Hangzhou Lovin’

This could be big news, shows how the Bush’s work in general

Bush Administration Is Focus of Inquiry
CIA Agent’s Identity Was Leaked to Media

Since I’m not really bloggin so much,
(but maybe that’ll change cause I’m gonna buy my very own comuter). y’all should check out my compatriots websites

russell

carl

John B.

My boy russel “C-bone” Moon hooked us up with some pictures of the middle kingdom

Click to see what all the fuss is about

Did you know that in China they have people whose job is to be apologisers? I did a little class today where they students do job interviews. the students get to chosee the job and I tell them to be creative so they don’t just pick jobs like secretary or manager. One of the groups chose SAO, super apologising officer, whose job it was to apologise for really bad things the company did and to help people figure out how to apologise if they didn’t know how. He said it was a real job, I’ll have to investigate more…

so you’s all want some more wonderful China adventure stories. Trying to live vicaurously and whatnot off me, ehhh, well send me some maney and maybe i’ll buy a computer, because first, my best posts are drunken ones, and I can’t post drunkenly if I have to drag my ass up to the office on the bloddy fith floor to do a blog entry.

Second, I’ve turned over a new leaf and never get drunk any more, I am devoting my time to learn rare forms of chinese caligraphy and discussing poetry and post romantic french poetry with my new platonic Chinese girl friend xiao mei. So no more cheap frills from me. It’s going to be completly clean living from me now on, (except I might try to start up an absurdiest revolution in China with mei li, you know, show the chinese that “art is action”)

I’m gonna start a new blog called “My super Boring Chinese blog, 我很无聊汉语。。。我不知道怎么说‘blog’”

As you can see from the title it‘s just going tobe boring shit that happens to me during the day。 Basically I’m just gonna use it to practice chinese and cause I‘m getting bored with this blog。

I‘ll start it once I have my dictionary with me so I can make sure I‘m using the right charecters， and once I recal how to load a new page to the magical sinosplice server。

You better read it cause I might post secert information on there that you can’t get anywhere else！

Hang Zhou Lovin’ supports Wesley Clark for president in 2004.

Sorry Dean, you were just a little weird…

Now here’s the post I’m sure you’ve all been waiting for…

Should China revalue the RMB and will it?

Of course I don’t know the answer to this question but a post by my favorite blogger* D- Squared brought up a good point. The post was actually about the latest round of WTO negotions, but he claimed that in general developed western countries want to free inverstment oppurtunities and cash flow because this helps them more than the developing countires. But I’m not sure this is really always true.

Take a RMB, it helps china by keeping it’s products and labor cheap, but it also helps the U.S. because most of the cheap products come to the U.S., keeping inflation down and letting us keep our current spending binge going. The people really hurt by the low RMB are countries like mexico, who have to compete directly with an artificially low RMB.

I know I don’t know shit about economics, but neither does the bush administration, which is why I find it fun to figure out why the Bush administration is pushing for the revaluation. As I see it there are two possibilities.

1. The Bushies really believe all that freemarket crap they preach and want china to float the RMB to help mankind.

2. It’s just a political ploy so they can say they are doing something about unemployment. (Paul Krugman had a good article on this point of view awhile back, but the bitches at the NYtimes are trying to make me pay for the article so I can’t link it.)

I think that China should revalue the RMB. There is definitly inflationary pressure on it as more companies put more money into china the price of a Yuan should go up. So china is exporting deflation to the rest of the world. China will have to revalue the currency or else something bad will happen (something bad always happens when econonic forces are misaligned). So I don’t think it’s neccassarily a bad thing to buy up some RMB right now.

Of course this all might be about the trade deficit and the fact that China is one of the major buyers of dollarss these days, but I don’t really understand that.

*I’m ok with the fact that I’m lame enough to have a favorite blogger

update: Oh Oh, Stiglitz has a piece on the trade deficit in the guardian!

Moon cakes
i can eat five in 10 minutes
I rule

Classes started yesterday and it was all well and good. Some how my third year japanese majors found out my chinese name ���� a fu and they all started giggling uncontrolably when I walked in the door and whispering it amogst themselves. Then when we were playing this name game in the same class one dude got a little too excited and fell over a desk and broke it.

But the strangest thing happened today. We had a bout fifteen inutes left in class so I decided to fill it up by doing a little introductory excercise where the students come up with three statements about themselves, two true and one false. I started the bal rolling by telling them that 1. I could drive a car, 2. I could dunk a basketball 3. I spoke french. They easily guessed that #2 was false.

Then I asked if any of the students wanted to share. One guy raises his hand and I tell him to go ahead. 1. I want to go abroad, 2. I want to buy a new bike, 3. I love a girl in this class. After he says this the class gets exctied. Most people believe that 3 is false, but then he discloses that it was actually # 2. After this the class goes out of control and it takes me about 5 minutes to calm them down. (On a side note has anyone noticed how Chinese students english voices are about 10 times softer than their chinese voices? My voice is the mean between the too so I can never get speak over the class when they get really excited and start shouting in chinese.)

After that delightful admission, I randomly pick a girl to give her statements. She stands up and says; 1. I want a new computer, 2. I lost my electric car 3. My classmates parents went on a date together (presumably two different students). It turns out that #1 was wrong in this sense. Luckily the bell rings and I get to leave the class with only an admission of love and an accusation of adultery. If it had kept goiing maybe I would have found out about a satanic lebian cult at our school (one can dream…).

Anyway, I think our next class might have to be on tact.