No, not Cosmo Cramer. Jim Cramer of CNBC`s Mad Money fame tonight made Xinhua China 25 his [China] Play of The Day, and expressed his bullish confidence in China`s dictatorship. This is while self-appointed expat China experts are making doom-and-gloom, Panarin-esq predictions that China will suffer fatal crisis or fall from revolution, from range of issues: unemployment, to … [Read more...] about (Letter) Cramer Is Bullish on China
(Letter) The Mystical Gaza Chinese Rocket
While it is widely reported that Hamas have fired 122mm Grad rockets into Israel, an upgrade from the Qassam, few media have gone further and stated that the new rockets were Chinese-made. Simple Google searches seem to suggest the reason very few media outlets have made the Chinese connection is because this is somewhat dubious: - According to Wikipedia the Soviet designed … [Read more...] about (Letter) The Mystical Gaza Chinese Rocket
(Letter) Night And Day Reportings of Lhasa And Mumbai
Along the same line of amusing reporting, have you noticed the treatment being given to Mumbai "terror attack"? On-the-surface comparison seems to be night-and-day when compared to the "uprising" that occured in Lhasa: - No scrutiny of why the attacked occured. It's reported as "terror" rather than "uprising" - Liber and verbatim reporting of the Indian government's … [Read more...] about (Letter) Night And Day Reportings of Lhasa And Mumbai
(Letter) Embezzlement Fellon Receives Honoary Citizenship In New Zeland, Keeps 80 Million RMB
(h/t to Kiwi Blog) New Zeland recently granted honorary citizenship to Yan Yongmin(闫永明), ex-CEO of Golden Horse Pharmaceutical, wanted for embezzling 100 million RMB (20 million RMB was finally returned by NZ authority after 4 years.) what happened? It seems Falun Gong NZ, who is on the take from Yan, claims he might be persecuted if returned, and worked with couple NZ … [Read more...] about (Letter) Embezzlement Fellon Receives Honoary Citizenship In New Zeland, Keeps 80 Million RMB
(Letter) How many families in China are single-child family?
Here's a statistics that surprised me: http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2006-11/10/content_729312.htm "Currently, Guangzhou has 372,631 one-child families, about 15 per cent of the total." Only 15%? Does this number commensurate with rest of China? US, having no family planning law, has about 18% of families with only child. … [Read more...] about (Letter) How many families in China are single-child family?