China Factors (Facteurs en Chine)
Mencius, a great Chinese philosopher who lived between 372 – 289 BCE, said:
"You may be in the service of the court if you are poor. But, you must not expect promotion to a higher position to receive a higher salary, since you work for a king only because you are poor.
When Confucius was a keeper of a warehouse in a king's house, he only said that he had to keep books honestly and correctly.
When Confucius was a keeper of cows and sheep in a king's pasture, he only said that he had to feed and fatten the livestock.
If a poor man works in the court, he must keep a low profile. Even Confucius did not blow his own trumpet when he was serving the court at humble positions.
However, what a shame it is for a man of exalted rank not to keep the country out of injustice."
SECTION I: "China, China, Big Money!!"
Let's see the trend of external payments balance of JAPAN, China, and South Korea, respectively.
Yes, it is just between 2004 and 2007 that China earned so much money through trade with JAPAN, the U.S. and the rest of the world.
It is confirmed that the US-China trade was boosted since 2004. The US-China trade could be the major factor for China's great expansion in its international accounts.
But, let's check the trend of the JAPAN-China trade.
A steep increase in the amount of the JAPAN-China trade can be observed since 2001. So, first the JAPAN-China trade was multiplied around 2000, following Japan's mighty investment of funds into and provision of technologies for China. Then, factories and plants in China mostly run by foreign affiliated companies started to beef up their production capability. Subsequently, those factories and plants in China started to export more and more goods to the American market, to earn a huge amount of U.S. dollars.
Most of Americans think about China only in terms of the U.S.-China trade. But, the trend of the U.S.-China trade is rather a derivative from the JAPAN-China trade or basically from Japan's mighty investment of funds into and provision of technologies for China.
Table 7: China's Top Trade Partners, 2010 ($ billion)
Rank... Country/region... Volume... % change over 2009
1... United States... 385.3... 29.2
2... Japan... 297.8... 30.2
3... Hong Kong... 230.6... 31.8
Table 8: China's Top Export Destinations, 2010 ($ billion)
Rank... Country/region... Volume... % change over 2009
1... United States... 283.3... 28.3
2... Hong Kong... 218.3... 31.3
3... Japan... 121.1... 23.7
Table 9: China's Top Import Suppliers, 2010 ($ billion)
Rank... Country/region... Volume... % change over 2009
1... Japan... 176.7... 35.0
2... South Korea... 138.4... 35.0
3... Taiwan... 115.7... 35.0
https://www.uschina.org/statistics/tradetable.html
SECTION II: "China, China, Agression!!"
It is so reasonable to split China into Tibet, East Turkestan, South Mongolia, and Main China. Taiwan must continue to be independent.
It is further desirable to split Main China into Manchuria and Han's China. And, Han's China should be split into a Yellow River republic and a Long River republic.
Hong Kong (with Macao) should be allowed to become independent.
Then, true democracy and freedom will flourish in the Chinese Continent with seven new republics on it.
Yet, the reality is that China is trying like a pirate to take ocean areas that apparently belong to Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei, the Philippines, and Taiwan, respectively, as well as the Senkaku Islands that belong to Japan (Okinawa Prefecture or Ryukyu) for more than 1,000 years.
Indeed, the first major empire of the Han Chinese, the Qin Dynasty lasting from 221 to 207 BC, had nothing to do with Korea, Manchuria, Mongolia, Central Asia, Tibet, even Sichuan, the region facing Taiwan without a need to mention Taiwan, and Hainan.
China must be humble.
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Christ Jesus never wrote poetry.
The Koran is said to include many sentences which are poetic.
Indeed it is useless to say that a man is two or three, but the God is a trillion, a septillion (10^24), a quindecillion (10^48), a novemtrigintillion (10^120), a centillion (10^303), or more, or otherwise an infinity and more.
Truly before you were born, the God existed; after you die, the God still exists.
And, before the first member of mankind was born, the God existed; after the last member of mankind dies, the God still exists.
Essentially, every man lives for the God. According to Christ Jesus, love is the only way to access the God.
(There was such a time as was August 12, 1975...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwyEchDIv8k)
Mat 8:10 When Jesus heard it, he marvelled, and said to them that followed, Verily I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel.
Mat 8:11 And I say unto you, That many shall come from the east and west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven.
Mat 8:12 But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Mat 8:13 And Jesus said unto the centurion, Go thy way; and as thou hast believed, so be it done unto thee. And his servant was healed in the selfsame hour.