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"China’s one-child policy causing working-age population to shrink" by David Pierson, Los Angeles Times | July 12, 2009
SHANGHAI - With fewer workers to support an aging society in need of care, China faces the same demographic squeeze confronting Western nations. The difference: China’s family-tinkering policy has accelerated a shift that the country is ill-prepared to manage and finance.
“The problem is the age wave is coming while China is still relatively poor,’’ said Richard Jackson of the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies. “China may be the first major country to grow old before it grows rich.’’
Advances in family planning, nutrition, and healthcare have resulted in longer life spans and fewer babies across much of the globe.
I despise the globalist death cult! Just listen to them!!!!
LESS BABIES is an ADVANCE!!!
Translation; THEY HATE CHILDREN!!!!!!
The populations of developing regions such as Latin America and Asia are still much younger than those of US and European societies. But they’re aging much more quickly, lacking the time and resources to stitch together old-age social safety nets on par with those of rich, industrialized nations.
Shanghai provides a window into China’s demographic future. Already China’s largest city, it’s also its grayest. So many residents have reached retirement age that city officials are urging local companies to persuade their aging staffs to stay on the job longer. The government has injected $618 million into the public pension system over the past two years to keep it solvent.
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Despite its dazzling economic growth, China is still a low-income country. Its per capita GDP in 2008 was just over $5,000, one-ninth that of the United States. Only about a third of China’s workforce is covered by a pension system; most of those covered are urbanites. Families save copiously, but it’s rarely enough to support them through old age. Average life expectancy is 73 years - up 32 years since the People’s Republic was founded in 1949.
Something you never hear much about, huh?
For most Chinese, social security still means relying on extended family. But that bond is being strained by low birthrates and the migration of tens of millions of young people from the country to jobs in far-off manufacturing plants.
To ward off social catastrophe, China’s central government has pledged to introduce a national pension system. The challenge will be crafting a plan that is generous enough to keep seniors from poverty but doesn’t unduly burden the young.
At least the Chinese TRY to take care of their people and are concerned about how they feel. Ours just flips us the finger and s***s all over us.
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Hey, I'm not saying the Chinese government is great -- no government is -- however, how sad is it that a Communist government is more responsive than a "democracy?"
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BEIJING — In a further sign that Chinese officials are trying to assert more Internet control, the city of Beijing wants to recruit 10,000 volunteers by summer’s end to monitor online content, said an employee of the city government’s Spiritual Civilization Office.
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Chinese authorities have also sought to assert control by directly warning some online services. On Thursday, for example, a government-supported Internet watchdog group criticized Google’s Chinese-language Web site for linking to “pornographic and vulgar” sites. The group, the China Internet Illegal Information Reporting Center, said www.google.cn had already been criticized in January and April and that it must purge the offending links.
China’s central and local governments use a vast array of programs and human monitors to block Internet content deemed pornographic or politically harmful to the Communist Party, like Web sites discussing Tibet or the Falun Gong, the banned spiritual movement. The system of censorship is nicknamed the Great Firewall, and savvy computer users in China usually use software to circumvent it, thinking little of it. But the government’s new rule that computer makers install censorship software on computers has inflamed antigovernment sentiment among Chinese computer users.
Many people say the software, called Green Dam-Youth Escort, will be used to block Web sites with politically unacceptable content, even though officials insist that the software will be used primarily to censor pornography. Computer experts also discovered severe weaknesses in the software that would let hackers hijack computers. Chinese officials say they have ordered the developers to fix these problems.
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Trade groups representing major American computer makers, including Hewlett-Packard and Dell, which have significant market shares in China, have been asking the Chinese government to rescind the requirement that Green Dam be preinstalled on computers but have seen no change in the Chinese position.
Four trade groups based in the United States have sent a statement to the Chinese government asking it to “reconsider implementing its new mandatory filtering software requirement.” On Wednesday, the major American computer makers said they had yet to hear anything concrete from China regarding the possibility of making installations of Green Dam optional.
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"U.S. to press China on tariffs on clean energy trade
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The United States will press China this week to lower its tariffs on clean energy technology as one of many steps the two countries can take to fight global warming, U.S. officials said on Monday.
U.S. Energy
He means FART-MISTING CARBON CREDITS, folks!
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Of course, the Globe never told you this:
"Commerce Secretary: Americans ‘Need to Pay’ for Chinese Emissions
Yesterday, Commerce Secretary Gary Locke said something amazing—U.S. consumers should pay for part of Chinese greenhouse-gas emissions. From Reuters: “It’s important that those who consume the products being made all around the world to the benefit of America — and it’s our own consumption activity that’s causing the emission of greenhouse gases, then quite frankly Americans need to pay for that,” Commerce Secretary Gary Locke told the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai."
Then by all means: Wealthy Responsible For Global Warming
More they won't tell you:
"Washington Is Playing A Deeper Game With China After the tragic events of July 5 in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in China, it would be useful to look more closely into the actual role of the US Government's "independent" NGO, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED). All indications are that the US Government, once more acting through its "private" Non-Governmental Organization, the NED, is massively intervening into the internal politics of China."
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But they will tell you this:
"Security is tight in China city after police kill 2 Uighurs; Third man was wounded in latest violent clash" by Gillian Wong, Associated Press | July 15, 2009
URUMQI, China - Security tightened yesterday in the capital of China’s western Xinjiang region, where paramilitary police blocked access to a Uighur neighborhood where two Uighurs were fatally shot a day earlier, the latest violent clash in the wake of last week’s ethnic riots.
Security forces with shields and rifles lay a band of spikes across a road leading to the alley of dingy apartment blocks near where police shot and killed the two Uighur men and wounded a third on Monday. The shootings reflect how uneasy the city of Urumqi remains after a spasm of ethnic unrest last week left at least 184 dead, most of them Han Chinese, and 1,680 injured in the worst ethnic violence China has seen in decades.
On Monday, a police van blared messages in the Uighur language attacking Rebiya Kadeer, a prominent exiled Uighur activist whom the Chinese government blames for inciting the unrest. The government has not provided evidence to back its claim and Kadeer, who lives in Washington, D.C., has denied the charges. She blames government policies for exacerbating long-standing tensions between the dominant Han Chinese and the minority Muslim Uighur community.
Translation: She is a CIA ASSET -- just like his holiness.
Of course, those 'tensions" she is talking about are in what was a "PEACEFUL" section of western China. Make of it what you will, readers.
Remember the source we are getting this report from, please.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang appealed yesterday to Muslim nations for understanding of China’s handling of the unrest and rejected assertions it would hurt Beijing’s ties with Muslim countries. “If they have a clear idea about the true nature of the incident, they would understand China’s policies concerning religion and religious issues and understand the measures we have taken,’’ he told a regular news conference.
Turkey’s prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, had earlier compared the situation in Xinjiang to “a kind of genocide.’’
U.S. must have made him say it, and it comes cheap.
Go back to criticizing Israel, Erdogan!
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BEIJING - The actions underscore a renewed official push to control these lawyers, who already run the risk of being detained, harassed, attacked, and threatened with disbarment for their work.
I keep thinking of attorney-gate when I see stuff like that, don't you?
China is also preparing for the communist state’s 60th anniversary on Oct. 1 - a particularly sensitive period when dissent is not tolerated.
In AmeriKa, they just don't listen.
