This is an interesting NYT article (minus the policy suggestions) on China’s investment/aid to Angola. Apparently, there is something suspicious about the Chinese.
The Chinese are a mysterious presence in Angola. Everyone seems to know about them and their assorted projects, but few people have actually seen them..This isolation has bred fabulous rumors…
Sound familiar? That’s right. The Chinese are Oompa-Loompas.
Up the airy mountain,
Down the rushing glen,
We dare not go a’hunting,
for fear of little men.
You see, nobody ever goes in, and nobody ever comes out…
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Interesting tidbit from Peter Hessler’s Oracle Bones - 40 percent of China’s domestically produced cornstarch goes to make MSG, whereas 60 percent of America’s domestically produced cornstarch goes to make artificial sweeteners. Hessler writes, “Those statistics seemed to say something profound about the differences between the two nations.”
We have been terrible about keeping peer-see updated for the past couple of weeks, but we have a very good excuse. I have been tying up the computer, busily writing my novel. My goal was to write 50,000 words by the end of the month.
Friends, I am happy to tell you that I [...]
