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Friday, 12 February 2010 00:12 |
 This is a fantastic book. Honestly, I only have two minor issues with Jasper’s Becker’s book, The Chinese. First, it is ten years old and I really want an update. If you think that ten years could not be nearly long enough to date a book on populations within a country than you haven not been to China recently. I would really like to see an update that included some specifics on the various population groups within the major cities of Shezhen, Shanghai and Beijing.
For example of how fast China changes, consider this: I first came to China in ’95. I taught English at a university on the outskirts of Chongqing for a year. That year was physically the most difficult of my life. I lost 45lbs—there was nothing to eat. Even the parents of my Chinese students told their children not to eat out on the streets because it was so dirty. The teachers told me not to go to the campus health clinic because the university was saving money and buying fake medicines.
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Monday, 02 November 2009 00:00 |
 Better than Freidman’s “The World is Flat” because it has more research and less left-leaning political solutions. Clyde Prestowitz’s “3 Billion New Capitalists” is a more complex read and of more value since it looks at both the causes of America’s decline/Asia’s rise and the numbers behind the trends. While Freidman regales us with anecdotes, Prestowitz tries to overwhelm with statistics.
The two general themes make up the case for the potential fall of the US from world dominance and the rise of Asia, and to a lesser extent the EU and Brazil in it’s place. While Prestowitz groups these issues together, I think that there are really two different issues:
One is the fall of America and the Dollar from the top spot in the world economic-political hierarchy and the rise of Asia, and the Euro, in it’s place. The decline in the quality of American education, the lack of government support/encouragement for both economically strategic industries and maths and sciences gets most of the blame. Conversely, the willingness of other countries to see specific types of education and industries as keys to national security has made the “free trade” playing field anything but level.
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