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Thursday, April 20, 2006

Traders in human misery

(Cross-posted from Burkean Canuck).
Every year in Ottawa, the Embassy of the People's Republic of China (PRC) plays the same, petty game.  Both the Taiwan Economic and Cultural Office representing the Republic of China on Taiwan (ROC) and the PRC host receptions to celebrate their respective "national days" for China.  The PRC reception is nice, but the ROC reception is far and away "nicer."  The PRC has a cash bar.  The ROC holds an open bar including the expensive stuff.  The PRC event will have one menu with limited supply.  The ROC will have several menus with an unlimited supply of food.

And every year, the PRC puts pressure on whatever venue the ROC has engaged for the evening to pull the booking.

Petty.

But, far worse is what the PRC is doing to persecute Falun Gong practitioners and practicing Christians.  The brutality the PRC exacts against Falun Gong is better known.  Less well known is how the PRC treats Christians and, especially, Christian leaders who are not part of the so-called "Three Self" church (and here).  This is a regime that trades in human misery, let alone its trade in industrial secrets and counterfeit branded goods.

And here's my piece about the doubts attaching to the PRC's counterfeit growth economy.

UPDATE:  I know I'm a little behind the eight ball, but here's the Xinhua press release denying Foreign Minister Peter MacKay's references to 1000 PRC spies engaging in industrial espionage in Canada.  A CTV story, here, claims the PRC Ambassador to Canada issued veiled threats that the allegations could put in jeopardy a $60B trade deal signed by the Martin Government, last year.  In the same story, a CSIS spokesman claimed that the Martin Government was afraid to say anything because they didn't want to jeopardize the trade deal.  But the spokesman also claimed that for every $100M in industrial secrets stolen by the PRC, Canada loses 1000 jobs.

How about focusing our trade efforts on Taiwan?  And India?  If the PRC economy really is a bubble as Frank Xie of Drexel University claims, Canadian business and investors are being put in jeopardy by pouring money and making contracts in the PRC.

Posted by Russ Kuykendall on April 20, 2006 in International Affairs | Permalink

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Comments

Cetainly some pretty engaged thinkers feel that "China Big" is a train wreck fast approaching. Consider some things that may help derail the Chinese Superpower/ Economic miracle:

There are now 118 boys born, for every 100 girls. This is the reverse of Europe in the 20's, when all those "agressive" young fellas were now worm-mulch in Flanders.

There is inescapable structural inefficiency in the Chinese management class. Communist party hacks have so thoroughly positioned themselves in all the peachy spots. Never mind the fact that in some factories, workers are expected to continually bribe their bosses to keep their jobs...

There are several ethnic issues boiling under the surface, namely China's growing Muslim population in the Western Provinces, and the resurgence of Mongolian Nationalism (Ginghiz Khan now having been made unofficial patron saint of all the Mongolias, and is worshipped by some Mongolians as their first messiah).

And of course, China needs lebensraum, and the Russians aren't currently using Siberia very much, seeing as the Russians are fast becoming an endangered species. It will be interesting to see whether China can even hold together as one state, seeing as how they are the world's longest-standing empire...

But first, all those young men with no chance of marriage have to be given something to do. Anyone up for a little warfare?

Posted by: bcf | 2006-04-21 10:18:55 AM



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