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Resume Building in China
Good article that helps explaining what it takes to get to the top in China.
This quote captures it:
" China’s leadership still pays heed to its heritage as a party of
peasants, and it has tended to promote officials who can claim to be
deeply rooted in the rural struggle. But it has also tended to favor
“princelings,” the privileged offspring of former leaders who had ties
to the party’s revolutionary history"
Elite and Deft, Xi Aimed High Early in China - NY Times
Labels: China Politics
A purge in China
Bo Xilai was purged from his post in Chongqing. He was having a red rival and lobbying in public for a position on the standing committee.
My guess, is he was too public in his lobbying. His replacement has basicaly the same politics (graduate of Kim II Sung University in North Korea - translation very conversative). The memory of Mao and how he used public opinion with the cultural revolution is still too fresh in the leadership's mind. The leadership is very wary of popular opinion in China being used by anyone for political gain.
A purge in China - Washington Post
Insightful article...
A Bo-mb Drops in Beijing: The Experts’ Take - WSJ Labels: China Politics, mao
China clamps down on foreign telly on its channels • The Register
Confusion of Being a Chinese Student in America
Wen Jiabao family history of persecution
China USSR 1969 Nuclear War - Almost?
I have heard this before. This time its from a Chinese newspaper. USSR planned nuclear attack on China in 1969 - UK Telegraph I disagree with this part: Then US President Richard Nixon was also apparently fearful of the effect of a nuclear war on 250,000 US troops stationed in the Asia-Pacific region and still smarting from a Soviet refusal five years earlier to stage a joint attack on China's nascent nuclear programme.In 1965 Johnson was President, not Nixon. So Nixon would have had little interest in what Johnson had proposed and I have never heard about this. In 1965 the USSR and China were neutral in the relationship, the relation went downhill in 1966 with the start of the cultural revolution peaking in 1969 with the various border incidents. My guess was the part about the US proposing a strike against China was make the article even handed and not be seen as anti-Soviet. Labels: China Politics, Chinese History
In Chinatown, politics of old country still spark
Chinese Nationalism - The Great Treasure Hunt
Chinese Team Searches Museums for Art Treasures - NY Times. When my wife was in England during college 20 or so years ago, she was invited to a person's house to see some artifacts from China. She refused since she did not know the person, but may be they really did have some artifacts. The old summer palace in Beijing was looted by British and French troops in 1860. From a political view point getting back artifacts that were taken while China is weak shows how China is now strong enough to get the respect it deserves. The challenge for China is the lack of investment on keeping the artifacts and historical sites they do have safe. There is such a focus on new and modern. Labels: China Politics, china's future
Time in China
Clocks square off in China's far west - LA Times. In Western China the local people set their clocks two hours different than the official Chinese time, which is the same for all of China. Theoretically China should have 5 time zones, but everything is set the same. I did not know this: "The reason goes back to a long Chinese imperial tradition in which the emperor is in control of time because it has a cosmological significance," said James Millward, a Xin- jiang scholar at Georgetown University. Labels: China Politics
Clinton urges stronger China ties
Clinton urges stronger China ties - BBC. Yes, today is BBC day for my blog! One article lead to another that lead to another. Key Points (with translations!): - Message - US Savings and Investments are safe (ie please keep loaning us money and trust us).
- Our pressing on those issues can't interfere with the global economic crisis, the global climate change crisis and the security crises (We are not going to badger you about Taiwan, Tibet, and Human Rights).
- Please help more with North Korea, you are the only country that has any pull with them, because you can collapse the country any time you want (you just declare all the North Koreans illegally in China as refugees that can go to South Korea and it would empty North Korea quickly, but it's nice to have a buffer zone and South Korea does not want to rebuild North Korea yet, costs to much).
Labels: China Politics
China pushes Russia to investigate ship incident
China tries to limit Internet vitriol toward the West
China's Response to Nationistic Anger
China and Jews
Interesting article that is a good read - it's a positive article. China good for the JewsAt the Piano Recital my daughter was at today (she got a superior + and is so thrilled by that), the participants seemed to be either Korean, Chinese, or Jewish. I am not sure what that means. So many of the Chinese students at my daughter's school play piano. Even a book that talks a bit about this (super cute book) Yang the Youngest and His Terrible Ear by Lensey Namioka. A bit of trivia, I found out my Grandmother got a music scholarship for playing piano for college. During my recent visit to the Bay Area we visited my Grandmother and my daughter played piano for her. My Mother also plays piano and is pretty good. My wife plays a little (and wants to learn more). My daughter has been playing for 10 years and per her Piano teacher, if she decided, could major in Music because she is good enough. Labels: China Politics, music
China's Troubing Past
Some historical issues where Chinese felt that China has been taken advantage of in the past: With the above history being drilled into you, you might develop an inferiority complex. Labels: China Politics
China's Storm - Portent of Change
LA Times has an article about a subject I thought about, but did not blog.
Devastating snow evokes China's stormy history Millions of Chinese are trying to return home in time for Chinese New Year celebrations this week. Natural disasters have helped fell dynasties in centuries past, which may weigh on leaders' minds in the ongoing crisis. Key Points: 1. Historically, natural disasters are seen as omens that a dynasty (ruling class) is not doing a good job, since they are no longer in Heaven's favor. 2. Local government is not as responsive (often incompetent) since they are appointed, not elected. Federal government has limited power domestically due to decentralization ( Emperor is far away). 3. This natural disaster won't be enough by itself to be a threat to the stability of the government by itself. But by happening during Chinese New Years, the most important holiday of the year and the only time many people visit their families it is high profile. Related Information: - Previous Post on Ice Storms in China- Half the Sky is sending updates on the Storm's impact on orphanages in China. If you can donate to help them, it would be great! Labels: China Politics, China's Government, chinese new year
Three Gorges Dam - Strange Politics
Lots of open press in China about possible issues with the Three Gorges Dam. WJS today had an article on the proposed fixes. It's great that China's government is being open about the problems, but why now? The amount of political capital by Li Peng that was invested in building the dam was huge. It has been talked about since Sun Yat Sen, around 1911. Here are the possibilities: 1. Chinese Government sees so many potential issues they want them in the open before they explode (literally). Moving a 4 million people could have some issues, especially when some of these people have already been moved once and had corruption problems with their payments. 2. May be the Olympics are involved and China is becoming more open. 3. May be there is some type of internal power struggle going on or a way to show how the government is going to admit issues as part of an anti-corruption campaign. Now back to subjects related to Chinese Learning Materials. Labels: China Politics
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