It's clear now that you don't even read and you don't follow news either. I was using NPR to show you that their movement in China was not restricted. If you were reading any of the news report about the China earthquake, you would know that the disaster area at the moment has no communication except through sattelite phones (but then there is no electricity), and most of the roads were destroyed by landslide, most of the bridges had collapsed. You may be able to get to Chengdu in 24 hours. But once you're there, what do you do? Stay in the hotel and bide your time? Or demand Chinese soldiers to escort you to the disaster area? You don't know their language, you don't know the area, so they have to divert precious manpower and resources to babysit you. Why do you think that would be a good idea? And for Japan, 1995 was not that far back. And I was right. You are blinded by petty hatred.
Please shutup now, don't talk about things you have no idea about , I'm currently living in china, Not a bit different then from living in NYC. didn't trading teach you not to listen to the media? experience it for yourself, test it, quant it, then talk about it. stop posting from your vivid imagination.
Yeh sure it is....tell you what, why don't you hold an anti communist protest and see what happens. Get a few of you buddies with you and see how long it takes for them to roll the tanks in and run you and your friends over! Let's leave it at this, you love china, the geisha girls, maybe even geisha boys, I Don't!
I have been to NYC. I have been to Shanghai. I wish everybody who can afford it will make a visit to China. It will be an eye opener. No debate is necessary. of course if you can't afford it , then no debate is necessary either.
this seems like a good move considering the number of people who are underinsured or not insured at all - quick action - good press I know very little of Chinese culture as it relates to insurance - perhaps some ETers could shed some light on the subject: Is insurance widely accepted in Chinese culture? (or relatively new phenomenon) I assume that most people in rural areas do not have insurance and probably would not put a high priority on purchasing it it even if they obtained extra disposable income. does LFC provide all types of insurance (life, fire, car, flood, etc.)?
The quote about harvesting organs was just simple trolling. But if you think living in China is the same as living in NYC I have a little experiment for you: Go to Times Square and hand out Falun Gong literature. Then go Tiananmen Square and hand out Falun Gong literature. You will notice the difference in less than a minute.
Falun Gong is viewed in China by the population similar to how David Koresh was viewed here. The persecution is real but the governments in both cases overreacted.
The whole manufacturing complex of China is fixed These companies produce goods and sell to US for less then a 5% margin. They make their money from VAT rebates of the raw materials, about 5-15%. The raw materials market in turn operate the same way. All these free market business survive on Bank of China checks issued by the goverment. Of course that means every detail of your finances and business has to be reported to the Goverment, including privite business. Somewhere all this is being subsidized by the great Red OZ behind the curtain
The US never accepts very much Foriegn aid for diasters, occasionaly Jute sandbags from Bangledesh. We do it because we have the means to handle most disasters, with lower death totals. Japan also ..The issue is China or Burma not asking for political reasons, and their willingness to incure larger then necessary death total because of it In this case I beleive the Chinesse is opening up a little bit to aid