About a year ago, I wrote, "“Father’s Prairie, Mother’s River” – the feelings of one billion people on the move." I estimated China in few decades will have moved about one billion people from the country side into cities. Yes, that's one billion people! This is a stressful but necessary transformation as China continues to industrialize. Below is that same video I used in … [Read more...] about One Billion People on the Move
Archives for October 2010
Armless Pianist Liu Wei, an inspiration for the world, wins ‘China’s Got Talent’
Few weeks ago I made a brief intro to armless pianist Liu Wei on "China's Got Talent." Liu Wei has now won. Lyndsey Parker has followed the competition, and here she continued her coverage, "Armless Pianist Liu Wei Wows & Wins On 'China's Got Talent'." And this past weekend, Liu won the entire competition with a tear-jerking and inspiring performance of James Blunt's … [Read more...] about Armless Pianist Liu Wei, an inspiration for the world, wins ‘China’s Got Talent’
The current global imbalance, a fight between rich and poor
Despite the moral posturing and smearing campaign against China in the Western media on the currency valuation issue, the essence of the current rebalancing of our world economic system is a fight between the rich and the poor (and between the rich themselves). The U.S. really doesn't have this currency valuation issue all that together. Here, NYT reports "Currency Rift … [Read more...] about The current global imbalance, a fight between rich and poor
Top Ten Interesting Things about China from Yahoo Video
I have too many serious things in my mind. So I decided to purge them by posting this funny (but not too slanderous) video from Yahoo about China (Taiwan not being shown as part of China can be interpreted as slanderous, but I won't argue in this context). Top 10 Extraordinary Facts About China @ Yahoo! Video … [Read more...] about Top Ten Interesting Things about China from Yahoo Video
The 2010 Nobel Peace Prize to Liu Xiaobo and what it means to the Chinese
The 2010 Nobel Peace Prize has just been awarded to Liu Xiabo, and according to the Nobel committee, the key reason was "for his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China". Of course, the Western media is using this occasion to lambaste the Chinese government. They are parroting the anti-China positions from all the die-hard "human rights" activists … [Read more...] about The 2010 Nobel Peace Prize to Liu Xiaobo and what it means to the Chinese