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why a more high-profile outfit didn’t think of it first.

Same reason a small budget production beats out some major motion picture productions – the big guys get stuck in a rut and aren’t easily open to breaking out.

China already is more capitalistic in many ways that the U.S. I’ve found copies of Friedman and Ayn Rand on various ministers shelves there (more than I find in the U.S.). It’s possible to have a free-market without politically free citizens (just look at HK w/ the Brits in charge). And a heavily regulated market like the U.S. has is far from free (where governments and regulators pick winners, often corruptly with the largest of existing businesses.. given Sarbanes Oxley, it’s unlikely we’ll ever see another Google, or an Apple to knock off an Apple or Microsoft).

The slope of infrastructure improvements in China (esp. along the coasts) are all positive in areas where the U.S. is negative. Student quality entering universities. Students earning technical degrees. They sneer at our new-age / Club-of-Rome innumerate attitudes that have made a faith out of global warming (and view it as a measure of our societal corruption). They have more than twenty universities of the (past) rigor of a Stanford being built, class by class. They are no longer the weak technical partner, and rapidly improving – roughly equivalent today, and if the current slope stands, better in no more than five years. And we tax (and litigate) our high-tech companies to death. They do not (and given that we tax what we want less of, be it cigarettes or (high-paying) jobs, it’ll be no surprise when we do have less of everything related to leading companies).

Guess where Intel will (be forced by government tax policy and inadequate U.S. technical graduates limited by immigration policy) to locate their next generation (after 22nm) fabs? If they don’t, China Inc (some 1st tier tech company in China, like Huawei) will seize the opportunity and create one itself and put Intel out of business with the strength of the resources they have, that we’ve denied ourselves. To say nothing of the $$ incentives China will provide U.S. corporations to relocate.

I fear for our children. We need to disestablish the central government in terms of all-things-domestic and return these powers and responsibilities to communities of no more than several hundred thousand people and insure they too must compete for the affection of the citizen and their enterprise. Only free-enterprise by a free-people can outperform free-enterprise by a less-than-free people.

Exit question: Would a ChiCom college seminar really focus on the perils of big government? I ask you.

No. In terms of other nations, they would focus on the weakness (inferiority)of other cultures which led them to sqnander power and wealth

In terms of their own nation, they would focuse on business and personal practice which could interfere with the success of the nation (the government)

Thus the Chinese would not criticize their own government, but would criticize enemies of their government. They’re not suicidal

This video used American fantasies about Chinese opinions of Americans

For a view of the worst case scenario in Chinese cultural direction I recommend ‘Unrestricted Warfare’ by Col. Qiao Liang and Col. Wang Xiangsui Published in 1999 by the People Liberation Army, translated to English by the CIA it was a best seller in China.

The authors examine the weaknesses of Western culture which can be exploited in war, and promote Chinese cultural superiority over the West, which probably explains the popularity of the book.

This 1999 book has some historic merit

Whether it be intrusions of hackers, a major explosion at the World Trade Center, or a bombing attack by bin Laden, all these greatly exceed the frequency band widths understood by the American military

another interesting except

“World’s number one,” an ideology corresponding to “isolationism” always makes Americans tend to pursue unlimited objectives as they expand their national power. But this is a tendency which in the end will lead to tragedy. A company which has unlimited resources but which is nevertheless keen to take on unlimited responsibilities is headed for only one possible outcome, and that is bankruptcy

This being a translation, I wonder whether the authors meant ‘tragedy’, since tragedy implies sympathy for the victim

China is slowly, but surely, headed in the right direction.

lorien1973 on October 21, 2010 at 8:35 PM

Yeah, like still pursuing that “one-child” policy, with a severe shortage of females of childbearing age. I’d bet on an economic detour within a generation.

Is that the same as “international waters”?

Akzed on October 22, 2010 at 9:56 AM

I was thinking of a situation similar to the one involving the EP-3 near Hainan Island. I believe the US maintains the aircraft was in international airspace when the J-8 collided with it.

No, but they would.

Akzed on October 22, 2010 at 9:34 AM

You think the US is going to shoot them down if they’re flying in international airspace as the US planes were?

I imagine even an outdated piece of crap like the Chinese J-8 could probably shoot down an EP-3 if they wanted too.

The US Navy aircraft was gathering intelligence off the coast of China. As far as I know, the Chinese Navy isn’t flying surveillance missions along the US coast. Would you feel threatened if they were? DarkCurrent on October 22, 2010 at 1:33 AM

No, but they would.

Maybe the left would wake up if we started to suggest sending everyone who supported Obama’s spending spree to China to work in labor camps until the debt was paid off.

Yes, and that would require US Navy aircraft gathering intelligence off the coast of China, wouldn’t it?

sharrukin on October 22, 2010 at 3:59 AM

Sure. But we shouldn’t be surprised if the Chinese consider it somewhat threatening.

If your answer is monitor China’s growing military capabilities and be ready to respond in the event our East Asian allies are attacked, I agree.

DarkCurrent on October 22, 2010 at 3:52 AM

Yes, and that would require US Navy aircraft gathering intelligence off the coast of China, wouldn’t it?

Given the history of warfare in Europe, it was hard to say that Germany didn’t have a basis for wanting a robust military capability.

sharrukin on October 22, 2010 at 3:42 AM

So what do you think the US should do about it? If your answer is monitor China’s growing military capabilities and be ready to respond in the event our East Asian allies are attacked, I agree.

I agree, we shouldn’t ignore the potential threat. But also keep in mind that from a Chinese perspective they have the legitimate right to improve their military capabilities.

From the perspective of 1935 Germany, they too had the legitimate right to improve their military capability.

Given the history of Western and Japanese interference in China over the last few centuries it’s hard to say they have no basis for wanting to have a reasonably robust military capability.

DarkCurrent on October 22, 2010 at 3:27 AM

Given the history of warfare in Europe, it was hard to say that Germany didn’t have a basis for wanting a robust military capability.

The Soviet Union was also a permanent member of the UN Security Council.

That doesn’t make them our friend, nor does it mean we should ignore the threat that they pose.

sharrukin on October 22, 2010 at 1:57 AM

I agree, we shouldn’t ignore the potential threat. But also keep in mind that from a Chinese perspective they have the legitimate right to improve their military capabilities.

Given the history of Western and Japanese interference in China over the last few centuries it’s hard to say they have no basis for wanting to have a reasonably robust military capability.

China’s military is harvesting organs from unwilling live prison inmates, mostly Falun Gong practitioners, for transplants on a large scale — including to foreign recipients — according to a study.

The report’s authors — Canada’s former secretary of state for the Asia Pacific region David Kilgour and human rights lawyer David Matas — implicated dozens of hospitals and jails throughout China in July, after a two-month investigation.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,249622,00.html

Unlike those, the PRC is also a permanent member of the UN Security Council and has been a stable nuclear power for decades. It’s not exactly a rouge state.

DarkCurrent on October 22, 2010 at 1:52 AM

The Soviet Union was also a permanent member of the UN Security Council.

That doesn’t make them our friend, nor does it mean we should ignore the threat that they pose.

So are Iran and North Korea.

sharrukin on October 22, 2010 at 1:50 AM

Unlike those, the PRC is also a permanent member of the UN Security Council and has been a stable nuclear power for decades. It’s not exactly a rouge state.

They’re a sovereign nation just as we are.

DarkCurrent on October 22, 2010 at 1:45 AM

So are Iran and North Korea.

Not worried about the Chinese, the Japanese will have subdued the world with their sex robots by 2030.

Bishop on October 21, 2010 at 8:38 PM

FIFY.

Rebar on October 21, 2010 at 9:16 PM

I, for one, welcome our new sex bot overlords.

That would be a logical point if there was a moral equivalence between the American government and the Chinese one.

There isn’t.

sharrukin on October 22, 2010 at 1:40 AM

They’re a sovereign nation just as we are.