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  • May 9, 2012 at 7:51 am #20546
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    Recently, I had an opportunity to hear Piers Morgan interview the Dalai Lama. The lifespan of the Dalai Lama covers approximately the same as mine, and it has been fascinating across the decades to see this boy heir to the Fountain Head of Buddhism flee from the Potala when driven out of Tibet by Maoist Red Chinese Army only to survive and flourish in exile in Hindu India. When it comes to the question of human rights His Holiness continues to keep Tibetan independence center stage in the West's dealing with the communist government in Beijing. It appeared in the interview that the Dalai Lama having retired from much of his religious duties seems willing to entertain accommodation with the powers that currently rule in Beijing and he hinted at the possibility of China granting Tibet a status akin to an 'autonomous region' within China. It appears this Nobel Peace Prize recipient now accepts the need for responsible world leaders to find ways to live in peace without resorting to the beating of War Drums, lust for conquest and domination, but the need for acceptance and toleration in a world still saturated with weapons of mass destruction. Let's hope other world leaders experience a similar epiphany before it is too late.

    May 9, 2012 at 8:08 am #20547
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    In its May 14 issue of TIME magazine Hannah Beech portrays communist China's government with the subtitle "Murder. Lies. Corruption. Can China Face the Truth?" As I read this rather lengthy and somewhat sounding self-righteous story many thoughts from our seminar came into mind. Is Mao's 'Mandate of Heaven' about to expire and is an era of upheaval and civil war on China's horizon? I think back to Nixon's historic visit and the resulting relaxation of tensions and subsequent flood of investment that followed normalization of relations. Not too patriotic American entrepreneurs fled from their American Corporate bases to build factories in China leaving in their wake shuttered factories in the heartland of America. Break the unions and humble the demanding Middle Class. Low wages across China bordering on what could be portrayed as 'slave wages' these American companies harvested their enormous profits only to take their wealth to off-shore banking institutions so as to avoid paying taxes to the very country that gave them the opportunity to become wealthy, and God! do they despise those who simply want to fairly tax their profits.

    Wall Street corporate investment by the billions in China has easily eclipsed the investment made under the Marshall Plan established at the end of World War II to rescue a devastated Europe. Should we be surprised then with corruption surging from China's ruling class? Did we not provide a desperate peoples who lived for decades in Mao's impoverished empire with sort of 'Cash Call' loan from Mammon; the god of GREED? Mesmerized by capitalism and coupled with their not be experienced in the arts of high finance did we not set up the stage that would become "Murder. Lies. and Corruption"? Ms. Beech fails in her story to see the glaring other side of the coin: Can the greedy 1% on Wall Street Face the Truth?

    May 13, 2012 at 2:37 am #20548
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    Here is a link to a story about a proposed damn in Southeast Asia on the MEkong River. Made me think about the Covering China seminar, where the environment was mentioned as perhaps the Issue facing China - apparently it could be the issue for the region...

    http://www.economist.com/node/21554253

    May 13, 2012 at 2:37 am #3412
    Rob_Hugo@PortNW
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    Having begun my search for materials to use for our seminar's Culminating Project; i.e. Lesson Plan, I am running across some interesting sources. The Nystrom illusrted atlas of world history came first; but, now, I believe tht I have run across a 'super find': ANCIENT CHINA 'Fun Projects for World History' y Jean Henrich et al. This book is cleverly crafted, rich in content, and masterfully organized for easy use by teachers. The Table of Contents begins with Chinese Emperors and Dynasties in Focus and then proceeds to list SEVEN other topics for Focus. Then comes a Mother Lode of information with a listing of useful Activities and Visuals that teachers could easily fold into any lesson about ancient China. ISBN: 1-56--4-255-9, Product Code: ZP328 [email protected]

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