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`Fault Lines On The Face Of China: 50 Reasons Why China May Never Be Great’ - Excerpt 89“China implicitly links its history with that of Africa, suggesting the two countries share a common experience. According to Chinese State Councilor Tang Jiaxuan, China ‘stood firmly with the African people and provided them with moral support and material assistance in their strenuous struggle to overthrow colonial...

`Fault Lines On The Face Of China: 50 Reasons Why China May Never Be Great’ - Excerpt 87“The governments of developed nations have a clear divide between military and political power. Military control most usually remains beholden to leaders directly chosen by the people. This is not the case in China, where a number of senior military leaders are members of the government. Generals are asked...

`Fault Lines On The Face Of China: 50 Reasons Why China May Never Be Great’ - Excerpt 85“In China’s rush to become an economic superpower, the nation’s leaders have followed Deng Xiaoping’s famous phrase – ‘Let some become rich first’ – by creating an increasingly wealthy and pampered upper class. Deng’s phrase today is more appropriately stated as ‘Let some become richer and richer.’When Deng Xiaoping...

Fault Lines On The Face Of China: 50 Reasons Why China May Never Be Great’ - Excerpt 83"In any average human population, natural male births tend to outnumber female births by about 105 to 100, though numbers tend to differ slightly among various ethnic groups. In some areas of China, upwards of 138 boys are born for every 100 girls.The results of these skewed birth ratios will leave an astounding...

Fault Lines On The Face Of China: 50 Reasons Why China May Never Be Great’ - Excerpt 81"Spite is a petty emotion, often driven by a sense of trivial revenge and a feeling of being both wronged and powerless. Sino-spite, however, is an act of Chinese political bluster. It is an expression of self-righteousness and strident belief that, for any given problem, someone else must be the cause, the...

Fault Lines On The Face Of China: 50 Reasons Why China May Never Be Great’ - Excerpt 79"Spitting in public is an extremely common phenomenon in China, along with related health dangers such as public urination and ejection of nasal mucus by forcible expelling of breath through the nose. For example, the Shanghai Patriotic Sanitation Committee monitored spitting at ten public spots in the city. In...

Fault Lines On The Face Of China: 50 Reasons Why China May Never Be Great’ - Excerpt 77“Perhaps the biggest admission of the failure of Chinese Communism came in 2002, when then-president Jiang Zemin delivered the keynote speech for the 16th Party Congress.Jiang said that ‘the CPC should admit into itself advanced elements of other social strata who accept the Party’s program and Constitution, work...

Fault Lines On The Face Of China: 50 Reasons Why China May Never Be Great’ - Excerpt 75“Red China Crime is the best game in town – but you have to be a Party member to get a seat at the table. Forming the last element of the 4th Army of Instability, Red China Crime has been entrenched as the thing to do since even before the Party gained power. Favoritism and nepotism may not appear basically...

Fault Lines On The Face Of China: 50 Reasons Why China May Never Be Great’ - Excerpt 73"Every national entity, no matter what the size of land area or number of people, feels its particular national interests are significant, perhaps even unique. Even the smallest countries in the world feel their own problems are big. Certainly no exception, China, since 1949, has discovered its own unique set of...

Fault Lines On The Face Of China: 50 Reasons Why China May Never Be Great’ - Excerpt 71“Developing international brands is a matter of great importance to China’s government today. Speaking in summer 2007, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said that domestic firms should improve the quality of their products and develop world-class brands.But the 2007 Global Business Leadership Survey, created by Fortune...

Fault Lines On The Face Of China: 50 Reasons Why China May Never Be Great’ - Excerpt 69"In the language of politics, the German word ‘lebensraum’ (living space) has deep meaning. If you were to translate its feeling and the sense of trepidation it creates in other countries, from the German word to a Chinese equivalent, one would need to also translate the sense of need to expand, a sense of righteousness,...

Fault Lines On The Face Of China: 50 Reasons Why China May Never Be Great’ - Excerpt 67“If you say the name ‘David Beckham’ many Chinese people won’t know who you’re talking about. You must say ‘Dai wei Bei ke han mu.’ And if you want to talk about Arnold Schwarzenegger, you have to call him ‘A nuo de Shi wa xin ge.’ The vast majority of Chinese people, even those with good English skills, find themselves...

Fault Lines On The Face Of China: 50 Reasons Why China May Never Be Great’ - Excerpt 65"The second element of the 4th Army of Instability’s triumvirate of crime is made up of those wearing white shirts and dark ties with direct access to the finances of companies and banks nationwide.White China Crime rarely involves just a single culprit, simply because it is almost socially acceptable to rip off...