BIG CHINA HAS BIG PAINS -- JAM files for 05-02-08

Howdy Folks…

 

For the second day in a row the big news (not the Obama-Wright story) comes out of China. Labor pains are growing epidemic especially in the south where manufacturing is heaviest.  And apparently the government labor department is vastly understaffed to handle the crisis. There are some details in today’s story. Plus news from the people who keep track of such things reveal China is building a huge new submarine facility – which will make all her neighbors dependent upon shipping nervous. That’ll be true of the US too. So… tune in today and see what can be learned.

 

Here are links for listening to the one minute broadcast… or for those who know how (and I don’t) to listen on RSS (Real Simple Syndication) I understand the one minute track is available there too. Load it on your I-pod for those who know about such things.  And we have texts you can print out for those of you in the Gutenberg era like me:

 

 

http://www.jebcovoice.net/audio/jama05-02-08.mp3

 

http://www.jebcovoice.net/scripts/jamt05-02-08.doc

 

And here’s today’s script. And if you care to start a discussion leave a comment just below.

 

Cordially, IN HIM

 

Jack  

 

“JUST A MINUTE”

CHINA HAS LABOR PANGS

Just A Minute – GEOFFREY CROTHALL, Wall Street Journal writer, says China’s current upsurge in labor problems and its lack of resources to enforce labor laws means:  “Beijing's dream of creating a ‘harmonious society’ will remain an illusion.”

Crothall reports there were over five thousand labor violations filed in Guangdong province the first two months of this year; more than the entire year of 2001. The government labor department – is vastly understaffed resulting in shuttering of more than ten thousand factories in the province -- home to a huge part of China’s manufacturing base.

Add to that the revelation of a new giant submarine base built on China’s southernmost island of Hainan able to house 14 or more 094 subs, -- it gives Pentagon planners the willies.

My college roommate who became the headmaster at a missionary institute in Taiwan, once told me, “China is such a vast country almost anything you hear from there is probably true sometime, somewhere.” The Asian giant has giant problems – which sooner or later are headed our way. 

<> I’m Jack Buttram

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