Mostly true. However, the government does take this stuff seriously. The former head of the Chinese FDA was executed for his role in allowing antifreeze in cough syrup which killed 40 people in Panama.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zheng_Xiaoyu

We need more of this everywhere. In the US the biggest criminals are running around free and living in luxury while petty thieves and drug users are spending their lives behind bars. There are now only 80 non-incarcerated African-American men for every 100 women. There is no other population group with such statistics in the world.

Talk about totalitarianism. If there were figures like that from somewhere like Tibet, it would be front page news everyday in the NYT, that epitome of journalistic integrity which lied us into the war in Iraq.

Getting a litte off topic here. Sorry.

Ain’t it amazin’?  China has managed to capture the WORST of both Communist totalitarianism and unfettered, unregulated capitalism.

Another tainted, poisoning product story.  This time, it’s Chinese drywall, apparently loaded with sulfur, causing sickness, nosebleeds and metal in the house to corrode rapidly.  At least 100,000 homes are contaminated and must be strapped back to the studs to clear this shit out.  My source? Today’s (8 Oct) NY Times.

Toys with lead
Toys with date-rape drugs
Deliberately Tainted milk
Deliberately Tainted pet food
Deliberately poisoned (with antifreeze) toothpaste.
Tainted sheetrock.

No regulation, no editing function.

Dillon:

You said you live in the Ukraine and you also said “How I love it ... it’s always the US and our imperial designs at work all over the world.” When you say “our imperial designs” who is the “our” that you are including yourself in?

I don’t know which Chinese you are talking to in Ukraine, but I know that if you go to Miami you can hear some very bad things about some of the new progressive leadership in Latin America.

Now regarding Lenin. What is Leninism anyway? It is not a formula or a catechism as many young, and not so young, radicals suppose. Leninism is Marxism in the era of imperialism. The strategy and tactics necessary to confront and ultimately defeat imperialism can appear to be counter to certain Marxist or progressive ideals. It is more akin to the strategy and tactics of warfare, because that is what it is. Consider: In the past three decades the US has been stripped of its industrial base and a corresponding base has been built in China. The Chinese Leninists exploited the shortsightedness of elements of US finance capital to accomplish this. US imperialism has created an almost universal opposition to its program while China has quietly and in a very Leninist way worked to solidify its political base in the world community. They even have good relations with Israel! There is a whole community of capitalists in the US who are now pro-China,  because that is where they think their interests lie. They help promote the line that China is on the road to capitalism and the only thing in the way are a few obstinate old-line Party people there. Of course, the CCP is more than happy to foster these illusions,  even inviting a few Chinese capitalists into the Party as window dressing and making favorable noises about modern capitalist management theory and having Hu Jin Tao stop and see Bill Gates before seeing Bush. All this and more is pure Lenin, but because most people in the US, ever in positions of power, don’t understand it, it is left to the few ideologues on the right to truly understand that this is not simply the rise of another capitalist power, as when Germany arose in Europe in the latter part of the 19th century.

Now, I have also stood in Tiananmen Square. I saw a lot of Chinese families there too. I was not there as a tourist, but was visiting my brother who has lived and been a teacher in China for five years. I know all about the petty corruption and all that, but it is the overall picture which is important. In the next couple of decades, we will see a huge increase in the standard of living of ordinary people. I have seen that the country is one huge construction site and that people are moving into new housing on a massive scale. Many Chinese teachers get new 2-3 bedroom condos for which they pay a very small part of their salaries. And they are not like the crappy housing thrown up in the USSR, in which I spent 3 weeks in 1985.

So there it is folks. Leninism at work in the 21st century. Not your father’s Leninism, as you might say.

dillon,

my question was…“when can china retaliate against your relentless assault for the past two centuries ?”

then you went on blabbering about china’s humanrights, tam [sic] and tibet [sic]
are u telling us that china is a “failed state” which deserve a doze of your “humanitarian intervention” , starting with cia sabotages, followed by relentless bombing and eventual occupation, ala kosovo, iraq, afghan and coming up…iran ?

dillon
**How I love it ... it’s always the US and our imperial designs at work all over the world.**

so you’re a sheeple after all,

“MOST AMERICANS DON’T REALIZE HOW HEINOUS OUR OWN GOVERNMENT HAS BEEN”
tinyurl.com/5oygdv

in the world at large
tinyurl.com/5mezy

to china in particular
tinyurl.com/4fkrkz

take your time to read this and educate yourself

as far as “failed states” are concerned, you have no moral authority to lecture other country on hr, legitimacy, corruption , the lot
zero, nil, nada, zilch
coz you are the biggest “failed state” of them all,

besides, who give u the god damned right to attack and invade any country designated as a “failed state”, i heard yanks get their instruction from the almighty himself no less,
lol

I see, Dillon, you know that the Chinese people will always be poor because you live in the Ukraine and talk to Chinese people.  And consequently we should defer to your superior wisdom.

I once had a friend who was infuriated by the long- past radio THE SHADOW.  He knew the hearts of men because he walked by night, so the Shadow claimed at the beginning of every show.  It used to drive my friend wild.  How does walking by night enable you to know the hearts of men, he used to shout.  He drank quite a bit, needless to say, and finally too much, and died.

I’m glad he passed off this mortal coil before he could read that you know the future of the Chinese because you live in the Ukraine.

Folktruther:

Same comment.  I doubt you’ve ever lived in or even visited the place you profess to know so much about.  I live Eastern Europe every day and spent enough time with the Chinese to know quite a bit about their situation as well.  But it is truly amazing when someone professes to know so much about something he has never actually been involved with.  And then bashes anyone who might see the world differently than he does.  Sorry guys ... there are a few people on this planet who know more about this part of the world than you ... sorry to spoil your perfect knowledge with a few facts.

Oh ... race_to_the_bottom:  prosperity for who?  The party and those few percent at the top of the business ladder.  The vast majority of Chinese are poor and will always be that way.  They live very difficult lives far removed from the opulence of the ruling class who live in special compounds behind guarded walls.  Again ... I know because I actually talk to people there who live the life every day.

Race_to_the_bottom:

Funny you should mention that:  I just happen to live in Eastern Europe (Ukraine to be exact) and we talk about that subject quite often.  China is as far from Lenin as one can get.  They are not Communist by any stretch ... not since they turned to Capitalism.  But keep telling yourself about how you know so much about something you know nothing about.  Don’t take the word of someone who might just know a bit more about the subject than you ... it would spoil your perfect understanding!

The drivel of Dillon is a conseuqence of his braindead absorbion of the American mainstream truth as the US loses power.  Along with the traditional US homicidal racism. 

As Paul Kennedy stated in his huge book of Westeern historical power, THE RISE AND FALL OF THE GREAT POWERS, national power is predicated on economics, notably industrial production.  Although the US traditionally fabricates its histocial statistics, like unemployment, so the simple historical truth is excluded from the mainstream media, in 2008, China produced about twice the industrial production of the US.

Since it is developing at an enourmously faster pace than the West, a surprise-free projection would suggest, astonishingly, that China would have four times the US amount in a few years, consistent with its population.  Since the US was the domiment capitalist power in the last half of the 20th century, instilling imperialist Elitism, and is now rapidly losing world power, it disguises its lost with the kind of fulminations that Dillon exempliefies.

  It is very harmful.  During this period of rapid power loss, the US is very dangerous, since it is trying to hold on to power by violence.  And the first victim of violence is truth.  So China, and Europe, are treating the US very carefully and going along ideologically with its massive deception.  But US political and economic institutions are obsolete, and can’t compete with the centralized capitalism of China.  So historically truth will out.

That is why the Polls of Pew have indicated that 80% or so of Americans feel the US is heading in wrong direction, and 80% of the Chinese feel that China is headed in the right direction.  China has lifted hundreds of millions from destitution and the US is making people destitute, at home and abroad.

Go ahead, CC Dillon,

Keep telling yourself and anyone who will listen how China is now run by capitalists. You obviously don’t understand Leninism at all. Your understanding is as crude as that of the infantile leftists that tend to populate the blogosphere.

How I love it ... it’s always the US and our imperial designs at work all over the world.  But, I have many Chinese friends who tell me what is happening in their country.  That is why I know what I know.  I stood in Tienanmen square 1 year after the student uprising ... when did any of you visit there?  I have been involved with China for years and know the people pretty well.  Even now I talk with my Chinese friends who know better then you what is happening in their country.  You are over your head on this one!

Very few support the Communists (if that is what they really are).  I doubt Mao would recognize his party.  Most of the leaders are more capitalists than anyone in the West.  They live lavish lives and trample anyone who stands against them.  The party owns thousands of companies (Heier for example ... the big appliance manufacturer) and the profits from those enterprises flow directly into party coffers.  Their minor political functionaries steal indiscriminately and rule with an iron hand.  They allow free enterprise but try to criticize the government and see what that gets you!

But, of course, you guys know better.  It would seem that only America is capable of evil (in your “world” view).  That is the other side of the “America, right or wrong” crowd.  Well, guess what ... there are other nefarious forces out there.  China is one.  Just ask someone from Tibet ...

C.Curtis.Dillon
**You can tell the legitimacy of a government by it’s reaction to criticism or events.  China has repeatedly over-reacted to even the slightest provocation**  [sic]

god damned anglos,
you’ve got cheeks, after waging wars on the chinese for centuries now
“when can china haul the United States before the UN Security Council or to take military actions in retaliation for this low-intensity war that has been waged upon them…?”
http://tinyurl.com/mumupz

C Curtis, your ignorance of China is as great as your confidence in displaying it.  the US had dismembered the Soviet union and ygoslavia and threatend dismemberment of Iraq.  the Dali Lamna hs a government in exile, funded by the CIA, wanting an independece for Tibet, a vast sparsly populated wasteland that has primarily military significance for China.  The US is also fomenting resistence among the Uigers, another small people with oil implications.

the Chinese are suspicious becaue the US is a very aggresive country with faut-naive population, I mention no manes.

Hey CC Dillon,

The US wants to dismember China. The Dali Lama is a part of that program. Not to know this is to be naive in the extreme

How do you know how the Chinese people think? They know they have stability, peace, and growing prosperity. Do you think that the Communist Party has less legitimacy than the Republicrat party of the US which has just taken us on a ride from the top of the heap in the Mid 70s to the shithole we are in today?

Pfuck Pfaff!

You can tell the legitimacy of a government by it’s reaction to criticism or events.  China has repeatedly over-reacted to even the slightest provocation.  See how crazy it gets whenever the Dali Lama meets with a world leader.  See how they react in Tibet or Taiwan.  The communist party is illegitimate and they know it.  They are paranoid for valid reasons as most of the people recognize that they govern out of fear, not respect.  More and more people question the need for this government and their corrupt officials.  If this charade continues, the people may eventually get rid of them.  No army, even the imaginary 125 million man army of China, will protect them when that happens.

I usually like much of Pfaff’s stuff but this piece is pure bullshit.  I suppose the transfer of world power from the West to the East required a hit piece for some reason.  But this is absurd garbage.  China’s military IS NOT 125 million men; its army is about two million, only slightly more than the US military, althugh they have more than 4 times the US population.  It is building a navy to guard its shores because it was attacked by Japan in WW2 and threatened by the US.

that China should only celebrate 30 years, from the time US recognized them, is childish drivel.  this piece is so atypical of Pfaff that one might think he had a seuzure of some kind.
The most realistic modern book on China was done by the Peterson instute for US foreign policy in 2008.  It is called CHINA’S RISE.  that truthdip would print this garbage is a major reason that the American population needs its own media.

Quote: “As I have argued before in this space, the Communist Party no longer possesses a real justification for running the country. It is in a certain respect an illegitimate government.”

The Party’s justification for running the country is that it is doing a better job of running the country than any other regime since…whenever. Its policies have brought China wealth, power, and a measure of prosperity. Furthermore,  it appears to have a plan for the future. Therefore, the Party can claim the Mandate of Heaven.