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Last updated on July 16th, 2017 at 04:23 pm
Reduced traffic in Beijing:
The central government is enforcing a test run this week of a plan to take more than 1 million cars
off Beijing’s roads. The object is to see how effective it will be in cleaning the capital’s filthy air for China’s “green” Olympics in August next year …
Part of the problem, says the [Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars], is that U.S. and foreign vehicle
Why would that be an issue? After all, according to Al Gore and Sir Nicholas Stern, Chinese cars
are already cleaner than vehicles from the US. In other China news, haircut kid John Edwards identifies a crisis:
In a letter to President Bush, Edwards asks the president to “take immediate action to stop the growing crisis of dangerous toys being imported
The boy’s got his priorities nailed.
In a letter to President Bush, Edwards asks the president to “take immediate action to stop the growing crisis of dangerous toys being imported from China
.” I assume he doesn’t mean this one.
Part of the problem, says the [Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars], is that U.S. and foreign vehicle
manufacturers are reluctant to transfer pollution-control technologies to China due to concerns about intellectual property rights. Oh, c’mon! The Caderack Coop Devil bears no relation at all to a somewhat similarly-named GM product. What, I suppose next you’re going to tell me that the Maostang and the MercyDaze are just cheap knock-offs, too?
Maybe Edwards is made because his blowup “toy” popped too soon.
Posted by Gary from Jersey on 2007 08 16 at 12:51 PM • permalink
Uh, that’s supposed to say he’s mad, not made. He might be a lot of things, but made he ain’t.
Posted by Gary from Jersey on 2007 08 16 at 12:52 PM • permalink
In a letter to President Bush, Edwards asks the president to “take immediate action to stop the growing crisis of dangerous toys being imported from China
.”It’s like a letter to Santa.
“Dear President.
I would like for you to take immediate action to stop the growing crisis of dangerous toys being imported from China
.And I want a sled. And a bb gun. I promise not to shoot anybody’s eye out.”
Posted by memomachine on 2007 08 16 at 03:30 PM • permalink
It was a thing of beauty: steel, red cast iron and lots of polished brass. Mounted on a tripod like a machine gun. We loved it.
mmmmh, nothing like taking in that Beijing air.
By the way, does anyone seriously believe that taking a million cars off the road will make a difference to this?
There are not that many cars in Mongolia, but it still looks this.
The reason for this is woodsmoke, which is highly toxic, but not a trendy environmental cause, because the solution is more power stations.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 08 16 at 07:06 PM • permalink
We are constantly being told that China is at forefront of Clean Technology Research.
Here is the latest example of that research.
I’m starting to reassess my priorities when it comes to the Made in China lable. Following the great Pussy-Cat Poisoning and now this unsafe toy thing, I get the feeling that Chinese manufacturers
are a little too cavalier for their own good. And mine. If I were a manufacturer that outsourced, I’d be starting to ask around some of the other developing nations to see if I couldn’t get a better job done by them.Posted by AlburyShifton on 2007 08 17 at 02:05 AM • permalink
Spare a thought for poor Kevni Rudd’s personal dilemma when it comes to China. It offends Labor on so many levels because it pollutes, is an environmental vandal, executes more people than any other country, has an appalling human rights record, exports
toxic toys, poisons people with its medicines, sells weapons to madmen, oppresses Tibetans and doesn’t tolerate trade unions. But on the other hand, Rudd speaks Chinese.
And Rudd’s opposition to uranium sales
to India seems to come from a thinly veiled desire to see China as Asia’s only superpower.Posted by AlburyShifton on 2007 08 17 at 04:03 AM • permalink
- Contrail – nicely summarised.
How often have we heard about the west supporting bloodthirsty dictators and tyrants? Dispose of one in Iraq and suddenly things were much rosier there before the invasion.
Chavez is now a golden boy. Some things do not change.
Intervene in the diabolical aboriginal camps and suddenly there’s no problem except whitey’s jackbooted approach, disprespecting their wonderful culture, their mutual respect etc, etc.
I can say without fear of contradiction that fights (often fatal) over women and land is part of their culture from ancient times, but that booze is not.
#17 Pogria. Wow! I never realised the Chinese were so advanced.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2007 08 17 at 08:01 AM • permalink
Dangerous toys were my best toys, when I was a kid.