Posted on August 8, 2007 - Filed Under News
Hi Oz
As you already well know from our conversations and some of my past blogs, I have had my eyes on China. The sheer number of their military and their growing population alone, is enough to give a worry. But really, there are so many things, and some disturbing, going on at once, that they often make headlines a lot these days. Here in the U.S., some has been quite negative, that tainted pet food, toxic fish, and lead paint in the children's toys.
One recent headline is their
threat to trigger a U.S. Dollar crash. I don't know if they will follow through, but the point is, they seem to have the means to do it.
We have a congresswoman here in the U.S. who is
calling for a boycott of the Beijing Olympics.
"Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) and others involved in the effort to end the humanitarian crisis in Darfur, where an estimated 200,000 people have died and millions more are homeless, want to pressure China to curtail its support of the Sudanese government.
Sudan earned about $4 billion from oil sales last year, with 80 percent of that coming from China, according to Fortune magazine. Chinese firms also have helped build up the country's infrastructure, leading to an economic boom in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, and China has stepped up arms sales to the strife-ravaged nation."
Recently, I learned that China has about 100 journalists, online dissidents and free speech activists who are imprisoned. Now I know they have tight control over the internet and news there, but how will they manage to
control the estimated 30,000 journalist that plan to be there for the Olympics? I don't suppose that they WILL, but what is worrisome, by their sheer numbers, once again, is they well COULD.
Their control seems to go beyond this dimension, they also extend it to another realm, as they t
ell living Buddhas to obtain permission before they reincarnate. Well, I'd like to see what they have up their sleeve to stop that!
Who amongst us has the muscle to argue with them, their military, 2.3 million-member force—
the world's largest army—continues to balloon, their econony is great, and they are
hoarding so much of the resources that we all depend on.
A rather weary of the "made in china" label,
~Boz
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