Chinese Couple attempts to Name Their Child "@"

A Chinese Couple Attempts to name their child "@" because with a drawn out T it sounds like "Ai Ta" or "Love Him."

China Ramps Up Anti-US Economic Rhetoric, threatening Economic Nuclear Reaction

The Chinese government has begun a concerted campaign of economic threats against the United States, hinting that it may liquidate its vast holding of US treasuries if Washington imposes trade sanctions to force a yuan revaluation.

Two officials at leading Communist Party bodies have given interviews in recent days warning - for the first time - that Beijing may use its $1.33 trillion (£658bn) of foreign reserves as a political weapon to counter pressure from the US Congress.

China Threatens to Topple US Dollar

A Moving Scroll called "The River of Ching Ming Dynasty"

The River of Ching Ming Dynasty
A beautiful piece of Calligraphy done in a side-scrolling flash, submitted to us by a friend in Hong Kong. Sit back, have a cup of coffee, and enjoy. (Don't forget to turn on your speakers)

Huge Dust Plumes From China Cause Changes in Climate

Wall Street Journal: July 20, 2007
Huge Dust Plumes From China Cause Changes in Climate

One tainted export from China can't be avoided in North America -- air.
An outpouring of dust layered with man-made sulfates, smog, industrial fumes, carbon grit and nitrates is crossing the Pacific Ocean on prevailing winds from booming Asian economies in plumes so vast they alter the climate. These rivers of polluted air can be wider than the Amazon and deeper than the Grand Canyon.
"There are times when it covers the entire Pacific Ocean basin like a ribbon bent back and forth," said atmospheric physicist V. Ramanathan at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, Calif.

Pork Is Not Cheap in China

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2007-07/16/content_5437208.htm

Here is access to a 24- page preview of my dissertation for the China-US Relations Master's program

Confucius and Jesus on the Role of Education in the Analects and the Four Gospels

Final Thoughts Immediately After the 21st Century China Symposium

First, I want to say mahalo to all of you who came and participated in the Symposium and what turned out to be dinner in the Campus Plaza area. I apologize about the concert part, but it seemed to me most people wanted to talk about the issues so we ordered pizza and talked.

A big mahalo nui loa to everyone who hung around and brought food and/or chipped in for pizza and the extra charges the university levied because we stayed past 7:30 PM. My experience with the university on events like this has been they are NOT USER FRIENDLY AND I HOPE WE CAN HELP THEM TO CORRECT THAT IN THE FUTURE.

Hoku posted links to all of the topics we discussed and there are also comments from a couple of our friends, Ed Case and Neil Abercrombie that you might want to take a look at.

The ability to participate in the future of China-US Relations is an amazing thing. I hope each one of you will help us to make a difference as the future unfolds. Like it or not China and the US are inextricably linked and the future depends on our actions.

Please sign in to the blog and help us to change the world for the better. My belief is that increasing trust between the US and China is the only real option we have if we want to exhibit the values our great nation is founded on. Otherwise, we may find ourselves a has-been nation somewhat like England is today. I think the vast majority of Americans are fed up with our government's inability to solve our own challenges. We need government officials who are more like Harry Kim. We also need to take the responsibility for turning things around into our own hands. After all we are a democracy, of the people, by the people, and for the people.
Aloha and a hui hou,

Don and Hoku
Asian Pacific Trade Group

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