Karen Funny how these articles resemble the articles that used to be written about Nuclear Power. If you just substitute Nuclear Power wherever it says Capitalists or the Wealthy you will find the same argument. The government becomes fossil fuel or maybe Environmentalists in the language of American business. As long as our minds are so locked into this duality that we cannot think outside the ruts of these two systems we will continue down the road to oblivion.
Here's a little ditty from some thought going the same direction. REH Vita Nuova I abdicate my daily self that bled, As others breathe, for porridge it might sup. Henceforth apocalypse will get my bread. For me. I bit my tongue and gnawed my lip, But now the visor of my name is up. Giving to love my undivided nature, Cherishing life, the only fire to keep, I have been otherwise a part-time creature, With many selves to fool myself with hope, And in myself a gentler self to weep. Now I will peel that vision from my brain Of numbers wrangling in a common place, And I will go, unburdened, on the quiet lane Of my eternal kind, til shadowless With inner light I wear my father's face. Moon of the soul, accompany me now, Shine on the colosseums of my sense, Be in the tabernacles of my brow. My dark will make, reflecting from your stones, The single beam of all my life intense. Stanley Kunitz ----- Original Message ----- From: Karen Watters Cole To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 10:55 AM Subject: FW: China struggles with western concepts of success 2nd attempt: Following up on some recent posts regarding China, here is a link about testing the limits of capitalistic excesses in modern China: To Be Rich, Chinese and in Trouble: 3 Tales "A few people in China have gotten rich beyond imagination, and the government needs to show that it controls rich people, too," said Liu Huan, a finance expert at the Central University of Finance and Economics in Beijing. "Private entrepreneurs have higher status now than before, but they also have more demands on them." The crackdown on industry titans shows how China's economy - however robust and Westernized it appears on the surface - still answers to an ossified political system. The country has a growing number of multimillionaires and even a few billionaires, but their fortunes depend on the whims of a handful of Communist Party officials. China recognizes that private enterprise, long the most dynamic part of the economy, has become its mainstay. As state-run companies continue to shrink and lay off workers, the private sector has surged ahead, increasing efficiency and production as well as the personal wealth of an entrepreneurial elite. Privately run businesses now account for just over half of the gross domestic product and employ 130 million people - the lion's share of industrial workers, but only about one-fifth the total work force. At least on paper, China has built the legal infrastructure to enforce commercial laws much as the United States does. The difference is that real enforcement occurs only when party bosses in Beijing decide that the time has come, and when they identify capitalists who have fallen from favor. http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/13/business/yourmoney/13CHIN.html?todaysheadl ines I have several interesting journalism files on China, so if anyone is interested, please email me. For example, Some see the future in China as capitalist 05.04.02; Russia and China/Dangerous Liaison 08.21.02; China struggles to cut Reliance on Mideast Oil 09.03.02;The faces of China 10.13.02. If you have a good China website, comparable to Japan Echo, (http://www.japanecho.com/), I would be interested. Thank you. Karen Watters Cole East of Portland, West of Mt. Hood Outgoing Mail scanned by NAV 2002
