Free Enterprise. WE Win!

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

Vietnam, EU look forward to free trade argreement
english.vovnews.vn/Home/Vietnam-EU-look-forward-to-free-trade-argreement/20117/128217.vov

Police break up S. China Sea rally in Vietnam
www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/1139994/1/.html

China, Vietnam in a war of words
www.atimes.com/atimes/Southeast_Asia/MG09Ae01.html

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

China, U.S. military to have exchanges
www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2011/07/12/China-US-military-to-have-exchanges/UPI-31461310449050/?spt=hs&or=tn

"Hospital ships of the two navies will conduct exchanges and carry out joint medical and rescue drills. Their navies will hold joint anti-piracy drills in the Gulf of Aden in the fourth quarter of this year.

The two sides also agreed to hold working group meetings and annual maritime military security meetings before the first half of 2012.

The two sides stressed that a sound, stable and reliable military relationship is an important component of China-U.S. relations."

Chinese film fans refuse to come to the aid of the party
www.montrealgazette.com/entertainment/harry-potter/Chinese+film+fans+refuse+come+party/5085205/story.html#ixzz1Ry2BAsBn
"The Communist Party had already made sure there would be no competition from Hollywood, postponing the release dates of the new Transformers and Harry Potter films."

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

GE drives sustainable growth goals of the Middle East with US$1.8 billion investment in clean technology research
www.albawaba.com/ge-drives-sustainable-growth-goals-middle-east-us18-billion-investment-clean-technology-research-383

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

Interesting chain of events right after the US and China have strategic Military talks.....

Local governments sign deals with US
www.chinadaily.com.cn/bizchina/2011-07/16/content_12916154.htm

S.Korea and China agree to hold regular defense strategy talks
english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_national/487733.html

China, Iran celebrate 40th anniversary of establishment of diplomatic relations
news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/china/2011-07/16/c_13988626.htm

Vietnam: U.S. Ships to Join Exercises, Raising Objections from China
www.nytimes.com/2011/07/16/world/asia/16briefs-Vietnam.html?_r=1

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

How about this?

U of T scholars work to build a better toilet
www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/toronto/building-a-better-cheaper-toilet/article2101779/?from=sec431

The need for a new kind of toilet is overwhelming in the developing world, said Frank Rijsberman, director of the Gates Foundation’s water, sanitation and hygiene program. “The flush toilet has been an incredibly important public health advance,” he said. “But it doesn’t reach poor people.”

An estimated 2.6 billion people don’t have access to safe and sanitary toilets, according to Unicef statistics, and 1.2 billion of them have no toilet access at all, forcing them to use open fields or alleys. That contributes to the spread of diarrheal diseases such as cholera, rotavirus and E. coli, which kill more children than AIDS, malaria and measles combined, the agency says.

Good thing we have some business people working on it!!

Because we live in a largely free society, we tend to forget how limited is the span of time and the part of the globe for which there has ever been anything like political freedom: the typical state of mankind is tyranny, servitude, and misery. The nineteenth century and early twentieth century in the Western world stand out as striking exceptions to the general trend of historical development. Political freedom in this instance clearly came along with the free market and the development of capitalist institutions. So also did political freedom in the golden age of Greece and in the early days of the Roman era.
History suggests only that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.
-Milton Friedman

"Well first of all, tell me: Is there some society you know that doesn’t run on greed? You think Russia doesn’t run on greed? You think China doesn’t run on greed? What is greed? Of course, none of us are greedy, it’s only the other fellow who’s greedy. The world runs on individuals pursuing their separate interests. The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. Einstein didn’t construct his theory under order from a bureaucrat. Henry Ford didn’t revolutionize the automobile industry that way. In the only cases in which the masses have escaped from the kind of grinding poverty you’re talking about, the only cases in recorded history, are where they have had capitalism and largely free trade. If you want to know where the masses are worse off, worst off, it’s exactly in the kinds of societies that depart from that. So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear, that there is no alternative way so far discovered of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by the free-enterprise system."
— Milton Friedman

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

Just keep at it, east meets west and the people in the center aren't happy... Too bad!

China says Xinjiang incident long planned
www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2011/07/21/China-says-Xinjiang-incident-long-planned/UPI-99761311226979/

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

That noise you hear is the door slamming shut on socialism.. This just warms your heart.

On-reserve home ownership sees success
www.thestarphoenix.com/reserve+home+ownership+Ronge+sees+success/5153849/story.html

Indonesia Coal Boom Creates Jungle Wealth
www.cnbc.com/id/43876568

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

Everyone works together..

India closer to opening up $450 bln retail sector
www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gg5T4xVVVdMk_BWHwJ0R233Jf_gg?docId=CNG.fe768764ef7d83a788e89cdd526cf0de.a11

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

As the dust settles, we see what will shape the new middle east. Religion, not likley, where is the money in killing in thy name?? Nowhere. It's all about being part of the business world now. Love not war makes more! Some know who to thank.. ;D

The Rise of Moderate Islam
www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2084273_2084272_2084483,00.html

As we wait for the Salafi leader Kamal Habib at the Cairo Journalists' Union, a sudden panic comes over me. I've just noticed that my translator, Shahira Amin, an Egyptian journalist, is wearing a sleeveless top and that her hair is uncovered. In my experience, Salafis, adherents of a very strict school of Islam, take a dim view of such displays of femininity.

I recall a time in Baghdad when a Salafi preacher cursed me for bringing a female photographer to our interview, and an occasion in the Jordanian city of Salt when another Salafi leaped from his chair and thwacked his teenage daughter on the arm when she accidentally entered the room without covering her face from my infidel eyes.

I've heard reports that Habib is not the hard-liner he was in the 1970s, when he co-founded the radical Egyptian Islamic Jihad, or the 1980s, when he was jailed in connection with the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. He gave up politics after a decade in prison, but in the aftermath of the Arab Spring, he has reinvented himself as a leader of a more moderate party. He has held press conferences at the union, so presumably he's had to make his peace with women who don't cover their hair. But I fear he may draw the line at a sleeveless top.

I needn't have worried. When Habib arrives, he shouts a jolly greeting from across the room and then bounds over. He's wearing a blue blazer and clutching a smart phone. He looks my translator straight in the eye and extends his hand to shake. They exchange complaints about the beastly humidity. Would Shahira like a Pepsi? he asks solicitously.

Only weeks before my arrival in Cairo, Salafis had burned down Coptic Christian churches in the Imbaba neighborhood, perhaps 15 minutes from where we're sitting.......

...........But a few weeks are an eternity in post-Mubarak Egypt. Several Salafi leaders have decided to join the political fray, and they can't afford to let a few thugs make them all look bad. So Habib has decided to organize a big reconciliation meeting with Coptic leaders, and he wants me to know he has no truck with the reactionaries who burned churches. "Khalas. Finished," he says, spreading his hands in a gesture of finality. "The past is the past, and the people who did this terrible thing are from the past. Their time is over."

I had to wonder if Habib's message was custom-made for a Western journalist or whether it offered a glimpse of a new possibility. Over the next few days, in the incipient Arab democracies of Egypt and Tunisia, I find that Islamists of all stripes — from extremist Salafis to members of more orthodox groups like the Muslim Brotherhood — say they are breaking with the past and reinventing themselves as the moderate mainstream. "We can no longer be the party that says 'Down with this' and 'Down with that,'" says Essam el-Erian, a top Brotherhood leader. "The thing we stood against is gone, so now we have to re-examine what we stand for.".......

.......Paranoid rhetoric about threats to Muslim identity have given way to political messaging that could have been lifted from the party platforms of any Western democracy: It's all about jobs, investments, inclusiveness. A new broom to sweep clean decades of corruption. A new dawn of can-do Islamism........

............Under the circumstances, you might expect the Islamists to be reveling in their ascendancy, seeing it as an endorsement of their extreme views. They're doing no such thing. Instead they are herding toward the political center, adopting positions that would be entirely familiar in Western democracies. Leaders of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood and Tunisia's Ennahda (Renaissance) talk about economic priorities: creating jobs, reducing debt, attracting foreign investment, halting the exodus of skilled labor. There's little talk of Shari'a or of restricting the rights of women or non-Muslim minorities.

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

This is exactly what post number one is all about. Our tolerance and understand has been one of our greatest weapons, regardless of if you believe they are just saying it, or not, the people that took these polls are in this spot now.

It's going to be amazing to see what it looks like when love, not war is the focal point of world economic growth. Plunder economy doesn't work, service economy does. Seem a lot are seeing it that way now a days. Some know who to thank.

American Muslims upbeat about life in U.S.: Poll
www.canada.com/news/American+Muslims+upbeat+about+life+Poll/5195763/story.html

WASHINGTON - A Gallup poll released Tuesday found that most Muslim Americans are very optimistic about their lives in the United States and are loyal to a country that's given them a wealth of economic opportunities, even though some Americans continue to treat the community with hostility.

But the report also identified one area of concern: how to improve the strained relationship between Muslims and other Americans.

Experts said the survey findings were important because they could mitigate some of the concerns Americans have about the susceptibility of American Muslims to extremist causes. The thinking goes that if people are satisfied with their lives, they're unlikely to get sucked into radical movements, which often prey on economically vulnerable people.

Asked to rate what their lives would be like in five years, Muslim Americans gave higher ratings than members of most other religious groups did. On a 1-to-10 scale, Muslims rated their future lives at 8.4, while Americans of other religious groups give average ratings of 7.4 to 8, Gallup pollsters said.

Mohamed Younis, a senior Gallup analyst, attributed Muslims' positive outlook to a range of reasons, from political factors to the slowly recovering economy having improved their standard-of-living expectations.

"We definitely see a lot of approval for President Barack Obama and a changed rhetoric around the role of Muslims in America and Muslim-U.S. relations globally," Younis said. The survey found Obama's job approval rating at 80 per cent among American Muslims.

The survey, which consisted of two polls conducted from January 2010 to April 2011, comes from the Abu Dhabi Gallup Center with some financial support from the crown prince of Abu Dhabi. The firm surveyed 1,500 Muslim Americans and thousands of Americans from other faiths, with a margin of error of 0.3 to 6.6 percentage points.

(EDITORS: STORY CAN END HERE)

With the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks approaching, some Americans are still skeptical of the allegiances of Muslims who live in the United States. The poll found that more than a third of Protestants and Roman Catholics didn't believe that Muslim Americans were loyal to the U.S.

More than nine in 10 Muslims surveyed thought that their community was loyal.

The concerns of some Americans may have been raised by incidents such as the November 2009 shooting spree that killed 13 people at Fort Hood, Texas, and the attempted bombing of New York's Times Square in May 2010. U.S. citizens of Muslim extraction have been charged in the first case and have pleaded guilty in the second.

Panelists who introduced the survey at the National Press Club said those events didn't represent the true face of Muslims in this country, a group that on average is younger, holds a greater percentage of professional graduate degrees and earns a higher income than average Americans.

"There are so many American Muslims who (have) served in the Army and in law enforcement. Those stories have not been told. All that you hear about is the negative view of Islam and Muslims," said Imam Mohamed Magid, the president of the Islamic Society of North America.

(EDITORS: STORY CAN END HERE)

Law enforcement agencies remain concerned, however, about certain corners of the American Muslim community, such as Somali-Americans living in Minnesota. Several dozen young Somali Americans have traveled in recent years to their East African home country to fight for al-Shabab, a State Department-designated terrorist group that's currently blocking famine-starved civilians from leaving areas under its control.

The poll also found that many Americans of different religious groups say that Muslims aren't speaking out enough against terrorism. More than 60 per cent of Protestants, Catholics and Jews say that Muslims should condemn terrorist attacks more publicly.

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Rabbi David Saperstein, the director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, said interfaith leaders had been unsuccessful in promoting how well-assimilated most Muslims were in America. This is in contrast to some European countries, where many Muslims have found integrating into the mainstream culture difficult.

"We really need to change the images of Islam to more accord with the reality. (The survey) gives us a lot to work with," Saperstein said.

D. Paul Monteiro, the associate director of the White House Office of Public Engagement, said that one way for Muslim Americans to increase other Americans' level of trust was to engage person-to-person with people of other faiths.

"When a person who is a Protestant or any other religion meets a person who is Muslim, the conversation changes. The perception changes," Monteiro said.

"As long as someone . . . doesn't know personally someone who is Muslim, then they're open and susceptible to some of this rapidly spreading misinformation that even in some parts of the press presents a not-so-great picture of Muslims or Islam as a whole."[/size][/quote]


As the article above points out, Muslims in Europe have had a hard time fitting in. That's a very interesting point considering that this is what Iran is now doing. After China was just there and some Islamist have been bombing China.

'Europe mustn't let US damage Iran ties'
www.presstv.com/detail/192261.html

Meanwhile they have just let some "spies'/hikers go. I wonder if China holding 30b in oil payments had anything to do with that? Maybe S Korea's 2.5B? ect, ect..

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

Just one more example of how free enterprise is helping people everyday. It's amazing to think what a little money and ingenuity can lead to.

The Repatriate Generation
www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2086837,00.html

The oil-rich african nation of Chad has rampant corruption, unclean water, few tarred roads and patchy electricity. It ranks as the world's second most dysfunctional country, after Somalia, according to the 2011 Failed States Index of the Washington-based nonprofit Fund for Peace. In short, Chad seems a nightmare location for business — unless, that is, you are Papa Madiaw Ndiaye, 45, or Patrice Backer, 44, of Advanced Finance & Investment Group, a private-equity fund-management company in Dakar, Senegal, that has so far invested about $72 million in African financial institutions, agriculture and minining.

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

Remember this part Ty..

This is more of what the diversification of China's holdings is going to look like. Spreading USD onto Africa. Hmm Yeah a lot is going to change in Africa and the Middle east when the USA is "gone" from the region all right.!!

Mobius: The China sponsored boom in Africa
www.moneycontrol.com/news/features/mobiusthe-china-sponsored-boom-africa_575850.html

Yet, surprisingly, China has a trade deficit with Africa, importing more than it exports to the continent. 80% of Africa`s exports to China are raw materials such as oil, but increasingly, it is also manufactured and agricultural products such as Egyptian oranges, South African wines, and Tunisian olive oil. In order to promote that trade, China has set up bilateral trade agreements with 45 African countries, a number of which now have zero tariff preference with China.

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

The message is starting to ring through loud and clear. The new world is about freedom and choice, just like the old Free world was!! The people will not have it any other way!!

The march of China's new middle class
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/8707197/The-march-of-Chinas-new-middle-class.html

Apple Overtakes Lenovo in China Sales
www.cnbc.com/id/44196464

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

Even though China is in the past in a lot of ways. There is always a glimpse of the future shining through. Full pressure now! The companies need us, and with a strong foundation, we will all prosper!

Coca-Cola Opening 100th Hope School in China
www.marketwatch.com/story/photo-of-coca-cola-opening-100th-hope-school-in-china-available-on-business-wires-web-site-and-ap-photoexpress-2011-08-19?reflink=MW_news_stmp

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Aman, there are significant changes in what goes on in Silicon Valley. Now, I realize that change is good, but these changes are part of a continuum of the passing of many of the early Silicon Valley startups.

First, Steve Jobs resigns as CEO of Apple. Well known story of Steve and Woz working in the garage. I always liked Woz better than Steve, but Steve was the salesman and the visionary. Steve is personally responsible for Apple's long term success based on recognizing which technologies were needed, and what the devices needed to do to be most useful to end users. He says that there are 3 years of his ideas in the Apple pipeline. But what after that? What will be the Jobs stock price premium? As much as Jack Welch's? I'd guess even more so because Jack's value was in concepts; Steve's was in technologies.

Second, Hewlett Packard to sell off hardware businesses and become a software company. Another garage dream story. But H and P did it with hardware. Everything they made was in an enclosure. Steve Jobs even got a summer job with them while in college, just for calling David Packard at his house and asking him if they had a test model of an RF meter or something that they might donate to him. HP built most everything they sold. They bent the sheet aluminum into enclosures, anodized them, and loaded in the circuit boards that they built and electroplated. They made all kinds of equipment over the years. But now they are going out of the manufacturing business. They'll become just another software company, like Adobe. Their days of greatness are over.

I expect a similar fate for Cisco Systems. There is no more growth factor for routers. They are becoming commodity products, like DRAMs.

But, time moves on, and buggywhip makers need to go out of business. The surprising thing is that these rises and falls all happened over the brief span of about 40 years.

The powerhouses have become ancient and impotent. It's time to focus on the new names.

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

I would say those are great thoughts Vman. k4u

Business cycles are what help keep competition alive and innovation growing. History repeating itself is the way I read what your saying. The same thing has happened in every industry, that's what freedom in business creates. Without out it, we are all wearing state made shoes.

Ironically Apple has destroyed the CPU(HP) market with tablets, and my question is the same as yours.. What is after the Iphone6 and the Ipad4? Apples rise has been entirely in the last 10 years, and like you pointed out mostly because of one man. I agree 110% that Jobs is bigger than Welch because GE was a massive company long before Welch, plus GE is into everything so there are many reasons to believe they will continue into the future. I'm not going to write apple off, I have never been an Apple user, and I think I'm going to by and ASUS tablet, however, I can respect the changes in trend that have occurred because of Apple. I guess time will tell if Apple can be an IBM, GE, or Coke, or if we are looking at the next RIM, Palm, ect, ect.

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

Great minds!

Some great article on the topics that were just discussed.

The Most Innovative CEOs In America
247wallst.com/2011/08/26/the-most-innovative-ceos-in-america/

How to Be Like Apple
online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904009304576532842667854706.html

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

Since the play on words, "This is what's going on", has lost its fun for certain reasons. Let face it. We win!

India is now, and has been for a while, focusing on growing as fast as China. That means more money to their people, because China's new goal is of course happiness not GDP; aka we have to be like the US because there are 1 billion people that want to leave or revolt because Commie china sucks! On that note, apparently Love conquers all, even the "materialistic" Chinese culture.. Who knew?

India Measures Itself Against a China That Doesn’t Notice
www.nytimes.com/2011/09/01/business/global/india-looks-to-china-as-an-economic-model.html

China’s Property Boom Fuels Romantic Revolution
classic.cnbc.com/id/44351895

For Ms Qian a naked wedding seems like a refreshingly simple option. “Chinese society is so materialistic and there is no trust between people,” she complains.

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

More confirmation that China is working with US, not against US.

Exclusive: China curbs Iran energy work
www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/02/us-china-iran-usa-idUSTRE78112K20110902

[verrip1]

There was an article this week in FT about the naked weddings. Culture clash. Reality clash. Relationship clash. China can't help but be deeply affected by the continuing ties to cultural mores set centuries ago which are completely incongruous with 21st century China. Is another Cultural Revolution brewing? Can innovation thrive in such an environment?

Contrast with Israel which is a hub of innovation, even though there are many ties to old traditions, yet they are adapted to the current environment - discussed in another article this week from FT.

China's tendency towards military aggression was shown in their stopping an Indian ship which had just left a Vietnam port into the South China Sea. The Chinese warship demanded an explanation from the captain of why the Indian vessel was in the South China Sea, even though India announced the schedule of this good will mission quite some time ago. This is per Chinese statements that they are exerting an 'ownership' of what the rest of the world considers international waters. China seems to want both cooperation with and isolation from the rest of the world. The internal conflict of these positions brings Chinese motivations into question.

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

The culture clash in China is a big part of why the mantra in China is happiness not GDP.. No, it doesn't foster innovation, that is why I have believed for a very long time that China will get a head, only with the help of their American friends. The same ones who showed up on Japanese shores a the end of WW2 and helped them win their freedom from the Japanese. On that point point this is why, IMO, they are showing aggression in the South China Sea. They have been attacked many times from the water, and they want people to know that they are here, and not to mess with them. This is a defensive move because they are FINALLY done rebuilding from WW2(Initially they went at it the wrong way, that's why it took so long ) They are PISSED at Vietnam right now, and this is a shot at India for doing business with them, JMO

Back to the Cultural Clash and the happiness not GDP. It's going to take 30 years, at least, to make a billion people happy for sure. Freedom is the only way, they need all the help they can get, that is why even though the US/West is going to be out of the ME, it will still have influence. China needs the west to help it develop.

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

As the third world grows WE all move forward.

World Bank: China can help by boosting consumption
www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9PI6V2G0.htm

CNPC wins deal to develop Afghan oil
usa.chinadaily.com.cn/business/2011-09/06/content_13629052.htm

Within A Generation, China Middle Class Four Times Larger Than America's
www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/2011/09/05/within-a-generation-china-middle-class-four-times-larger-than-americas/?feed=rss_asia

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

Yes, it's amazing, it really does work!

Mongolia Per Capita GDP to Hit $5,000 by 2012: Govt Minister
www.cnbc.com/id/44498765

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

Sept 15, 2011 9:30:38 GMT -5 @bumpybumpington said:

As the third world grows WE all move forward.

Yes, forward. It sounds so much better than decending into a state of chaos. There are some here who may disagree though.

I'm sure that they would. It's funny, because I beileve that we are slowly evolving form a state of chaos.

I am glad that I have just waited and let a gut feeling grow. The western Revolutions were started with freedom for all. However, women didn't have the right to vote until the mid 1900's in NA Over the last 30 years we have STARTED, to show women respect in our culture. This is something that the new Islamic world is going to have to get used to with everyone watching.

Libyan woman guided NATO bombs to Gadhafi targets
www.thestarphoenix.com/news/Libyan+woman+guided+NATO+bombs+Gadhafi+targets/5389509/story.html

Her biggest protection against arrest by Gadhafi's security forces though was her gender: as a young woman in Libya's conservative Muslim society, they did not suspect her.

"I was not on the radar," the woman, an engineer, told Reuters in an interview in the lobby of a Tripoli hotel, two weeks on from a rebellion that broke Gadhafi's control over the Libyan capital after 42 years in power.

"They were concentrating more on the guys and it was almost impossible to think that a girl was doing all of this."

The bold part sounds really familiar, doesn't it? Then of course there is the fact that China has lots of houses to fill with lost of angry people that want some food!

Grasshopper and the ant sums it up. The ants are tired of the grasshopper stealing and they want to stay warm and fed for the winter..

China's Overhang of Unsold Property Poses "Very Real" Problem
www.forbes.com/sites/russellflannery/2011/09/13/chinas-overhang-of-unsold-property-poses-very-real-problem/?feed=rss_asia

Of couse this also means they will need things to push their new consumer driven market. Since the Chinese public love American products there will be lots of oppertunities. Like this.

Owens Corning Opening its New China Composites Center in Shanghai, China
www.istockanalyst.com/business/news/5399814/owens-corning-opening-its-new-china-composites-center-in-shanghai-china

"Our new China Composites Center in Shanghai demonstrates our commitment to provide customers locally with customized solutions,"

The bold part points out the part about servicing our own economies that I have been harping about.

Then there is this.

Canada's Scotia buys stake in Bank of Guangzhou
news.yahoo.com/canadas-scotia-buys-stake-bank-guangzhou-085721375.html

And this...







They are so desperate for American Products in China that they opened fake apple stores!!

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

Well how about this? A few post back we talked about Welch and Jobs vman. Here is Welch saying that China needs to create 10,000 apples. That in the next three to five years, they have to create a major global brand, or they will lose their competitiveness.. He thinks they will do it. I have to disagree with Mr. Welch.

Warren Buffet knows all about Chinese brands, such as; one of the only car companies that isn't making it in China, a Chinese brand. How about the pictures above? There are of course 500 Taco bells opening a year in China. GE is opening a global headquarters there, Disney is opening a theme park, and they had to push all the opening of US films to a different weekend just so that their commie film would be no 1.

Not to mention that apparently USA made chop sticks are a hot item in China right now. Along with all the other big named high end western fashions/art/food.

IN the 1870's when the USA rose to power, it was on American food, energy, and innovation, and the civil war had happened. The Chinese rise to power will be on the backs of everyone else. They need food, energy and water, and because they have to worry about a civil war starting if they don't.

China Must Create ‘10,000 Apples,’ Welch Says
www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-09-07/china-won-t-lose-competitiveness-for-3-5-years-welch-says.html


Then if we go all the way back to the first thread of this page we see how the strategy is working out. How the rise of China not only benefits big global brands, as pointed out above in this post, it's also going to benefit WE the little people by raising the standard of living for everyone. Thanks JC

Jan 10, 2011 20:41:25 GMT -5 Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger said:

When has a military strategy been to build up other nations so that they are equal to you? Something had to be done after the forties because the war wasn't over, just turned cold. I know that we as humans can walk better with two legs. Why can't the world?? Don't fool yourself, or listen to the media that is always looking for the decline of America. It is possible that short term loss in jobs will lead to long term gain in prosperity for everyone. We are not talking about sections of the planet this is the whole world that is involved.

These are current market events that tie this all in together!!!

Just like the quote says, current market events that tie this all in together!

Cambodia eyes Chinese investment to boost economy
news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/china/2011-09/16/c_131142791.htm

[tyfighter3]

The Game Theory with the Blondie being the USA. In the end she will still be standing there, still looking the BEST. Over the last year we have been led to believe that Multi-Nationals have been the best thing to buy. Has it really been or just a way to bring other Country's up to us to be more equal. How long do we need that Blondie standing there by its self before we get on the Bandwagon ? I hope this hasn't been to DEEP for you to take a look at. Our Banks are solid and our Company's are doing Great. So, how long are we going to wait to ask that Blondie to Dance or are we going to stand in the corner and let her walk by? JMO

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

That's an interesting way to look at it. The way that I am saying it, is that China will only rise with all american girls on his arms.. As China gets richer, he is always going to want to make sure that his girls look nice, so he will always make sure to keep them up. Kinda like, Behind every good man there is a better woman, and behind a billion Chinese capitalists, there is an even better capitalistic society that has gotten it there.

As far as investing in the USA, that's exactly what I am saying the smart thing to do is. Look at the pics from china, the fact that Warren Buffets Chinese motors is failing, while GM, Ford, BMW, Benz are growing like crazy. It's telling, as China adopts consumerism, we are seeing what the consumer is choosing, that would be that pretty blonde your talking about Ty!

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

IN the 1870's when the USA rose to power, it was on American food, energy, and innovation, and the civil war had happened. The Chinese rise to power will be on the backs of everyone else. They need food, energy and water, and because they have to worry about a civil war starting if they don't.

The best part about historical speculation is you can sit back and watch to see what the mainstream picks up on. I have harped over and over about Henry Ford and his raises to $5. But there is a back story to that, and I know it. Which is why I am so confident that Liberal Capitalism is going to be PART of the way forward. Aside from the fact that guys like Richard Branson and Warren Buffet are saying that we need to take care of everyone so that capitalism can really flourish, there is this historical background story to Mr Henry Ford.

How 'Welfare Capitalism' Can Save Our Country
www.dailyfinance.com/2011/09/19/how-welfare-capitalism-can-save-our-country/

Ty this also what your were talking about, right? How, asides from buying food, and oil, China will help make sure the pretty blonde looks good.

Boeing Aims to Win Over Half of China's Orders Over 20 Years
www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/21/us-china-boeing-idUSTRE78K0OD20110921

China tells US, EU to open up for investment
www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gGtZoE2RwSfWC2Ph2VvLpwlzhgdA?docId=CNG.5cc676d2b02da276cd06b20df22fe7f6.4e1

Chinese investors 'can help create jobs' in the US
www.chinadaily.com.cn/usa/us/2011-09/21/content_13746378.htm

Obama’s Home State Illinois Turns to China for Economic Boost
www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-09-20/obama-s-home-state-illinois-turns-to-china-for-economic-boost.html

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

Just more evidence that love, not war, makes more and all the big boys agree!

China's Economic Expansionism
www.forbes.com/sites/jackperkowski/2011/09/23/chinas-economic-expansionism/?feed=rss_asia

Throughout history, generals have tended to prepare for the next war by fighting the last one, failing to take into account the fact that circumstances seldom remain constant.

In this vein, a top U.S. defense official recently warned that China’s military buildup is “potentially destabilizing” in the Pacific. Michael Schiffer, the deputy assistant secretary of defense for East Asia, made this comment at a news briefing about a report, titled “Military and Security Developments Involving the People’s Republic of China 2011,” that is submitted every year to Congress. While Pentagon officials may be pre-occupied with China’s military expansion, I’ve never regarded China as a military threat, particularly when the country has another, peaceful way to extend its influence throughout the world — by using its cash!

In a report prepared by the Financial Times, the newspaper found that two Chinese state-controlled banks have lent more to developing countries than the World Bank. According to the report, the China Development Bank (CDB) and the China Export Import Bank made loans totaling $110 billion to governments and companies in developing countries in 2009 and 2010. During the same period, the World Bank issued loans of just over $100 billion.

The CDB and the China Export Import Bank are “policy banks” that have a mandate to use China’s financial resources to further the country’s national interest. One of CDB’s specific tasks is use its resources to alleviate bottlenecks in the supply of raw materials for the Chinese economy. In the aftermath of the global economic crisis, Chinese banks made loans to producers of raw materials when it was difficult for them to attract financing from other sources. In addition to securing much needed raw materials, the CDB also uses loans to open up foreign markets for Chinese companies.

Just as the global financial crisis provided China with an opportunity to extend its influence throughout emerging markets, the European economic crisis is now providing China with another such opportunity — this time in developed markets. Speaking at the opening of the World Economic Forum in Dalian, China last week, Premier Wen Jiabao called on European countries to put their “own houses in order” before asking China for a bail-out. Mr. Wen also caused a bit of a stir by publicly linking Chinese investments with long-standing political demands.

Mr. Wen made clear that China was not about to purchase sovereign debt without seeing anything in return. He said Europe needed to take “bold steps” in order to receive Chinese help, the first of which is to formally grant China full “market economy” status (MES). Many regarded Premier Wen’s remarks as a message that there could be a trade-off between China offering help and the EU granting China MES.

Recent months have seen an increase in European Union (EU) trade remedy cases targeting China. The European debt crisis may lead to increased trade friction and hurt China’s exports, Shen Danyang, Ministry of Commerce spokesman, said on Tuesday. In mid-September, the EU imposed anti-dumping duties ranging from 26.3 percent to 69.7 percent on imports of ceramic tiles from China. “As the debt crisis worsens … trade friction will grow,” Shen told a news conference.

Shen also said that China is disappointed that it has not been recognized as a market economy under world trade rules by the EU, despite the rapid economic transformation that has occurred in the country. Recognizing China as a market economy has long been a key demand from Beijing and would allow Chinese companies to avoid or mitigate many trade disputes. European officials have argued that China does not meet the criteria of a market economy, and strong opposition from some countries make it unlikely that the EU will grant China this status soon, that is, of course, unless they want to receive China’s financial support.

In June 2010, China de-pegged the renminbi from the U.S. dollar. At that time, the euro was trading at 1.2 to the greenback. Since then, despite the well publicized, looming financial crisis in Europe, the euro has appreciated by more than 13 percent against the dollar. Apart from the loose money policy being followed by the Federal Reserve System, there can only be one reason for this appreciation in the face of such negative news: China. The EU represents a market for Chinese goods that is approximately the same size as that of the United States, and China has a strong vested interest in an economically healthy EU. Look for China to play an increasingly greater role in solving the European financial crisis in the months ahead.

The bottom bold part is something I agree with 110%. It's the reason that China will NEVER attack the west, because they NEED us to save them from all out collapse!

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

This person had said a few months ago this was going to happen. I know that I have been saying lets help the Chinese get their democracy for ever. I'm sure some remember all that harping last year as well..

Social unrest will force China to ease monetary policy
www.moneycontrol.com/news/world-news/social-unrest-will-force-china-to-ease-monetary-policy_590822.html

Enzio von Pfeil, CEO of Commercial Economics Asia, says the increase in social unrest across China is a big worry for policy makers.
"The frequency of social unrest that we read (about)...is picking up to such a degree that the Chinese authorities know that they have to get growth going again, because their whole model is based on high growth and jobs and income growth," observed von Pfeil, who already warned about the country`s social problems back in June, which he had described as a bigger concern than inflation. He says the so-called "Arab Spring, " referring to the revolutionary wave of demonstrations and protests happing from Tunisia to Libya, is stirring similar sentiment in China.
"I think that the Arab Spring has a great deal to do with this, because I think that that has shaken Chinese leaders` faith in the leadership of the local government in China. It`s stuff you read about, land grabs the whole time... riots," von Pfeil said.
"I think there`s a school of thought out there that says that we`d better get growth going again and one way to do that is ease monetarily," he added. "Indeed Wen Jiabao was recently...saying that he felt that inflation`s peak had already been passed. In other words, we`re not in such an inflationary environment as we were before."

Unrest Grows as Economy Booms
online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903703604576587070600504108.html

Then there is this, they are turning to the business community to help lead their country, aka we need this economy to grow!

China's richest man 'may join central committee'
www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5irzcmEMREtgxQtfR-7n9rxUYP_Xw?docId=CNG.fa8822bd63574fb2cc367668ed0754b7.11

But they don't have the time to build anything because these people want things NOW so...

Opportunity for US firms
www.chinadaily.com.cn/opinion/2011-09/27/content_13797775.htm

China finds itself at a difficult but anticipated turning point in its economic development model. Its dominant industrial base and market-share of global trade in basic, low-cost manufacturing is weakening.

Central region opening up
www.chinadaily.com.cn/bizchina/2011-09/27/content_13798095.htm

China will further open up its central region to foreign investments, as a way to accelerate the country's industrial upgrading and maintain sustainable economic growth, senior central government officials said on Sept 26.
"We will continue creating a fairer and more transparent investment environment to attract more foreign investments to the central China region," Vice-Premier Wang Qishan said during a forum at Expo Central China 2011 in Taiyuan, the capital of Shanxi province.

Henry Kissinger makes a great point, that the Chinese policy is set on incorporating the past as part of the future, like I was saying. China has no reason to attack the west, at all!

Senior Chinese official expounds peaceful development to British academics
news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/china/2011-09/27/c_131162180.htm

China pursues development on the basis of its own circumstances and never seeks aggression, Dai said, noting that history has also proved that the pursuit of hegemony leads only to a dead end.

Gotta like that one, basically, he is saying that the Chinese understan that a war between China and everyone else leaves EVERYONE screwed!!! This is backed up with the fact that while China is pledging their support with Pakistan, this is going on..

India, China to enhance investment, open up markets
economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/economy/foreign-trade/india-china-to-enhance-investment-open-up-markets/articleshow/10131311.cms


Then the cherry on top, the Chinese are using those USD just like the USA..

China pledges further aid for drought-hit Horn of Africa
news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/china/2011-09/26/c_131160935.htm