(Letter) How fast China can catch up the US in GDP? It may be faster than you...
In 2002, the GDP of China was 10.2 trillion yuan, and the GDP of the US was 10.6 trillion US dollar. At the year-end exchange rate, China’s GDP was 11.7% of the US’. In 2007, the GDP of China was 24.7...
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(Letter) Are you offended by this picture?
It’s apparently an advertisement in Spain’s best-selling newspaper. The Spanish Olympic basketball players, donned Li-Ning Spanish uniforms, are seen in this ad making slit-eyes gesture. Personally...
View Article(Letter) Jesse Owens, Hitler and Olympics (narratives and history as it...
This belongs to the “random musing” category. What’s your take? In some quarters, the Beijing Olympics were compared to the 1936 Berlin Olympics. During the debates of that IMHO ill-conceived moniker...
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High-Speed Rails in China
High-speed rails (HSR) have been built in China at a fanatic pace. Figure this will be an entry to get the debate started. The first HSR, the Shanghai Maglev Train, was completed in late 2003. It was a...
View ArticleYe Shiwen, the 16 year old dreamy girl superstar, and the ugly world
As a sports enthusiast, I follow a lot of less known athletes, of which some eventually became superstars, but far more just faded. A superstar example was Liu Xiang. I started following him in 2002...
View ArticleYe Shiwen follow-up: media scorecard (BBC & New York Times)
First, let me emphasize that I don’t believe or even suspect the 800m freestyle Olympic gold medal winner Kathie Ledecky is doping. Yes, she came from nowhere (ranked #55 in 2011) and had a huge...
View ArticleChina Railways Safety Record: A Comparative Study
Summary Railways are the safest means of transportation among all methods in this study. Railway safety-wise, China and France are about twice as safe as Japan and Germany. You are about 2.2 times as...
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