Continuing damage left over from Mao and the following one-child policy. Now with economic slowdown and more unemployment, China likely to get old before it becomes developed. The leap to developed nation status will have failed.
- Paul Denlinger
Hu Xiaohan does not seem to know English or have lived overseas. What does he base his charges on the foreign media on then? If he does not know English or have experience living overseas, who does he rely on as sources for his knowledge of the western media? Or is he relying on hearsay?
- Paul Denlinger
They must be joking! Crowdsourced translations have been done in China for ages with the Harry Potter series, and by Yeeyan. How can Facebook patent something which is already being done in large swaths of the world. Just shows what a joke the US patent system has become.
- Paul Denlinger
There is an argument to be made that the People's Republic, while not a hereditary dynasty in the traditional Chinese sense, inherits many of the features of the imperial dynasties it replaced while adding a new feature - the party.
- Paul Denlinger
Would be nice for Peter King and other neocons to read about the Nuremberg trials. There is basically no difference btwn their justification for torture and the Nazi defense of their atrocities.
- Paul Denlinger
Too bad Hilary only has authority to do spine stiffening for foreign policy. The Obama jellyfish badly needs a spine for domestic politics, especially healthcare.
- Paul Denlinger
I was never aware that SV was wearing blinders. Think that it all depends on who you're talking to. There are plenty of Chinese and Indian entrepreneurs and VC in the Valley who know what is going on. OTOH, if you are white/mainstream and don't speak other languages, it might be another story.
- Paul Denlinger
I would say that if it got Bill Gates a wife, three kids and a happy marriage, then it was a success even though it was a commercial failure.
- Paul Denlinger
If Wall Street thinks that they will be able to fleece China the way they have fleeced US taxpayers, then I want whatever they are smoking...
- Paul Denlinger