The Biggest, Baddest Bike-Share in the World: Hangzhou China
It’s absolutely impossible to build enough roads for everyone to have a car and so you need to look at alternative methods and those alternative methods are BRT, metro but none of those solve the last mile issue. And that’s where bike sharing comes in.
“There is really no debate about climate change in China. China’s leaders are mostly engineers and scientists, so they don’t waste time questioning scientific data. [It] is a practical discussion on health and wealth. There is no need to emphasize future consequences when people already see, eat and breathe pollution every day.”
Marginal Revolution: Avatar in China
Home owners in Hubei China protest the demolition of their homes. I raise my appreciation of Avatar a notch.
China has more pigs than the next 43 pork producing countries combined.
China Wants to Connect its High-Speed Rail to Europe (Largest Infrastructure Project in History)
The goal of this project would be a two-day trip from Beijing to London. The Trans-Siberian Railway, which I’ve seriously considered doing and would still love to, currently takes six days to cover the almost 9,000 km from Moscow to Beijing. Who doesn’t romanticize traveling by train? It’s a shame it’s pretty impractical outside of the northeast corridor in the US. Also, I’m ready for a fourth trip to China.
China has started exploring how to reap economic and strategic benefits from the ice melting at the Arctic due to global warming.
How interesting is it that the country with the most (?) capitalist mindset is communist?
“To glean a sense of the dimensions of the organization department’s job, conjure up a parallel body in Washington. The imaginary department would oversee the appointments of US state governors and their deputies; the mayors of big cities; heads of federal regulatory agencies; the chief executives of General Electric, Exxon-Mobil, Walmart and 50-odd of the remaining largest companies; justices on the Supreme Court; the editors of The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post; the bosses of the television networks and cable stations; the presidents of Yale and Harvard and other big universities and the heads of think-tanks such as the Brookings Institution and the Heritage Foundation.
All equivalent positions in China are filled by people appointed by the party through the organization department.”
FT
If you have any interest in China or communism, you must read this article. Incredible.
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