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Thanks For The Bailout, Suckers! GM Builds A New Plant In China
9 May 2013 5:57 am John Hawkins

As a general rule, corporations should be able to build plants where they want, whether it’s in America or elsewhere. Moreover, if they choose to go overseas, we should be asking, “Why is that?” Are our corporate taxes too high? Do we have too many regulations? Is there something else that we can do as a nation to be more business-friendly, to keep building plants here in America, so that we can employ more people and rake in more taxes?

However, it’s a little different with a company like General …

Chinese Bloggers Get Wasteful Gov’t Official Fired
2 May 2013 2:31 pm Warner Todd Huston

Citizen journalists in China have succeeded in getting a wasteful government official fired by reporting on a lavish party he threw paid for by government funds.
The Communist Party boss of Taizhou City, Zhang Aihua, had developed a habit of extravagant parties, high spending, and glad-handing industrial representatives, so much so that local residents had become angry at the excess.
At length, Jia Hongwei, a web forum administrator in Taizhou, joined other local citizens in outrage at Aihua’s latest blowout party. Hongwei brought his video camera and took images of the expensive …

Why Is This Being Built In China And Not The United States?
21 Nov 2012 5:17 am John Hawkins

Remember when the United States was the country building world renowned landmarks like the Hoover Dam (1936), the Empire State Building (1931), the Golden Gate Bridge (1937), the Chrysler Building (1930) and the Willis Tower AKA Sears Tower (1973)?
Notice the dates.
We sure don’t seem to be building ‘em like we used to, do we?
Now, read this story and ask yourself a simple question: Why isn’t this happening here instead of in China?
According to its engineers, this will be the tallest skyscraper in the world by the end of …

Obamanomics: Most Now See China As World Economic Powerhouse
13 Jun 2012 8:42 am William Teach

Before we get to the money quote, which happens to be the 2nd to last paragraph of this Politico story, we learn, via a Pew Global Attitudes Survey, that people around the world have cooled on Obama’s foreign policy
Global opinion of President Barack Obama has declined dramatically since 2009, according to a new survey of the president and his policies in 21 countries.
Approval of Obama’s international policies has dropped from 78 percent to 63 percent in Europe; from 34 percent to 15 percent in Muslim countries; from 40 percent to …

US Administration Renews Push to Ratify Law of Sea Treaty
12 May 2012 12:01 am Michael Fell

The Obama administration has initiated a renewed push to convince the U.S. Senate to approve the 1982 United Nations Law of the Sea treaty. Administration officials claim approval of the pact is necessary to protect the U.S. Navy’s right to carry out exercises off the coast of China. In the past Chinese ships have harassed U.S. vessels.
The administration’s push to approve the treaty comes at a time of increased focus by the Pentagon on China’s military buildup and the expansion of its influence in the Asia-Pacific region. The Pentagon is …

Obama administration abandons Chinese pro-life activist Chen Guangcheng
4 May 2012 12:49 pm Wintery Knight

Life Site News writes about a pro-life activist in communist China who asked for help from the American government and was betrayed by them.
Excerpt:
Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng, who has suffered years of imprisonment and beatings for objecting to forced abortions and sterilizations in his native country, thought he could find shelter and friendship in the United States embassy following his recent escape from house arrest. He is now learning the hard way that the pro-abortion Obama administration, which helps to finance the same “one-child policy” that Chen is fighting, would rather see …

Will Media Apologize for Airing Anti-Apple Computer Activist’s False Claims?
22 Mar 2012 12:00 pm Warner Todd Huston

When it broke, the Old Media was all over Mike Daisey’s story of the horrid working conditions at Apple Computer’s foreign manufacturing plants. The story had oppressed workers, pathos, and best of all, eeevil corporate greed. Daisey was well on the road to making Apple the liberal’s newest bete noire and was being hailed as the next Upton Sinclair. Until, that is, it became clear that he made it all up.
One of the first major media outlets to push Daisey’s anti-Apple claims was the program This American Life aired on …

Green Failures
30 Jan 2012 5:12 pm Michael Fell

Here are a few of the latest companies to join the growing list of “green” “sustainable energy” failures that have been supported by the current Administration’s deficit “stimulus” spending. All this financing has been done using your tax dollars…well, actually tax dollars to be paid in the future by your grandchildren and great grandchildren to China. Plus interest:
Evergreen Energy-Which has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy, saying it’s “impossible to maintain operations” due to funding shortfalls. This announcement comes after the company received $5.3 million in “stimulus” funds.
Amonix Inc.-A manufacturer of …

“Shanghai Gets Supersized”
15 Jan 2012 6:15 am Craig Newmark

The Chinese discover the attractions of getting rich:
When building projects grew scarce in the United States a few years ago, the California architect Robert Steinberg opened an office in Shanghai. He says he didn’t understand the city until the night he dined with some prospective clients. “I was trying to make polite conversation and started discussing some political controversy that seemed important at the time,” he recalls. “One of the businessmen leaned over and said, ‘We’re from Shanghai. We care only about money. You want to talk politics, go to …

What Liberals in America Can Really Learn From China
3 Dec 2011 2:15 am John Hawkins

Far left-wing union flack Andy Stern thinks he’s seen the future in China and naturally, since he’s a liberal, it has inspired him to want to readopt all the failed liberal policies that are dragging us down in this country.
The conservative-preferred, free-market fundamentalist, shareholder-only model — so successful in the 20th century — is being thrown onto the trash heap of history in the 21st century. In an era when countries need to become economic teams, Team USA’s results — a jobless decade, 30 years of flat median wages, a …

Wings Over Iraq Sunday Brunch
4 Sep 2011 12:59 pm Courtney Messerschmidt

Hot gossip, intellectual rumors and more!
From the unscholarly part of Wings Over Iraq

Regime Changing
26 Aug 2011 10:02 am Courtney Messerschmidt

Perhaps the most charming charm Great Satan has exhibited (aside from angling her body diplopolitaire’ to create other angles) is the killer cool heap of trashed out despots, dicts and autocrats she’s tossed on the junk heap since the new millennium broke unto us.
The guy with one eye (hot rumours whisper he’s a moped enthusiast) Mullah Omar, that S’Ddam cat, President General for Life Pervez, and now Colonel Khadaffy. Not counting cats in Pyramidland or the Tunisian Squeeze.
Let’s just cut right to it, shall we?
Libyarvention made a great deal …

Sino Mil Sec 2011 Report
25 Aug 2011 9:15 am Courtney Messerschmidt

It’s time!

Red China – the world’s largest autocracy of the old school Collectivist type gets all Congressfied with an especial annual pdfing Congressional Report bout Military and Security Developments Involving the People’s Republic of China.

Ton of hot deets, cool maps, missile stuff – you name it – the Sino Mil Sec thang be game it!

“Although China’s expanding military capabilities can facilitate cooperation in pursuit of shared objectives, they can also increase the risk of misunderstanding and miscalculation. Strengthening our military-to-military relationship is a critical part of our strategy to shape …

Joe Biden OK With Murdering Chinese Babies
24 Aug 2011 12:45 pm Warner Todd Huston

We are faced with a difficult dilemma concerning Vice President Joe Biden’s outrageous comments about China’s one-child policy delivered in China this week.
On one hand we must either believe Joe Biden is a compete idiot, or on the other understand that he is OK with the fact that Chinese officials forced women to late term abortions and in many cases actually murdered already born babies to satisfy the one child per couple rule that the communist oppressors put into place years ago to curb the country’s population size.
Neither prospect …

ROC Def
23 Aug 2011 10:10 am Courtney Messerschmidt

Tiny tiny Taiwan – a fun free choice little sister democrazy that hasn’t ever bothered anydobby
China’s lustful desires for Taiwan are a lot like THAT LOOK given by older cats who realize their dreamy dreams of snagging a precious little wikibit hottie – right off the vine – may forever remain unrequited.
President Hu’s ’5 No’s’ explain everything. Perfectly clear what will unleash this armada (DoD pdf China Military Power):
Formal declaration of independence or a military alliance by Taiwan with a foreign power
Foreign intervention in Taiwan’s internal affairs.
Delays in resumption of …

AirSea Battle
18 Aug 2011 6:22 pm Courtney Messerschmidt

It’s complicated!
Collectivist China’s nat’l pride feel good sortee sexercise with Shi Lang aside, Great Satan’s Quad Def Review prophesied thatPeople’s Liberation Army Navy would focus without modesty or restraint on her twin dreams of area denial, securing needed resources and Taiwan:
First, China seeks to deny access by Great Satan and other naval powers to the Yellow, East China and South China Seas, dominating the natural resources and disputed island chains such as the Spratly and Senkaku Island chains giving PLAN the capacity to rehook upify Taiwan with the mainland by force and …

World Order After Next
27 Jul 2011 5:40 pm Courtney Messerschmidt

Hegemonic Hotness!
Wiping clean and drawing again the face of Power Balancin’ is not unlike gaming players at the club (oh snap!)
India is visually undressing China, China is lustfully stalking on Great Satan’s fully crunk military, while America is winding down her most excellent adventures in Iraq and Afghanistan and fixing to might maybe (truly – who could say?) do Yemen, Libya and Pakistan.
Is a lo down ho down of Epic proportions betwixt the menage a troi ers like CIA (China India and America) gon get nicc’d up on conflicting conflicts?
Great …

Sino Strategic Trust
26 Jul 2011 10:17 am Courtney Messerschmidt

Chengdu!
Sino speak for asymmetrical irony ala puissance – nicht wahr?
Great Satan’s exDef Sec’s semi recent hello about China’s massive opaque military bling bling got dissed down on touch down with a sad boring asset’d lecture about Taiwan yet it hasn’t stopped Great Satan from trying to be cool to a near field wannabe.
Like any long term hook up – a Great Satan/China Super Friends Hotline has got to be all about honesty and trust on a strategic level.
Joint Chief Chairman Admiral Mullen gives up hot! deets about the state …

China’s High Speed Rail Rocked by Corruption, Cost Overruns, Fatal Crash
26 Jul 2011 7:00 am Jane Jamison

Adm. Mullen Visits China Just as U.S. Military Dominance hit by Budget Cuts
17 Jul 2011 1:11 am Jane Jamison