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News That’s Fit To Punt – 12/Mar/2012

All The Best Cowboys Have Their Eyes on China The GFC story keeps spreading and spreading and the many headlines it has spawned are like the snake heads on Medusa’s head. This one comes from Pleiades. We all ought to … Continue reading

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China In The Spotlight

More Than Reading Tea Leaves Okay, non-movie related entry today. Sorry guys, but this stuff keeps being so interesting, so bear with me. Time Magazine had this article today, pondering the likelihood of China being able to help out Europe … Continue reading

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Did We Really Survive?

Or Did We Simply Get It Put Off? Today is a triple barrel sort of entry about things to do with the GFC that have been bugging me. Well, Pleiades sent me a link that started me on a trail … Continue reading

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Is China Working Properly?

China As Depression Candidate Pleiades sent in this interesting read today… If you thought China was going to be the economic engine that pulls the world out of the post-GFC slump, then you might not want to read this contrarian … Continue reading

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Scoping China

Ambitious And Hopeful There was this article by Peter Hartcher in the SMH today. Makes for an interesting read because it is refracted through the eyes of Australia, an ex-white-colony out in the Asian sphere of influence. In Australia, a … Continue reading

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News That’s Fit To Punt – 23/02/10

China As The Next Dubai Here’s a joyful little article. The township of Huaxi in the Yangtze River Delta is a proud symbol of how Chinese communists embraced capitalism to lift 300 million people out of poverty during the past … Continue reading

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Google vs. China

Do No Evil China’s IT brigade tried hacking Google. In response, Google is going to stop its censoring of content as retaliation. In the mid-term Google is likely to pull out of China. GOOD FOR Google. The company’s decision to … Continue reading

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One Child Policy Outcomes

It’s Raining Blokes Over There Ladies! I keep hearing there’s a bloke shortage in Sydney. “What do men and car parking have in common?” I got asked by a woman who was pontificating on this point. “I dunno,” I answered … Continue reading

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The Akmal Shaikh Song And Execution

Crazy Is As Crazy Does I recorded the song ‘Come Little Rabbit’ by Akmal Shaikh. The description of that process and song are linked here. Since recording that song I’ve actually had some interesting conversations with people and so would … Continue reading

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China In The Negative Spotlight

Undeserved, But Inevitable It’s one of those things that make you roll your eyes. Every time something happens that makes the Chinese leadership look weak or stupid, the Chinese government screams foul and does something that most advanced nations would … Continue reading

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