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Saturday, September 29, 2012
How Canadians Can Win in International Trade
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Bo Xilai Gets the Boot
Maybe it is not over. Deng Xiaoping went down three times before taking the top slot. Bo was more hard core communist, and anti-corruption, and it is not unheard of for politicians worldwide and in history to be hoisted on their own petard.
That there is a transition coming up in China sure makes it feel something like 1976. That Bo was anti-corruption, conservative communist and very popular means his downfall is significant. I was struck by how the President of China and party leader was dressed when he launched China's first aircraft carrier. Sure looks like 1976.
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Friday, September 28, 2012
Exporting Agriculture to China
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Kowloon City Anarchy
But why did it keep growing? Why did people not want to leave? And if it was so dangerous, how come Postmen had no trouble delivering the mail in there? Maybe it was to keep people from escaping to anarchy.
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Thursday, September 27, 2012
Kant on Lawyers
All of the privileges Boeing, Ford, Google, Gernal Foods, Gernal Mills, Gerenal Motors, General Electric and so on get are mostly in the area of domestic support in the form of crushing domestic competition. Then susbidies to make their products attractive overseas.
What happens is these huge USA corporations spend ever more money on themselves and their employees, becoming ever more bloated. Like a University, they swear their costs are going up, so their fees need to go up. Yes, they spend more, but unnecessarily. Good results do not cost more, these entities just spend more. Because they can. And as they spend more, they insist they must charge more, like a pharmaceutical company. And since the above all live off government (taxpayer) largesse, there is no rational end, except for a crack-up bust. We are on the cusp.
The problem is not that as State-owend enterprises transfer technology to their competitors for short term gain, it is that they crush domestic competition with all of their state-provided assists. So USA is failing on two fronts: One, the lawyers who run this country have destroyed any hope of business start-up, the innovation we badly need to grow our way out of this problem. So forget about domestic recovery. At the same time, those countries to whom we have transferred technology now out compete us overseas, killing off the export markets.
Our hope is in the bust. When the system crashes, we'll have a chance to revive the economy. But a key change we can make right now is NEVER vote a lawyer into office. it is a self-destructive act.
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As Close As I'll Get to Being Right?
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Wednesday, September 26, 2012
55% Would Not Start Businesses Today
There is no plan on either side to improve things.
There is business to be done. The economic policy disasters are killing businesses too loaded up on debt but otherwise viable. Starting up now means you are not burdened with the debt load to be serviced, which is a competitive advantage. Get going!
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How Come Your Free Speech Costs Me So Much?
We can run the Cui Bono, who would create a smokescreen behind which a highly trained, highly motivated and coordinated hit team murdered a US Ambassador on 9-11? That is what the Egyptians are saying, and they would know, because they were there. And no one from the USA was there. But never mind.
My question is when a Pakistani official calls for the patsy's murder, everyone screams free speech.
I like free speech. But especially the no cost part. I love listening to some nut in the park go on about the Zionist Occupied Government, or Global Warming or some other nutty idea. Costs me nothing.
But when someone does something so outrageous that it might get him killed, then I don't want to pay for his protection. Let the fellow exercising the free speech also foot the bill to protect himself against those who would disagree, with a bullet.
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Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Fraud In Chinese Business
This kind of counterfeiting is a problem for all Chinese, and now the Party. They made a Hero out of him for buying a USA bank, until they discovered the fraud.
China law is an evolving affair, and probably the best inroductory book on the topic is by the late China-watcher Laszlo LaDany.
The book provides and sound basis from which to understand the changes in law in China today.
As to fraud, it is much in the news in China and overseas. As I have said before, it is a problem for the Chinese more than for anyone outside of China. Anyone buying from China who finds themselves with less than happy results, only have theselves to blame. China has excellent suppliers in every field. Checking references and spotting frauds is part of your business.
Earlier his year I spent probably 20 hours and about $400 to get to the point I realized a fellow was probably not who he claimed to be. He provided several bona fides, and I checked one that did not pan out. It is just part of the job to assure everythingis on the up and up.
When I first visited China back in the 1970s, the Chinese were quite open in sharing their secrets regarding imitating antiques. Washing carpets in tea, or soaking bronze in urine, and other tricks were so widely known that it was no big deal.
The differences are not so great.
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Monday, September 24, 2012
Patent Assault Starts Thursday
If you are unemployed, or otherwise free to pile on, join up, get busy and bring help bring down this evil intellectual property regime that is one of the main reasons you are unemployed. This is truly a nonviolent response to a constant threat of violence that by dint of effort of patent attorneys has grown ever more evil over the years.
Rarely do we get chances like this. Get busy! Spread this around.
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Afghanistan Looks to China
"It is in line with the fundamental interests of the two peoples for China and Afghanistan to strengthen a strategic and cooperative partnership, which is also conducive to regional peace, stability and development," Zhou was quoted as saying in a written statement released by the Chinese delegation upon his arrival.
This war was a Bush gig, and Obama was elected to end it. We knew this would happen ten years ago. We already knew that your geographical neighbors are always your biggest trading partners, and China and Afghanistan share a common border. After losing the war, the Chinese simply walk in and make friends. This was inevitable.
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Sunday, September 23, 2012
All Hail Free Honduras!
"The cities involve the creation of a state within the state, a commercial entity with state powers outside the jurisdiction of the government," Cruz said.
Right on! And they outsourced their legal structure to Mauritius!
OK, so it is another sort of capitalist-relatively-free market, but people want it. And how come? Because too much government in Honduras made for chaos, and now people are escaping to anarchy. We need such a district in USA. Now.
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Tunisian Wine
Why are Tunisian wineries coming to Hong Kong? Few people know we produce wine, because people assume that Tunisia, being a Muslim country, does not consume, much less produce, wines. But the fact is that Tunisia has preserved its wine-making tradition and produces excellent wine. As I’ve mentioned, we trade mainly with Europe, which has the best three or four of the world’s fine-wine producers – namely France, Italy, Spain and Greece. That means competition is tough in that part of the world, so there’s little room to export Tunisian wine in Europe. This is why we are exploring opportunities to sell our wine elsewhere.
We know Hong Kong is the best place to introduce our product into the Chinese mainland, Japan and South Korea, because Hong Kong has the expertise in promoting quality products from around the world. Our wine producers understand that if they want to go overseas, they have to invest in it, which includes participating in Hong Kong trade events because Hong Kong is a hub for the global marketplace. If you succeed in promoting your product through Hong Kong, and later through the online marketplace, you will let the world know about your product.
What’s unique about Tunisian wine? Tunisia enjoys a Mediterranean climate, and we still use our traditional way of producing wine. It’s not industrial, it’s natural. We produce organic and bio wine, which means we don’t add any chemical products. This is also true of our other food products.
Well, seems like something that should be tested in the USA by an existing wine importer. There are so many undesirable chemicals in USA wine a true, raw, organic wine might be welcome, if exotic.
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