The Trader
- 2015-12-12
We all die, true, but it's the way we live that counts, won't you agree?
If the drugs and women abuse counts two of us will be quite cosy for all eternity, rolling Old Holborn and discussing sinological brain-teasers, with the odd brandishing of pokers and friendly disputes concerning 'it' or 'its' or 'it's' during furnace operatives' tea breaks.
Curious
- 2015-12-11
We all die, true, but it's the way we live that counts, won't you agree?
San Migs
- 2015-12-11
Perhaps over simplified, perhaps, but none of us get out alive anyway..........
Curious
- 2015-12-11
It's a simplistic view of things
San Migs
- 2015-12-11
Technically, so is Aus/Canada/NZ also.
As Paul Hogan said in Crocodile Dundee "arguing over who owns it, is like two fleas arguing over the dog they are biting". They both have to live there, so it's pointless to keep going round in circles, they being the aborigines and the white australians respectively, of course.
Curious
- 2015-12-09
Good post, Caring.
Also your other post about Trump and the native indians. Whether we like it or not, the whole continental mass is stolen land.
Caring
- 2015-12-09
And yet the USA has just decided to sell "Made in China" American GM vehicles in America. The "Beijing's airpocalypse" isn't probably the same in cities like Shanghai, but the overall air, water or food quality and the local people's poor follow-up of any standards or regulations ought to be more alarming than it is everywhere and for everyone. Why would the American cars that are made in China have to be imported to the US is beyond me and perhaps the unemployed Americans too. In the end, this is about the one who vacuums bricks out of the Beijing air as well as about the ones who exploit dough out of the cheap system. 
The American Chamber of Commerce published the results of its annual ‘China Business Climate’ survey earlier in March. One question asked ‘Have you or your organisation experienced any difficulties in recruiting or retaining senior executives to work in China because of air quality issues?’ Responses from the organisation’s 365 members underline a trend, 48% replied yes in 2014 versus 34% in 2013 and 19% in 2008. Although there is little published data, companies in many sectors report managers at all levels trying to escape the pollution. They're asking to be relocated. As a result, recruiters say foreign enterprises are having increasing difficulty attracting top talent to The Middle Kingdom as many refuse to move, citing Beijing’s worsening air quality.
Off the record, several international schools’ headmasters told BBC Capital that admissions fell by as much as 5% last year [...] Parents worry about the long-term effects of exposing their children to hazardous levels of foul air [...]
A WHO survey released last year that looked at causes of deaths worldwide found outdoor air pollution contributed to 1.2 million premature deaths in China in 2010, accounting for almost 40% of the global total. When the survey was published several Chinese university professors contested the methodology and said the figure could likely be even higher.