Chinese Wake-up Call

Recently the chinese held a massive naval arms display and called it 'harmonious oceans'. Maybe the chinese people are genetically immune to the concept of Irony or something. Or maybe they really think the irony is lost on the rest of us. That somewhow we'd believe that a military display of such massive proportions could actually be 'harmonious'.

The Chinese are strong. And they know how to capitalize. They shifted whole factories from Europe to the riverbanks of China during the boom of the steel industry. Their burgeouning demand for recyclable steel was so great that cities like New York and Manhattan found that manhole covers were disappearing, going off in Chinese trading vessels, stolen and sold for scrap metal to feed the growling bellies of Chinese steel plants.

They have entered almost every single industry in the world. And are doing well. Their only problem is that most of their companies arent yet as upto the global standard as may be liked. India has far surpassed them in this regard though.

But unlike the Indians. The Chinese are hungry, they have a want and a need to conquor. Napoleon said some thing along the lines of leaving China alone beause she was a sleeping giant that could cause a lot of havoc if woken up.

They have already made empiricist style inroads into a lot of countries. Forming political alliances, and power brokering to secure diplomatic support, as well as natural resources. As a matter of fact 'harmonious oceans' was built around the idea of securing their global supply chains. To protect the ships that bring their shipments of oil and other imports. And here i was like a dufus thinkin that pirates were only around in the Horn of Africa. Theres an international coalition of Navies working at controlling the situation there, im sure the Chinese dont really need nuclear submarines for that.

And on the note of irony, i got asked by a friend if i was interested in attending this chillies lecture that was about 'creativity during tough times' and i said hey yeah, that sounds interesting. and so i made some inquiries and it turned out it costed around 7.5k for a two hour session. Geez man. Now im trying to imagine what kind of a target audience THAT was aimed at. Probably people trying to find out how to sell more by spending less, creativity be damned. I declined cos i could think of much more creative ways of spending that money. Considering these were tough times and all that.