We're Not Chinese If You Please

The Messiah has found the promised land! I won't keep you in suspense waiting for my text message, I'll give it to you right now. It's China! I may be wrong about this but Jesus H. Obama is now extolling the virtues of the modern, soon-to-be superpower. Here's a quote from the Savior:

"Think about the amount of money that China has spent on infrastructure. Their ports, their train systems, their airports are vastly the superior to us now, which means if you are a corporation deciding where to do business, you're starting to think, 'Beijing looks like a pretty good option.'"

I won't go into the serious infrastructure deficits and failures listed by National Review Online's Jim Geraghty. Suffice it to say that their grid is a disaster. I'll cover what he left out.

Pollution:
The World Bank estimates that 16 of the world’s 20 most polluted cities are found in China’s industrial areas.

Desertification:
Few people think of China as a desert nation, yet it is among the world's largest. More than 27%, or 2.5 million square kilometers, of the country comprises useless sand (just 7% of Chinese land feeds about a quarter of the world's population). A Ministry of Science and Technology task force says desertification costs China about $2-3 billion annually, while 800 km of railway and thousands of kilometers of roads are blocked by sedimentation. An estimated 110 million people suffer firsthand from the impacts of desertification and, by official reports, another 2,500 sq km turns to desert each year.

This is nothing new, of course. In the 4th century B.C. Chinese philosopher Mencius (Mengzi) wrote about desertification and its human causes, including tree-cutting and overgrazing. Experts argue over the reasons and consequences, but all agree that Chinese deserts are on the move. Sand from the distant Gobi threatens even Beijing, which some scientists say could be silted over within a few years. Dunes forming just 70 km from the capital may be drifting south at 20-25 km a year. Conservative estimates say 3 km a year. And despite massive spending on land reclamation and replanting, China is falling behind.

Slave Labor:

But Harry Wu saw the Clinton/Beijing relationship from a deeply human perspective: the blue uniforms and shaved heads in Chinese prison camps.

For years, he had been one of the estimated 50 million blue uniformed “troublemakers” who had worked in the camps under totally inhumane conditions. Some of them literally worked themselves to death.

The forced labor had turned out for the American market such items as rubber-soled shoes, boots, kitchenware, toys, tools, men’s and women’s clothing, and sporting goods.

The list is actually endless so in the interest of brevity, I'll pause here and point out that the Chinese have much to hide but they don't hide much well except from The Moshiach. When a society opens up, like China has in the past decade, a lot of dirty laundry gets aired. Most recently, it has come to light that China cheats. Unlike the United States, which punishes its Olympic frauds, China engages in state-sanctioned subterfuge including and I'm sure not limited to, using under-aged athletes in age-limited sports.

But like the trains that run on time, the electricity that flows, the airports, and the abundant clean air available in China, nearly every aspect of post-Mao society is "vastly superior" according to Obama.