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About Me

Location:
United States, Palisades Park, NJ
Current organization:
Luminary Consulting
Past organizations:
Susquehanna International Group
Gender:
Male
Areas of expertise:
Physics, Economics, China
Languages:
English
My website links:
Twitter
Universities:
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

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  • A reply on Talk: Martin Jacques: Understanding the rise of China

    Jan 25 2011: Jacques actually directly addressed your little "ask a Uighur!" quip early on in his speech. Perhaps you should rewatch the talk if you have no memory of this. Jacques' talk hardly overgeneralizes to the extremes that you claim, nor is "a leveling out of income across the world" anything close to guaranteed "in the end." Heck, it's not even remotely anywhere within a capitalistic society. Try again.
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    A reply on Talk: Martin Jacques: Understanding the rise of China

    Jan 25 2011: While much of China's growth can be ascribed to its self-positioning as the world's manufacturing base, to claim that China's growth was predicated upon human rights violations is silly. The phenomenon of cheap Chinese labor primarily comes from sizable CPI differences between China and Western nations and the fact that Chinese urbanization was one of the largest single human migrations in known history. Simple supply & demand takes care of the rest, aided by Deng Xiaoping's economic reforms in the 80s and 90s.

    Further, if we are to harp about China's workers' conditions, I'll point you to the recent case of multiple suicides at Foxconn's China-based factory. Straight to the point: it's directly run by Taiwanese management. The same goes for the Mattel factories that were at the heart of the tainted toys scandal. As long as we're playing the blame game, we shouldn't stop halfway through the first round.

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