BBC News: China in Africa: Developing ties 

An excellent BBC article about China’s efforts in Africa. Highly recommended when you want to know why the US and Europe are loosing ground to the Chinese long term strategy.

I swear to enrich the capitalists and suppress the masses for the greater good of the party and maybe China.

The great red nation has transformed itself in the total opposite of socialism: workers are suppressed while capitalist robber barons and the party enrich themselves.

I wonder how long they can keep the strings together? Especially when poverty and social differences become harsher and harsher?

China currently produces 70% of the world shoe market. Since it’s killing the shoe industry in Europe they are considering some sort of import tariff. No problem said shoe retailers in Europe - we then simply buy them someplace else - like India or Bangladesh. The lesson: it’s hard to protect your economic sphere against dumping - and even harder when the rest of the world lives and works on a very different and cheaper economic scale.

If you like to know more about the dreadful failure of the so called Tiananmen Square revolution and today’s China please watch this great documentation: The Tank Man.

It tells in great detail the story of a failed revolution and how China’s communists brutally knocked down the people’s will. Sure - we are all amazed by today’s economic boom in China - but still it’s more like a brutal economic progress for the few rich and the party - not for most of the people.

In rural areas the poverty and devastation is unbelievable. Schooling and medical support has broken down in most of the country. Factory workers are denied basic rights - rights the communists used to fight and campaign for. No strikes are allowed, so sick leave is paid and accidents are not covered. It basic and brutal capitalism at work here.

This distorted ’success’ is on one side rebuilding China’s failed infrastructure on the backs of Chinese laborers, while putting the western economies in turmoil. In a strange way both sides are ‘paying’ up to bring China out of the misery of 60 year of stupid communist government.

I still can’t believe that China got the Olympics of 2008.

BBC News: China rules out West’s democracy
BBC News: How China is ruled (excellent background information)

Currently one of the most important political meetings takes place in Peking: the Communist Party’s 17th congress. Here China’s future is discussed and decided by over 2000 delegates from all corners of the red empire. The goal is to build a ‘Building Harmonious Society‘ - whatever that means.

At the moment the workers state is a workers nightmare: no union protection, hardly any enforced labor laws, rampant capitalism, no working health insurance or pension systems. All blown away by the capitalist revolution of the last 30 years.

Nice national harmonious firewall comrade.

President Hu made the usual nice speech - but basically all stays the same: the communist party has a total stranglehold on power, the military enforces their rule, the new oligarchs bring in the money and China plays nice with all countries who own any kind of resources for the future.

And yes, dissenting voice and any form of opposition is still brutally suppressed. Escpecially for the Olympic Games - any form of protest would disturb the fairy tale the Chinese leaders live in.

More? Propaganda 1 and Propaganda 2

The US wants that Iran, North Korea and many other countries give up their atomic bombs. On the other side they recently started new programs to build such weapons of mass destruction (or even smaller tasks like bunker busting). Plus recent events have shown us, that the US adopted a new doctrine to strike first …

Anyone surprised that even more countries want nukes?!

BBC News: Dollar hits new low against euro

What did people expect to happen? The ever growing American trade deficit, the costs of the War on Terror and simply bad fiscal policy will weaken the Dollar more and more:

The dollar has been weakening for some time.

The fundamental problem is the growing US trade deficit, now more than $700bn, as the US economy has imported far more goods than it has exported.

This has long been seen as unsustainable, and in the long-run some kind of currency adjustment has been seen as both inevitable and desirable.

But the recent change in policy by the US central bank has accelerated the decline, because people who put their money in dollars no longer get such a high rate of return.

So it will be only a matter of time until some oil nation will trade only in Euros instead of Dollars. China won’t be so stupid and ruin it’s big market and put pressure on the Dollar as well, but I am sure they will diversify their cash reserves as well.

If there is going to be another recession of black Monday or something the reason will be most likely bad American monetary policy.

BBC News: China tightens grip ahead of congress

I am always amused when I read in Americans or British blogs that their respective countries turn into police states. Anyone ben to China lately?

I would recommend to these blogger to talk to any Chinese , former east Germans, Iranians, Russians or Saudi Arabians to really get some first hand experience about heavy policing and locking up citizens for basic democratic right en mass.

America and Britain focus their ‘War on Terror’ mostly on bloody foreigners, nobody really cares about. The religious police in Iran and Saudi Arabia still lock up young woman for being dressed the wrong way or driving a CAR alone. Russian prisons are still overcrowded and China executes criminals as usual.

China is so afraid of loosing face that they lockup and sometimes torture anyone who might disagree with the official line. Especially ahead of the Olympic games being a critic in China is VERY dangerous.

Yes, China has turned exactly into the opposite of what communism originally proposed: a country democratically run by the people for the people.

Brother Comrade where have all the trees gone?

China has chopped down 80% of it’s trees. No surprise they have gigantic sandstorms and extreme pollution. Trees would save the people - even without hugging them.

The great leader finally leaves this planet - after 82 years of disaster and about 70 million of his fellow chinese killed. The truth about Mao.