' advocacy
groups, newspaper 'call-in' centers that expose and serve as advocates
of workers. The ACFTU is directly involved in some of these initiatives.
To see the ACFTU as part and parcel of the bureaucracy I think is not
accurate.
Jonathan Lassen
Trade union law amended
http://www1
that's now the direction of a lot of top talent from Taiwan.
Jonathan Lassen
At 02:45 PM 2001/1/11 -0800, you wrote:
Does anybody here know how much of the
total semiconductor production comes
from abroad and how much is produced
domestically? If you know that, then,
how much of the high-end chip produc
Hi,
What do people make of the nearly unanimous call for China to revalue the
yuan and/or go off the dollar peg? Industrialists, US senators and now Alan
Greenspan and EU officials have jumped on the bandwagon.
Cheers,
Jonathan
2003-07-16
Financial Times
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- Original Message -
From: Jonathan Lassen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
What do people make of the nearly unanimous call for China to revalue
the
yuan and/or go off the dollar peg? Industrialists, US senators and now
Alan
Greenspan and EU officials have jumped on the bandwagon.
Cheers
Jim,
Thanks for your response. But if it's in the US' interest to devalue the
dollar relative to other currencies, then why is the US willing to allow
Japan to intervene to prevent the yen from appreciating?
(http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/19/business/19EURO.html - as if China's not
going through
Hi all,
Here's what James Petras has said about an alternative for China:
The renewal of socialist development requires courage, new ideas and
recognition of the specificities of the Chinese society and economy. The
key is the courage to systematically reject the premises, language and
concepts
I wish I had more time to respond. I will on the weekend. Here are a couple
of interesting related links tho:
How Bush picked on China to win votes
http://www.chinastudygroup.org/newsarchive.php?id=2619
and
Politics, Jobs and the Yuan
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/EI18Ad02.html
Cheers,
Speaking of state ownership in China...
This is also from the People's Daily, if you can believe it:
The last land grab in China
People's Daily 2003-09-24
http://fpeng.peopledaily.com.cn/200309/24/eng20030924_124849.shtml
The Chinese government has finally realized that simply owning a wealth of
Goodman's big bad bureaucracy spin is boring and pretty wrong. I thought it
was pretty big news that China was going full-steam ahead with the
liberalization and corporatization of the electricity industry in 2002
right after the CA crisis. But as usual, 'market intervention' is to blame.
The
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 by
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
-- that these
people are academics or dilettantes without any roots in the cultures
they write about. (Only a guess.)
Some are academics, most are not. Most of the members are from China.
None are dilettantes.
Cheers,
Jonathan
wrote:
Jonathan Lassen writes:
Thanks LP for posting the review of Hart
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
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
Sorry if this has already been quoted.
...when the limited bourgeois form is stripped away, what is wealth
other than the universality of individual needs, capacities, pleasures,
productive forces, etc., created through universal exchange? ... The
absolute working-out of his creative
Drought of Migrant Labor
Beijing Review | 5 aug
by Fan Ren
http://www.bjreview.com.cn/200431/Nation-200431(A).htm
This year has seen the flood of migrant laborers, who traditionally
travel to thriving coastal provinces in search of work, reduced to a
trickle. As a result, many private companies
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 . . .
[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
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