Maybe we should adopt China's way of focusing on themselves & good business, it seemed to work for them?

Question

China doesnt have troops all over the world to protect their interests, yet they are still able to do better at international business/trade than the US and are still a world power.

Answer 1

What most people know of China would fit in a thimble.

#1 China does NOT HAVE CHILD SLAVE LABOR. That is against the law in China. A country that does have a problem with child slave labor is India.

#2 China does not have a wildly out of balance gender because of gender selection. As it stand now, the worlds natural gender selection is 1.05 males for every female. The USA stands at 1.06. China stands at 1.11. INDIA STANDS AT 1.12
Source: cia world facts book, see link below

#3 China reduced its military by 1 million a year ago. They are also MODERNIZING their military which is a relic of the 60's and 70's because they can now afford it.
source: china.org.cn see link below and use their search engine.

As far as the rest about China, here is something I wrote about China is another post.

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China is not communist nor is it socialistic.
It is also often referred to as totalitarian and a dictatorship.
Both are equally as wrong too.

Communism:
is a the opposite of capitalism so therefore it is impossible they are communistic. The first people who were allowed to use limited capitalism were the farmers back in the 50's because of the failure of collective farming. The whole country is one huge capitalistic machine now.

Socialistic:
means the state controls all production, manufacturing and business. That is impossible as well since individuals own businesses and those state run businesses are a mixture of state and private working side by side. Currently today, less then 20% is state owned. 30 years ago it was 100%. Example, their oil industry is a mix of private and state working together and their cost per gallon of gas is $2.25. There are no taxes added, all the revenue and profits are done before that with both private and state profiting. The USA could do that same, but we'd rather pay $1 more per gallon then allow any kind of socialism to creep into our economy. Our socialism is through war for oil while ignoring what the people really need.

Totalitarian:
means the state controls all aspects of life. That is simply not the case as individuals are free to seek new employment, open businesses, travel at will, immigrate, buy homes, become rich, buy any consumer product they want without permission, in short, do just about anything the people in the west take for granted.

Dictatorship:
They have an election system in place that is at the province level. Those elected officials, who are elected by the people, are then sent to Beijing to represent the people there and those people elect the president, much like many government systems in the world, like Britain.

One party rule:
True, but in recent years the government is encouraging people from outside the party to become involved in government and politics. They can also hold high office, something that was unheard of a few years ago. China understands that it needs new blood in its system in order to survive and do the will of the people otherwise China will stagnate.

What type of government does China have?
At this point, it is hard to say, because it is a mixture of democratic ideals, federalism, socialism, and authoritarian. From what I can see, and how China likes change slowly, that it is slowly morphing into a democratic federal republic, much like the USA has now. But at their own pace, not the instant change that the west demands of China. China is smart enough to know that instant change can have social and political repercussions and its best to take it slowly as to not wake the angry dragon of discontent and descent.

Source:
My experience, living here as an ex pat from the USA
My web site.
http://www.pbase.com/sailingjim

http://www.china.org.cn
and see how their system works. Use their search engine and put in the words democracy, then communism, then socialism. You'll probably be surprised at the results you get. Keep in mind, the people read the same things you will read there.

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Looking at the China bashing pragmatically instead of with a blind eye like so many do.

The Amnesty International types of organizations depend on donations to survive. Therefore, they have a vested interest to believe one side of the story while ignoring the other side to keep up the hate and the money coming in.

Therefore, what should be done is we need to look into the lifestyle of the CEO's of these organizations, what percentage of donations goes into education vs administrative, salaries, etc.

What I find disingenuous with so many people is they will selectively believe these organizations on issues they want to believe, while condemning them on issues they don't want to believe.

Much of the information comes from people who have a ax to grind, or the information is collected from 3rd and 4th parties. Remember, we went to war in Iraq, in part, because of the word of ex pats who made claims that have since been disproved, even outright lies.

I live here in China as an ex pat from the USA and teach in a college. I expected to meet dissidents, and to date, I have not met one. The people in China seem to be very apathetic and it took me a long time to figure out why. It's because they have more freedom then anytime in their history and they are grateful for that. The biggest complaint I have heard about the government from students is they don't spend enough on education.

A final thing to ponder is Tianamen Square. Few in the states know why it started. It was because the government cut back on college spending and the students were upset. It morphed into a democracy movement and the crowds were huge only because the people were curious. The reason the movement was brutally crushed (I do not support that) is because with world wide attention, plus it was all over the Chinese news that the government appeared to be weak and could possibly be overthrown. The aftermath of that, is anyones guess what they would have ended up with. We are now seeing what instant change has done in two countries that we have gone to war with that never had democracy before and have a long history of human rights abuses.

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They have a very stable society and government.
Foreign companies are not afraid to invest there.
China learns by its successes and mistakes.
China is a very old and wise country.
China has an over abundance of brain power
China is very innovative.
China is not afraid to go outside of their country for answers to questions and problems they have.
China is very careful not to let foreign investment take over like they allowed to happen two centuries ago.
China plans for the future through five year and one year plans that are changable.
China's government is slowly morphing into a federal democratic republic, much like the USA but at their own pace.
China realizes that to limit people in government only to one party is counter productive and in recent years is encouraging people outside the party to become involved in government and even run for office.

China is much of what we want her to be and little of what we think she is.

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Peace

Jim

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Answer 2

China has a huge army that is fully occupied keeping its own population under control, and invading and assimilating smaller neighbours like Tibet and Nepal.

As for their business abilities, it is easy to run an economy when you can dictate the price of labour to your citizens. All you need is some traitorous corporation who will wreck their own nation's economy by laying off their own citizens and employing your new age serfs because of the short term profits. If you consider that kind of human degradation laudable or worthy of emulation you need to think about the long term costs.

China jails dissidents, such as falun gongers, until some rich person can buy their organs. This is behaviour unseen since the death of Hitler. I talked to a person who had seen a protestor rounded up in Tienanmen Square within a single minute of her appearance, tossed brutally into a van and disappeared. That was this summer.

Further, no nonethnic Chinese can ever become a citizen. Those of white, Deccan or Tagalog ancestry who were citizens of Hong Kong lost their rights when the Chinese moved in. The racism of the Chinese is complete.

Maybe we should focus on China's way of doing business, and stop doing business with them

Answer 3

That wat everyone said about the Japanese 30 years ago. And a few other countries.

China is not doing as well as it appears on the surface. First, they still have slave labor, child labor, and social/economic inequality that makes that in any industrialized nation look insignificant by comparision.

That breeds social, political, and economic instability. When (not if) China experiences a serious economic downturn, those inherant instabilities will cripple their ability to cope. If such a downturn is sufficiently serious, it will bring down the government and open a period of chaos that will devastate their economic competitiveness.

Second--every time a nation breaks inthe ranks asan "industrializing" nation, we here this litany of "how much better they are doing than the US, etc." It is an illusion. A newly industrializing nation has hig rates of economic growth-that is NORMAL--the US rates of growth in its comparable period (1880-1920, roughly) were far higher than China's today. That's not a loss of capability on our part--or any similar nation. It simply means that early spurt of growth has settled down into a more modest--but log-term sustainable--pattern.

Answer 4

Not very realistic. China has sooo many problems. They keep their money at a low currency and that is part of the reason they are doing well. Jobs. China is also focusing on stealing and that is no doubt good for the economy as well. I favor good ties but not following their ways.

Answer 5

China way of focusing on themselves is not what has made them a world economic powerhouse. It is their willingness to abuse their population, the environment, and all intellectual property rights in order to manufacture products (often times of substandard safety or quality) at extremely low costs.

Their economic success is also anchored in the the willingness of the leadership of the United States for the past 30 years to allow unfair trade agreements, out of balance trade deficits, and a lack of accountability for poor safety and quality records of these manufacturers.

But the biggest thing that has worked for China is the willingness of the American population to continue to purchase cheap disposable products imported from China from companies such as Meijer, Walmart, Hobby Lobby, Harbor Freight Tools and the like (just to name a few where I am from) That is what has driven the China market.

Answer 6

it's not really the way of doing things, it's the general public's mindset. alot of other countries have better governing techniques than the US b/c their ppl think and act differently. so things that work there will never work in the US. why do you think we don't have simple things like the autobanh or free medical care? and even tho china is better than the US in that aspect they are still alil slow w/ energy and their cars will never pass US regulations. most of the country still uses coal as a form of energy even tho it puts out so much pollution.

Answer 7

That's because they have 3 times as many people, a much larger and chaper labor force, few labor laws and artifically keep the value of their currency down, among other things.

Answer 8

You mean China as in the elitists focusing on themselves?

We are on our way there.

Answer 9

That would work if the people in the United States worked for $1.00 an hour and we used lead paint. Give me a break...

Answer 10

China copied off of the USA, thanks to Clinton,
Gore, Sandy Berger and Madeline Half-Bright on the business and also our missile technology!!