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Shanghai Diaries - May 29


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As mentioned in an earlier report on Current TV, sadness is now turning to anger as parents of the children killed in the poorly-constructed earthquake are now taking matters into their own hands by protesting outside government buildings. Shanghai foreigners are ordered to have their passports on them at all times and local authorities are told to 'dress down' to save money?
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7 responses // Shanghai Diaries - May 29

  • there is alway some one who has to do something a higher up thinks it could save money...at the end its most propably a zero sum game ^_^

    if the parents keep that up it could become dangerous for them (social unrest...)
    excuter
  • Sounds like the officials took a page out of Jimmy Carter's playbook when he wore the sweater on TV so everyone would turn down their thermostats in the winter.

    You might want to consider wearing a moneybelt under your clothes to hold your passport. That way it'd be out of the way and impossible to lose but easy to get to if you're stopped.

    I'm sure some local heads will roll in SIchuan. When Taiwan had their big earthquake in the 1990s, they found empty 55 gallon drums where there should have been solid concrete, and a lot of structural cheating. I have a feeling it'll be the same there but that won't bring back the kids. My heart really goes out to those parents...

    Seems that Sharon Stone has seen the light (or at least the light in her Christian Dior contract) and is throwing out mea culpas like crazy now. I read they've removed all her advertising posters in Shanghai and the company has apologized for her remarks. Now she wants to help the earthquake victims. I wonder how long it'll take her to get THAT visa?
    SDSteve
  • The families didn't look like they were "rioting". Profound and indescribable sadness in their faces. But excuter, I'm afraid, is right. I wonder where the line will be drawn. A real test for my new facebook hero - 温家宝/Wen Jiabao. I don't mean to be too cynical. But. It is easy to get a good photo-op with the broken body of a child. What will he do with that child's mother crying at his doorstep... day after day after day, wanting answers? How this unfolds will be very telling.
    mutantjedi
  • its sad that the "Made in China" stuff, even the construction material here @ Home Depot/Loews of North East US, is mostly from China, and the quality is fair, its degraded over the past 3-4 years, but I do know for a fact that the "Made in China" materials, appliances, etc have two different types, 1 group for "In China market" and one for "Out of China market (ie Foreign countries like the US, Brazil, etc), but the quality to compare is by far equal, lets say a Made in China Coffee Maker in the US vs. one sold at SUNING in Shanghai, it's noticeable. It's sad if you think about comparing that to the building material used where the devastation occurred.
    Btw Home Depot building materials are still expensive even though the building market and the NYSE reported its down this year.
    Stefan_Boston
  • Didn't you and Jenny Zhu talk about family 你妈妈爱你/你妈妈很喜欢你 (love/like) in a "Saturday Show"? :)
    mutantjedi
  • Stefan's point is well taken, but to be fair to Chinese manufacturing, the quality is mostly determined by management and not the workers. I was involved with semiconductor manufacturing in China and found that if managed properly, quality could be maintained at a very high level.

    The secret was in managing them according to their culture and not ours. There are a lot of cultural nuances that have to be taken into account that would not apply in the west or even in other Asian countries, based on the Chinese learning system.

    Unfortunately, most Chinese owned companies are not that interested in quality control, but the western companies (including some Japanese) that stressed it and managed correctly have had excellent results. I think most of the products Stefan refers to are from Chinese owned companies, with low margins and cut corners.

    It's really a very interesting topic and was an eye opening experience for me.
    SDSteve
  • I need to apologize - I said 'riot' and it should have been 'protest'. There have been reports of mild 'uprising' in town meetings, but that word makes me one of the journalists who aren't reporting correctly.

    I was wrong.

    SDSteve - for sure; it's one thing to bury your child but another knowing that they died so that someone else could make a quick buck...

    We did talk about this on the Sat Show, except I didn't mention the...well, my disbelief. To think that the strongest word (and it is to them to) isn't used actually made me a bit sad.
    aricsqueen

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