Re: Fidel Castro horrified by China

2004-08-11 Thread Jonathan Lassen
From my standpoint the conversation concerning China gets loud because of the lack of concrete economic and political data. Then ideology parades as insight. Quite. If China's non agricultural workforce is between 350 and 400 million . . . with roughly 100 million in the NON STATE SECTOR

Re: Fidel Castro horrified by China

2004-08-11 Thread Waistline2
not have been used. Here is the data and source of "my" figures from an article dated Nov. 1, 2003: Current Condition of China's Working Class by Liu Shi is a former vice-chairman of the Chairman of the ACFTU (All-China Federation of Trade Unions) "Workers now are responsible for the c

Re: Fidel Castro horrified by China

2004-08-11 Thread Waistline2
of property and does not equal the abolition of property. Socialism has never meant freedom to me. You are correct concerning my use of 800 million. They arerural as opposed to agricultural sector. Nevertheless my base question was what did Fidel say that qualified as being horrified by China

Re: Fidel Castro horrified by China

2004-08-11 Thread Louis Proyect
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nevertheless my base question was what did Fidel say that qualified as being horrified by China. He probably has never criticized China's capitalist transformation publicly since China has been fairly generous with Cuba economically. The article I forwarded quotes

Re: Fidel Castro horrified by China

2004-08-11 Thread Waistline2
In a message dated 8/11/2004 3:20:06 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nevertheless my base question was what did Fidel say that qualified as being horrified by China. He probably has never criticized China's capitalist transformation publicly since

Re: Fidel Castro horrified by China

2004-08-11 Thread Jonathan Lassen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My resistance is to an ideological curve in our history that bounces from crying crocodile tears over the alleged famine killing perhaps as many as 40 million people and all kinds of vilification of the revolution in China and the on going revolutionary process. Which I

Fidel Castro horrified by China

2004-08-10 Thread Louis Proyect
market-oriented reforms. HORRIFIED BY CHINA Western observers said Castro was shocked by the rapid move to capitalism and growing social differences he witnessed in China last year. There is no coincidence that a lot of this has happened since he visited China. Many people say he was horrified

Re: Continuing China fever

2004-08-10 Thread Seth Sandronsky
infrastructure that keeps the world's “just-in-time” supply chain taut.” As Michael noted, state Dems saved the ILE from Gov. Arnold’s budget knife. Seth Sandronsky Date:Mon, 9 Aug 2004 12:23:22 -0400 From:Marvin Gandall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Continuing China fever Today's Financial

Fidel Castro horrified by China

2004-08-10 Thread Charles Brown
by Louis Proyect -clip- He is the sort of man who does not want to see his legacy diluted in his lifetime, the diplomat said, adding that Castro was probably unaware of the extent of social decay in Cuba. ^^ CB: Social decay in Cuba or China ?

Re: Fidel Castro horrified by China

2004-08-10 Thread Louis Proyect
: Social decay in Cuba or China ? . -- The Marxism list: www.marxmail.org

Re: Fidel Castro horrified by China

2004-08-10 Thread Waistline2
HORRIFIED BY CHINA Western observers said Castro was shocked by the rapid move to capitalism and growing social differences he witnessed in China last year. "There is no coincidence that a lot of this has happened since he visited China. Many people say he was horrified with what h

Continuing China fever

2004-08-09 Thread Marvin Gandall
Today's Financial Times offers more dramatic evidence of how China has become the new beacon for Western-based multinationals. It describes the fierce struggle for dominance being waged over control of the lucrative China-US air cargo trade by FedEx, UPS, and European carriers like DHL --somewhat

Re: China and socialism

2004-08-03 Thread Kenneth Campbell
Chris Doss wrote: For the NYT or WP, everything bad that happens in China or Russia is the result of a nefarious plot hatched in Beijing or Moscow. For the life of me I can't understand why people who would be hypersceptical over these papers' coverage of, say, Venezuela cite them as impeachable

Re: China and socialism

2004-08-03 Thread Waistline2
I . . .uhhEye against IFlesh of my flesh and Mind of my mind.Two of a kind but one won't survive.The image is reflect in my enemy eyes and my image is reflect in his the same time. Right here is where the end gonna start at.Conflict . . . contact . . . call back.Fighter stand where the

Re: China and socialism

2004-08-03 Thread Chris Doss
I would never have read this if it hadn't been referenced by Kenneth. You have stated publicly on LBO-Talk that censorship was not a problem in the USSR and that people could read whatever they want. You also quote liberally from the , which fails to meet Rupert Murdoch's standards by all

Re: China and socialism

2004-08-03 Thread Chris Doss
Putinite press -- You quote from all kinds of things, yourself, Louis. - How does somebody who doesn't read Russian know jack shit about the Russian press, Putinite are otherwise? How lame. That's not how the Russian media work. Anyway that's my last word on the subject.

Re: China and socialism

2004-08-03 Thread Chris Doss
All right, one final word and then I am outta here. The inanity of that statement is breathtaking. I worked for the Russia Journal for three years. (Actually I am somewhat proud of the fact that the eXile praised my editorials. That's pretty rare.) I think I know how the Russian media work.

Re: China and socialism

2004-08-03 Thread Louis Proyect
Chris Doss wrote: Virtually nothing was banned in the USSR. The Washington Post July 20, 2002 Saturday Soviet Dissident Alexander Ginzburg Dies BYLINE: Martin Weil, Washington Post Staff Writer Alexander Ginzburg, 65, who was persecuted, imprisoned and exiled as a leader of the dissident

Re: China and socialism

2004-08-03 Thread Michael Perelman
End of thread! Why can you just discuss things without getting nasty and bringing up material from other lists? -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu

Re: China and socialism

2004-08-03 Thread Jonathan Lassen
Thanks LP for posting the review of Hart-Landsberg and Burkett's long MR piece. I just picked up a copy yesterday, and have been looking it over. I've got my own little quibbles with it (not enough emphasis on rural China, which I think is desperately important right now, they lump pre-1976 China

China Study Group

2004-08-03 Thread Kenneth Campbell
Jonathan Lassen writes: Thanks LP for posting the review of Hart-Landsberg and Burkett's long MR piece. I just picked up a copy yesterday, and have been looking it over. I've got my own little quibbles with it (not enough emphasis on rural China, which I think is desperately important right now

Re: China Study Group

2004-08-03 Thread Jonathan Lassen
Hi Kenneth Campbell, Who funds Monthly Review? I have no idea. I do know a bit about China Study Group, since I work with them. The annual budget is about 100 dollars, which is what the website costs. All the labor is volunteer. My guess is -- and this is prejudicial against me, not you

Re: China Study Group

2004-08-03 Thread Kenneth Campbell
Hi Kenneth Campbell, Hi Jonathan Lassen! Who funds Monthly Review? I have no idea. I have an idea... grin. But I love the publication, nonetheless. I do know a bit about China Study Group, since I work with them. The annual budget is about 100 dollars, which is what the website costs. All

Re: China and socialism

2004-08-03 Thread Joel Wendland
that this kind of event took place in pre-reform China -- and not necessarily to benefit the working and toiling classes? We expect to see it in capitalist countries, of course. In a socialist country, however, where the working class is the dominant social strata, one might expect it not to happen. My

Re: China and socialism

2004-08-03 Thread Jonathan Lassen
Joel Wendland wrote: Is this particular story emblematic of the restoration of capitalism, though? Isn't it true that this kind of event took place in pre-reform China -- and not necessarily to benefit the working and toiling classes? We expect to see it in capitalist countries, of course. The pre

Re: China Study Group

2004-08-03 Thread Jonathan Lassen
Kenneth Campbell wrote: As I hope you understood, I meant no offence. China needs no help from us. I'm not sure why China provokes such strong feelings of separateness/alienation. Let's all just stay in our hermetically sealed container-states, it's much safer. JL

Re: China and socialism

2004-08-02 Thread Chris Doss
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The first rule of politics for political leaders on the side of the proletariat in the American Union is that if the New York Times or Washington Post run a story on China . . . position yourself in opposition to it and you will be on the right side of the polarity

Re: China and socialism

2004-08-02 Thread Waistline2
d childish. As for whether China would be a good model for the rest of the Third World, let the people of the Third World decide for themselves. We don't need self-righteous academics in the West to pronounce what is an ideologically correct model for the Third World. The sad fact is that the Western left

Re: China and socialism

2004-08-02 Thread Louis Proyect
Chris Doss wrote: For the NYT or WP, everything bad that happens in China or Russia is the result of a nefarious plot hatched in Beijing or Moscow. For the life of me I can't understand why people who would be hypersceptical over these papers' coverage of, say, Venezuela cite them as impeachable

Re: China and socialism

2004-08-02 Thread Marvin Gandall
in the affirmative in relation to pre-existing modes of development. You know all this. Marx wasn't around to witness the failed experiments to leap over the capitalist stage in both China and the USSR in the 20th century. I now think he may well have repudiated these efforts, especially on seeing the outcome

Re: China and socialism

2004-08-02 Thread Louis Proyect
and reimposed this schema on Marxism. Lenin returned to the late Marx when he drafted the April Theses, which rejected the notion of a capitalist stage for Russia. Marx wasn't around to witness the failed experiments to leap over the capitalist stage in both China and the USSR in the 20th century. I now think

Re: China and socialism

2004-08-02 Thread Jonathan Lassen
South China Morning Post, Aug. 2 Police shoot villagers in land dispute, report says by: Staff Reporter Dozens of people in Shijiahe village in Zhengzhou, Henan province, were reportedly injured yesterday when police arrested troublemakers who had organised protests over land deals approved

Re: China and socialism . . . yea . . . when it all fall down

2004-08-02 Thread Waistline2
answered in the affirmative in relation to pre-existing modes of development. You know all this. Marx wasn't around to witness the failed experiments to leap over the capitalist stage in both China and the USSR in the 20th century. Comment When it all falls down the ceiling crashes on everyone hea

Re: China and socialism- 50 years of the Western Left

2004-08-02 Thread Waistline2
Pieinsky wrote: Questions for Henry from an old Maoist: (1) Aren't you concerned at all about the evidence of increasing class disparities and the consequent rise of open class struggles (workers' strikes, farmers' protests, etc.) in "Red" China? What do these occurrences mea

Re: China and socialism

2004-08-02 Thread Waistline2
As for whether China would be a good model for the rest of the Third World, let the people of the Third World decide for themselves. We don't need self-righteous academics in the West to pronounce what is an ideologically correct model for the Third World. The sad fact is that the Western

Re: China and socialism

2004-08-02 Thread Marvin Gandall
to lend his authority to the revolutions which were carried out in the name of socialism and the working class in Russia, China and other predominantly peasant societies. For Western Marxists like Louis who still see their societies as rotten ripe for socialism -- and predicate their political

Re: China and socialism

2004-08-02 Thread Louis Proyect
Marvin Gandall wrote: societies. For Western Marxists like Louis who still see their societies as rotten ripe for socialism -- and predicate their political behaviour on that assumption -- it can be demoralizing to acknowedge that Marx may have been a good analyst of capitalism, but wrong about

Re: China and socialism

2004-08-02 Thread Waistline2
of The Monthly Review article on China. It has become too personal and acrimonious. I ask those involved not to contribute any more posts on the subject, and the same applies to other list members, however good their motives or intentions. Urgently, James Daly Comment Why should I not pen/pin

Re: China and socialism

2004-08-02 Thread Devine, James
LP writes: The next time that somebody gets the impression that I see the USA as rotten ripe for socialism has permission to give me 50 lashes with a cat o'nine tails. Except for Jim Devine, that is. You didn't like it the last time? Jim Devine

A suicide in China

2004-08-01 Thread Louis Proyect
NY Times, August 1, 2004 THE GREAT DIVIDE Amid China's Boom, No Helping Hand for Young Qingming By JOSEPH KAHN and JIM YARDLEY PUJIA, China His dying debt was $80. Had he been among China's urban elite, Zheng Qingming would have spent more on a trendy cellphone. But he was one of the hundreds

China and socialism

2004-08-01 Thread Louis Proyect
If any confirmation of the correctness of Marty Hart-Landsberg and Paul Burkett's China and Socialism (a book-length article in the July-August 2004 Monthly Review) was needed, you can look at the heartrending Aug. 1, 2004 NY Times article on the suicide of Zheng Qingming. This 18 year old

Re: China and socialism

2004-08-01 Thread Waistline2
If any confirmation of the correctness of Marty Hart-Landsberg and Paul Burkett's "China and Socialism" (a book-length article in the July-August 2004 Monthly Review) was needed, you can look at the heartrending Aug. 1, 2004 NY Times article on the suicide of Zheng Qingming. Th

China has 600 million telephone users

2004-07-29 Thread Ulhas Joglekar
People's Daily Online Life UPDATED: 18:16, July 22, 2004 China has 600 million telephone users China had close to 600 million fixed and mobile phone users by the end of June this year. Statistics released from the Ministry of Information Industry show 30 million new telephone users signed up

China frees whistle-blower

2004-07-27 Thread Ulhas Joglekar
The Hindu Thursday, Jul 22, 2004 China frees whistle-blower Beijing: The Chinese military surgeon who exposed the Government's cover-up of the SARS crisis was released on Tuesday after seven weeks of political re-education'', his family said. Jiang Yanyong (72), a semi-retired general

Re: Monthly Review: China and Market Socialism

2004-07-22 Thread Waistline2
What is the best source that discusses the pre-reform political and economic developments in China. The Monthly Review special issue focuses almost entirely on post-1978. Would a comparison of directions/developments pre- and post -978 be worthwhile? Joel Wendland http

Monthly Review: China and Market Socialism

2004-07-21 Thread Joel Wendland
What is the best source that discusses the pre-reform political and economic developments in China. The Monthly Review special issue focuses almost entirely on post-1978. Would a comparison of directions/developments pre- and post -978 be worthwhile? Joel Wendland http://www.politicalaffairs.net

Re: China and the American consumer

2004-07-05 Thread Waistline2
be upright. Agriculture has been decimated-- and there is no contradiction between internal decimation and increased exports, in fact as the same past 20 years have shown, the two go hand in hand. Comment Your comments on China are very considerate and takes into account the con

China and the American consumer

2004-07-04 Thread Louis Proyect
NY Times Magazine, July 4, 2004 The Chinese Century By TED C. FISHMAN (clip) The China Savings No politician declares it. There is no Association of Big Box Store Customers beating the drum. But, as nearly any shopping trip in America will teach you, China saves American consumers enormous amounts

Re: China and the American consumer

2004-07-04 Thread Devine, James
A lot of this would be changed if China let the renminbi float (i.e., rise). The predictions at the end seem similar to those made about Japan awhile back (e.g., in Michael Crichton's RISING SUN) before the Japanese miracle popped. jd -Original Message- From: PEN-L

Re: China and the American consumer

2004-07-04 Thread sartesian
- Original Message - From: Devine, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 04, 2004 10:47 AM Subject: Re: [PEN-L] China and the American consumer A lot of this would be changed if China let the renminbi float (i.e., rise). The predictions at the end seem

Burkett Hart-Landsberg: full-fledged capitalist restoration in China

2004-07-01 Thread Louis Proyect
Monthly Review, July-August 2004 Introduction: China and Socialism by Martin Hart-Landsberg and Paul Burkett China and socialism...during the three decades following the 1949 establishment of the Peoples Republic

China and the environment

2004-07-01 Thread Louis Proyect
on Foreign Relations. She has written extensively on Chinese domestic and foreign policy. Her publications include: The River Runs Black: The Environmental Challenge to Chinas Future (manuscript completed, September 2002); China Joins the World: Progress and Prospects (co-editor) (Council on Foreign

Lula's China visit

2004-05-22 Thread Marvin Gandall
Brazilian president Lula’s state visit to China at the head of a huge business delegation, beginning today, is part of a strategic effort to connect the biggest emerging markets in the eastern and western hemispheres, says an article in the Financial Times. It is a development

boston lecture on China

2004-05-21 Thread Michael Perelman
Professor Zhao Zhun (tsinghua Univeristy, Beijing) will be speaking at the Cambridge Public Library tomorrow, Saturday May 22 3pm - 5pm. The forum is entitled Can Socialism and Capitalism Co-Exist in China? Enterprise Ownership Reform Since 1978 -- Michael Perelman Economics Department

Re: boston lecture on China

2004-05-21 Thread Craven, Jim
Professor Zhao Zhun (tsinghua Univeristy, Beijing) will be speaking at the Cambridge Public Library tomorrow, Saturday May 22 3pm - 5pm. The forum is entitled Can Socialism and Capitalism Co-Exist in China? Enterprise Ownership Reform Since 1978 -- Michael Perelman Economics Department

Oil: Fears Grow That Supply Will Not Meet Demand in China

2004-05-18 Thread Sabri Oncu
http://www.riskcenter.com/story.php?id=8663 May 18: Energy Risk - Oil Prices Reach Record Levels And Fears Grow That Supply Will Not Meet Demand in China --- Location: New York Author: Ellen J. Silverman Date: Tuesday, May 18, 2004

China question

2004-04-14 Thread Michael Perelman
How is China able to export fruits and nuts? Where do the farmers find the land to grow such crops? Are they cutting back on the production of grains? -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu

Re: China question

2004-04-14 Thread jjlassen
of this stuff very much. There's a good recent article about this here: http://www.chinastudygroup.org/index.php?type=newsid=5360 Yes, grain production has been falling in China recently, although everyone claims that there is plenty of reserve grain. Usually urban sprawl and shady land deals are blamed

China, Japan, the Dollar

2004-03-30 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
, especially Japan and China, are willing to absorb these risks in order to support their exports to the United States1. (Foreign Government Intervention Keeps the Value of the Dollar Artificially High, March 22, 2004, http://www.epinet.org/content.cfm/webfeatures_snapshots_archive_03222004) * -- Yoshie

Re: Russia-China: Putin's next term

2004-03-12 Thread Chris Doss
The strategic relationship with China idea goes back to the 1998 Primakov Doctrine put forward during the reign of Boris the Drunk, but has really developed under Putin as part of 1) the Shanghai Six group providing collective security in Central Asia and 2) the trilateral relationship between

Re: Russia-China: Putin's next term

2004-03-12 Thread Marvin Gandall
as far as you know? Marv Gandall - Original Message - From: Chris Doss [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 12, 2004 5:02 AM Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Russia-China: Putin's next term The strategic relationship with China idea goes back to the 1998 Primakov Doctrine put

Re: Russia-China: Putin's next term

2004-03-12 Thread Chris Doss
I wrote: --- I edited several articles on this subject a while back. My memory is fuzzy, but as far as I recollect there was no US role. It was competitive lobbying by LUKoil and Yukos; Yukos was favoring developing (completely hypothetical) shipments to the US (and we all know what

Re: Russia-China: Putin's next term

2004-03-12 Thread Chris Doss
I read somewhere the Chinese felt betrayed when the Russians agreed to let the Japanese, late entrants, divert the proposed West Siberian oil pipeline from Daqing to Nakhodka for trans-shipment across the Sea of Japan to Japan and beyond -- presumably to the US West Coast. The Chinese evidently

Russia-China: Putin's next term

2004-03-11 Thread Eubulides
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/FC12Ag01.html Putin to expand strategic partnership with China By Sergei Blagov Mar 12, 2004 MOSCOW - President Vladimir Putin, certain of re-election to a second term, evidently intends to expand Russia's strategic ties with China in military sales

Re: Russia-China: Putin's next term

2004-03-11 Thread joanna bujes
Say what you will, Putin is a smart guy. Joanna Eubulides wrote: http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/FC12Ag01.html Putin to expand strategic partnership with China By Sergei Blagov Mar 12, 2004

Hobbes and Darwin in China

2004-02-29 Thread jjlassen
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/29/weekinreview/29zhao.html China's Wealthy Live by a Creed: Hobbes and Darwin, Meet Marx By YILU ZHAO BEIJING — The rich in China these days are moving into the villages of Napa Valley, Palm Springs, Long Beach, Upper East Side and Park Avenue, all in the suburbs

Bestseller exposes social powderkeg in rural China

2004-02-21 Thread jjlassen
Bestseller exposes social powderkeg in rural China —No-holds-barred book blows the lid on shocking injustices against the country's 900 million peasants Straits Times | 21 feb by Chua Chin Hon http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/asia/story/0,4386,236301,00.html BEIJING - Like any hot-blooded youth

Re: new frontiers of property rights theory in China

2004-02-19 Thread Louis Proyect
Mike Ballard wrote: Neither wage-labour nor state ownership will ever lead to anything but capitalism. This is not very dialectical. -- The Marxism list: www.marxmail.org

Re: new frontiers of property rights theory in China

2004-02-19 Thread Devine, James
From: Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is there a shadow of socialism or social democracy left in China? Ian answered: One party rule and the penal code... Of course, it depends what one means by the word socialism. When referring to a socio-economic system (mode of production

China: the peg

2004-02-19 Thread Eubulides
in the Chinese currency could spell disaster for both China and the world. While a stronger yuan, also known as the renminbi, would do little for developed economies, China itself would suffer, and financial crisis could result in global markets, they said. In an environment of heightened speculative

Re: new frontiers of property rights theory in China

2004-02-19 Thread Mike Ballard
--- Devine, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike Ballard wrote: Neither wage-labour nor state ownership will ever lead to anything but capitalism. I think that this is simplistic. State ownership of the means of production seems necessary to the rise of socialism and the eventual abolition

new frontiers of property rights theory in China

2004-02-18 Thread jjlassen
development since China started to develop its reform and opening-up program and the reform of its economic system. This is also an inevitable development to undauntedly explore the various means of realizing public ownership on the basis of Deng Xiaoping's requirements. Deng Xiaoping had called for efforts

Re: new frontiers of property rights theory in China

2004-02-18 Thread Michael Perelman
Is there a shadow of socialism or social democracy left in China? -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu

Re: new frontiers of property rights theory in China

2004-02-18 Thread Eubulides
- Original Message - From: Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is there a shadow of socialism or social democracy left in China? = One party rule and the penal code... Ian

Re: new frontiers of property rights theory in China

2004-02-18 Thread Martin Hart-Landsberg
There really is not much more than a shadow of socialism left in China. Many intellectuals in China that are considered marxists or call themselves marxists are now basically advocating social democracy. One of the biggest problems now in China is that the party has linked socialism with what

Re: new frontiers of property rights theory in China

2004-02-18 Thread Mike Ballard
Neither wage-labour nor state ownership will ever lead to anything but capitalism. Regards, Mike B) = You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. --Mark Twain http://profiles.yahoo.com/swillsqueal

China bubble mitosis - was: is AG blowing a China bubble

2004-02-12 Thread jjlassen
Thanks for posting the Bloomberg artice, Ian. What a huge story it is. Beijing rolls out red carpet for the stars —Capital offers incentives to lure talent to the city SCMP | 12 feb by Alice Yan and Alex Lo Eager to compete with glamorous cousin Shanghai, Beijing is rolling out the red carpet

is AG blowing a China bubble

2004-02-11 Thread Eubulides
district, Southeast Asia the 14th, Russia the 15th, China the 16th, and so on. Perhaps it's not surprising, then, that some observers are blaming the Fed for problems in one of its de facto, satellite districts. China, Asia's second-largest economy, is experiencing a dangerous asset bubble, one that's

Japanese Business Ties With China Explode

2004-02-08 Thread jjlassen
into long, thin sheets -- perfect for car bodies or cell phones. Their final destination? Increasingly, the answer is China. Nippon Steel Corp. is one of many Japanese companies profiting from what's called the China Boom. China has an exploding hunger for steel and construction materials, cell phones

Made in China -- With Neighbors' Imports

2004-02-05 Thread jjlassen
Made in China -- With Neighbors' Imports ¡ªRegion Growing Dependent on Giant Market Washington Post | 5 feb by Peter S. Goodman http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14093-2004Feb4.html TANGKAK, Malaysia -- With a decisive yank of his long-handled scythe, the worker sliced away a palm

China: Fears of social unrest as rural land grab worsens

2004-02-05 Thread jjlassen
Fears of social unrest as rural land grab worsens 40 million farmers have lost out in the name of progress SCMP | 5 feb by Nailene Chou Wiest http://www.chinastudygroup.org/index.php?type=newsid=4619 Each year two million mainland farmers lose their land and drift into the cities, only to be

China: Amnesty called on corporate crimes

2004-02-02 Thread jjlassen
private businessmen to move their hard-earned profits overseas instead of investing them in long-term developments on the mainland. According to the Hebei document - released early last month but only reported by the China Youth Daily on Saturday - the authorities would not prosecute bosses of private

U.S., China Are on Collision Course Over Oil

2004-02-02 Thread jjlassen
the nation into a world war. Today, another Asian power thirsts for oil: China. While the U.S. is absorbed in fighting the war on terror, the seeds of what could be the next world war are quietly germinating. With 1.3 billion people and an economy growing at a phenomenal 8% to 10% a year, China, already

Re: U.S., China Are on Collision Course Over Oil

2004-02-02 Thread Eubulides
its growing energy needs, which eventually led the nation into a world war. Today, another Asian power thirsts for oil: China. While the U.S. is absorbed in fighting the war on terror, the seeds of what could be the next world war are quietly germinating. With 1.3 billion people and an economy

Re: U.S., China Are on Collision Course Over Oil

2004-02-02 Thread John Gulick
, to prolong the US' dying hegemony. On the one hand, the health of US finance capital hinges on the health of increasingly neo-liberal accumulation in the PRC, which in turn hinges on China overcoming its myriad raw material input bottlenecks, namely its primary energy bottleneck. On the other hand

pan-ops in China

2004-01-24 Thread jjlassen
http://www.chinastudygroup.org/index.php?type=newsid=4494 (still peanuts compared to the 200,000 pan-ops working just in Securitas (which ate up Pinkerton and Burns in 1999-2000) (also - note Shenyang is the Flint Michigan of China, see: http://www.chinastudygroup.org/index.php?type=articleid=45

Is China the next bubble?

2004-01-18 Thread Louis Proyect
(Spoke to an old friend from the Trotskyist movement last night, who had returned from a 2-week vacation trip to China. Two things stuck out. One was the hyper-development that is like nothing he has ever seen, not even in his home-town Los Angeles. There are vast commercial and residential

The Internet in China as a tool of the poor

2004-01-16 Thread Louis Proyect
NY Times, January 16, 2004 Chinese Go Online in Search of Justice Against Elite Class By JIM YARDLEY HARBIN, China, Jan. 14 — On Oct. 16, the day she died, Liu Zhongxia was riding in her onion cart when it scraped a sedan. Usually her death would have gotten little attention. But in a country

China: bailout dynamics/spillovers

2004-01-14 Thread Eubulides
cover-dated January 22, 2004 IT'S BAILOUT time again for China's Big Four state-owned banks. For the third time since 1998, the government has stepped in to prop up these technically insolvent behemoths that account for more than 70% of lending and deposits in China. Beijing doled out a total of $45

China: secrecy and information economics

2004-01-01 Thread Eubulides
http://www.feer.com CHINESE CREDIT RATINGS By Joel Baglole/HONG KONG Issue cover-dated January 08, 2004 AS INCREASING NUMBERS of Chinese companies turn to the capital market, international credit-rating agencies are charging into China hoping to capitalize on a huge new business opportunity

China: property rights II

2003-12-23 Thread Eubulides
[New York Tiomes] December 23, 2003 China Moves to Protect Property, but the Fine Print Has a Caveat By JOSEPH KAHN SHENZHEN, China, Dec. 22 - China's national legislature moved to amend the Constitution on Monday to protect private property rights, the first time the Communist Party has formally

China: property rights

2003-12-22 Thread Eubulides
China Ready to Grant Property Rights By Peter S. Goodman Washington Post Foreign Service Monday, December 22, 2003; 1:07 PM SHANGHAI, Dec. 22 -- China's Communist Party leaders on Monday proposed amendments to the nation's constitution enshrining a legal right to private property while

Taiwan-China-US; trade, etc.

2003-12-07 Thread Eubulides
. Taiwan will hold its first ever anti-missile, anti-war defensive referendum, Mr Chen said at a campaign rally in the northern city of Hsinchu. We want to let the world know that Taiwanese love peace and democracy and don't want to send our children to war. China is opposed to any referendum

Mexico/China

2003-12-03 Thread Eubulides
Mexico Now Feels Pinch of Cheap Labor An Economy Built on Low Wages Finds Itself Undercut by Influx of Chinese Imports By Mary Jordan Washington Post Foreign Service Wednesday, December 3, 2003; Page A19 SANTA ANA CHIAUTEMPAN, Mexico -- The China threat, as people around this textile town call

A Bush in China...

2003-11-27 Thread Devine, James
a congressional commission on U.S.-China policy. If nothing else, it doesn't look good. The younger Bush's relationship with Grace Semiconductor, first reported in the Houston Chronicle, is detailed in a two-page contract filed as part of divorce proceedings between Neil and Sharon Bush

Re: A Bush in China...

2003-11-27 Thread Eugene Coyle
who advised a congressional commission on U.S.-China policy. If nothing else, it doesn't look good. The younger Bush's relationship with Grace Semiconductor, first reported in the Houston Chronicle, is detailed in a two-page contract filed as part of divorce proceedings between Neil and Sharon Bush

China: from bras to tv's

2003-11-25 Thread Eubulides
unions to act on China and the issue is likely to be a crucial one in next year's presidential election. US firms and labour unions argue that the American manufacturing base is being devastated by free trade agreements with China, where costs are lower and regulations less stringent. The Chinese

China and the World Economy

2003-11-14 Thread michael
Earlier I asked about the impact of China on world commodity markets. I saw this today. Also, an earlier article this week describes how excess capacity is now driving down wages in China. It also mentions workers distraught by the wages that they were offered. Bahree, Bhushan. 2003. China's

China addendum

2003-11-14 Thread michael
I forgot to add another piece Kilman, Scott. 2003. U.S. Crop Prices Soar as China Fuels Demand. Wall Street Journal (13 November). -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University michael at ecst.csuchico.edu Chico, CA 95929 530-898-5321 fax 530-898-5901

China: shopping spree

2003-11-13 Thread Eubulides
China sweetens belligerent US with $6bn jets and limos spree Jonathan Watts in Beijing Friday November 14, 2003 The Guardian China is attempting to shop its way back into favour with the United States with $6bn (£3.5bn) worth of contracts with American companies aimed at easing the growing trade

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