Read through a couple China-blogs today for the first time in weeks and I have to say, I’m glad I’m not there. Since returning to the States I keep being amazed at how well everything works, with the glaring exceptions of the U.S. Department of State and the Bush Administration.
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In the early twenty-first century the American army attacked Beijing. It was completely overwhelmed. A meeting of the American Chiefs of Staff concluded:
This defeat was not only a strategic defeat, but also a tactical defeat.
I. The military used the Beijing Tourist Bureau’s Tourist Map of Beijing, the Beijing Department of Transportation’s Transportation Map of Beijing [...]
Just read a forum where many of the comments seemed woefully ignorant of the fact that we now live in a globalized world. It’s easy to lose perspective living with the din of one of Beijing’s fourteen lane mega-highways (the fourth ring road) just outside my window and just kind of assume that everyone realizes [...]
From Twofish’s Blog:
It’s interesting how the NYT moves from crisis to crisis, and has just discovered that China has a huge pension liability problem and an issue with a rapidly aging population. It’s also interesting that the article doesn’t mention at all, the ***real*** big problem which is coming up.
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I’m not too worried about [...]
I’m all American of half Norwegian ancestry, mostly midwestern and a tad southern. This mixture of backgrounds makes it a bit hard for me to identify strong roots, but one constant has been my Norwegian-American great aunt’s steady the-greatest-generation convictions. Thanks to modern communications technology and Garrison Keillor, I can now have those convictions downloaded [...]
This feed not (totally) blocked in China, (yet), (I hope).
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