No More Cheap Chinese Labor

I found an article online that caught my attention titled "A Tightening Grip," by Jiaxing and Yangon. The article starts with some obvious facts that China is one of the largest manufactures of the world and they have the best machinery and tools that only China has to develop products. They can make steering wheels and major car parts. The article also states that cheap Chinese Labor has helped the development of China to the power that it is today. Then, we go into some historical facts about Asia and its development of becoming the manufactural power it is today. It began in the 1960 the leader of this movement was Japan it began to export electrical goods. By the 80's Japan began to open up plant in South East Asia, but when China got involved in the game China became the top manufacturer in the world real quick. China today accounts for 46.5% of everything that is exported from Asia. The issue is that since 2001 the wages for Chinese workers have rise 12% and this is supposedly bad for Chinese people. This means according to the article that Chinese days of manufacturing are limited.    

Large Imports of Firearms are going towards Monsoon Asia

According to DW it states that Asia is accounting for 30% of global arm imports. Even in the title of the article "Asia Accounts for "Nearly a third' of Global Arms Imports". The country in Monsoon Asia that has the most significant growth of fire arms is India that has increased its imports of weapons by 34 percent. China in the other hand has decreased its military spending and does not import firearms. The drop of importing firearms to China does not mean that they are not amping their military they actually are it means that China is making their own firearms now. Furthermore, China does not need to import arms when it can produce them cheaply. China is also the major supplier of firearms. China has surpass Germany in being the greatest weapon manufacturer; it supplies mostly to Myanmar, Bangladesh, and Pakistan. India has imported weapons at a high number I wonder what are they about to do with all those weapons. The article also states that North Korea is also purchasing a lot of weapons. When the article talks about weapons it actually means weapons that can cause damage assault weapons, tanks, rockets, and aircraft carriers. The major suppliers to Monsoon Asia are Russia and the United States of America.  

U.S. Ambassador Attacked in South Korea

I found an article online titled "South Korea Probing US Envoy Attacker's Visits to North," by Channel News Asia. In this article it talks about an attack on the US Ambassador to Seoul being attack by a Korean man. I find this article interesting because according to our readings people who live in monsoon Asia the residents to not commit crimes because it is shameful for the family, but this guy is an exemption. The U.S. Ambassador is named Mark Lippert who was attacked and needed 80 stitches on his face. The attacker says that he wanted to protest US and South Korean military exercise and decided the best way of protesting this is to cut the U.S. Ambassadors face with a knife. According to the news reporter the attacker by the name of Kim Ki-Jong has gone to North Korea seven times from 1999 through 2001. This is interesting because it is impossible for people to cross over I remember that it is impossible to cross between the borders because of heavily military presence from both sides. North Korea called the action the knife of freedom not claiming responsibility for the action committed by Kim Ki-Jong.    

China and its neighbors don't get along

I found a very interesting article titled, "China's Neighbors Bulk Up Militaries." This article is interesting because what would the world do if the worlds biggest producer of things goes to war? Who will produce our cheap parts, and who will construct the cheap labor force? China and Japan do not get along this has been going on for years and years, but now even Vietnam is building up their military to be able to fight against China. Not only Japan feels that China is a threat. According to the article Vietnam just wants to upgrade their defense system. India and Japan want China to see them as military equals.They want to show that they also have military to attack and will not be intimidated. I did not know that India has a conflict with China. Apparently China has mobilized a lot of their military personal to the Himalayan boundaries. India has missiles that range over 3,000 miles that has the possibility to strike China because they are building them in the Himalayan boundaries. Japan has also bought 42 F-35 Lightning II Stealth Fighters.  The United States of America has told his allies to build up its military especially Japan. The U.S. benefits from this because it has a huge weaponry industry. China has disputes with Vietnam over islands this is why Vietnam keeps updating its military. Not only Vietnam, India, and Japan are building their military the Philippines spent 410 million on fighter jets and 1.8 billion on new naval frigates, Malaysia spent 2.8 billion on military and bought submarines, and Indonesia is planning to buy U.S Apache gunships and Korean submarines.

Russia influencing North Korea

The Week posted an article titled "Russia is Turning North Korea Into its Agent of Mischief," by Kyle Mizokami. In this article it states that Russian President Vladmir Putin communicate regularly with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. It looks like the two cold war allies are communicating again they both say they only talk about economic issues but in reality we do not know what they are talking about. This is bad because the Russian can tell the North Koreans what to do and they will do it because they have authority issues. When the Soviet Union went under North Korea began to ally with Chian under Kim Jong Il. But, now Kim Jong Un is turning towards Russia. Russia wants to sell natural gas and electricity, but i believe not a lot of people use electricity in North Korea. Then, the article goes off on how Vladimir Putin wants to expand the power of Russia and expand the Soviet Unions power again.  here is the link

China is Burying its History!!!!

According to World Crunch News China is moving so fast economically that they are expanding fast and forget that they are in historical land. China has lost tens of thousands of historical monuments have been pulverized into dust. This article estimates that 100 million Chinese residents will migrate to the cities leaving rural areas. The Chinese have been destroying traditional courtyards, palaces, tombs, and temples to be replaced with massive street blocks, industrial parks, multi-lane highways, shopping malls, and skyscrapers. The community in China is changing and it is changing fast the cities are no longer made for people to walk to places car are essential now. Cities are being built now to sit this new need. The article also states that 900,000 villages have disappeared in ten years meaning that they are industrializing fast, but are loosing a lot of history because of this.  

My New Post

My post is how the air in China's major cities are still not safe to breath in. I found this article online that says that 90% of the cities in China are polluted. This is very interesting because Asian religions are very in touch with nature and only western religions exploit nature. It seems that Capitalism has affected the way of life in China. China has declared the "war on pollution," but it is easier said than done not even the capitol Beijing can meet the standards that the Environmental Protection Ministry has put into action. I wonder is this Ministry is even a real ministry that follows the rule that are set forward they do not even talk about a heavy fine for cities or companies that do not meet their air quality control laws. Only five cities in China meet the standard, and 230 new environmental agencies have been made to regulate the new environment. The article talks about PM2.5 that Beijing has 93 micrograms per cubic meter this years, but it is down from last years 106. The Ministry set a standard of 35 micrograms per cubic meter, and the Ministry has stated that they will not reach this goal until 2030. Talk about a delay, furthermore, the cities are not the heavily populated areas Hebei province accounts for 60% of the pollution in China. But, there are no known air quality restrictions on this province or the fact that there will be any or anytime soon.