Comments on: Shaun Rein to be ‘discontinued’: CCP

By: CCC

CCC — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 19:13:00 +0000

This guy Rein is a suck up to the PRC government. Ironic his book was banned in China. The shear amount of bias he carries is enough to brush him off as N opportunistic talking head. His wife’s family were friends with Mao. That should tell you enough, basically that makes them elite on the same company of one of the biggest butchers in human history.

By: CCC

CCC — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 19:06:00 +0000

Sure you do Shaun…

By: justrecently

justrecently — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 17:29:00 +0000

As for the Naisbitt 2010 opus, the first joke is in the title: The 8 Pillars of a New Society. The Book of Proverbs got by on seven pillars of wisdom (or cities) - but then, eight may be a luckier number, China is the older civilization, and this is a complex world.

By: Bai Shoutou

Bai Shoutou — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 03:38:00 +0000

“It’s going to be very hard for the Party to replace the Rein with something equally misguided….I don’t think it is, really. You could try Martin Jacques (Why China Will Rule the World) which extrapolates a bunch of numbers to try to present China’s unstoppable economic hegemony in 2030. That’s nothing you won’t have heard already but former ‘Marxism Today’ editor Jacques also tries to emphasize China as a unique civilization-state with 5,000 years’ history and a strongly self-defining character (‘Zhonghuaxing’) that translates to a tributary vassal-state mentality towards its neighbours. How that kind of racist attitude can become hegemonic in today’s world is never really explained, but Jacques then says the new world order will not ‘be Chinese in the way that the previous one was Western’ which kind of belies the title. I don’t see what things like Confucianism or ‘Chinese culture’ have to offer modern people abroad, still less why China is a civilisation-state any more than Latin American, Eastern European or African claimed to be, or France’s Republic for that matter. Modern PRC has imperial stylings that it seems unable to countenance in public, but anyway… the book ultimately becomes as dull as ‘Devonshit’ says Rein’s is. And being dull as bathwater is what CCP manages to do so better than any other government around. Other left-wing deniers/ CCP apologists include Godfree Roberts (another Pew-spouting apologist; seriously, guys get another poll, as that one has all manner of caveats) and the daddy of them all: John Naisbett. You won’t recognize the name, perhaps because his (and wife Doris’s) latest book China’s Megatrends was such an overwhelming flop but he used to be a respected 1980s author of Megatrends. His China follow-up was essentially a 400-page press release for the CCP. Don’t listen to me, there’s a really good review here: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1971287,00.html

Anyway, you just earned yourself a new (old) reader

By: C. Devonshit

C. Devonshit — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 01:42:00 +0000

I started reading his book and it was so boring I had to stop. If you think reading his columns are bad…. Yawn.

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By: William Yale (@wayale)

William Yale (@wayale) — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 13:49:22 +0000

I guess Eric X. Li, Shanghai venture capitalist http://t.co/1XrZHgco hasn’t gotten the message: Shaun Rein discontinued http://t.co/3RL3DgNy

By: William Yale

William Yale — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 05:49:22 +0000

I guess Eric X. Li, Shanghai venture capitalist http://t.co/1XrZHgco hasn't gotten the message: Shaun Rein discontinued http://t.co/3RL3DgNy

By: Greg Paull

Greg Paull — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 23:12:21 +0000

Very funny http://t.co/R0wdKf4E

By: Ange Fennell

Ange Fennell — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 18:30:23 +0000

'Shaun Rein to be discontinued' http://t.co/KY56fazh Quotes "Grady Einstein, a writer for the anti-Chinese US golfing magazine Fores"