John L.

Where Are the Chinese Stock-Market Riots?

I think the people in China are waiting to see what happens to the stock market as they get closer to the Olympics.

It is expected that the stock market will move upward.

Our company has a plant in China and I can tell you that the opposite may happen as the manufacturing plants are finding supplies getting tighter as the Olympics approaches and resources shift toward doing this right.

Once investors find out about the negative impact on production, it could get nasty.

Tibetan Unrest and Economic Implications: 'Nancy Pelosi's War'

The Tibetan never wanted the Chinese ruling their country. China for some reason decided that they wanted to colonize this poor country with few natural resources even though they had a Communist revolution that was inspired in part by the desire to shake of European style colonialism.

It all goes to prove that when a country becomes powerful, they are going to do stupid things that don't make any sense to anyone and somehow they convince the pubic that it is the "right" thing. Then, they are afraid to change course when things don't go as planned.

The US in Iraq is another example of this stupidity. Economically, we will never see any payback from this war and it is a major reason why the US economy is sinking since the gov't needs to print money to pay for men, materials and machinery to continue this war.

I am sure China feels the same way about Tibet. Luckily for them, the "Tibetan War" is not as costly for them as the Iraq war for China, otherwise China would have pulled out of Tibet a long time ago.

Jane Jacobs on Why China and India Will Continue to Grow

Very interesting summary of what is taking place in the developing world. Never thought of development from this angle before.