China: wake up, grow up, and fut the shuck up.
A post title inspired by more hypocrisy from Beijing:
China’s official news agency, Xinhua, slammed the “Buy American” requirement of the U.S. economic stimulus package, saying in a commentary that trade protectionism is a “poison” that will harm poor countries.
The remarks on Saturday are the first indication of the reaction in Beijing to the U.S. measure, which has been criticized by U.S. business groups that fear it could invite other countries to keep American goods out of their own stimulus programs.
Read the rest here, then remind yourselves of China’s own brand of protectionism.
Update
The Telegraph has the story of China’s heir apparent in rant mode. Very much a case of ‘meet the new boss; potentially dumber than the old boss’. And over at the excellent Granite Studio visitors can find a post to mark the 30th anniversary of China’s invasion of Vietnam. Not something you’ll find in a Chinese textbook.
February 17th, 2009 at 10:39 pm
Geez, the old stuart is still ranting about China. I guess you are back home now? If you haven’t, I guess you should “wake up, pack up, and fut the shuck up”. Good luck man, don’t ever come back.
So why is the PRC hypocritical here? Did the PRC launch a “buy Chinese” campaign that I am not aware of?
February 18th, 2009 at 12:12 am
“Did the PRC launch a “buy Chinese” campaign that I am not aware of?”
Clearly.
I suppose it was a semi-rant, pffefer, but entirely justified. If you don’t see the incredibly childish nature of China’s responses to anything they perceive as counter to their own interests, then you’re either too hard wired to admit it, or too ambivalent to give a damn.
“I guess you are back home now?”
‘Home’ is wherever I happen to be living and working. I suspect your home is not China.
February 18th, 2009 at 12:24 am
Clearly? That’s it? When? How?
Chidlish? Not at all. Seriously, I don’t consider what the PRC was saying inappropriate at all. Protectionism is bad. What would you say to a “buy Chinese” campaign? Go ahead?
Who cares where I live? Whether it is China or not, I don’t spend all day complaining about it. If I can’t stand a place (any place) that much, I would pack up and leave. I just don’t get you.
February 18th, 2009 at 5:48 am
“I just don’t get you.”
That’s for sure.
You spend too much time (in company with many, many others) painting a picture of any critic of China as a ‘China hater’ or a ‘China basher.’ Nowhere on this blog or anywhere else will you find a declaration to the effect that I ‘can’t stand’ China.
February 18th, 2009 at 6:57 pm
You think people are fools or what, stuart? How much more obvious can it be? EVERY single thread, I mean EVERY thread that you had started here, even the Obamania one jeers at China one way or another, and by no means confined to just the Chinese government, unlike what you have claimed. Not one, not ONE thread doesn’t involve ridiculing the Chinese. You should rename it “China rants” blog.
Again, let us know when the Chinese launched a “buy Chinese” campaign? Clearly?
December 16th, 2010 at 2:38 am
Awesome stuff
Thanks for posting!