Politics

Two excellent articles on China from other sites.
First, China in the context of the world’s melt down–it’s not only not going to save the world, it’s probably going to make it worse. This is a great piece–if you don’t read any of the others, read this.
Second, Guangdong province in the context of the current political [...]

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For the past few days since Barack Obama was elected President, I've been trying my best to keep up with the news about his presidential transition and the economy. Although it has only been a few days since the historic election, there has already been a lot of politics and fighting between the various interest groups in the US.

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Since I’ve been at factories and solving project issues all week, I’ve not had time to write a “real” blog–so here is another of my (usually) tri-weekly news links list.  Enjoy.
1. China on President Elect Obama

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This book, The Writing On the Wall, by Will Hutton, is just great.  It’s only flaw is that it’s at least 100 pages too long—

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In the past few days, the Shenzhen government has taken action and arrested more than 2o people in association with recent unexpected fires in the SEZ.

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Like Junior Soprano claims, “things like this come in 3’s.”  Maybe it’s true.

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In the 2nd semester of my sophomore year of college, I was honored to take a class with professor Jeffrey Friedman entitled Liberalism, Communitarianism and the Good.

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So now that it’s all over, what’s next?
First a couple of comments on the 0lympics and then some application to doing business here.

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If you’ve read this blog for any amount of time, you know that I love basketball and the US.  (While at the same time choosing to be fat, eat chocolate and live in China.  Go figure.)  Mixed in with numerous Jazz home games over the years, I saw the US Olympic team play in Guangzhou in ‘06 and the Orlando Magic play in Macao in ‘07 and the “Redeem Team” play aga

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There is a fine between news that caters to the LCD and just a waste of paper.  The headlines on this morning’s Drudge Report cross that line.

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