atimes.com - 12/4/2008
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China’s six-to-one advantage over the US By Spengler America outspends China on defense by a margin of more than six to one, the Pentagon estimates. [1] In another strategic dimension, though, China already holds a six-to-one advantage over the United States. Thirty-six million Chinese children ...
theatlantic.com - 12/4/2008
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theatlantic.com —
“Be Nice to the Countries That Lend You
Money” Image credit: Nelson Ching/Bloomberg News/Landov A mericans know...
that China has financed much of their nation’s public and private debt. During the presidential campaign, Barack Obama and John McCain ...
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“Be Nice to the Countries That Lend You ...
jammiewearingfool.blogspot.com - 12/3/2008
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Those medieval stoners sure got around. A light-haired
Caucasian man with a huge stash of green buds...
over in China.Researchers say they have located the world's oldest stash of marijuana, in a tomb in a remote part of China. The cache of cannabis is ...
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World's Oldest Weed Dealer, Primo Stash Unearthed in China
babalublog.com - 12/11/2008
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As you read this, I'm in transit to
Washington DC for a very special event. I, along...
with a handful of other bloggers/new media users/activists, have been invited for a round table discussion with the President of the United States....
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Babalu Goes to Washington
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Gates of Vienna News Feed 12/3/2008
Gates of Vienna —
... China’s Six-to-One Advantage Over the US By Spengler America outspends China on defense by a margin of more than six to one, the Pentagon estimates. [1] In another strategic dimension, though, China already holds a six-to-one advantage over the United States. Thirty-six million Chinese children study piano today, compared to only 6 million in the United States.[2] The numbers understate the difference, for musical study in China is more demanding. It must be a conspiracy. Chinese parents are ...
Gates of Vienna News Feed 12/8/2008
Gates of Vienna —
... China’s Six-to-One Advantage Over the US By Spengler In classical music, China has embraced the least Chinese, and the most explicitly Western, of all art forms. Even the best Chinese musicians still depend on Western mentors. Lang Lang may be a star, but in some respects he remains an apprentice in the pantheon of Western musicians. The Chinese, in some ways the most arrogant of peoples, can elicit a deadly kind of humility in matters of learning. Their eclecticism befits an empire that is ...
UH OH: “It must be a conspiracy. Chinese parents are selling plasma-screen TVs to America, and savi…
Instapundit —
... UH OH: “It must be a conspiracy. Chinese parents are selling plasma-screen TVs to America, and saving their wages to buy their kids pianos - making American kids stupider and Chinese kids smarter. . . . Americans really, really don’t have a clue what is coming down the pike. The present shift in intellectual capital in favor of the East has no precedent in world history.” ...
Yellow Flight
Daily Pundit —
Greater China
Americans really, really don’t have a clue what is coming down the pike. The present shift in intellectual capital in favor of the East has no precedent in world history.
“Chinese parents urge their children to excel at instrumental music with the same ferocity that American parents [urge] theirs to perform well in soccer or Little League,” wrote Jennifer Lin in the Philadelphia Inquirer June 8 in an article entitled China’s ‘piano fever’.
The world’s largest country is well along the way to forming an ...
From Meccania to Atlantis - Part 5: From Screeching Cats to SDG
The Brussels Journal - The Voice of Conservatism in Europe —
... Spengler’s December 1 much-quoted essay for Asia Times was entitled China’s six-to-one advantage over the US. In it, Spengler expounded on an issue I had commented on before, for it impresses daily on the mind of the thinking Westerner who lives in the Orient. I last expressed it in ...
Why Muslims Like Hitler, but Not Mozart
The Brussels Journal - The Voice of Conservatism in Europe —
... According to Spengler, “the Chinese nation that looks to Lang Lang as one of its heroes is learning the high culture of the West with a collective sense of wonder. Something more than the mental mechanics of classical music makes this decisive for China. In classical music, China has embraced the least Chinese, and the most explicitly Western, of all art forms. Even the best Chinese musicians still depend on Western mentors. Lang Lang may be a star, but in some respects he remains an apprentice in the pantheon of Western musicians. The Chinese, in some ways the most arrogant of ...
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