At first I thought someone should make fun of people in the military as already being brain-damaged, or else they would not join in the first place.
Then I realized that that wasn't true; there are many intelligent people who simply needed money for college who joined the military.
Then I realized this was the military's response to NCLB: use these helmets to give brain damage to soldiers, bringing their intelligence down to the same level as the average jarhead, thus saving them having to pay for college, as no college will now accept them! A brilliant scheme that enforces mediocrity and prevents them from having to pay for college for ex-soldiers!
On the contrary, wars and competition have fueled human innovation. The need to become more technologically advanced than the country next door fueled science for much of history. Religion (which I personally don't like) helped inspire early mathematics and physics, as astronomy was the the root of much early mathematics (here, religion played the role of the false hypothesis that was proved wrong by rigorous inquiry).
But as much as war sucks, the drive to dominate through war has probably speeded up human development. The Chinese considered themselves as the Middle Kingdom, with only culturally and scientifically inferior countries surrounding them. They invented gunpowder and the trebuchet, and used them as toys as entertainment, for what need did they have to go on conquering inferior kingdoms? Noone to fear, and thus no pressing need to invest resources into perfecting new weapons to upset the status quo. Once the Arabs got a look at these Chinese toys, they figured out fairly quickly they could be used to knock walls down. Once they started tinkering around and knocking walls down, the Europeans had to figure out how to A) build better walls B) knock walls down better.
On the other hand, Europe and the Arab world were constantly in an arms race. The Renaissance may not have occurred had the fall of Constantinople not kicked all those Greek scholars out of (former) Byzantium. DARPA wouldn't have gotten the funding needed for the internet without the Cold War; indeed, space exploration was initially a pissing contest between the US and USSR.
Quick survey of the Beijing internet cafe I'm in now: most Chinese don't know who he is, at least among the computer/wang ba/internet cafe crowd. If they do, it's as an artist/saw his name on the list of Bird's Nest designers. And they don't care. They're not installing the software, mandate or mandate, and if it comes preinstalled, they don't care as long as they can still play games/surf the net/etc. They were more pissed by the idea that this schmuck (artist and designer though he is, once you tell the youth to get offline, he's a schmuck) would tell them to get off the net for 24 hours. A few pointed out that any protest would be a drop in the bucket of hundreds of millions of internet users.
If there's 400 million people online, and a few million dont log on for a day, does anyone notice? Or even care? Just an annoyance for those participating, proposed by some artist who is now meddling with government shtuffs. If you're gonna protest this, this isn't the way to go- it harms the participants and achieves nothing (unless the software uninstalls itself if not used in the 1st 24 hours on that one day). Demonstrating the flaws of the program would change the government's mind more than anything- but Chinese computers as so full of holes it hardly matters (Xunlei, ubiquitous unpatched pirated windows running IE6).
Yes, they do. Posting from Beijing, I can verify that Western Porn and Japanese porn is very much in demand. More than one Chinese friend has asked me to introduce him to well-endowed Western girls.
Not a trend, by any means, but men will be men, the world over. And let's face it, Japanese porn is WAY too fucked up to survive on.
But on the actual subject, yeah, it sounds like they're just picking on Google China. Baidu's image search also has a "suggestion" function, where after you search it lists similar search terms at the bottom of the page. Try searching for anything with the character for "female" in it, and see what Baidu suggests......
How much of this probe was Chinese-designed, and how much is from the Russians? The Chinese have made a lot of progress in their own tech, but most is based heavily off old Soviet/Russian technology.
The probe itself also doesn't seem very ambitious- more of a test run, before attempting landers or anything more complicated. Anyone with the knowhow care to educate us on the difference in difficulty of landing a probe on Mars vs. doing atomospheric experiments?
Not necessarily, eBay.com pretty much pwned Auctions.com, just like Amazon.com pwns books.com. If your company is well recognized and people link to it and use your site, it should rise up in the rankings; you can always try google-bombing and just link to your site like crazy from blogs and review sites.
Chinese internet users aren't stupid, they know what is going on. In many cases, all it does is call attention to the anniversary, perhaps more than would have been paid otherwise.
In any case, most Chinese I know seem fairly cynical about it. A translated conversation from Xiaonei, in response to a blog post by a friend about the economic crisis:
AAA: Well written!! But why can't I share it? (think Facebook sharing, posting a link to it on your own homepage) BBB: Yeah, I can't share it either. Must be because it's today! 000(the author): Well, I can post it, you guys should be able to share it.... CCC: (a few comments about the actual content of the article) DDD: I guess Xiaonei is having problems recently. Anything with numbers seems to run into problems. AAA: Anything with certain numbers runs into problems around this time of year.... EEE: I'm sure this maintenance is perfectly normal, as it is for all other Chinese websites right now.(sarcasm) BBB: There is no spoon~~! (this in English) FFF: Wow, nice word choice guys. Bad translation, there was a good pun or two in there I couldn't figure out how to translate. In any case, they're masters at not using any words censors would find suspicious. But they're all at least aware of it, even if its a minor annoyance.
And it will probably remain just that: A minor annoyance for most, perhaps making them remember, but they don't care that much. The ones that really want to protest will just use text messages or IM anyway, and even they hardcore democracy types know where the line is drawn. For the most part, it seems really unnecessary. If they really wanted to organize protests, they'd have been organized long before the 3 days before the anniversary, and then use texting or cells or IM to expand. I doubt there will be any protests to speak of anyway- the Chinese sort of have a silent agreement here, they know where to draw the line.
Just tried it too, same error. "Please don't post anything related to politics, etc....."
Also, Xiaonei is definitely experiencing other problems- many of my friends have reported problems with the "sharing" feature, and most also know the reason why sample response: "Oh, that's because its today, didn't you know?"
So, I think most Chinese know, or they can guess the reason why.
I'd try posting a few other things as experiments on XIaonei and Tudou, but I'd rather not risk getting my visa revoked, thanks.
As the Times article pointed out, and from the looks of the PDF, most of this stuff was public domain already. All they did was assemble it into a nice condensed form for the IAEA. While documents that aren't supposed to be getting released getting released is clearly a process failure, this one doesn't seem particularly serious. On the scale of data leakages, far less harmful than the British government's loss of data discs containing personal information.
Given that most of the data was already public domain, beyond knowing specifically where the stuff is, what is new here? Figure out where the publication process went wrong, and how it got approved, and then take steps to fix the problem. Gov't snafu's are par for the course, and givin it was a civil report for the IAEA, looks like a minor leak if that.
I hardly forsee people trying to make dirty bombs from this stuff. As WikiLeaks notes, this information is far more useful to environmentalists than terrorists or foreign governments (to whom we're handing the info anyway via IAEA).
It may give us access to 100% of the sea floor, but given the expense of sea exploration, how much will we actually explore? Setting records is nice and all, but it takes time, effort, and money to map the deep sea floor in any kind of detail.
It should be able to take samples and such, but what about repeat dives? The artile was a bit lacking, but hopefully google will turn up the juicy details on this particular little bot....
Like parent said, if people are going to organize protests, things like QQ and text messaging are far more conducive, and much harder to monitor. See cell-phone text messaging in the anti-Japanese protests from a few years back; text messaging was the dominant form of organization, and while it can be censored, it is much harder to get a handle on it without disrupting services and inconveniencing millions of people.
Seriously, almost no Chinese use those sites. Twitter doesn't even have a Chinese language version, and has barely begun to grow in China (though it may, there are already several Chinese clonewares out). Nobody ANYWHERE in the world uses Bing, and the Chinese use QQ, Sohu, Xinlang, or other IM/Portal/Blogging services instead of Live/Blogspot. Flickr is the only one Chinese might even notice, and there are plenty of alternatives.
The only Chinese that use these (now blocked) services are educated, and probably have decent English, and know how to get around these blocks. The vast majority of Chinese users use other websites, or have alternatives. The contrversial stuff has always been hosted on non-Chinese websites for obvious reasons, and people who want to see it are well aware of how to get around the blocks.
Far more telling was the 7 hours of downtime Xiaonei went through yesterday for maintanence. They've already been shutting down certain Xiaonei groups and blocking users for doing political stuff, I wonder if the maintanence included any updates to help with censorship?
Then I can patent accepting money, goods or other services in payment for other goods or services. We can even patent "profit maximizing"! Truly, this will finally allow people to stop emulating and perfecting business models, allowing me to reign supreme!
Next up, patenting human bodily functions. Everytime you breathe, your heart beats, or you fart, you owe me a quarter.
Regardless of of whether or not you consider the Chinese foreign occupiers, Tibetans are Chinese citizens. They carry Chinese passports, idenfication cards, go to government schools, etc. In fact, Tibetans (and Tibet) receive large transfers from the central gov't- this is actually one of the incentives for Chinese to move to Tibet, as Tibetans receive preferential treatment for applying to college and whatnot (think of it like the SAT bonus for minorities in the US- if you're Tibetan, you don't have to do as well to get into a good school). Whether Palestinians are more analogous to Israeli Arabs or to Native Americans is up to you; but they are full citizens, and are most likely tortured no more nor less than any other person who agitates against the government.
I should probably have qualified that statement. Based on my experiences and the Chinese people I have met, most don't care enough to do anything about it. They are interested, sure, but don't want to rock the boat. Most of the students I know (again, mostly talking about Beijing students) know where the limit is on how to talk about democracy and history. They aren't stupid, and if they really want to get around the censors, they know how. But again, they care more about getting a job, especially a stable, well-paying government job, then about discussing history or toppling dynasties. For those worse off than students, most care more about getting the basic necessecities (clean water, food, etc) than about political change. There are dissidents, sure, and those the party runs roughshod over. But if the government demolishes a village, and makes room for some facilities that provide jobs or will be used by thousands more, what's a few discontented farmers? For every farmer that gets stepped on, there's a hundred with new cellphones and a fridge thanks to the economic boom. While I usually avoid politically sensitive topics when I'm in China (unless its a good friend), most of my overseas Chinese friends have a similar viewpoint. They may want to topple the "Red Dynasty" eventually, but not until China is rich enough to emerge unscathed. They don't want to destabilize the party, which would possibly derail economic growth. Since stability is a prerequisite for growth (and vise versa for China), why would they want to do anything to harm the interests of the hundreds of millions of Chinese getting lifted out of poverty? Politcal reform can wait for China to get rich.
And why should they? As long as you don't say inconvenient things, you can DO whatever you want in China. With freedom of action, and a growing economy, why would most Chinese care? If it weren't for the amazing economic growth presided over by the CCP, most Chinese wouldn't have access to computers to even make these websites.
Given the weakness and corruption of late Qing dynasty China, they were hardly expanding anywhere. In fact, China endured over a century of humiliation by foreign powers, including Russia, France, Germany, the US, and Japan, as they carved up "spheres of influence" and took Chinese land (Hong Kong by Britain, Jiaotong Peninsula by Germans, Taiwan by Japanese in the 1890s). Japan and Russia fought for control in Manchuria; the Japanese won that war, and had de-facto control of Manchuria until they allowed it to declare "independence", as a Japanese puppet state. While claims of Chinese *Communist* expansion into Tibet and consolidation of power in Western China is another issue entirely, the idea of Chinese expansion from 1800-1949 is simply propagandist bullshit. Through the Opium Wars, Taiping Rebellion and other civil strife, to the Nationalist/Communist Civil War, China couldn't control its own territory, much less expand. We were carving China up, hence calling it the "sick man of the East". Claiming pre-1945 China was expanding or looking for "Lebensraum" is simply rediculous. Claiming post-Communist China has imperial ambitions is another argument entirely, and perhaps one worth discussing. But trying to use "Manchukuo" as an example, or saying the China was a dominant empire (it was an empire in decline, corrupt and feeble) discredits much of the rest of your argument. "The secret and reclusive Middle Kingdom"? It was the Republic of China at that point, and currently involved in both civil war and trying to repel invasion from the Japanese.
For the rest, Modern Chinese leaders do not view their industrial usage of the territories as expansion, but as using territories that rightfully belong to them, just like the US drilling for oil in Alaska (which we purchased from Russia in the mid 1800s). Using adjectives like âoesinister policy" and "consolidate de facto Chinese rule for an eternity" does not help your case, either. Makes you sound paranoid at best. I am not even Chinese; but the historical inaccuracies and misrepresentations in your post would make anyone weep.
Seconded. Most newer Asian airports have great food, and also free high-speed Wifi. You start to take it for granted until you hit LAX, and then you start to think America is a third-world country.
Try the Chinese news sources, there were a few good pieces on Sohu and Xinlang when it was announced.
Though, what he should say is most of the stimulus package was already planned spending- they are simply rushing the schedule. Indeed, most of our own stimulus package (and many others) are mostly made up of already-planned packages, moving future spending to now rather than upping spending too much. I'll dig through my history to get you citations, but much of the Chinese plan is provincial governments announcing they are breaking ground sooner rather than later, moving up a few billion in planned investments to today to absorb the newly-freed labor force from the export factories.
Xiaoneiwang is the Facebook of China. Even the interface and logos look similar. QQ on the other hand is the Geocities/Myspace. It comes with QQ Kongjian, or QQ space, which is a user-generated MySpace or Geocities style page.
And yes, it is bloated. I've had to build so many exceptions into my AV and firewall software in order to run it that it's almost unbearable.
While I agree with you completely, in general it is actually very easy to a lot of papers to be wrong, especially in the same direction.
It happens a lot when we start citing the same original paper, or other papers based off the same research/data. Very easy to build off others' mistakes. Kinda like those tests where you use your answer from part A for part B- if the original was wrong, so will everything using that answer.
You're right with regards to the LHC; but in general, the number of papers on a subject doesn't mean it can't be wrong.
This is a blessing! The Chinese authorities have realized that Baidu and Gougou index torrents and pirated material for more effectively than TPB & co., and seek to save Chinese users the trouble of having to use them! Why bother going to TPB when Baidu has it earlier, faster, and in Chinese? Props to the firewall for this one!
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Just get them "Typing of the Dead" and watch their (typing) speed and accuracy increase dramatically.
At first I thought someone should make fun of people in the military as already being brain-damaged, or else they would not join in the first place.
Then I realized that that wasn't true; there are many intelligent people who simply needed money for college who joined the military.
Then I realized this was the military's response to NCLB: use these helmets to give brain damage to soldiers, bringing their intelligence down to the same level as the average jarhead, thus saving them having to pay for college, as no college will now accept them! A brilliant scheme that enforces mediocrity and prevents them from having to pay for college for ex-soldiers!
But here in Beijing, all I could see was a think cloud of haze. I couldn't even find the bloody sun. So I went back inside and went to sleep.
On the contrary, wars and competition have fueled human innovation. The need to become more technologically advanced than the country next door fueled science for much of history. Religion (which I personally don't like) helped inspire early mathematics and physics, as astronomy was the the root of much early mathematics (here, religion played the role of the false hypothesis that was proved wrong by rigorous inquiry).
But as much as war sucks, the drive to dominate through war has probably speeded up human development. The Chinese considered themselves as the Middle Kingdom, with only culturally and scientifically inferior countries surrounding them. They invented gunpowder and the trebuchet, and used them as toys as entertainment, for what need did they have to go on conquering inferior kingdoms? Noone to fear, and thus no pressing need to invest resources into perfecting new weapons to upset the status quo. Once the Arabs got a look at these Chinese toys, they figured out fairly quickly they could be used to knock walls down. Once they started tinkering around and knocking walls down, the Europeans had to figure out how to A) build better walls B) knock walls down better.
On the other hand, Europe and the Arab world were constantly in an arms race. The Renaissance may not have occurred had the fall of Constantinople not kicked all those Greek scholars out of (former) Byzantium. DARPA wouldn't have gotten the funding needed for the internet without the Cold War; indeed, space exploration was initially a pissing contest between the US and USSR.
Quick survey of the Beijing internet cafe I'm in now: most Chinese don't know who he is, at least among the computer/wang ba/internet cafe crowd. If they do, it's as an artist/saw his name on the list of Bird's Nest designers. And they don't care. They're not installing the software, mandate or mandate, and if it comes preinstalled, they don't care as long as they can still play games/surf the net/etc. They were more pissed by the idea that this schmuck (artist and designer though he is, once you tell the youth to get offline, he's a schmuck) would tell them to get off the net for 24 hours. A few pointed out that any protest would be a drop in the bucket of hundreds of millions of internet users.
If there's 400 million people online, and a few million dont log on for a day, does anyone notice? Or even care? Just an annoyance for those participating, proposed by some artist who is now meddling with government shtuffs. If you're gonna protest this, this isn't the way to go- it harms the participants and achieves nothing (unless the software uninstalls itself if not used in the 1st 24 hours on that one day). Demonstrating the flaws of the program would change the government's mind more than anything- but Chinese computers as so full of holes it hardly matters (Xunlei, ubiquitous unpatched pirated windows running IE6).
Yes, they do. Posting from Beijing, I can verify that Western Porn and Japanese porn is very much in demand. More than one Chinese friend has asked me to introduce him to well-endowed Western girls.
Not a trend, by any means, but men will be men, the world over. And let's face it, Japanese porn is WAY too fucked up to survive on.
But on the actual subject, yeah, it sounds like they're just picking on Google China. Baidu's image search also has a "suggestion" function, where after you search it lists similar search terms at the bottom of the page. Try searching for anything with the character for "female" in it, and see what Baidu suggests......
How much of this probe was Chinese-designed, and how much is from the Russians? The Chinese have made a lot of progress in their own tech, but most is based heavily off old Soviet/Russian technology.
The probe itself also doesn't seem very ambitious- more of a test run, before attempting landers or anything more complicated. Anyone with the knowhow care to educate us on the difference in difficulty of landing a probe on Mars vs. doing atomospheric experiments?
Not necessarily, eBay.com pretty much pwned Auctions.com, just like Amazon.com pwns books.com. If your company is well recognized and people link to it and use your site, it should rise up in the rankings; you can always try google-bombing and just link to your site like crazy from blogs and review sites.
Not.
Chinese internet users aren't stupid, they know what is going on. In many cases, all it does is call attention to the anniversary, perhaps more than would have been paid otherwise.
In any case, most Chinese I know seem fairly cynical about it. A translated conversation from Xiaonei, in response to a blog post by a friend about the economic crisis:
AAA: Well written!! But why can't I share it? (think Facebook sharing, posting a link to it on your own homepage)
BBB: Yeah, I can't share it either. Must be because it's today!
000(the author): Well, I can post it, you guys should be able to share it....
CCC: (a few comments about the actual content of the article)
DDD: I guess Xiaonei is having problems recently. Anything with numbers seems to run into problems.
AAA: Anything with certain numbers runs into problems around this time of year....
EEE: I'm sure this maintenance is perfectly normal, as it is for all other Chinese websites right now.(sarcasm)
BBB: There is no spoon~~! (this in English)
FFF: Wow, nice word choice guys.
Bad translation, there was a good pun or two in there I couldn't figure out how to translate. In any case, they're masters at not using any words censors would find suspicious. But they're all at least aware of it, even if its a minor annoyance.
And it will probably remain just that: A minor annoyance for most, perhaps making them remember, but they don't care that much. The ones that really want to protest will just use text messages or IM anyway, and even they hardcore democracy types know where the line is drawn. For the most part, it seems really unnecessary. If they really wanted to organize protests, they'd have been organized long before the 3 days before the anniversary, and then use texting or cells or IM to expand. I doubt there will be any protests to speak of anyway- the Chinese sort of have a silent agreement here, they know where to draw the line.
Just tried it too, same error. "Please don't post anything related to politics, etc....."
Also, Xiaonei is definitely experiencing other problems- many of my friends have reported problems with the "sharing" feature, and most also know the reason why sample response: "Oh, that's because its today, didn't you know?"
So, I think most Chinese know, or they can guess the reason why.
I'd try posting a few other things as experiments on XIaonei and Tudou, but I'd rather not risk getting my visa revoked, thanks.
As the Times article pointed out, and from the looks of the PDF, most of this stuff was public domain already. All they did was assemble it into a nice condensed form for the IAEA. While documents that aren't supposed to be getting released getting released is clearly a process failure, this one doesn't seem particularly serious. On the scale of data leakages, far less harmful than the British government's loss of data discs containing personal information.
Given that most of the data was already public domain, beyond knowing specifically where the stuff is, what is new here? Figure out where the publication process went wrong, and how it got approved, and then take steps to fix the problem. Gov't snafu's are par for the course, and givin it was a civil report for the IAEA, looks like a minor leak if that.
I hardly forsee people trying to make dirty bombs from this stuff. As WikiLeaks notes, this information is far more useful to environmentalists than terrorists or foreign governments (to whom we're handing the info anyway via IAEA).
It may give us access to 100% of the sea floor, but given the expense of sea exploration, how much will we actually explore? Setting records is nice and all, but it takes time, effort, and money to map the deep sea floor in any kind of detail.
It should be able to take samples and such, but what about repeat dives? The artile was a bit lacking, but hopefully google will turn up the juicy details on this particular little bot....
Like parent said, if people are going to organize protests, things like QQ and text messaging are far more conducive, and much harder to monitor. See cell-phone text messaging in the anti-Japanese protests from a few years back; text messaging was the dominant form of organization, and while it can be censored, it is much harder to get a handle on it without disrupting services and inconveniencing millions of people.
Seriously, almost no Chinese use those sites. Twitter doesn't even have a Chinese language version, and has barely begun to grow in China (though it may, there are already several Chinese clonewares out). Nobody ANYWHERE in the world uses Bing, and the Chinese use QQ, Sohu, Xinlang, or other IM/Portal/Blogging services instead of Live/Blogspot. Flickr is the only one Chinese might even notice, and there are plenty of alternatives.
The only Chinese that use these (now blocked) services are educated, and probably have decent English, and know how to get around these blocks. The vast majority of Chinese users use other websites, or have alternatives. The contrversial stuff has always been hosted on non-Chinese websites for obvious reasons, and people who want to see it are well aware of how to get around the blocks.
Far more telling was the 7 hours of downtime Xiaonei went through yesterday for maintanence. They've already been shutting down certain Xiaonei groups and blocking users for doing political stuff, I wonder if the maintanence included any updates to help with censorship?
Then I can patent accepting money, goods or other services in payment for other goods or services. We can even patent "profit maximizing"! Truly, this will finally allow people to stop emulating and perfecting business models, allowing me to reign supreme!
Next up, patenting human bodily functions. Everytime you breathe, your heart beats, or you fart, you owe me a quarter.
Regardless of of whether or not you consider the Chinese foreign occupiers, Tibetans are Chinese citizens. They carry Chinese passports, idenfication cards, go to government schools, etc. In fact, Tibetans (and Tibet) receive large transfers from the central gov't- this is actually one of the incentives for Chinese to move to Tibet, as Tibetans receive preferential treatment for applying to college and whatnot (think of it like the SAT bonus for minorities in the US- if you're Tibetan, you don't have to do as well to get into a good school).
Whether Palestinians are more analogous to Israeli Arabs or to Native Americans is up to you; but they are full citizens, and are most likely tortured no more nor less than any other person who agitates against the government.
I should probably have qualified that statement. Based on my experiences and the Chinese people I have met, most don't care enough to do anything about it. They are interested, sure, but don't want to rock the boat. Most of the students I know (again, mostly talking about Beijing students) know where the limit is on how to talk about democracy and history. They aren't stupid, and if they really want to get around the censors, they know how. But again, they care more about getting a job, especially a stable, well-paying government job, then about discussing history or toppling dynasties.
For those worse off than students, most care more about getting the basic necessecities (clean water, food, etc) than about political change.
There are dissidents, sure, and those the party runs roughshod over. But if the government demolishes a village, and makes room for some facilities that provide jobs or will be used by thousands more, what's a few discontented farmers? For every farmer that gets stepped on, there's a hundred with new cellphones and a fridge thanks to the economic boom.
While I usually avoid politically sensitive topics when I'm in China (unless its a good friend), most of my overseas Chinese friends have a similar viewpoint. They may want to topple the "Red Dynasty" eventually, but not until China is rich enough to emerge unscathed. They don't want to destabilize the party, which would possibly derail economic growth. Since stability is a prerequisite for growth (and vise versa for China), why would they want to do anything to harm the interests of the hundreds of millions of Chinese getting lifted out of poverty? Politcal reform can wait for China to get rich.
And the vast majority of Chinese don't care.
And why should they? As long as you don't say inconvenient things, you can DO whatever you want in China. With freedom of action, and a growing economy, why would most Chinese care? If it weren't for the amazing economic growth presided over by the CCP, most Chinese wouldn't have access to computers to even make these websites.
Given the weakness and corruption of late Qing dynasty China, they were hardly expanding anywhere. In fact, China endured over a century of humiliation by foreign powers, including Russia, France, Germany, the US, and Japan, as they carved up "spheres of influence" and took Chinese land (Hong Kong by Britain, Jiaotong Peninsula by Germans, Taiwan by Japanese in the 1890s). Japan and Russia fought for control in Manchuria; the Japanese won that war, and had de-facto control of Manchuria until they allowed it to declare "independence", as a Japanese puppet state.
While claims of Chinese *Communist* expansion into Tibet and consolidation of power in Western China is another issue entirely, the idea of Chinese expansion from 1800-1949 is simply propagandist bullshit. Through the Opium Wars, Taiping Rebellion and other civil strife, to the Nationalist/Communist Civil War, China couldn't control its own territory, much less expand.
We were carving China up, hence calling it the "sick man of the East". Claiming pre-1945 China was expanding or looking for "Lebensraum" is simply rediculous.
Claiming post-Communist China has imperial ambitions is another argument entirely, and perhaps one worth discussing. But trying to use "Manchukuo" as an example, or saying the China was a dominant empire (it was an empire in decline, corrupt and feeble) discredits much of the rest of your argument. "The secret and reclusive Middle Kingdom"? It was the Republic of China at that point, and currently involved in both civil war and trying to repel invasion from the Japanese.
For the rest, Modern Chinese leaders do not view their industrial usage of the territories as expansion, but as using territories that rightfully belong to them, just like the US drilling for oil in Alaska (which we purchased from Russia in the mid 1800s).
Using adjectives like âoesinister policy" and "consolidate de facto Chinese rule for an eternity" does not help your case, either. Makes you sound paranoid at best. I am not even Chinese; but the historical inaccuracies and misrepresentations in your post would make anyone weep.
Seconded. Most newer Asian airports have great food, and also free high-speed Wifi. You start to take it for granted until you hit LAX, and then you start to think America is a third-world country.
Try the Chinese news sources, there were a few good pieces on Sohu and Xinlang when it was announced.
Though, what he should say is most of the stimulus package was already planned spending- they are simply rushing the schedule. Indeed, most of our own stimulus package (and many others) are mostly made up of already-planned packages, moving future spending to now rather than upping spending too much.
I'll dig through my history to get you citations, but much of the Chinese plan is provincial governments announcing they are breaking ground sooner rather than later, moving up a few billion in planned investments to today to absorb the newly-freed labor force from the export factories.
Xiaoneiwang is the Facebook of China. Even the interface and logos look similar.
QQ on the other hand is the Geocities/Myspace. It comes with QQ Kongjian, or QQ space, which is a user-generated MySpace or Geocities style page.
And yes, it is bloated. I've had to build so many exceptions into my AV and firewall software in order to run it that it's almost unbearable.
The Googling, it has begun!
While I agree with you completely, in general it is actually very easy to a lot of papers to be wrong, especially in the same direction.
It happens a lot when we start citing the same original paper, or other papers based off the same research/data. Very easy to build off others' mistakes. Kinda like those tests where you use your answer from part A for part B- if the original was wrong, so will everything using that answer.
You're right with regards to the LHC; but in general, the number of papers on a subject doesn't mean it can't be wrong.
This is a blessing! The Chinese authorities have realized that Baidu and Gougou index torrents and pirated material for more effectively than TPB & co., and seek to save Chinese users the trouble of having to use them! Why bother going to TPB when Baidu has it earlier, faster, and in Chinese? Props to the firewall for this one!