Analysis of past US's made wars and defeats:If it has to be done, it has to be done: world war scale disasters ! No reason to enhance the opportunity for other trouble makers like abe-japs and the world's biggest bully made known in the Vietnamese War of Invasion, falsified WMD Iraqi war of oil-wealth invasion, Afghan war of invasion, Syrian war of invasion, so-called ISIL wars of religious supremacy versus terrorisms, etc .. to continuously hype wars of words, war cries and war rhetoric. Else, when will all these evil human made war-fevers ever die down ? NB1: US President_Elect's fierce picks aren't that big heroes but all were defeated even by very poorly equipped armies. How could they be publicly cherished war heroes when they were the first to get ejected ( got out to bed at home while their soldiers died in vain / pains ) when their wars got bad : so stupid people ? They even evilly quoted them saying these, " Shoot / kill all of them you meet ! ". Yet, the President Elect thought that was a really grand hero of yesteryear! Human Rights to kill, I suppose ! Little wonder why so many nuts were shooting / killing nuts in the western home turfs : taught and educated by these big bullies ? Blame thyself ! NB2: They even evilly quoted them saying these, " Shoot / kill all of them you meet ! ". These words were coined as perceived Hitler's Nazism to kill all Jews as well as past-Jap Emperor's evil curse to kill all Chinese people, Asians and White guys ! Looking back into history, lessons should be well leaned but today's abe-japs and Clinton->Obama->Trump era Yanks are copying the past. Just too bad and being very stupid: words that US President Elect loves to tout ! Why did Trump's fierce pick argue the USA needed NATO versus Trump's own vowed words to forgo? They / he are worried to be left alone in any war with any kind; that is being scare and cowardice being the big ganged up bullies ( don't want to be alone in own war driven crisis so other soldiers of allies may die for them ). Trying to drag or threaten Aussies to fight China in the vicinity of the SCSea affairs? What decorated US's hero / heroes ? At least there was one brave and sensible past Premier of Australia, Mr Keating, who stood up and spoke with a different wavelength from other Aussie doggies. Well done, Mr Keating, your perception of the Asian affairs and words are rational and intelligent ! Mr. President Elect Trump, if you care to dismantle Obama_Care overnight, you ought to dismantle this bloody Obama_Asia_Pivot Legacy as well, asap ! It is just a curse of wars and evil spirits !

What will Trump do to these brands of apparels, nuts and bolts, fruits, human labourers, automobiles, PCs, Tablets, etc...etc..etc... of million things imported from emerging, underdeveloped and developed nations? These are things Americans do not prefer to invest in them and neither touch nor work on. Ban, bar, penalise and sanction all of these importing nations via his US's trade and labour policies as well as in the WTO ? Will Trump get his hands dirty on his knees to do menial things that Americans prefer not to do, manufacture hardware that aren't going be as profitable as Real Estate and casinos, ... ... .... ? If he were to check and challenge China over trade issues to win voters, then he will very likely hit the rock again. Instead, he should work with the 2nd largest economy to combine the goodies of each other to benefit the industries and services; hence for jobs and more jobs which is defined as being intelligent and wise, economically. Else, go robotic in every field, then nobody works except Donald Trump in his limos and casinos smoking big fat polluting cigars ! Perhaps, it is better that he stages more wars and conflicts to produce and sell more warring arms and offensive THAADs. Pay for all expenses to plant armadas of battle ships, nuke arms and THAADs in foreign soils and waters while milling more trillions of bucks everyday so much so that his next..next..next generations will have to toil to live in homes, if affordable. HOPING HE IS NOT ENDING UP WITH A DONALD DUCK. TRUMP'S ...... WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump threatened on Wednesday to slap tariffs on Chinese products to show Beijing that the United States is "not playing games anymore" when it comes to leveling the field on trade.Addressing a rally in Tampa, Florida, Trump said that if he was elected in November, he would instruct the U.S. trade representative to bring cases against China both in the United States and at the World Trade Organization.Tariffs would be necessary in some cases "because they have to understand that we're not playing games anymore," he added. Trump had previously pledged a 45 percent tariff on Chinese goods.Trump said on Wednesday that the trade deficit with China was more than $500 billion, although the figure given by the U.S. government put it at $367 billion in 2015. The United States has brought cases against China at the WTO, and U.S. officials have frequently slapped antidumping and countervailing duties on Chinese products under U.S. law based on complaints brought by U.S. producers.

A very impressive New President of the Philippines has come a long way to see the truths and bullshits; and being able to judge with his own wisdom rather than following those bloody stupid warring fools running long wars and conflicts in the soils of others. This is telling the world that Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has got the right guts to regain his national lost pride after many decades of being the dogs of the hypocrites like USA, Japan, Australia and others. Well done, President Duterte, and you should be able to reshape The Filipino nation to be a proud nation again; and eventually to repatriate those Filipino modern slaves being exported by previous rogue bosses of the Philippines, shamefully and exploitingly, even at a time when its national GDP raked in impressive figures among ASEAN. ++++++ ++++++ +++++++ Philippines' Duterte threatens to quit U.N. after drugs war censure © REUTERS/Noel Celis/Pool Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte gestures while delivering a speech during the 115th Police Service Anniversary at the Philippine National Police (PNP) headquarters in… Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte railed against the United Nations on Sunday after it called for an end to the wave of killings unleashed by his war on drugs, saying he might leave the organization and invite China and others to form a new one. Two U.N. human rights experts last week urged Manila to stop the extra-judicial executions and killings that have escalated since Duterte won the presidency on a promise to wipe out drugs. About 900 suspected drug traffickers have been killed since he came to power after winning the election on May 9. Duterte on Friday denied that the government was responsible and in a middle-of-the-night news conference in his home town, Davao, said the deaths were not the work of the police and invited U.N. experts to investigate themselves. The news conference was broadcast by local media and the full version was posted on Facebook by GMA news. "I will prove to the world that you are a very stupid expert," he said, urging them to count not just the number of drug-related deaths but also the innocent lives lost to drugs. He then launched an attack on the United Nations and its members - including by inference Manila's traditionally close ally, Washington - saying, it could not fulfill its own mandate but was "worrying about the bones of criminals piling up". "I do not want to insult you. But maybe we'll just have to decide to separate from the United Nations," he said. "Why do you have to listen to this stupid?" Criticizing the U.N. for not doing enough to address hunger and terrorism and for not being able to do anything about Syria and Iraq and allowing big powers to bomb villages and kill innocent civilians, he said he would invite China and African nations to form another global organization. "You now, United Nations, if you can say one bad thing about me, I can give you 10 (about you). I tell you, you are an inutile. Because if you are really true to your mandate, you could have stopped all these wars and killing." Asked about the possible consequences of his comments, he said: "What is ... repercussions? I don't give a shit to them." He said the United Nations should have acted according to protocol by sending someone such as a rapporteur to talk to him. "You do not just go out and give a shitting statement against a country," he said. (Reporting by Karen Lema and Manuel Mogato; Editing by John Chalmers and Nick Macfie)

Dr. Michael Ivanovitch's bottom line: Prime Minister Abe is fully aware of that responsibility. He is often criticized for his alleged belligerence, but his critics forget that he has always warned that Sino-Japanese differences should never be allowed to lead to renewed hostilities. So far, I have seen no reason to doubt his word. OBSERVED:Dr Ivanovitch's article spells heaps of factual details, unbiasedly and frankly. But, his bottom lines are questionable as follows: 1. Abe's words have been very fluid and slippery. Those words in its white papers, China's Threat Theories, are words for wars again. 2. Shinzo Abe has created a sea of mistrusts among his neighbors, mainly China, Korea and Russia. 3. Shinzo Abe has acted maliciously and cunningly against his major neighbor, China, during the periods of his reigning helm as the PM of Japan. This sort of worrisome attitudes does not bode well to mend acrimonies created by Japanese politicians led by Abe. 4. The shit stirring games being exercised continuously by Abe-Japan in affairs such the South China Sea among ASEAN members, in particular the Philippines and Vietnam, have added salts to very deep wounds ( historically caused by Japanese extremely brutal and cruel invasions of China and Koreas but failing to acknowledge by Abe-Japan nor constitutionally apologize for its atrocities is the most difficult hurdle to cross the bridge of forgiveness ). 5. The virtual annexation of China's Diaoyu islets by Japan resembles a modern day physical invasion of China. This is also a very difficult hurdle for Abe-Japan to cross the line of friendship of mutual trust and respect. China and Chinese people cannot accept such blatant snatch whether with or without US's sabotaging acts behind the scene. 6. Lastly, on South Korea's intention to mount THAAD in its soil is aggravating a very tensed situation in this region. Armed races are NOT out of question but in reality, it is an ongoing race among nations in the region encompassing even an untroubled water nation, Australia. The latter is trying to justify itself as a Pacific Power in the Far East Asia and its $billion budget to acquire modern submarines from France. War machines makers from the USA under Obama's helm at the front in his Asia Pivot have all together sabotaged this restful, peaceful and progressive region; that is, a very bad and inhumane departing omen less a legacy. Political fools are getting trapped as usual, most unfortunately. Critics and trouble makers must be aware that this region cannot and must not be turned into another Mid-East horrifying crisis ( Jihadist magnifying, ISIS branding getting carried, Taliban expanding, suffering human defeats, horrors and continuing murders making lives too hard to stay safe in every corner of the world ); else it will be extremely painful in the end for all of us; if alive ! aa@edward +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++Why China, Japan and South Korea must learn to get along Dr. Michael Ivanovitch | @msiglobal9 3 Hours AgoCNBC.com Each time I revisit this topic, I am thinking, perhaps naively, that China, Japan and South Korea, a quarter of the world economy, will soon improve their relations to rev up the rest of the region and beyond. To me, that always looked like an axiomatic proposition that should easily transcend old enmities. But delegations upon business delegations, millions of tourists and students, and South Korea's popular TV shows, music hits, barbecue delights and beauty products still seem incapable of relieving tensions bedeviling these three economic powerhouses. Japan's business with China and South Korea is plummeting at the time when Tokyo seems at a loss for magic potions to leave behind its decades-long economic stagnation. And that's part of my perplexity, because the Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sounded like the man who knew exactly what he had to do to move on when he took power at the end of 2012. He said then that "China was essential for the growth of the Japanese economy," and that relations with China had to be improved. Falling exports and weak investments But the mutual acrimony only got worse. Last Tuesday (August 2), for example, Japan's defense white paper devoted 30 pages to highlight "China's military threat." Predictably, China indignantly rejected the accusation, claiming that this was just a convenient excuse to justify changes to Japan's pacifist constitution and to remilitarize the country. All the business pleadings have come to naught. Japanese exports to China fell at an annual rate of 9 percent in the first half of this year, tracing out a sharply declining trend of Japanese sales to China since Mr. Abe's emphatic pledge three-and-a-half years ago. Japanese direct investments to China are also falling. They declined 20 percent over the last three years, and the numbers for the first quarter of this year are showing no sign of any significant improvement in the months ahead. chapters China apparently can live with that, but Japan is finding it hard to get substitutes for its flailing export and investment business with the big neighbor. And that is a considerable difficulty at a time when Japan's economy showed virtually no growth in the first quarter and overseas sales – accounting for nearly one-fifth of GDP – declined 2.5 percent. Weakening exports are a big setback for Japan's traditional business cycle recovery, because, typically, a sustained increase in overseas sales is necessary to set in train business investments, rising employment, personal incomes and household spending. That scenario is now impossible with declining exports and a weak (2 percent) growth of business capital outlays over the last two years. Japan's business with South Korea is much worse than with China. Exports and direct investments are down 12.9 percent and 82.5 percent, respectively, in the first half of this year. Japan can probably shrug this off, but it is sad to see such a deterioration of economic ties. South Korea can also live with that, but here is a punch that Seoul may find hard to take: Inter-Korean security threats could undermine the flourishing business with China. Indeed, Beijing is strongly opposed to South Korea's decision to install a missile shield against military challenges from North Korea. China says that is unacceptable because such defense equipment poses problems for its own security. Trilateral dialog And the upshot is this: South Korean media are reporting about economic and other measures the Chinese are apparently taking to force Seoul to think again. That is a tough call. China takes 25 percent of South Korean exports, and China's vast and growing markets are crucially important to Korean industries, ranging from automobiles to telecommunications equipment, tourism, cosmetics and entertainment. China also has a large presence in South Korea's insurance, high-tech, medical instruments, beauty products, and holds nearly one-fifth of the Korean public debt. Clearly, a solution must be found to protect the economic relations among these three countries. Otherwise, the damage could extend to business transactions well beyond their trilateral framework. For example, these three East Asian economies could take most of the business in the huge Central Asian and European markets as One Belt One Road projects are integrated with those conducted by the Eurasian Economic Union and with investment programs financed by the EU. This is not just the question of building highways, high-speed rail lines and port facilities; there is also an entire range of energy, hospitality, health, education and entertainment services that will be needed to complete these large transcontinental projects. The Chinese are the key players in most of these deals, but the Japanese and the Koreans are also keen to participate. All that, however, would be very difficult unless these Northeast Asian neighbors find a way to better and more confident relations. An early test of how much of that is possible will come during the forthcoming Eastern Economic Forum (EEF) in Vladivostok, Russia on September 2-3 and during the G20 summit in Hangzhou, China on September 4-5. The EEF meeting is devoted to trade and investments in Northeast Asia and in Russia's Far East. According to Korean media, President Park Geun-hye is invited as a guest of honor and is expected to deliver a keynote speech on September 3 on East Asian economic and political issues. Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is also expected to attend, with a large business delegation. That will perhaps be an opportunity for Japanese and Korean leaders to meet and discuss their key bilateral issues and security problems in Northeast Asia. Their dialog could then continue during the G20 summit in Hangzhou to try and narrow their differences with Chinese leaders. Investment thoughts : It is difficult to be optimistic about the feuding Northeast Asian neighbors when Beijing bristles with dire warnings about South Korean missile defenses and runs reinforced air and maritime patrols in the South China Sea. In spite of that, I believe that the millions of Chinese, Japanese and South Koreans visiting each other's countries for business, studies and tourism will show the way to their leaders to peace, prosperity and harmony. After all, an older generation of Sino-Japanese leaders did just that in the early 1970s, when they decided to try friendship and cooperation instead of lingering on wartime destructions and atrocities. They believed in the wisdom of new generations to settle the unfortunate colonial legacies and mistakes committed by being on the wrong side of history. The new generations cannot betray that sacred trust. Prime Minister Abe is fully aware of that responsibility. He is often criticized for his alleged belligerence, but his critics forget that he has always warned that Sino-Japanese differences should never be allowed to lead to renewed hostilities. So far, I have seen no reason to doubt his word. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

It was a very disgraceful display of bad and uneducated manners of an Aussie fellow in front of millions of worldwide watchers and cameras. Even from the footages captured in the pool before and after the event, this Horton had shown a sheer dislike of his Olympic rival, Sun, for various reasons other than an accusation of Sun in his arrogant mindset. Is Sun positive in the doping tests during and in this Rio Olympic ? Horton had his mind so screwed up and so very uneducated to harbor such Olympic feelings against his rival which is totally lack of Olympic Spirits ( an icon stands up for decades ). He should surrender his top prize ( gold medal ) for nothing since it was so disgraceful to Australia and IOC, that is, a bad symbol of arrogance and poor mannerism, if any of it left. Though this Sun used to be arrogant in certain ways in the past, he should now learn how to be respectful and humble as well as strong like a great man. Read on: .... RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug. 7 -- China's Olympic swimming team has demanded an apology from Australian gold medallist Mack Horton after his "malicious personal attack" on rival Sun Yang.Horton described Sun as a "drug cheat" last week and refused to retract the comments after defeating his rival in the 400m freestyle final at the Rio 2016 Games on Saturday. "We have been noticing what has been said in the past two days by Horton, who launched a malicious personal attack [on Chinese swimmers]," Chinese swim team manager Xu Qi said on Sunday. "We think his inappropriate words greatly hurt the feelings between Chinese and Australian swimmers. It is proof of a lack of good manners and upbringing. We strongly demand an apology from this swimmer."Sun, who won gold in the 400m freestyle and 1500m freestyle at the London 2012 Olympics, served a three-month ban in 2014 after testing positive to a banned substance.The 24-year-old said he unwittingly took the drug as part of treatment for a chronic heart problem.After winning the gold medal race on Saturday, Horton said: "I used the words drug cheat because he tested positive. He's one of the athletes here who has tested positive." Hey, is Sun positive in the doping tests in and during this Rio Olympic ? Such dump Aussie boofhead! The Australian's comments prompted a heated response on social media, where many Chinese fans describing the remarks as unjustified.

Kerry said steps by China, Vietnam and others that had created an "escalatory cycle." "What we are trying to do it break that cycle," he said. "Regrettably there are missiles and fighter aircraft and guns and other things that have been placed into the South China Sea and this if of great concern to everyone who transits and relies on the South China Sea for peaceful trade," he added. ............... ............... Kerry, please don't think or stop thinking that Chinese folks and China are similar bandits or invaders or pirates of the last centuries where westerners plundered, pirated, killed and robbed as they wished whether in lands or seas or wagons. See how the lands of the Apache / Red Indian were taken over by force ( induced with fire water too ) after massive invasions and killings to be today's the USA. Your genetic mentality or that of Obama ought to say and tell the world about the inferior complexities of you guys, shamefully bold and irrational, though you enjoy to WRITE THE RULES in this world as Obama stupidly repeated whenever crowded among audiences. But the funny bit is he has not written or not able to write rules in Africa to rid poverties and political chaos where his genetic blood flowed thru it ! Obama even fails to write rules about GUN_STOP with crocodile tears in his own soil, the USA, which is shamefully inferior while switching to the foreign affairs of the South China Sea. Aren't these US's accusations against China being notoriously stupid?

Part of the report: China’s problems ‘just gargantuan’Jessica Hartogs, special to CNBC Despite China's yuan hitting its highest level this year against the U.S. dollar Monday, the country's fundamental problems are "just gargantuan", Stewart Paterson, portfolio manager at Tiburon Partners, told CNBC. "If a country could just print as much money as it wanted, and at the same time, preserve the external purchasing power of its currency, clearly there would be no poverty in the world…we would have all done this," he said. 1. The US Fed has printed trillion more bucks like a gigantic milling machine for a decade, and yet it has been maintaining its strength; else it would have been heaps poorer than Mexico or Brazil or DPRK. So, why hasn't the USA or Obama's legacy collapsed? 2. Likewise, the EU has negative rates and more negative soon to be as said despite of it milling up to trillion EUR; yet its EUR is gaining strength. EU is not broken down yet in gargantuan style or about to be? 3. Japan has also been printing trillions of JPY in gargantuan heaps, but yet it is gaining strength, so what is being said about it? Those mentioned are all the G7 gang members; what are YOU ? Talking down on those USD, EUR, JPY for ages and now targeting CNY, it is indeed fruitless, irrationally, isn't it Tiburon ? Just so nutty and cocky !

Defense Secretary Carter to cruise on U.S. warship near disputed sea U.S. Secretary of Defence Ashton Carter at the ASEAN Defence Ministers Meeting in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, … KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter and his Malaysian counterpart will cruise on the USS Theodore Roosevelt on Thursday, a U.S. defense official said, for a voyage likely to highlight tension over rival claims in the South China Sea. Response to the article: Carter and his naval force have the obligation of duties to : 1. Demonstrate his power and responsibility as human-freedom advocate to ship/ferry all those struggling refugees exiting or fleeing those war torn nations of the Arab World whose problems, disasters and human crisis caused as a result of US's led mass destruction of multiple levels in those once rich nations. This picture in the hearts of Islamic populations of this world, including Malaysia and Indonesia particularly, which are the flavors of Islamic teachings and strong supporters of Islamic Faith will never agree with US's led human disasters as seen in the Islamic States of Mid-East, less so in this South China Sea region or The Far East Asia. So, what is in the minds of Malaysian Islamic thoughts and Naval Chief? Malaysian leaders and Naval Chief have to rethink properly in your God Faith that this region at your very own doorstep will never to be blinded by US's mad intentions (*IT'S HOPING TO DIVERT ATTENTIONS AWAY FROM ITS US'S LED / CAUSED ISLAMIC CRISIS IN THE MID-EAST*) seen all over the world since post WW2. Else, it is seen as an Islamic crime to sit and sail along with a herd of 'killing wolves and foxes"; isn't it? 2. US Carter and teams have better things to do rightfully in the Mid-East region than continuing to disturb the peaceful region of The Far East region, in particular the South China Sea area where China has been reinforcing its sovereignty by constructing visible and recognizable physical outcrops in the sea within its own boundary. IF US Carter's powerful naval force cannot maintain its war-debt compensations and faked-WMD war obligations to help ferry those up to 6 million migrating/fleeing Mid-East refugees back to the USA, then why should anyone else in the EU be obliged to do so unless it is a crazy nut though it is in part of NATO's human mauling fiasco then and possibly up to now? It is said, "How and what you planted your fruits trees is what YOU will get in your harvests, very simple natural analysis beyond compare" ! Yes, you US naval chief Carter and naval force are allowed by international law to sail on international water peacefully but NEVER ever to be allowed into Chinese territories unless invited to do so as China has politely warned. Will NEVER allow US's led forces to cause similar crisis as seen in the Mid-East along this peaceful South China Sea lane of Peace and Prosperity being shared among all nations. China has a history of foreign invasions coming from as far the USA, Europe, USSR and neighboring Japan in its records; hence it understands the miseries and hefty losses due to wars and conflicts which shall be the past of Old China cause a New China is NEVER to be as weak and poor as it was then.

1. Dr Howe ought to read the TPP for Australia's sake because more than a dozen nations may "rush" their staffs or workers into Aussie land to rob Aussie jobs and ruin its environment with cheap labor rates too. Is she reading that or has she started to read? 2. Dr Howe aims to see an increase in labor costs ( following more US dollar interest rate increases ) when TPP sucks in, so will be inflations to rocket. Then at least 50% of aussie homes will go under the hammers as mortgage rates shoot up indefinitely (rough cut, 20 years ago, home mortgage rates were up to 16% pa). This is what Dr Howe being a lawyer has failed to see or hopes to see. Already the home prices in Aussie land have reached the heaven's / hell's ceiling. 3. By reporting that China could impose forced labors at alarming lower compensation rates in the FTA (to be approved) into Aussie land, that sounds terribly racially biased; isn't it Joanna ? Not sure what racial background you were born though seen in darker skin with British sounding name. These following remarks are most damaging to China and Chinese companies:"This could be a major avenue for recruitment of migrant labour," Dr Howe found. She also warned that Chinese workers looking to send money home were not likely to blow the whistle on employers paying below award rate.What sort of a lecturer with a Dr degree is she and how was it taught in / by RHODE ? Very shameful, low class and uneducated remarks! To each nation, the inflation factor is different, prices are different and costs of living are different, each reflecting on where each one of us lives and feeds from. USD4.00 per hour in China is about Yuan26.00 per hour in China and she is entirely wrong / incorrect ! Or did she refer to cleaners and sweepers in the outback of China? Also, come over to see and study the prices of goods and inflation figures of each province versus incomes !! PLEASE READ A VERY BIASED REPORT FROM/OF A Dr. Joanna Howe: Dr Howe's report, which found the FTA will "greatly increases the pathways for Chinese workers to enter the Australian labour market" to work for Australian employers, also found Chinese companies could choose to import their workforce on projects worth over $150 million – known as "investment facilitation arrangements" or IFAs. She found that Chinese workers on IFAs must only be paid at the base award rate for their occupation rather than the higher "market salary rate" of Australian workers who have negotiated better conditions through enterprise bargaining. "This means the ChAFTA could be used to create an IFA which undercuts local wages and conditions because although local workers may expect to be paid a higher rate for a certain occupation as provided for in the relevant enterprise agreement, a Chinese worker may be willing to work for the far lesser rate provided for in the award," she found. The FTA "provides Chinese employers with a relatively easy way to cut labour costs on infrastructure development projects," the report states. The FTA will allow Chinese workers to be brought into Australia to work on $150 million-plus infrastructure-related projects, within the food and agribusiness, resources and energy, transport, telecommunications, power supply and generation, environment or tourism sectors. The Coalition has claimed the framework for IFAs is comparable to "enterprise migration agreements" introduced by the Rudd and Gillard Labor governments but their threshold was set at $2 billion, meaning the FTA will allow for many more projects. "This could be a major avenue for recruitment of migrant labour," Dr Howe found. She also warned that Chinese workers looking to send money home were not likely to blow the whistle on employers paying below award rate. In Beijing, the hourly minimum wage is equivalent to about $3.95 compared to $17.29 in Australia.

CHINA TO BOOST TOURISM INDUSTRY 1. Yachts for the sea lanes can generate healthy business opportunities of varieties, including trained skill sets. However, governments ought to set the rules and regulations affirmatively to oversee that yacht clubs and mooring facilities are located far away from the common crowds in which public seasides, beaches and swimming venues may not suffer any potential harm and pollution. The typical error in locating the Dameisha Yacht Club by sandwiching it among and between existing residents, public users and holiday makers is a very telling potential harm and mistake; and since the nearby Yantian Port is already crowded with shipping containers and/or various sea-going vessels. Of course, the curse is heavy sea water pollution caused of effects in which the latter are almost invisible ( who will check and examine pollutants dumped by ship operators ? ). Having said the pollutant damaging effects, the said Yacht Club should not be located in Dameisha but ought to be moved further easterly towards Santou area to ease the uncanny congestion and dilute the pollution of the sea.2. The famous and folklore Yangtze River ought to deserve much better treatment and respect than some of the world famous rivers / water ways of Europe and the USA. But pollution is too heavily rendered by irresponsible operators and folks while local governments are falling asleep ( as if ) between and along townships of The Great Yangtze. China is wealthy enough to replace all older passenger and cargo ships with new and sophisticated cruisers / liners to serve tourists of all nationals; that is, serving both locals and foreigners with the same river cruisers / liners though fares can be devised to discount for locals and age retirees to be affordable. Such approach should improve locals' behaviors when foreigners are present and participating; else there is going to be a harder and longer road to pick up more civilized behaviors ( in question ) and civility. Here again this venture is providing endless means of business opportunities. Notes worthy of comments:i ) Huanggang entry custom checkpoint of Shenzhen city from Hong Kong to China is a real pain in the neck when there was and still there is neither functioning elevator nor LIFT to assist tourists and locals arriving into China via Huanggang Custom Checkpoint (Shenzhen) which is open 24 hours daily. One cannot see how older folks with or without bags are able to walk all the way UP and DOWN concrete steps of up to 10 meters high and down to reach waiting vehicles / taxis . China is known to care for public welfare and is also very wealthy too; but where are the working Heavy ELEVATORS and LIFTS ( well maintained and clean LIFTS and ELEVATORS ) ? Sorry, none at all !! ii ) SarTouJie (Yantian) entry custom checkpoint of Shenzhen is exhibiting the same fate / dilemma as Huanggang. YOU see, this is first impression of arriving tourists into China, be them first timers or seasoned ones, and China ought NOT to display such low class taste when it comes to facilities. Remember the seriousness of the FIRST IMPRESSION of China is mindful ! Let's hope and see how these facilities will be corrected and improved as soon as yesterdays !!