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2008-03-17 China-Japan-Koreas

80 dead in Tibet riot; fears of more chaos

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Posted by Steve White 2008-03-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [10 views ] Top

#1 This ~~communist~~ ~~genocide~~ outrage can't possibly be being brought to us by the friendly oriental folks who work hard for $ .19 per hour and fill our Walmart Stores with products.... can it? .... CAN IT??

Posted by Besoeker 2008-03-17 08:13|| 2008-03-17 08:13|| Front Page Top

#2 The crackdown is brought to you by....the same folks that support the military junta in Burma, the wonderful govt of the Sudan, Kimmie's Heaven on Earth, and the 2008 Beijing Oleolympics. Have we heard anything from our State Dept, except hand wringing platitudes?

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2008-03-17 08:37|| 2008-03-17 08:37|| Front Page Top

#3 Business Week magazine had a squib about international businesses in China in a recent issue. A representative number were surveyed, and 40% are in the process of or exploring either moving their business to less a volatile country like Viet Nam or Indonesia (from a business perspective, killing off your customers' customers creates volatility), or setting up any expansion of the business in a less volatile country.

First China manufactured its petard, now it is being hoisted with it. Look at the products being sold in WalMart, Kmart, Target, etc. Lots of labels now say Made in Indonesia/Viet Nam/ Malaysia/Egypt...

Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife 2008-03-17 09:24|| 2008-03-17 09:24|| Front Page Top

#4 What TW said. I check all labels. Of course, that assumes our appropriately charged Department checks compliance with marking and levies fines for relabeling. Hit and miss.

Now, all those 'China will be the superpower to surpass the US by 20xx', just remember that China too has serious internal problems and social contradictions that make it's ability to achieve those heavenly levels somewhat circumspect. Its just not the Tibetans who have 'issues' with the government in Beijing.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-03-17 11:19|| 2008-03-17 11:19|| Front Page Top

#5 China will get old before it gets rich.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-03-17 12:19|| 2008-03-17 12:19|| Front Page Top

#6 So China is hosting it's own leotards?

Posted by Zebulon Angavick7428 2008-03-17 13:49|| 2008-03-17 13:49|| Front Page Top

#7 China will get old before it gets rich.

Ummmm, China is already old, in fact it's been old for centuries.

Posted by Redneck Jim">Redneck Jim 2008-03-17 17:34|| 2008-03-17 17:34|| Front Page Top

#8 I think he means demographically old, i.e. that with the one-child policy China has bootstrapped itself out of deep poverty but cannot leverage itself into higher living standards because of a massive wave of retirees coming down the pike vs. a smaller generation of workers (heavily male, so grandkids are going to be fewer, too).

Posted by lotp 2008-03-17 18:13|| 2008-03-17 18:13|| Front Page Top

#9 China's exploding economic growth rate desperately needs a soft landing. A 'crash' generally leads to the government in power finding or creating a scapegoat. If that government is a totalitarian on (like China) the scapegoat hunt could become military. Taiwan? South Korea? Kazakhstan? Tibet is nothing more than a distraction in world power terms (though obviously not to Tibetans.)

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2008-03-17 22:23|| 2008-03-17 22:23|| Front Page Top

#10 WAFF.com Poster Thread > THE ECONOMIST > CHINA'S NEW ECONOMY CREATING MORE PROBLEMS AT HOME THAN ABROAD. Ordinary Chin getting hungrier as economy improves.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-03-17 22:36|| 2008-03-17 22:36|| Front Page Top

#11 NEWSVINE [paraph] > CHINA PREPARES FOR CRACKDOWN BY CLEARING TIBET/LLHASA STREETS OF WITNESSES; + REDDIT [paraph]> THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE HAVE "DISAPPEARED" OR HAVE BEEN MURDERED IN LLHASA - GENOCIDE IS PRC POLICY.

OTOH, CNN + FOX video footage > RIOT SIGN -"WHERE IS THE UN"?

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-03-17 23:32|| 2008-03-17 23:32|| Front Page Top

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