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To do more for America now would be risky. One argument of the "China is not happy" contingent is that the ruling elite has been corrupted by close ties with the United States and has been seduced by Western goods. Those arguments have been echoed in thousands of blogs available to more than 300 million Chinese Netizens, which are followed by Chinese officials and constitute a form of "cybernationalism." That puts pressure on the government to encourage the growth of dominant Chinese companies that can supply appealing brands to Chinese customers rather than depending on famous American names.

Some recent government moves can be read in part as attempts to appease the independence movement. Beijing prevented Coca-Cola from purchasing Huiyuan, a popular fruit-juice maker, for $2.3 billion, ostensibly on the grounds that it would stifle competition. Other American companies have found that Chinese authorities have been less accommodating of late. Avon, which has had stellar success in direct sales of cosmetics in China, is now under investigation for irregular practices by its agents, which may be the case but is more likely a sign of official displeasure with the prominent positions of foreign brands in the domestic marketplace. And in June a Chinese consortium bought GM's Hummer division, a sign of growing ambition for domestic control of consumer brands rather than simply allowing U.S. companies to dominate the Chinese market.

Still, there are limits to how far China can turn inward before it gores itself. The factories built and run by the likes of Intel, Nike, General Electric, and even the woebegone General Motors have been a source of employment, and account for a big share of the boom in exports from China. Beijing is not going to cut off its biggest foreign investors, nor is it going to shut down its own investments in America. No other market can absorb China's reserves. Consider: when Morgan Stanley recently issued new shares to pay back its loan from the U.S. government, the China Investment Corp., a sovereign wealth fund, bought 44 million shares for $1.2 billion. That purchase attracted little notice but represented a startling contrast to the popular rhetoric of hostility toward investing in America. Indeed, not all the blog posts in response to China Is Not Happy endorse its nationalist vision. As one put it, "This kind of book is always the type that blames everything on Democracy and is of absolutely no use whatsoever. It's a load of rubbish! You're not happy? Who the hell made you unhappy?! You've got money and you're still not happy! If we sort out our own problems instead of complaining about how unfair life is, then we wouldn't have businesses suffering in the economic crisis, students going unemployed and corruption." That's the reality that China's leaders must face.

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  • Posted By: jordan c. fan @ 08/06/2009 5:11:23 AM

    Why The Chinese And American Marriage Failed? PART 2 (Contuned)

    By; Jordan C. Fan, Prophet of Environment.

    Since the Cold War had ended in 2008 with China???s victory, the entire world should follow the path of a careful and gradual transformation into Communism. In fact the U. S. is currently embracing their own version socialism. There should not be any more blood sheds, destruction of property and waste to initiate anymore political changes.

    In a given planet, there can only be one nation who can truly be democratic and independent at the same time. All other nations can either be undemocratically independent or seemingly democratic but were controlled by another stronger nation which in most cases is the United States. The leaders of those small nations are nothing but puppets with no choices but to follow American orders. This is the reason why the U. S. is so anxious in converting other nations into ???democracy???

    For Communismt to work perfectly, citizen must be relatively well educated, unselfish and well trained. My own interpretation of ???revisionism??? as being a political system which can be easily refined and improved. More importantly, we need an extremely long foresight to be able to look into the very distant future and not restrict short term gains. China had survived the latter therefore should be posed to become successful. People of a communist country must also be able to take sacrifice and not operate totally on profit. The failure of PRC???s communism at its early stage were simply due to American embargo and boycott in many different areas such as commerce and technology transfer.

    Chinese still refuse to accept the fact that their leaders are also one of them. In reality their leader???s belongings can also be shared and whatever that leader does is not only for his own good but are for other citizens also. This is the exact opposite to U. S. chief executives who functions exclusively for their own personal gain. They work only for the sake of being reelected and remembered in history. The minute their terms are over, they will be long gone and left behind mountains of unresolvable problems. In fact, it is their duty to be gone and to be relieved after their terms are over.

    To put it very simply, Chinese must begin to treat their leaders as their parents. They are very harsh, domineering and prone to make mistakes but somewhat responsive, naturally caring and they are permanent. Again, you should always remember that any social improvements toward perfection today will be limited by depleting resource and damaging Environment. Communication within the world???s biggest Chinese bureaucracy is difficult. If a better system can be established for leaders to give more attentions to their subordinates. With renew respect and trust from its citizens, China could be the ideal government in world history

  • Posted By: jordan c. fan @ 08/06/2009 5:08:44 AM

    Why The Chinese And American Marriage Failed? part 1.

    By; Jordan C. Fan, Prophet of Environment.

    With the opening of the year 2008 Olympic in Beijing, the ???Cold War??? had ended. China and its Communism political ideology has successfully emerge as the winner of this highly destructive war. Tens of millions of lives have been lost and trillions of dollars of property damages all due to American aggression. Such atrocities must be compensated by the U. S. because it had started the ???Cold War??? as a mean o continue its imperialism and war time industries. Historically, East Asia has always been the habitats for Asian survival and development. Americans involvements in these area during the Cold War are obviously selfish aggression. Taking away of Asian lives by Americans could only mean genocide. To fully understand the history of the 20th century or beyond, we must understand the political system in China.

    ???Freedom of speech??? may sometime be necessary to prevent and avoid unnecessary political transformations which will cause more harms than good to our world. With depleting natural resources and damaging Environment, the entire population of this planet are currently surviving on borrowed time. We don???t need any more wasteful changes. For China to be successful, we need new ideas for improving our world through governments and their policies. Emphasis should also be put on how to guide other nations toward gradual adoption of Communism into their own political systems. In short, "Communism" and My version of ???Revisionism??? must be made very sacred.

    There were little or no ???politic??? before the American Revolution for their independence from England in 1776. Monarchies as ???political??? leaders or alternatives were without political ideologies but the personalities of those monarchs which would dictate their government policies. We should all agree that politics or ideological difference of governments are really myths or deceptions. Its sole purpose is to overthrow or replace an existing government or political party. After such political transformations were completed, politic in those nations should become obsolete. As its replacements, there should only be constant but gradual improvements of the existing ???political??? framework to fit the need of their citizens. Frequent elections at all levels will be extremely wasteful, time consuming and inefficient.

    The United States used its own politic ideology as a deception during the Cold War to diverge attentions from its internal unrest since its Civil War. The process of mandatory and scheduled political changes even through elections are unnecessary because they always create instabilities.
    (CONTINUE TO PART 2).

  • Posted By: jordan c. fan @ 08/06/2009 4:31:29 AM

    By: Jordan C. Fan, Prophet of Environment.

    If you are refering to China as the "Middle Kingdom" , your title was wrong. China ?????? is the "Central Kingdom" not the "Middle Kingdom". You know there is a big difference. Many foreigners were trying to downgrade China to a "Middle Kingdom" but that doesn't work.

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