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"maff" |
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25 May 2005 03:59:03 PM |
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Gansu |
An inequitable life
http://www.guardian.co.uk/china/story/0,7369,1491942,00.html
The yawning wealth gap in 'booming' China is badly hampering foreign
attempts to help the country's have-nots, writes Jonathan Watts
Wednesday May 25, 2005
On the flight into Lanzhou a seemingly endless range of barren,
grey-brown hills swells up from all sides. The giant mounds, pockmarked
here and there with dark cave entrances, have prompted more than one
visitor to comment that descending into this landscape feels like
landing on the moon.
Like the geography, the economy appears to belong to another planet.
Lanzhou is the capital of Gansu, the second-poorest province in China
and home to several Muslim and Tibetan minorities whose ethnicity and
remote location have resulted in their missing out almost entirely on
the spectacular boom the urban Han majority on the eastern seaboard has
been enjoying. The people of Gansu are on the wrong side of a growing
income gap that is proving to be one of the biggest challenges for the
communist government.
Gansu OR "Kan-su" OR "Kan-suh"
http://news.google.com/news?q=Gansu%20OR%20%22Kan-su%22%20OR%20%22Kan-suh%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&sa=N&tab=gn
http://www.google.com/search?q=Gansu+OR+%22Kan-su%22+OR+%22Kan-suh%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&tab=nw&ie=UTF-8&sa=N
http://www.google.com/search?q=Gansu+OR+%22Kan-su%22+OR+%22Kan-suh%22&btnG=Search+Directory&hl=en&cat=gwd%2FTop
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Jonathan Watts
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/soc.culture.china/msg/b722ed59f3c51147
Is the wakening giant a monster?
http://tinyurl.com/iws6
A Blueprint for the Future
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/59c28cd6dfe6f60f
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| User: "PeterL" |
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| Title: Re: Gansu |
25 May 2005 05:04:12 PM |
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maff wrote:
An inequitable life
http://www.guardian.co.uk/china/story/0,7369,1491942,00.html
The yawning wealth gap in 'booming' China is badly hampering foreign
attempts to help the country's have-nots, writes Jonathan Watts
Foreign aid hurts much more than helps. Just look at Africa. Foreign
aid keeps the African countries dependent and not able or willing to
solve their own problems. China is smart to keep foreign aid out of
the country.
Wednesday May 25, 2005
On the flight into Lanzhou a seemingly endless range of barren,
grey-brown hills swells up from all sides. The giant mounds, pockmarked
here and there with dark cave entrances, have prompted more than one
visitor to comment that descending into this landscape feels like
landing on the moon.
Like the geography, the economy appears to belong to another planet.
Lanzhou is the capital of Gansu, the second-poorest province in China
and home to several Muslim and Tibetan minorities whose ethnicity and
remote location have resulted in their missing out almost entirely on
the spectacular boom the urban Han majority on the eastern seaboard has
been enjoying. The people of Gansu are on the wrong side of a growing
income gap that is proving to be one of the biggest challenges for the
communist government.
Gansu OR "Kan-su" OR "Kan-suh"
http://news.google.com/news?q=Gansu%20OR%20%22Kan-su%22%20OR%20%22Kan-suh%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&sa=N&tab=gn
http://www.google.com/search?q=Gansu+OR+%22Kan-su%22+OR+%22Kan-suh%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&tab=nw&ie=UTF-8&sa=N
http://www.google.com/search?q=Gansu+OR+%22Kan-su%22+OR+%22Kan-suh%22&btnG=Search+Directory&hl=en&cat=gwd%2FTop
http://groups-beta.google.com/groups?q=Gansu%20OR%20%22Kan-su%22%20OR%20%22Kan-suh%22&num=100&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&sa=N&scoring=d&tab=wg
Jonathan Watts
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/soc.culture.china/msg/b722ed59f3c51147
Is the wakening giant a monster?
http://tinyurl.com/iws6
A Blueprint for the Future
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/59c28cd6dfe6f60f
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| User: "Katt" |
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| Title: Re: Gansu |
25 May 2005 05:27:20 PM |
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"PeterL" <po.ning@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1117058652.057003.128460@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...
maff wrote:
An inequitable life
http://www.guardian.co.uk/china/story/0,7369,1491942,00.html
The yawning wealth gap in 'booming' China is badly hampering foreign
attempts to help the country's have-nots, writes Jonathan Watts
Foreign aid hurts much more than helps. Just look at Africa. Foreign
aid keeps the African countries dependent and not able or willing to
solve their own problems. China is smart to keep foreign aid out of
the country.
Typical hate-filled moron, in whose head self-flattering fantasies fill the
imposing gaps in his/her knowledge.
In reality, 'Africa' is a place characterised by countries receiving far
less in western 'aid' (often 'aid' with *strings attached*...) than they
already have to hand over each year to western 'creditor' nations as
'repayment' for old debts incurred at the behest of western agencies and/or
west-installed, west-supported tyrants. For countless 'African' populations,
the chance to 'solve their own problems' is *a distant dream*...
Katt.
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| User: "Jez" |
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| Title: Re: Gansu |
28 May 2005 12:32:47 PM |
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"Katt" <seruhshjaudn@dfhu.net> wrote in
news:cZ6le.648$a5.12@newsfe5-win.ntli.net:
"PeterL" <po.ning@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1117058652.057003.128460@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...
maff wrote:
An inequitable life
http://www.guardian.co.uk/china/story/0,7369,1491942,00.html
The yawning wealth gap in 'booming' China is badly hampering foreign
attempts to help the country's have-nots, writes Jonathan Watts
Foreign aid hurts much more than helps. Just look at Africa.
Foreign aid keeps the African countries dependent and not able or
willing to solve their own problems. China is smart to keep foreign
aid out of the country.
Typical hate-filled moron, in whose head self-flattering fantasies
fill the imposing gaps in his/her knowledge.
In reality, 'Africa' is a place characterised by countries receiving
far less in western 'aid' (often 'aid' with *strings attached*...)
Usually ,<Cough> Arms Deals.
than they already have to hand over each year to western 'creditor'
nations as 'repayment' for old debts incurred at the behest of western
agencies and/or west-installed, west-supported tyrants. For countless
'African' populations, the chance to 'solve their own problems' is *a
distant dream*...
Katt.
--
Jez, MBA.,
Country Dancing and Advanced Astrology, UBS.
'Realism is seductive because once you have accepted the reasonable
notion that you should base your actions on reality, you are too often
led to accept, without much questioning, someone else's version of what
that reality is. It is a crucial act of independent thinking to be
skeptical of someone else's description of reality.'-
Howard Zinn
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| User: "Yu" |
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| Title: Re: Gansu |
25 May 2005 10:48:02 PM |
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maff wrote:
An inequitable life
http://www.guardian.co.uk/china/story/0,7369,1491942,00.html
The yawning wealth gap in 'booming' China is badly hampering foreign
attempts to help the country's have-nots, writes Jonathan Watts
Like the geography, the economy appears to belong to another planet.
Lanzhou is the capital of Gansu, the second-poorest province in China
and home to several Muslim and Tibetan minorities whose ethnicity and
remote location have resulted in their missing out almost entirely on
the spectacular boom the urban Han majority.
The population of Gansu is mostly Hans with some ethnic Tibetans,
Mongols and Hui Muslim.
All of them are equally poor.
Recently, the world bank funded a poverty assistant program in nearby
Qinghai province to help the Hui move to an irrigate part of the very
dry province.
Dalai Lama's supporters called it an attempt to crowd out the Tibetans
even though Tibetans only form 22% of the population in that particular
county.
Under pressure, the World Bank pulled out of the project. China carried
on with the project with its own fund.
Foreign aids to poor countries are often remote controled in far away
capitals by people preoccupied with their own domestic politics. The
cosmetic effect is often more important and substance.
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| User: "Goodmooneeman" |
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| Title: Re: Gansu |
26 May 2005 05:32:43 AM |
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The Dalai Lama claimed Gansu as a part of the Tibetan territory .
Gansu was the Nuclear HEU accumulation ground for Chinese atomic
weapons ,before the actual firing inside the Xinjiang desert .
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