8 of China's Top 9 Govt. Officials Are Engineers

kkleiner writes "Did you know that the president of China is a scientist? President Hu Jintao was trained as a hydraulic engineer. Likewise his Premier, Wen Jiabao, is a geomechanical engineer. In fact, 8 out of China's top 9 government officials are scientists or engineers."

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In the US 8 out of 9 top government are lawyers.

[wulfmans]

Ever think that the US might have gown down the WRONG road ?

Re:Worthless degrees by equally worthless schools.

[belthize]

From the article:

Thirty-four countries were assessed in all by the PISA test, considered to be the most comprehensive of its type. Out of those 34 the U.S. ranked 14th in reading, 17th in science and 25th in math.

China’s 15-year olds also took the test. They ranked 1st, 1st, and 1st.

Is your point that the PISA test is either a useless measure or intentionally slanted to favor China ?

Your signature seems to imply a view that anything that casts the US in an unfavorable light in comparison with the rest of the world, including self introspection as to how we could be better, is suspect.

Re:In the US 8 out of 9 top government are lawyers

[bmo]

>liberal democracy

But that's not what we have.

We have capitalist oligarchy neo-fascism instead.

Liberalism is a dirty word, don'tchaknow. It's been that way since 1980. Doing /anything/ that advances society overall and gets everyone a better standard of living instead of increasing the power of the ruling class is "bad." The oil companies /need/ that 20 billion dollar subsidy on top of their windfall profits. Because without it, the oil companies will stop delivering oil. Or something. Because the ruling class of the corporations knows better, for all of us.

We've even got an entire tv network spewing this garbage 24/7.

Fuck this country, for it is fucked.

The assholes at PNAC that got us into two wars should be swinging from nooses like the traitors they are.

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BMO