Comments on: What Goes Around Comes Around http://aperifle.sinosplice.com/archives/2007/05/18/what-goes-around-comes-around/ Canadian Edition Tue, 06 Jan 2009 11:54:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Pang Fei http://aperifle.sinosplice.com/archives/2007/05/18/what-goes-around-comes-around/comment-page-1/#comment-13915 Pang Fei Mon, 25 Jun 2007 11:59:42 +0000 http://aperifle.sinosplice.com/archives/2007/05/18/what-goes-around-comes-around/#comment-13915 I like reading your articles. Especially those concern what's goin' on in China. I think most of your points are valuable. I like reading your articles. Especially those concern what’s goin’ on in China. I think most of your points are valuable.

]]> By: kmm http://aperifle.sinosplice.com/archives/2007/05/18/what-goes-around-comes-around/comment-page-1/#comment-11576 kmm Sat, 02 Jun 2007 09:37:22 +0000 http://aperifle.sinosplice.com/archives/2007/05/18/what-goes-around-comes-around/#comment-11576 God damn, I've got to say, you're blog is probably the best blog on China, and you're not even living here. The dearth of comments on this site are perhaps the strongest indication of its quality. "Things will change" is not such a naive thing to say--well, it is in the since that by the time things might/do change the ongoing environmental apocalypse that is modern China will have have already reached a point-of-no-return; but it's not such a naive thing to say in the sense that there may very well be political change here, based on environmental advocacy, and similar to a number of revolutions that occurred in Eastern Europe in the 1980s (http://www.rec.org/REC/Publications/BeyondBorders/ch31.html). And of course, there may also just be the garden-variety political revolution here, started for unrelated reasons but leading to a tightening of regulations on pollution. So in ten, twenty, thirty years, environmental change may happen in China. The air might start to get cleaner, and the rivers might start to be filled with water, not goo. And when that does happen, will the factories just pick and move somewhere else, somewhere that's regulation free and capable of supplying endless cheap labor? Africa? Hmm, actually, in the course of writing this comment I've changed my mind--maybe you're right. If we're talking on a global scale, I guess "things will change" is a pretty naive thing to believe. God damn, I’ve got to say, you’re blog is probably the best blog on China, and you’re not even living here. The dearth of comments on this site are perhaps the strongest indication of its quality.

“Things will change” is not such a naive thing to say–well, it is in the since that by the time things might/do change the ongoing environmental apocalypse that is modern China will have have already reached a point-of-no-return; but it’s not such a naive thing to say in the sense that there may very well be political change here, based on environmental advocacy, and similar to a number of revolutions that occurred in Eastern Europe in the 1980s (http://www.rec.org/REC/Publications/BeyondBorders/ch31.html). And of course, there may also just be the garden-variety political revolution here, started for unrelated reasons but leading to a tightening of regulations on pollution.

So in ten, twenty, thirty years, environmental change may happen in China. The air might start to get cleaner, and the rivers might start to be filled with water, not goo. And when that does happen, will the factories just pick and move somewhere else, somewhere that’s regulation free and capable of supplying endless cheap labor? Africa?

Hmm, actually, in the course of writing this comment I’ve changed my mind–maybe you’re right. If we’re talking on a global scale, I guess “things will change” is a pretty naive thing to believe.

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