"New research finds China’s one-child rule hurts society" by Louise Watt | Associated Press, January 11, 2013
BEIJING — These children are less trusting, less competitive, more pessimistic, less conscientious, and more risk-averse than people born before the policy was implemented.
The study’s authors say the one-child policy has significant ramifications for Chinese society, leading to less risk-taking in the labor market and possibly fewer entrepreneurs.
They seem to be doing all right to me. I wish my economy was growing at 7% -- and that's down for China.
‘‘Trust is really important, not just social interactions but in terms of negotiations in business, working with colleagues in business, negotiating between firms,’’ said one of the authors, Lisa Cameron. ‘‘If we have lower levels of trust, that could make these kinds of negotiations and interactions more difficult.’’
What happens when you have lost it because the U.S. government has lost its.
China introduced its policy in 1979 to curb a surging population. It limits most urban couples to one child.
Related: China Admits Abortion is Wrong
It's about time.
The new work by Cameron of Monash University in Australia and coauthors was published online Friday in the journal Science.
Why would anyone believe them?
The findings — including indications that those in the study were more sensitive and nervous — are no surprise, said Zou Hong of the School of Psychology at Beijing Normal University, who was not involved in the research.
‘‘Only children in Chinese families are loved and given almost everything by their families and they can get resources at home without competition,’’ she said. ‘‘Once they enter society, they are no different from other people. Having been overly protected, they feel a sense of loss and show less competitiveness.’’
What is wrong with that first one? Enough kids are neglected in this world. As for the second thing, they sound like the AmeriKan elite that depend on tax loot.
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Time to feed baby:
"Chinese demand for baby milk causes ration in UK" by SYLVIA HUI | Associated Press, April 11, 2013
LONDON — Demand for baby milk formula is surging in Britain, but it seems likely the powder is going to babies thousands of miles away.
British retailers said Wednesday they are limiting purchases of baby milk powder to two tins per customer after noticing some people were buying unusually large quantities in stores, apparently to export to China for profit.
Danone, the dairy manufacturer, said it has significantly increased production of powdered baby milk in response to the trend.
Baby formula made by foreign brands is in great demand in China, where parents have been wary of local dairy products since contaminated milk killed six babies in 2008.
Chinese leaders have vowed to prevent any scandals like that melamine-laced milk formula from surfacing again, but the country’s dairy industry is still plagued by quality lapses.
Maybe the FDA could help them out.
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UPDATE: China official, driver held in child’s death
Time to take the kid away:
"Illegal orphanage known before fire
BEIJING — A local Chinese government on Saturday admitted that it had tolerated the existence of an illegally run orphanage where six children and one young adult died in a house fire. The Lankao County government in Henan Province said Yuan Lihai illegally took in and cared for 18 abandoned children and young adults, reported People.com.cn, the official website of the party-run People’s Daily (AP)."
Can't leave them in the car:
"Baby’s strangulation in car theft prompts soul-searching across China" by William Wan | Washington Post, March 07, 2013
BEIJING — While China’s leaders convened in Beijing for its most important government meeting of the year, the rest of the nation was transfixed by a car theft gone tragically awry in northeastern China.
The strangulation of a two-month old baby left in the backseat of the stolen vehicle has unleashed an outpouring of anguish and soul-searching online on the state of morality in China’s quickly changing society at a time when leaders are trying to assure its citizens of their nation’s progress.
Sounds familiar to me somehow.
The incident occurred Monday when a father in the city of Changchun left his baby sleeping in his SUV as he ran inside his family’s supermarket to turn on the stove. He returned to find the car gone along with the baby, named Xu Haobo, according to local authorities. The father later told local media that he left the baby in SUV because he feared the store would be too cold.
The baby’s disappearance set off a massive search across Changchun in northeast China. Hundreds of taxi drivers and private car owners joined in the hunt.
Chinese Amber Alert.
One day later, the pink blanket used to warm the baby and the vehicle were found in a neighboring suburb, but people online continued tweeting prayers and hopes that the baby would be found safe.
Those hopes ended Tuesday night when the thief, identified as Zhou Xijun, 48, surrendered to police, and according to authorities, confessed to strangling the baby after discovering it in the backseat and dumping the body in the snow.
As thousands turned out for a candlelight vigil in Changchun, sorrow online turned to hand-wringing and even anger about the money-crazed values of China’s new society.
I never realized how alike are Chinese and American citizens.
‘‘How did the social security become this bad? How did man lose all his humanity?’’ posted a mother named Che Xiaoyan.
Others blamed the father for leaving the baby alone. Many, however, linked to a similar case oin New York with a vastly different outcome.
After stealing a jeep containing an 8-month-old girl in the Bronx, the thief not only left the baby and vehicle unharmed, but called police twice to give them the location of the SUV.
One Chinese blogger noted the heated competition between US and China these days, and said, ‘‘The same car thieves, different ethical bottom lines. A country [like China] with several thousand years of history can’t even match the culture of a country with just a two hundred year history.’’
I've noticed the AmeriKan media is paying an awful lot of attention to Chinese bloggers lately, which only exposes them as an intelligence operation.
Related: Revere Car Robber Arrested
We are better than you!
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Time to go visit grandma:
"China requires people to visit their aged parents" Associated Press, December 29, 2012
Can't leave them in the car:
"Baby’s strangulation in car theft prompts soul-searching across China" by William Wan | Washington Post, March 07, 2013
BEIJING — While China’s leaders convened in Beijing for its most important government meeting of the year, the rest of the nation was transfixed by a car theft gone tragically awry in northeastern China.
The strangulation of a two-month old baby left in the backseat of the stolen vehicle has unleashed an outpouring of anguish and soul-searching online on the state of morality in China’s quickly changing society at a time when leaders are trying to assure its citizens of their nation’s progress.
Sounds familiar to me somehow.
The incident occurred Monday when a father in the city of Changchun left his baby sleeping in his SUV as he ran inside his family’s supermarket to turn on the stove. He returned to find the car gone along with the baby, named Xu Haobo, according to local authorities. The father later told local media that he left the baby in SUV because he feared the store would be too cold.
The baby’s disappearance set off a massive search across Changchun in northeast China. Hundreds of taxi drivers and private car owners joined in the hunt.
Chinese Amber Alert.
One day later, the pink blanket used to warm the baby and the vehicle were found in a neighboring suburb, but people online continued tweeting prayers and hopes that the baby would be found safe.
Those hopes ended Tuesday night when the thief, identified as Zhou Xijun, 48, surrendered to police, and according to authorities, confessed to strangling the baby after discovering it in the backseat and dumping the body in the snow.
As thousands turned out for a candlelight vigil in Changchun, sorrow online turned to hand-wringing and even anger about the money-crazed values of China’s new society.
I never realized how alike are Chinese and American citizens.
‘‘How did the social security become this bad? How did man lose all his humanity?’’ posted a mother named Che Xiaoyan.
Others blamed the father for leaving the baby alone. Many, however, linked to a similar case oin New York with a vastly different outcome.
After stealing a jeep containing an 8-month-old girl in the Bronx, the thief not only left the baby and vehicle unharmed, but called police twice to give them the location of the SUV.
One Chinese blogger noted the heated competition between US and China these days, and said, ‘‘The same car thieves, different ethical bottom lines. A country [like China] with several thousand years of history can’t even match the culture of a country with just a two hundred year history.’’
I've noticed the AmeriKan media is paying an awful lot of attention to Chinese bloggers lately, which only exposes them as an intelligence operation.
Related: Revere Car Robber Arrested
We are better than you!
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Time to go visit grandma:
"China requires people to visit their aged parents" Associated Press, December 29, 2012
BEIJING — China’s national legislature amended its law on the elderly on Friday to require that adult children visit their aged parents ‘‘often’’ or risk being sued by them.
The amendment does not specify how frequently such visits should occur.
State media said the new clause will allow elderly parents who feel neglected by their children to take them to court. The move comes as reports abound of elderly parents being abandoned or ignored by their children.
I never realized how alike are Chinese and American citizens.
I never realized how alike are Chinese and American citizens.
A rapidly developing China is facing difficulty in caring for its aging population.
Why? Did their government also steal the Social Security surplus?
Three decades of market reforms have accelerated the breakup of the traditional extended family in China, and there are few affordable alternatives, such as retirement or care homes, for the elderly or others unable to live on their own.
Why? Did their government also steal the Social Security surplus?
Three decades of market reforms have accelerated the breakup of the traditional extended family in China, and there are few affordable alternatives, such as retirement or care homes, for the elderly or others unable to live on their own.
Earlier this month, state media reported that a grandmother in her 90s in the prosperous eastern province of Jiangsu had been forced by her son to live in a pig pen for two years.
Some American apartments and houses are such as well.
News outlets frequently carry stories about parents being abused or neglected, or of children seeking control of their elderly parents’ assets.
That's weird. Here in AmeriKa it is the other way around.
Some American apartments and houses are such as well.
News outlets frequently carry stories about parents being abused or neglected, or of children seeking control of their elderly parents’ assets.
That's weird. Here in AmeriKa it is the other way around.
The expansion of China’s elderly population is being fueled both by an increase in life expectancy — from 41 to 73 over five decades — and by limits on child-bearing.
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What do you want to do, watch some television?
"China TV show leads up to executions" by ANDREW JACOBS | New York Times, March 02, 2013
BEIJING — During a two-hour television broadcast that was part morality play, part propaganda tour de force, the Chinese government on Friday sent four foreign drug traffickers to their deaths after convicting them of killing 13 Chinese sailors two years ago as they sailed down the Mekong River through Myanmar.
That does it!
Six Zionist Companies Own 96% of the World's Media
Declassified: Massive Israeli manipulation of US media exposed
Operation Mockingbird
Why Am I No Longer Reading the Newspaper?
Yeah, I HAVE HAD it with POT-HOLLERING-KETTLE s*** media!!
Oh, right, it's a New York Times piece, isn't it?
Although the live program ended shortly before the men were executed by lethal injection, it became an instantly polarizing sensation, with viewers divided on whether the broadcast was a crass exercise in blood lust or a long-awaited catharsis for a nation outraged by the killings in October 2011.
Some critics said the program recalled an era not long ago when condemned prisoners were paraded through the streets before being shot in the head.
Why did looting banksters just come to mind?
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Maybe you would like to play some ping pong?
BEIJING — During a two-hour television broadcast that was part morality play, part propaganda tour de force, the Chinese government on Friday sent four foreign drug traffickers to their deaths after convicting them of killing 13 Chinese sailors two years ago as they sailed down the Mekong River through Myanmar.
That does it!
Six Zionist Companies Own 96% of the World's Media
Declassified: Massive Israeli manipulation of US media exposed
Operation Mockingbird
Why Am I No Longer Reading the Newspaper?
Yeah, I HAVE HAD it with POT-HOLLERING-KETTLE s*** media!!
Oh, right, it's a New York Times piece, isn't it?
Although the live program ended shortly before the men were executed by lethal injection, it became an instantly polarizing sensation, with viewers divided on whether the broadcast was a crass exercise in blood lust or a long-awaited catharsis for a nation outraged by the killings in October 2011.
Some critics said the program recalled an era not long ago when condemned prisoners were paraded through the streets before being shot in the head.
Why did looting banksters just come to mind?
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Maybe you would like to play some ping pong?
