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.         

Chapter 3

This article is about China and how they are going to get better at not convecting everyone they ever get meaning that they have a 100% conviction rate. This is very amazing meaning that everyone they get in the system is guaranteed a conviction. In the United States of America police officers would be happy they would get anybody convicted just on suspicion. But, the government run media has stated that they are going to get better at not convicting anyone. Their has been many reverse convictions one of a man who was executed, but the government just apologized and everything was fine. The way that the Chinese government conducts investigation is by torturing the person they have in custody until they confess of committing  the crime even though the person might of been someone who was walking near the crime scene or happened to be close. They will form a committee that will be run by the communist party, and they will try to convince judges to not be so strict with their verdicts. I do not think this is going to work the committee is formed by government personal of the communist party, so if they want frame somebody trying to cause a revolution they can. This will not solve the problem.    













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Asian Religions and their Countries

This chapter is about religions in Asia they start off with the oldest one called Hinduism. The word Hinduism actually means "Indianism" that the British probably were the ones to name it. They believe in the caste system a system that ranks people in social order the priest are on top and the untouchables are on the bottom of the scale. The cast system according to the book is loosing its use because India is becoming more industrialized. They believe in Reincarnation and that they will reach the last stage and not be reincarnated to reach Moksha it means to be one with the universe. The second religion they talk about is Buddhism and its spread from India to the East. The person who helped expand Buddhism was Emperor Ashoka who ruled from 269-232 B.C.E. it spread from India to Ceylon to Southeast Asia then Central Asia to China, Japan, and Korea. They also believe in reincarnation and they want to reach Nirvana the last point of reincarnation were people let go and be happy to Christians this would be like heaven their final destination. We have confucianism a very interesting religion that developed in China that keeps coming back up it is basically that everyone should follow the role that people are giving to. In China we have Daoism another religion that is different from confucianism this religion focus more on becoming one with nature. Then, we have Islam in Asia, but the book only talks about how it expanded through Arabian peninsula the middle east. We have Shinto a religion developed in Japan. http://tucson.com/lifestyles/faith-and-values/religion/pope-brings-message-of-religious-ethnic-dialogue-to-asia/article_941a4fd2-60c1-5e8d-aca8-fd3ee990b036.html This article that I found is on religious tolerance and how Pope Francis is helping Sir Lanka to forget the injustices that were committed and start again fresh. I choose this article because when christianity was in its mid evil stage it was not a religion that was tolerant of other religions and now it is changing.