Chinese Economics Thread

SamuraiBlue

Captain
Do you really want to get into this?
The research subject is limited to Minke whales and if you want to talk about research IWC stated they have not enough scientific data to lift the moratorium adding that they do not have the age distribution data of the Minke whales to positively assure it is healthy enough to restart commercial whaling. The only way to examine a whale's age is through lethal research pulling out it's ear plug.
Get it?
Now back to PRC economy.
 

broadsword

Brigadier
Do you really want to get into this?
The research subject is limited to Minke whales and if you want to talk about research IWC stated they have not enough scientific data to lift the moratorium adding that they do not have the age distribution data of the Minke whales to positively assure it is healthy enough to restart commercial whaling. The only way to examine a whale's age is through lethal research pulling out it's ear plug.
Get it?
Now back to PRC economy.

Read the report.
Japan “does not demonstrate the need for lethal sampling” to meet its research objectives, the group concluded in its report.

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Equation

Lieutenant General
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The American and Chinese flags stand in Beijing's Great Hall of the People. Reuters/Feng Li
Despite growing international concern about
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and the
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disputes with several neighbors, a new survey has revealed that China is being seen in an increasingly favorable light by people around the world. Findings from the
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show that China is closing in on the U.S. in global favorability.

The survey found that most people see China replacing the United States as the world’s No. 1 superpower at some point. In a survey of 40 countries, a majority in 27 countries said China will or already has replaced the U.S. as the world’s leading power.

The view of China has become more favorable across the 35 countries surveyed this year and the last. In 2014, Pew said, a median of 49 percent had a positive view of China across these countries, but in 2015 it is 54 percent. Negative views fell from 38 percent to 34 percent.

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Under the leadership of President Xi Jinping, China is making a concerted effort to be a global leader, although its military reach is still vastly inferior to the United States'. China has ramped up its influence around the world through expanded trade, aid, investment and soft power -- whether it is welcomed or not.

China’s proposed
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aims to be the development bank for Asia, with the goal of rivaling the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. In April, state-run media gave
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to the Chinese military’s role in evacuating foreigners out of war-torn Yemen. The purpose was twofold: to take on humanitarian responsibilities and also to show the capabilities of the country’s expanding military. Similarly, China insists its land reclamation in disputed areas of the South China Sea is for
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and to maintain stability of the region, something neighbors like the Philippines and Vietnam strenuously dispute, charging that China is making a territorial grab.

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Under Xi, plans to revamp China’s international image have had an effect. Pew reports that a median 55 percent of people across the countries surveyed have a favorable opinion of China. The most favorable views are concentrated in Africa and Latin America, where China is engaged in
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and invests heavily in infrastructure and production of commodities such as oil. That positive image does not, however, extend to human rights: A median of 45 percent of people surveyed in 39 countries say the Chinese government does not respect the personal freedoms of its people. That's 11 percentage points more than people who say it does.

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antiterror13

Brigadier
No why should it?
ALthough Japan has no past custom in eating dogs, I don't see it as being barbaric either.
If they are not endangered and if they like it then that is their choice.
Basically telling another what is right and/or wrong to eat is cultural imperialism which should be shunned..
so, would you accept cannibalism? ... in some cultures, its totally ok
 

Jeff Head

General
Registered Member
Guys, GET OFF the talk about eating whales, dogs, cannibalism, etc.

This thread is a Chinese Economics Thread...not a cultural culinary thread.

Okay?

Back on Topic please.

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Blackstone

Brigadier
Holy crap! CCP officials can't even do a bit of honest corruption without getting in trouble with Wang Qishan's Disciplinary Committee anymore. What's this world coming to???

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Imagine you are a Chinese local-government official at an opulent banquet that is decidedly beyond the “
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” threshold for austerity. You watch as your boss – who pulled up outside the banquet hall in a gleaming Mercedes-Benz S class sedan — tucks into a steaming bowl of shark’s fin soup, washing it down with a mouthful of Romanée Conti. Potential eyewitnesses are hard to come by. What to do?

The Communist Party’s anticorruption agency has just such a scenario in mind. The Central Committee for Discipline Inspection this week updated its smartphone app to allow users to report instances of official corruption on the spot and upload cellphone photos to back it up. Best of all for the nervous cadre, it can be done anonymously.

The app – helpfully called the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection Website App – leads the user to the commission’s anticorruption website. There it calls for officials to oppose
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– meaning formalism, bureaucracy, hedonism and waste. The site’s current emphasis is on the upcoming Dragon Boat Festival holiday, as it notes the Four Winds blow most fiercely on those special days.

The app is available on Apple’s App Store and on various Android stores, as well as
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.

Once installed and in action, the app lists different categories of corruption. They include use of public funds for banquets, domestic tourism, travelling abroad, holding luxurious weddings and funerals and other misdeeds.

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A screenshot of the new anticorruption app.
Once selected, the app takes the user to another page where he or she can describe the misdeeds, mark the date and upload photos or videos, for a maximum of two files at five megabytes each.

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Users can describe the alleged misdeeds and upload photos, videos and other materials.
The app’s release comes a week after
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. CCDI hopes its new app will show its continued determination in cracking down on corruption, it said in a press release.

The app was a popular topic of conversation this week on the Weibo social-media service. “Everybody can supervise. That’s good,” said one user. “The masses have sharp eyes,” said another.

Some were less optimistic.

“This is useless!” wrote one critic. “Officials in my hometown all go to the neighboring town to go dining, wining and whoring since no one will recognize them!”
 
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