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Have you read "1587, A Year of No Significance"?

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Have you read "1587, A Year of No Significance"?

Postby hlbb » Thu Apr 07, 2011 4:51 am

Just read something called "Is China next?"
http://economistonline.muogao.com/2011/ ... -next.html

It is a very typical bullish you can hear from any people living in the US, stuff like that,

"There is also what the Chinese themselves call the "bad emperor" problem. China's historical achievement over the centuries has been the creation of high-quality centralized bureaucratic government. When authoritarian rulers are competent and reasonably responsible, things can go very well. Indeed, such decision-making is often more efficient than in a democracy. But there is no guarantee that the system will always produce good rulers, and in the absence of the rule of law and electoral checks on executive power, there is no way to get rid of a bad emperor. The last bad emperor, commonly (if quietly) acknowledged as such, was Mao. We can't know what future tyrant, or corrupt kleptocrat, may be waiting in the wings in China's future."

I suggest the writer do go and read the book "1587, A Year of No Significance" and spend 10 minutes about the China's political system before just print those "western common sense".
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Re: Have you read "1587, A Year of No Significance"?

Postby rickettyrabbit » Thu Apr 07, 2011 5:25 am

I suggest you post something more than an excerpt and your opinion about it if you want to persuade anyone. Your post is even worse than "very typical bu** shi* you can hear from any people living in the US, stuff like that".
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Re: Have you read "1587, A Year of No Significance"?

Postby hlbb » Thu Apr 07, 2011 5:31 am

rickettyrabbit wrote:I suggest you post something more than an excerpt and your opinion about it if you want to persuade anyone. Your post is even worse than "very typical bu** shi* you can hear from any people living in the US, stuff like that".

But there must be light to guide you, I feel I am responsible for all ShanghaiExpat. To help under educated people from barbarian place is a noble thing to do.
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Re: Have you read "1587, A Year of No Significance"?

Postby rickettyrabbit » Thu Apr 07, 2011 7:10 am

hlbb wrote:
rickettyrabbit wrote:I suggest you post something more than an excerpt and your opinion about it if you want to persuade anyone. Your post is even worse than "very typical bu** shi* you can hear from any people living in the US, stuff like that".

But there must be light to guide you, I feel I am responsible for all ShanghaiExpat. To help under educated people from barbarian place is a noble thing to do.


^ "Wise words" from hlbb, the frog at the bottom of the well. 8)

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Re: Have you read "1587, A Year of No Significance"?

Postby caso » Thu Apr 07, 2011 7:23 am

I feel I am responsible for all ShanghaiExpat.

this goes immediatly in the "Everybody in the world wants to be Shanghainess" box
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Re: Have you read "1587, A Year of No Significance"?

Postby victorinchina » Thu Apr 07, 2011 7:27 am

hlbb wrote:But there must be light to guide you, I feel I am responsible for all ShanghaiExpat. To help under educated people from barbarian place is a noble thing to do.


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Should I chose this one:
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Re: Have you read "1587, A Year of No Significance"?

Postby Russian.Bear » Thu Apr 07, 2011 8:23 am

hlbb wrote:It is a very typical bullish


Hlbb, it's really very common your arguments. But, if accumulate all your saying it is about -

"East winning over West" and so on, right ?


You know, most of the people believe what America busted USSR, but me, as insider, can say - it's only partial true. Soviet people always envied to American people's high income, personal homes and 2 cars, nice movies, guaranteed right to say any bullshite, right to think and dream what they want.
The result you know.

And here a core, we all love values what Western Civilization brings , so it will win again and again.



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Re: Have you read "1587, A Year of No Significance"?

Postby TIC » Thu Apr 07, 2011 9:01 am

hlbb wrote:It is a very typical bullish you can hear from any people living in the US, stuff like that,


Sorry Hlbb, I stopped reading your post after this sentence, as I feel all the stuff you write is just some typical bullish that I hear every day from a neglected and bullied Chinese little kid that fled to the states and found out he isn't wanted in neither places.

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Re: Have you read "1587, A Year of No Significance"?

Postby btb » Thu Apr 07, 2011 9:52 am

hlbb circular thinking

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Re: Have you read "1587, A Year of No Significance"?

Postby StarShapedHole » Thu Apr 07, 2011 12:19 pm

i read your posts and all i can think is- hlbb, chump of no significance.
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