主题：美国WASP统治的衰落？ -- 晨枫

所以只能重用自己人，因为自己人中人才太少所以实力愈发不如人。

--lack of meritcracy is a permeating problem in China's society, not just in the top political level. In a school/company/low-level gov. agency which requires more professional capability than political wisdom, more and more job opportunities go to people with "connections".

That's the concern shared by many of my friends back in China. They are middle-class professionals there. There is no CIA involved, so PLEASE DO NOT BLAME foreigners for your own DOMESTIC PROBLEM.

WXmang has several articles on lack of meritcracy in China. You should read them.

因为实力不如人，决策机构被CIA渗透得像筛子一样，所以只能重用自己人，因为自己人中人才太少所以实力愈发不如人。这是大多数国家精英集团面临的局面。

Really? hehe.

被CIA渗透 or they choose to "diversify" their personal risk and do not put all eggs in China? Have you counted how many people have stepped on two boats? And one boat is located in Diamond Bar, Arcadia, Los Angeles, Newport Beach, Beverly Hills,Irvine ... on the west coast or New Jersey/New York/Connecticut... or in Sydney, Melbourne (among the most exclusive communities)...

I respect your patriotism. Thumbs up for you. But please do not represent China's political elites because you are not one of them.

08年经济危机后这一切全变了，原来我们已经找到了正确的道路，

--I was amazed by your optimism on 正确的道路. I fully agree with your attack on America for its failure around this financial crisis--but that's not surprising to me, because I saw it in late 2006 and shorted US market. Up till now, nothing surprised me.

原来美利坚正在奔向它的巅峰。

--Do not underestimate America's vitality-- in 1980s, Europeans and Japanese claimed the same thing and believe that they were destined to rule the world.

America's vitality lies with its ability to adapt and adjust. Crisis is nothing new in its history and crisis is good for itself.

If you read articles by smart people such as Mranderson/Wolfgan/WXmang, you will be more realistic about China.

所以你看到胡士泰、薛峰被抓了

--that's DESPERATE measure and abuse of governmental power. The fact about this case is that Australian firms are good at commercial espionage and easily corrupt top guys in various steel companies. Here China has two problems: steel firms are very very poor in internal control, professional ethics and the country lacks system to deal with commercial espionage issues. (another problem lies with the pay practice inside those firms)

Europeans/Japanese all buy steel ore from Australians, but the large scale corruption and failure in price negotiation is very unique in China.

BTW, one legitimate way for the gov. to intervene is to cite Commercial Anti-espionage law and let the law enforcement enforce the law under the request of domestic firms. Thus, you follow the rule of law, address the key problem and give no excuse for diplomatic trouble.

In contrast, these two guys were persecuted under the venue of "breach of national secret" and national security agency was even involved in the investigation. It was an awkward abuse of political power and perceived very badly in the English media: lack of transparency, arbitrary definition of "national secret" similar to the Stalin's practice, dirty play from the losers in a commercial transaction.

It also sent this clear signal here: so long as you are ethnical Chinese, no matter whatever is your citizenship, we will persecute you FIRST, violate your civil rights FIRST, and let loose the White Australian/American/Canadian. You are pushing those Asian Australians even closer to your opposite side.

Look at what happened later: Hu was sentenced then released--what a joke! If he violated your criminal code, you should prison him in your own country. Americans did that, Canadians did that. You are treating your own law as a piece of joke and further confirms the inaccurate labeling of "police state".

Then the Steel Industry Association failed again in price negotiation and Rio Tinto hiked up price again unilaterally, and Chinese lost out totally again.

In the end, a loss of your political reputation as well as commercial gain. You achieved nothing in the end.

I will not continue this debate. Let's agree to disagree.

China will continue its upward trend, for sure. But if you assume that the housing bubble and forthcoming fiscal problem in China will end up in nice shape, you are clearly too optimistic. Won and (w)ho placed a big bomb under the ass of the next top leadership after 2012, and we shall let history speak for itself.

BTW, I believe America will have the second dip and America will face major crisis before China does in the next 10 years. Euroland is first to fall.