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Tuesday, July 07, 2015

Political Reform For China

China is a one party state. It is a wounded civilization. How would you feel if you were Mayor of town generation after generation, and suddenly they conspire against you make you the town janitor? China is the emperor who is no longer the emperor in the movie The Last Emperor, or at least was until about 1990. Now the Mayor is back in town.

China is an ancient civilization and you have to respect that if you want to deal with it.

So it is a matter of pride. China is not about to become a multi-party democracy where the communist party is no longer above the state. But there still is need for political reform.

One idea would be that the communist party would select two people for every office, be it Mayor or Governor, or President, and the people, through adult franchise, would vote and pick one of the two. Both candidates would get equivalent funds from the party for campaigning.

This would be bold, this would retain the one party state, this would be a major, visible move.

Another, my favorite, is, Mr. Xi, "tear down this wall" you have wrapped around the Internet.

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न्यु यर्क मेरा होमटाउन
Climate Change, Terrorism, Poverty, World Government

Nearly 25% of Chinese stocks have stopped trading

China's stock markets have now lost $3.25 trillion. To put that in perspective, that's more than the size of France's entire stock market and about 60% of Japan's market.

Greek crisis is nothing compared to China

Why does this matter to people outside of China? A rapidly sinking stock market is often a sign of an economy in turmoil. Remember 2008? And 2000? .... U.S. banks have nearly ten times as much exposure to China than Greece.

Sunday, July 05, 2015

Hindu Rate Of Growth

आजादी के ४० साल तक भारत दुनिया भर में मजाक बना रहा। अगर जनसँख्या वृद्धि दर भी २% हो और आर्थिक वृद्धि दर भी २% हो तो देश आगे बढ़ा ही नहीं। अगर उस स्थिति में कोई भी व्यक्ति या कारपोरेशन १०% के रेट पर ग्रो करती है तो सीधा हिसाब बैठता है कि गरीब और भी गरीब हो गए। इसी लिए सत्यजित रे के फिल्मों में जो गाओं दिखता है अभी भी वही गाउँ दिखता है।

Population Growth को १% के रास्ते से zero per cent की ओर ले जाओ। आर्थिक ग्रोथ रेट तो १५% पर ले जाओ। तब गब्बर बोलेगा: "अब आएगा मजा खेल का!"

Climate Change, Terrorism, Poverty, World Government

English: Global climate change 2000-2009 and 1950-1980/ Русский: Изменение средних температур за периоды 2000-2009 и 1950-1980. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Why is it not surprising that all of the global problems only have global solutions? Terrorism is a big problem, but compared to Climate Change, it is a small problem. Poverty is someone else' problem, except it is not. Disease is Ebola. You don't want that.

On Climate Change, there are points of no return. Nature does not hold back. It does not care. It does not care about intelligent life. Or unintelligent life. The threat is very real. The time pressure is very real.

Time for a genuine world government is not 50 years from now. It is today.

After gays, it is guns. That next big liberal goal, to move from insane gun proliferation to sane gun control. On gay marriage they were the party of stupid. On guns, they are the party of insane. That is on the domestic front. On the global front, a 90% reduction in the US defense budget over a 10 year period will just make it an exercise in reallocation of resources. It does not have to be painful economically.

Rule of law within nations, rule of law between nations.

Climate Change does not have any other solution.

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