting to receive your facts that you Chinese always pride to base your judgements on. Until that debate of 93.3% literacy in China is settled, it is better you do not regurgitate here about the Indian illiteracy. Your facts will prove if it is China that has bigger illiteracy or India in spite of having a bigger Foreign Currency Surplus Chest. So, let us settle it, I 'll wait.
@ geekay_09
>>> the CIA-Factbook consistantly reports India literacy rate at 61% vs China=91% for the past 5 years
>>> So do the UNDP, World Bank etc
@ geekay_09
>>> Why point fingers at the Chinese when it is the CIA-Factbook and the BBC and the UNDP & UNICEF who is highlighting India's weakness
>>> For example;
(1) BBC TV News show footages of India "typical rural schools" with poor barefoot student sitting on mud-floorswith no teachers (which BBC reports never turns up. At the same time showing images of well-equiped Chinese scghools with well-dressed students with beautiful schools and well-dressed students with beautiful desks and many teachers
(2) UNICEF reports 2000,000 Indian babies die within 1 year of births each year due to lack of medical care and food/water
(3) UNDP reports half of all Indians go hungry every day with 50% of Chindren under 5 suffering severe mal-nutrition
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