CHINA

The Empty-Nest Syndrome

By Melinda Liu | NEWSWEEK
Published Mar 21, 2009
From the magazine issue dated Mar 30, 2009

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  • Posted By: RoyalRook @ 03/22/2009 2:03:33 AM

    Melinda if you have to quote bloggers to support your bastard views, then you are nothing but a blogger. The Olympic is over, and China hosted it, it's over Melinda, I know, it's ok. It's O.K.

    • Posted By: dmb12345 @ 03/25/2009 11:56:43 AM

      take a valium- you do not make sense.

  • Posted By: sextonm2 @ 03/23/2009 9:23:03 PM

    History is replete with totalitarian civilizations building great monuments to themselves. Ancient Rome and Nazi Germany come to mind. Now that they have emerged on the world stage, China is just one more example of this. The expectation that these structures were going to pay for themselves over time was a little disingenuous at best.

  • Posted By: indi1216 @ 03/23/2009 7:36:08 PM

    not to worry, the chinese has tons of money to burn, whereas for us, we are still borrowing to pay for our useless expenditures on the war.

  • Posted By: Observerguy @ 03/22/2009 6:32:46 PM

    China could use the pool for fish-farming and the main stadium for raising goats -- until these facilities collapse. This would be culturally syntonic, too. You see, no problem is insurmountable for this people!

  • Posted By: motorherz @ 03/22/2009 8:59:04 AM

    Sounds like Wasilla to me.

  • Posted By: mikealoha @ 03/21/2009 11:28:33 PM

    Please mail this story to the architects and seek their expert advice. After all they collected millions in fees to generate these meaningless and wasteful structures. Here again China was misled by Western experts.

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