[FunkoPlan]

"Beijing can't clean up the environment, rein in stock speculation, or police its companies. Why the mainland's problems could keep it from becoming the next superpower"

Check the following link,guys:

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine...position=link1

[Boris]

I read this volumous article which is written by a guy with a large database of quotes, pre written story lines and statistics. Its obvious he's never been inside the PRC to live and work.
Good copy for the US market maybe. Any of us that would suck in this diatribe as - they are the good guys and Red China Commie Slopes must be bad, would have an ability to only see history as the last 10 yrs.

Industrial revolutions produce problems and this article doesn't address the situation in Europe ( especially UK ) in the 19th Century and certainly not the mass pollution and corporate and government rape in the 20th Century US, Western Europe, Japan et al.

No one , including I, would say anything is untrue. Its not, but the article does not and cannot provide answers of a practicle nature. The press by its very nature would say they provide a window and a platform for discussion. That I am afraid is the response to the enlightened and educated from lost " print warriors " that sit at a desk and try to provide a reason for receiving a pay check every month.

One example I have personal experiance of. A HIGH air and water polluting paper factory. Now a China, Taiwan, and HK JV empoys 3,500 local workers and is the main employer in an impoveraged North China Area. The factory raw material ( water margin reeds ) is supplied from a 100 sq mile area supporting another 5,000 workers ( low estimate ). Driving by it you have to hold your breath as the air is " distressing " the raw effulent discharges into the local river.

Question - You are the local mayor, what would you feel able to do? There is only basic farming as an alternate employment to this impoverised town. There are no luxuries, no night life. Only work to live. As the mayor allthough you are working hard to attract other business and the regional government supports you, you are presented with a Catch 22.

I would love to have rebutted the article at Businessweek but you only get 1000 characters. They give it out but can't take it.