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Good News for Globalized Workers

At least since the days of Ronald Reagan, American workers have been worried about their factories and jobs being exported overseas. Back then it was Japanese car companies that would put us all on welfare. As companies realized that Japan was not exa...		 Aug 18, 10 Petrarch 0 4

Unions Trashing Consumers Again

Reuters reported on July 7 that the Obama administration was probably not going to "name China a currency manipulator." Various Senators, Congresspersons, and union representatives have been complaining for years that the Chinese government keeps its c...		 Jul 12, 10 Will Offensicht 0 0

How the Chinese Government Creates Jobs

 As soon as Mao Zedong's Communist army defeated the forces of Chiang Kai-Shek in 1949, Mao led the effort to establish a communist society throughout China. His blend of Marxist-Leninist theory, military strategy, and detailed economic policies is know...		 Apr 14, 10 Will Offensicht 0 3

Decline in America's Factories

Why is American manufacturing in the sorry, sad shape it's in? About a year ago some associates and I came up with an idea for a product to be manufactured here in the good old US of A. We drew up our prototype requirements and started searching for ...		 Apr 2, 10 Fennoman 0 17

Give People Choices and They Might Choose!

Ever since Roe v Wade short-circuited the political process and declared abortions to be legal regardless of state laws or local desires, feminists have stridently defended what they call a "woman's right to choose." They assert that what a woman does w...		 Mar 30, 10 Will Offensicht 0 4

The Chinese Way to Manage Stem-Cell Research

The Economist reports that Chinese researchers are doing world-class stem-cell research, but they identify a problem - they don't think that Chinese medical research is regulated tightly enough. Their article opens: In the field of stem cells, China ...		 Mar 5, 10 Will Offensicht 0 9

Why China Cannot Blackmail Us Like the Middle East Does

Many pundits have noted that China seems to be taking over more and more of the world's share of manufacturing as measured either by the value of the output or by the number of factory jobs. We see periodic calls for the government to Do Something to "R...		 Feb 10, 10 Will Offensicht 0 1

China, Google's Principles, and Republican Teaching Moments

A few years ago, Google cut a deal with the Red Chinese allowing their search engine to operate in Chnia to the horror of those who thought their slogan of "Don't be evil" actually meant something. Previously, "the Great Firewall of China" mostly blocke...		 Jan 27, 10 Petrarch 0 3

Blowing Smoke at the Chinese - And At Us

Last week, Mr. Geithner visited China where he discussed American debt held by the Chinese government. The Washington Post reminded everyone why this is important: China is the largest owner of U.S. Treasury securities and Geithner assured Chinese le...		 Jun 9, 09 Will Offensicht 0 0

Those Subtle Orientals

 The Washington Post told of Mr. Geithner's trip to China where he more or less begged the Chinese to keep buying treasury bonds. We all know that our deficits will lead to inflation and that we won't be able to reduce the deficit any time soon, particu...		 Jun 5, 09 Will Offensicht 0 4

The Lesson of Tiananmen Square

 This week marks the 20th anniversary of an event symbolized to most in the Western world by the accompanying photograph: 1989's pro-democracy protests in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, and its subsequent crushing (literally) by tanks against unarmed studen...		 Jun 3, 09 Petrarch 0 2

We Owe the Chinese a Trillion - THEY Have A Problem

On March 14, the New York Times "quote of the day" was: "We have lent a huge amount of money to the U.S. Of course we are concerned about the safety of our assets. To be honest, I am definitely a little worried." - Prime Minister Wen Jiabao, of Chi...		 Apr 3, 09 Will Offensicht 0 3

Obama Appointee Recommends More Vigorous Atrocities

 If there is one element of received political wisdom afloat today, it's the belief that George W. Bush and his minions are torturers and war criminals who deliberately inflicted pointless death on thousands of Americans, countless millions of innocent I...		 Mar 4, 09 Hobbes 0 3

Bureaucracy Stalls Green Cars

 The blogger network Green Options published an article "Upstart Chinese Car Company BYD Releases Plug-In Hybrid. See What You Can Do With No Regulations?" The article started: China-based BYD has introduced a plug-in hybrid that can be plugged into...		 Dec 23, 08 Will Offensicht 0 5

The Chinese War on Drugs

Our war on drugs is generally recognized to be a pretty thorough failure. We have dumped countless billions of dollars and spent hundreds of lives on attempts to prevent illegal drug activity, and after all this time the price of drugs on the street has...		 Nov 28, 08 Will Offensicht 0 16

Yellow Man's Burden

 It's well recognized that in many ways, the nations of sub-Saharan Africa are one basket case after another. Decades of altruism, Peace Corps workers, and other resources have been poured into this area to little good effect; we've reported how Oprah W...		 Oct 21, 08 Will Offensicht 0 4

Phonylympics

For decades, China has dreamed of hosting the Olympics as its way of demonstrating to the world that it has "arrived" as a major power in its own right. Even before the Communist takeover in 1949, patriotic Chinese dreamed of the day that their country ...		 Aug 21, 08 Petrarch 0 9

The Mystery of the Empty Stands

All round the world, every eye has been glued to the television for the world's greatest sports spectacle: the 2008 Olympic Games. Almost anything else can, and has, happened without distracting viewers; John Edwards took the opportunity to finally 'fes...		 Aug 20, 08 Will Offensicht 0 0

China's Budding Politicians

Something strange has been going on in the Middle Kingdom of late: Politicians have been behaving like, well, like politicians. China has had quite the year of it; as the ancient Oriental curse has it, "May you live in interesting times." And 2008 is...		 May 20, 08 Petrarch 0 1

Star Trek & Buggy Whips: The Truth About Vanished Jobs

When people talk about progress and change, they often bring up the example of buggy whip manufacturers. Around the turn of the century, there were manufacturers who made buggy whips. They specialized in buggy whips and that's all they did. A buggy wh...		 Feb 5, 08 Fennoman 0 7

Energy Conservation in India and in China

When I moved to the US from Japan in 1963, there were essentially no cars in Japan; I was hit three times by cars my first year in the US because they move faster than bicycles. The transition to the automobile age separates the population into...		 Sep 20, 07 Will Offensicht 0 7

What is a nation?

 If we're going to talk about "nation building," it would be extremely helpful to define the word "nation." According to dictionary.com, a nation is "a large body of people, associated with a particular territory, that is sufficiently consci...		 Sep 17, 07 Will Offensicht 0 0

EZ-Pass to a Police State

In George Orwell's classic novel 1984, the main character, Winston Smith, lives in a totalitarian dystopia, where all members of society are liable to be spied on by the government at any time. His equivalent of a television is a "telescreen", which wor...		 Aug 22, 07 Petrarch 0 0