Tokyo, Japan, East Asia, and Asia Pacific
South Korea's Mo Tae-Bum won the men's 500 metres speed skating gold Monday at the Olympic Winter Games, with Japan's Keiichiro Nagashima taking silver and teammate Joji Kato winning bronze.
http://www.vancouver2010.com/olympic-news/n/news/afp-news/speed-skating--south-korea's-mo-wins-men's-500m_279484tu.html
Indeed, if Japan and Korea are united, China will have to make every concession in matters of not only sports but also the hegemony over East Asia.
That is why China needs North Korea and the U.S. military finds justification for its presence in East Asia as a matter of reality.
SECTION I: Chinese Economy & Future of China/USA
Mr. Paul Krugman predicted a month ago or so that protectionism of China will cause 1.4 million more unemployment in the U,S.
However, there is information on shortage of labor in China.
The main reason for this labor scarcity is the bad working conditions in Chinese factories. Chinese laborers coming from remote farming regions to industrial zones along the East and South China Seas have come to hate poor working conditions as well as criminal management of their salaries by company executives.
Poor Chinese workers now opt to work in construction sites in various provinces rather than in repressive plants of exporting businesses in developed areas inside China.
(http://blog.kajika.net/?eid=996008)
Chinese management often treats workers neglecting their human rights, dignity, and pride, which is not only observed inside China but in foreign countries, especially Africa, where Chinese businesses operate their factories.
Yet elite students of China and the U.S. are aiming at future mutual prosperity at least among themselves.
The number of American students going to study in China from American universities has increased by 20% year-on-year to 13,000.
The number of Chinese students going to study in the U.S. from Chinese universities has increased by 20% year-on-year to 98,000.
Many of those elite students will work in future in investment banks or the like.
Accordingly, workers in China and the U.S. will be in future smartly managed by those elite-student-turned elites in the financial sector, which will probably increase unemployment in both the companies.
Even future American and Chinese economists coming out of this cohort will not have any intention to sacrifice their interest for realizing sound development of the global economy.
What I want to emphasize is future Chinese and American elites will not be able to solve their domestic problems but mix and mess them together, which will make true solution difficult to be achieved in each country.
SECTION II: An American Chinese Expert
American experts on Asia usually show 90% of accuracy in data but 40% of insights into reality and backgrounds on China and its long relationship with Japan and other Asian countries especially in terms of national security, ideological and pragmatic politics, and cultural and social issues.
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Chalmers Johnson, Coming to Terms with China
Posted by Tom Engelhardt at 4:27am, March 15, 2005.
Why should China's emergence as a rich, successful country be to the disadvantage of either Japan or the United States? History teaches us that the least intelligent response to this development would be to try to stop it through military force. As a Hong Kong wisecrack has it, China has just had a couple of bad centuries and now it's back. The world needs to adjust peacefully to its legitimate claims -- one of which is for other nations to stop militarizing the Taiwan problem -- while checking unreasonable Chinese efforts to impose its will on the region. Unfortunately, the trend of events in East Asia suggests we may yet see a repetition of the last Sino-Japanese conflict, only this time the U.S. is unlikely to be on the winning side.
http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/2259
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What Mr. Chalmers Johnson's thoughts lack is the reality of China-backed-North Korea, China-backed-Myanmar, China-suppressing-Tibet, and the China-suppressing-Uighur people in addition to the lack of democracy and Christianity in China (but not in Taiwan).
Today, in a country where free Google search is forbidden, tens of thousands of American students are learning to be rich in future.
What they will learn can be a way of thinking to neglect the reality of North Korea, Myanmar, Tibet, and the Uighur people in addition to a way of thinking to eventually accept the lack of democracy and Christianity in America.
Then very ironically, American workers will someday rise to fight those China-educated American elites and eventually Chinese elites in China.
If you want to be a true expert on China, you have to first live in Japan for at least 30 years.
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From the beginning, why has China succeeded in economic development?
It is because Japan has transferred a huge amount of technologies and funds to China through 1970's, 1980's, 1990's, and even 2000's.
(The fact that China was once a great nation like the Roman Empire cannot be a reason as with the recent case of Greece)
Then, why has Japan helped China so much?
It is partly because the Japanese people are very sorry for the Chinese people because of the past 15-year-long Japan-China War since 1930 or so.
If you cannot understand this Japanese sentiment, you cannot be an expert in China though you might be able to become an expert in the 1929 Great Depression.
Mar 2:15 And it came to pass, that, as Jesus sat at meat in his house, many publicans and sinners sat also together with Jesus and his disciples: for there were many, and they followed him.
Mar 2:16 And when the scribes and Pharisees saw him eat with publicans and sinners, they said unto his disciples, How is it that he eateth and drinketh with publicans and sinners?
Mar 2:17 When Jesus heard it, he saith unto them, They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.