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Crocodiles on the loosePosted by Eric Mu on Thursday, September 25, 2008 at 5:11 PM
 Sanjin Metropolis News September 25, 2008 The top headline in today's Sanjin Metropolis News, a Taiyuan-based newspaper, reads "Premier Wen moved the United States with genuine feelings." The article reported on Premier Wen Jiabao's speech, delivered during a luncheon hosted by "friendly American organizations" in New York on September 23. Wen is on a six-day trip to the city to attend a UN meeting. In his speech, Wen reviewed the progress of the relationship between China and the US. He also commented on the milk scandal, saying "entrepreneurs should have morality running in their veins." And in a review of his career as Premier, he remarked on the legacies he wants to leave behind when his tenure is over:
 Zhujiang Evening News September 25, 2008 Shenzhou 7 is set to lift off today between 9:07 and 10:27 pm carrying three astronauts, one of whom will perform China's first space-walk. Those astronauts made the cover of the Sanjin Metropolis News and most of the country's other newspapers today. Typhoon Hagupit swept the southern province of Guangdong yesterday. Zhujiang Evening News, a Zhuhai-based newspaper, reported that farmed saltwater crocodiles and alligators escaped their cages in Zhuhai with the typhoon's help. Armed police were called upon and ten of the animals had been caught by the time the newspaper went to print. It was not yet clear how many had escaped in total. According to newspaper, one Zhuhai resident died in the typoon, and the direct economic loss to the city caused by the storm is estimated to be half a billion yuan. Links and Sources
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Comments on Crocodiles on the loose
Wen and Hu have great ambitions, they want to transform China into a modern and civilized society, I learnt that through their speeches and personality and changes they've helped to make during their leadership.
its a step-by-step project, its slow but its going, they both cannot do much right now because of systematic defects, and this will take generations to achieve.
>>they both cannot do much right now because of systematic defects
Like the fact that both of them are non-elected military dictators?
>>Wen and Hu have great ambitions
No, they HAD great ambitions, namely to become non-elected military dictators. They achieved that.
>>changes they've helped to make
Name one. Name one single change that either Hu or Wen has made.
The CCP doesn't "make changes" it just stops doing stupid shit every once in a while, and lets people get on with building their lives, and thus China. It's like "Opening Up": people (including lots who should know better) actually believe "Opening Up" was a "policy". Wrong. It was simply that the CCP stopped standing in people's way, mainly because they were about to be pushed over.
When the CCP "does things" and "makes changes" that's when everything goes wrong. When they STOP trying to rule (their power derived from the "barrel of a gun" as Mao said), the great nation that is China races ahead.
Power to govern derives from the consent of the governed. "Consent at gunpoint" is not consent.
Eh? Try UPDATING yourself on CURRENT EVENTS in U.S. & Wall Street, before RANTING on-and-on about "Paradises" to be found in "Democracies"!
People relating everything to democracy or autocracy are ideological extremists, or outright dumbass, I fucking hate them and I want to shit on their head.
And just so you know, China and US are in equally dire situation economically.
Who was ranting about paradises and democracy? Was there a deleted post?