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Russia

Sun, 16 Jul 2006 04:33:20 GMT

The emerging power of Russia is more and more evident not only from the energy point of view, but also its huge growth potential............For such a long time after cold war, its importance was so underestimated by the western world...........Given the future of competition is more about talent and creativity...........Russia has never fallen behind to anyone else in this planet. Just do a quick math, how many great scientist, engineer, artist this country has developed, you'll see how important it is..........furthermore, many of the achievement has been under-reported due to the lack of communication. I bet it'll rise sooner or later. Especially given their traditional cultural spirit and its persistence.............the defeat of the Napoleon and Naiz..............

New Life

Sat, 22 Apr 2006 03:39:15 GMT

I lost my thoughts in such a busy life...........Navigating for the way..............

Boston 之旅

Thu, 19 Jan 2006 03:26:30 GMT

刚刚从Boston归来, 发觉还是很喜欢这座城市, 虽然有些寒冷, 但没有体会冬季的寒,又怎能体会春的温馨? 能在这座城市里和偶久违的朋友小聚,真的很满足. MIT 真的很亲切,象清华. Boston处处弥漫着历史..........也越发让偶觉得自己的无知........恩, 那就来学些历史吧, 发现现在网上的信息真发达, 图文并茂, 偶有的学啦........

按图索骥, 依着MIT open course提供的syllabus, 偶在网上找到了几个很有趣的网站: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/index.html
PBS还真是个内容丰富的电视频道, American Experience系列, 从具体而微的多个方面介绍了美国, 从独立战争到反恐, 不同的人物故事,把历史真实的再现, 最好的是还有vedio, 呵呵.............

Library of Congress 也是个好地方,有很多第一手的资料,可以图文并茂的了解历史. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ 这个系列就不错, 很细致的讲诉了美国的历史.http://international.loc.gov/intldl/intldlhome.html, 也不错,不仅有历史还有文化的介绍...........

恩, 决定,每天抽出半个到一个小时来学习历史.........读书从史开始,呵呵!

MIT:OpenCourseWare!

Sat, 31 Dec 2005 04:24:00 GMT

Recently I rediscovered a resourcful site: MIT OpenCourseWare, an open educational resource publishing MIT Course Materials. Although I visited Hopkins Bloomberg OCW site last year, it doesn't offer too many courses. Now, I found the home of OCW, couple of years late though :-(

It gives a free gateway for MIT course materials from syllabus, readings to even assignments and exams! Some are audio or video files. And it covers almost every subject from Anthropology to the French Revolution!

I was amazed by the enrichment of content and the openess! Most importantly, it fullfills MIT's mission to advance knowledge and education, and serve the world in the 21st century. It is true to MIT's values of excellence, innovation, and leadership.

Yeah! What's Education about? It should serve for the public and the society. Why get all the high quanlity courses restricted on campus only? Make the access available to the public is very beneficial to many self-learners. I admire such an action for education!

In terms of the view of such functional destination for world top univerisities, unfortunately, our Chinese universities are still far more behind, not in the physical facilities but in the mission at the very begining! Few universities take their original mission seriously, they ignored the true value for what makes a real university-------advance knowledge and education. They don't care about how it can serve the public the most, how the students can take most advantages of the university resources, how the knowledge could be advanced and spreaded around the world.............

What can I do to make it better??? http://www.cocw.net/index.htm
Let's do the translation job! and make knowledge available for all Chinese speaking people. I'm very happy to see fantacy fundation initiated such a great project: OOPS: Opensource Opencourseware Prototype System. Although hundreds of volumteers have joined in the team, we still need more and more people.

Right now, there are couple of universities get started for OCW, MIT, Hopkins School of Public Health, Utah State, and Japan Allance.
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/index.htm
http://ocw.usu.edu/Index/ECIndex_view
http://www.jocw.jp/sub2.htm
http://ocw.jhsph.edu/

I wish I can see some Chinese universities to open OCW in the future..........

中国GDP重估的含义

Sat, 17 Dec 2005 05:13:05 GMT

在首次全国经济普查（2004~2005）后，中国官方对GDP规模统计的准确性问题做出了回应：问题之一在于低估了私人部门和服务产业的规模，和中国经济的实际规模相比，统计数字缩水大约20%.

FT上有很好的评论文章, 挑几个偶觉得有意义的要点如下:

1. 中国的经济结构问题: 以前的数据表明,投资率很高,储蓄率也很高, 服务业这块差的很大, 修定后虽然还是有同样的问题,但在程度上小了, 而且与同样处于经济起飞最快速阶段的上个70年代初的日本、80年代初的韩国相当 ——这意味着中国经济增长对投资的依赖并不如原来估计的严重。

2. 投资效率（用固定资本增量与GDP增量的比率 “增量资本产出率”表示）也将有相同比例的改善。中国政府的软着陆还是相对成功的.

3. 根据这次经济普查的数据，即便按市场汇率计算，中国也已经超过英、法、意，成为全球第四大经济体——而按照IMF和世界银行的购买力平价估算，中国已经是世界第二大经济体。

4. 中国统计部门还需要足够灵活，以赶上经济灵活性的步伐。

不过偶一直以来有的疑问就是, 西方主流经济学家也好,各大投资银行也好,都很迷信一商业数据为基础的科学推测, 比如根据GDP以及其他的数据来分析国家的经济结构,发展规模,趋势,等等. 如果数据可靠,固然可以相信由此而来的推测,不过对中国市场来说,偶是一直对这些数据不放心. 无论从那个渠道而来,官方也好,私方也罢,都不尽然,甚至和事实差的很远. 与其这样做在电脑前搞学问,偶到更相信,做"Field Work"的人对经济形势的直觉判断, 真正的在这个行业里面摸爬滚打出来的人,也许比那些通过只研究数据而没深入实践就发出判断的人更有发言权. Who knows, I'm not an expert in economy, really don't know how it works.........

补充另一个贴子,来自"财经"年会:

是, 钱颖一（美国伯克利加州大学经济系教授）：关于经济增长模式的发言. 基本观点就是: 中国的统计数据有问题，特别是觉得GDP三个产业中的第三产业，数字是有问题的。他做了个和印度第三产业的对比(服务业).

研究发现, 中国对比印度差了16.4%, 主要差在那里呢? 让我们非常惊讶的是，差距最大的是批发零售餐饮，净差6.7个百分点. 这点上很不可思意, 如果我们统计工作做得好，很难想像我们的餐饮业落后于印度这么大。我们可以相信中国的软件不行，我们可以相信中国的金融服务不行，但是很难想像中国的餐饮和零售落了这么多。更有可能的情况是，中国可能还有很多情况没有统计进去。第二个相差大的是交通运输和仓储。印度有很多方面比中国好，中国也有很多方面比印度好。其中有一条是基础设施，交通运输，也很难想像中国在交通运输上跟印度净差2.6个百分点。上面这两项加起来是9.3个百分点，是将近10％的差距 ! 如果把这点从新考虑进去,很多东西都要重算. 虽然调查研究还很初步,但说明了一个显而易见的问题. 不能通过表面数据下结论. 至少对中国还不行.

清朝最后一次科举试题

Tue, 13 Dec 2005 23:51:24 GMT

第一场，史论5篇：

1、“周唐外重内轻,秦魏外轻内重各有得论”；

2、“贾谊五饵三表之说,班固讥其疏.然秦穆尝用之以霸西戎，中行说亦以戒单于,其说未尝不效论”；

3、“诸葛亮无申商之心而用其术,王安石用申商之实而讳其名论”；

4、“裴度奏宰相宜招延四方贤才与参谋请于私第见客论”；

5、“北宋结金以图燕赵,南宋助元以攻蔡论”。

第二场考各国政治,艺学策五道

1，“学堂之设,其旨有三,所以陶铸国?造就人才,振兴实业. 国民不能自立,必立学以教之,使皆有善良之德,忠爱之心,自养之技能,必需之知识,盖东西各国所同,日本则尤注重尚武之精神,此陶铸国民之教育也.讲求政治,法律,理财,外交诸专门,以备任使,此造就人才之教育也.分设农,工,商,矿诸学, 以期富国利民,此振兴实业之教育也.三者孰为最急策”。

2，“泰西外交政策往往借保全土地之名而收利益之实.盍缕举近百年来历史以证明其事策”。

3，“日本变法之初,聘用西人而国以日强,埃及用外国人至千余员,遂至失财政裁判之权而国以不振.试详言其得失利弊策”。

4，“周礼言农政最详,诸子有农家之学.近时各国研究农务,多以人事转移气候,其要曰土地,曰资本,曰劳力,而能善用此三者,实资智识.方今修明学制,列为专科,冀存要术之遗.试陈教农之策”。

5，“美国禁止华工,久成苛例,今届十年期满,亟宜援引公法,驳正原约,以期保护侨民策”。（这种题目放在现在考，都够用了）

第三场《四书》《五经》义

首题为:“大学之道,在明明德,在亲民,在止于至善义”，

次题为:“中立而不倚强哉矫义”。

三题为:“致天下之民,聚天下自货,交易而退,各得其所义”。

从八卦网上转来, 木做考据,不知真伪, 不过窃以为, 就考察文科素养来说比现在的高考,研究生考试要好的多.

老北京

Sun, 11 Dec 2005 15:29:59 GMT

偶然间发现,我是在离开这座城市之后才喜欢上她的. 就象人们说的那样,许多美好的事物,都是在你失去她的时候,才发现她的价值. 也许平日忙忙碌碌的生活在那里,早忘却了去体会一下她深厚的历史积淀,浓郁的文化气息.......最近,几幅老北京的胡同素描,让我又从新的发现了她. 那种弥漫在胡同里的强烈生活气息让我找到了家的温馨........忆起当年在成府胡同里的日子,竟然是最有生活韵味的时光, 每当夕阳西下, 缕缕的炊烟四处弥漫着,很庸懒但也是很惬意的感觉, 夹杂在胡同里,稀稀落落的酒吧和小书店吸引着形形色色的人们来到这里......记得一个学人类学的朋友说过,每个城市都是有灵魂的,但需要你去发觉她的美. 所以每每她到一个新城市,都要撤撤底底的去发掘一下,这个城市的历史,文化,有意思的街区,雅致的酒吧和咖啡馆,听着各式各样的人去讲诉这个城市的过去. 她过的很充实也让人很羡慕, 忽然间发觉自己忙忙碌碌的追寻着所谓的理想,竟然错过了很多很多. 现在才明白, 其实生活是需要用心来体验的, 不是吗?

Corporate Social Responsibility

Sat, 10 Dec 2005 20:03:07 GMT

These days,Corporate Social Responsibility turns to be more and more popular after the scandels of enron and wordcom. Unilever cooperate with Oxfam, a NGO, to study whether or not the international investment from MNC could benefit to the poor........ Such a project is quite interesting........Given the conditions that many NGOs hold the view that the large MNCs international investment will crowd out the local SME, which will in turn hurt the poor.........Actually, the study is quite opposite although not conclusive. One thing is obvious that the Unilever is kinda of promoting corporate social responsibility concept too........In reality, during the financial crisis in 1997 to 1998, most of foreign investment has withdrawed their money and most of the MNCs have reserved their development, but the unilever tried their best to offer the job and products, didn't leave the spot from Indonisia.

How to get rid of poverty is really a challege for all human beings and every government. It also has to be added on to MNC's agenda for corporate social responsibility. Those corporations are not the sole profit-generation machine but also component of the whole society.........Without improving the whole living standards of human beings, any corporation's prosperity is not sustainable.

Bless all!

Francis Fukuyama

Thu, 21 Jul 2005 22:17:05 GMT

Francis Fukuyama is the Ph.D student of Samuel Huntington! hehe, that's interesting.

The famous work by Fukuyama" The End of History" and Huntington's work on "The Clash of Civilizations" are quite different, and they have pretty intense debate on their views of IR.

Fukuyama is a "neoconservative" and firm believer about liberal democracy as the end of history. Huntington hold the view about the clash of civilizations is the basic and the key conflicts in IR, seems clashes is inevitable. Don't like classical realist, he is more likely a transformed realist and focus on civilization rather than the power. Although some of his view is really atonishing such as the threat of immigrants in US but he is leading schorlar in IR. It's quite interesting to know his Ph.D student Francis Fukuyama is very influencial too. and always holding different ideas even quite opposite ideas as he.

I'm looking forward to Fukuyama's new book" After the Neoconservative"
Should be insightful to see the future trend about US.

Problems in Education System

Sun, 10 Jul 2005 05:53:33 GMT

All along, I'm interested in how to improve the Education System of China. I believe there are many formidable crisis in the education system of China. Some radical reforms should be taken into consideration to save not only the system but also prevent harmful damage to future generations. I feel the following are urgent issues to pay attention. Before to make an argument, more and more practical research data should be generated to surpport my intuition and arbitrury judgement.

The Crisis of Higher Education: I don't support every university should focus on research. The major purpose and social responsibility for Eucation to take is to nurture average people not only for elites but as many civilian as it can. Much resources and energy should be put into improve education access and teaching the basics. On the contrary, I strongly agree more and more liberal arts college and technology college should be established, whose major job is to broaden the view of students and teaching but not so called academic research. We need more and more really good teachers to nurture the people. Now days, it's really too hard to find a really good teacher.........
The Crisis of Disparitiy: The disparity issue is so prominent in China. Between rural area to urban, between poor and rich, beteen female to male, between so called "key" schools to ordinary schools. Small group of people can enjoy the majority advantages of the system and most resources. In terms of funding, I need to do more research about exact numbers, but I believe far less money have been effectivelly invested into the primary and secondary education system especailly undeserved regions. Small amount of universities eat up too much system resources. One othe function for education is to mobilize social "class" so the poor can change, the middle can upgrade. Without such mobility, the poor is poorer, the rich is richer, the system weill be unstable and subject to collapse.
The Crisis of Methods: What we can really learn from the offical education channel after years education? Only the ability to solve some artificially designed problems. We're lack of ability to cooperate, to learn, to creat, to communcate. All important skills to survive in the future is not fully developed. Those rigid system will exterminate the creativity of students and interests. I'd like to promot more real team participation project, more real problem solvings other than to tackle those questions from tutor textbooks. In all, it's due to an unjustified system to evaluate student success. Only the student can get higher score are called achiever and winner. In fact to evaluate a student, we have to measure different issues...........Although it hard to change current college entrance examination system, we'd better to find other alternatives.........
The Crisis of Principles: Some aspects are even not dicernable. I feel the current social standards are changing. Students are lack of religion, lack of belief, lack of judgement, lack of correct values. The change of those principles are difficult to recover if they have grassroots established. It's not the fault of students but the system. Students are under too much pressure and unnessesary burden. They should be freed. Learn what interests them. To set up the social standards have to start from the primary eduation and secondary education, when students get to college, most worldviews and principles are formed. Also the tradiational dictation is not functional, we should learn from real. Learn how to respect, how to cooperate, how to communcate, how to be honest, how to be nice from real team work and community services.
The Crisis of Universities: What's the soul for univeristy? To whom the university should serve? Students. Now days, I can hardly find any university take students seriously. They even don't respect students at all. There are no students rights. Most desicion makings from excecutives of unviersity are no consideration about students and they don't think in the perspective of students. Without students, I cannot image what the unviersity should be. Also, on the other perspective of teachers, they're also ignored by the executives. I don't see any transparancy, don't see the efficient administration. It should be changed. We need real good presedents of universities who know how to respect, how to manage, how to make a change. More and more buildings are finished, but more and more people corrupt. Too much attention on the hardware but too less appreciation on the software.

It's a shame!

Meeting Agenda

Sun, 10 Jul 2005 05:13:30 GMT

I'm so busy to prepare a meeting agenda for tommorrow. I'll meet a friend who is a professional in Education field. I'm so eager to learn as much knowledge as I can from her. Hopefully, I can discuss with her about the following issues I'm interested in.

The Methodology used in Education research and practice field. Where to acquire relavent information, where to lean how to start a project, where to lean how to structure an independent study project? How to learn the basics as soon as possible?
Learn about US education sytem from her. Hopefully, I can get a breif overview about US eduation system. Especailly I'm interested in primary and secondary education, also the higher education. Since she is from Harvard, I can also learn about something about ivy league from her. Well, I believe I should try to find another guy who are specializing in Education but from Williams or Wellesley College so as to know much about liberal arts college.
Learn how to improve education through NGO's functions...........

More and more, I realized myself is so naive and less experienced, I need to gain more knowledge...........

Precisely Wrong

Thu, 07 Jul 2005 04:15:33 GMT

It's the title of an alticle from Economist which talks about the re-evaluation about China Yuan.

Take home message is that the author doesn't think the Yuan is so much undervalued and the argument is supported from various modeling evidences calculated by many independent institutions, IMF, Morgan Stanley, GS...........etc. In one word, the point view of quite a few analysts and economists don't see much undervalued Yuan as alleged as politicians.

Another related topic is the Unocal case. The congress seems more nervous than the firms. Those politicians are so stressed by those issues about China. And they insist on further investigation about this aquisition by the US government. Those issues are totally a shame for US. and their "so called" liberal beliefs. Actually, China is not the first nor the biggest country which make investments in US companies, Japan went through the same thing 20 years ago and even now quite a few firms from countries other than China have had many aquisitions or mergers in various sectors of US including energy. But those politicians in US only care about China. What's a shame on US about their double standards. This is totally against to their liberal values. As a country with liberal beliefs in heart, they shouldn't intervened politics too much into international trade activities. What's really worried them is not the specific case but the overall fear about the rising of China. The other reason is that China is not an democartic country and under authoritirian government, which scared US congressmen a lot. In one world, although they're "liberal" in the heart, they're "realists" in the soul. Liberal values, beliefs, the so called human rights, democracy and freedom are only means not the end. The true goal is still from the realist view!

Education Renainssance

Mon, 04 Jul 2005 17:21:30 GMT

There are many emerging crisises in rapidly developing China. Accordingly, there are always so many critics about China, especially pervasive trend to impose democracy. It's confusing, on the one hand, It's really a rising power and turns to be more and more promising but on the other hand, many formidable crisises inheretly embeded in the system and difficult to remedy.

What's the causal factors making those crisies and what's the best way to solve those problems are a too broad topic. But I'd rather try to analyze the problem in terms of Education, although it's part of the reason and maybe lack the competence to be the determining factor. I still want to emphasis the funcationality for education to a society and the sustainable development of a country.

Just outline my proposal for such a study.

1. Identify the problems in the eduation system of China in different level of analysis.
2. Identify the causal factors for such problems.
3. Compare the education system with other countries.
4. Propose practical recommendations to improve the system.
5. Propose action plan for my personal contribution.

First of all, the prerequirement for such analysis is to obtain sufficient data and information about the current system and the past, also the norms, discourse, opinions, values from the public is also a determinent for consistuting such a system.

Anyway, I'm not an expert on this field, but I'd like to learn and to try..........

HHMI

Sat, 02 Jul 2005 21:27:04 GMT

Got a cup with HHMI logo from lab today, really a cute cup, hehe:-)

Hans Morgenthau and the Iraq war

Fri, 17 Jun 2005 15:35:31 GMT

I found a very good article analyzing why there is Iraq war. It's by John J Mearsheimer, professor from U of Chicago, a Realist.

http://www.opendemocracy.net/democracy-americanpower/morgenthau_2522.jsp

From realist point of view, they not only opposed the Vietam war but also the Iraq war, but right now the popularity of neo-conservatism in statemen made US foreign policy more lean to kinda of Wilsonianism with teeth, which description is so impressive to me. He further alleged that the "The theory has an idealist strand and a power strand: Wilsonianism provides the idealism, an emphasis on military power provides the teeth"

The power strand means US process the unique military power right now and can reshape the world according to their interests, so AFP is unilateralism not multilateralism, they abandoned UN aside and make their own efforts in the international relations conflicts. The Idealist strand is from Wilsonianism to promot Democracy around the world especailly in middle east, in which they believe that the Democracy is the best way to make peace since there hardly is a war between countries with Democracy. But why they fire the Iraq? Because of oil and economic interest? Because Iraq tempted to develop MDW? Why they support Isarial? because of so much Jewish power in the US? Not at all, it's because they want to forcely spread the Democracy in middle east, a region is lack of Democracy for years. and they believe there is domino theory behind, if the Iraq falls, the other countries in middle east and in the world will be freezed by the power of US and be afraid to be next hit by US , so as to stop developing nuclear weapons and the Democracy government in Iraq will spread the effect around. Step by step, US can turn the Middle east to the heaven of Democracy, then there will be no more major conflict or wars..........Iran, Syria and North Korea will follow the dominic theory to bow to US.........Democracy and Military Power are the arms employed by Bush.

Well, I totally agree on the above points, but is it no consideration about economic interests at all? No oil deal behind it? I think it has such interests but that will fall into side effect and second layer. In all, it's international relations issues not international economic issues. US can never dominate all the resources in Iraq even they win the war easily since they claim to be the Democracy and free market. I cannot think of any solution behind that US can obtain more economic interests through the war. In one hand, the supply and production lines in Iraq are badly damaged, US cannot expect to aquire more oil interests from the war. In the other hand the profits from oil trading or reconstruction will not compensate to the cost of the war. The new generation of wars are so expensive. and the troops have to be well maintained overseas, which are a large amount of budget compare to the uncertain interests afterwards. So I believe the major reason for US to lauch the war is kind of more like to trigger domino effect and spread the Democracy. Additionally, it's kind of being abused by their formidable power.

After cold war, the system turns to be no more bipolarity but unipolarity. Such unipolarity will give too much ambitions to US and they'll be abused by their power. Anyhow, the Republican and neo-conservatism are so powerful in Bush Administration right now, they'll keep to follow the Wilsonianism with teeth strand and there will be more effort to export their Democracy around the world until they fall from the peak. PS. From Realist point of view, there are the balancing of power among states, and every states major goal is to survive, to maximize their power, if they're scared by the power of US, the best way is to develop their power, the nuclear weapons, there will no domino effect after Iraq's fall but more effort towards the development. From the facts of Iran and North Korea, you'll see the Realists are right not only in the history of Vietam war but also the war of Iraq.

Henry Kissinger

Thu, 16 Jun 2005 23:09:03 GMT

Actually, I want to know more about the Realist Guru, Hans Morgenthau, but happened to see a nice introduction about Henry Kissinger. Because he is so exceptional among all realists, he is almost the only one supporting for the Vietnam and Iraq war. Quite interesting story. Some of Kissinger's critics accuse him of having committed war crimes while in government in Nixon and Ford presendency. Inonically, He is the Winner of the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize. This also proves that the so-called "Classical Realist and Neorealist" are not absolute and it's not so well definced according to different person's view. Not all reallists behave the same, they have their own opinions but share some common values though. Finally, I realized who Henry Kissinger is!!! He is the so called "基辛格", hehe, a pretty familliar name for Chinese. Well, he is a Jewish immigrant during WW2. He pioneered in the policy of Detente, reduction of the tension between US and USSR in60s and 70s , also pionneered in normalization relations with China in 1972. After 80s, he was out of the active stage of Republican because of the neo-conservatists forces rising and abandoned the "Detente" policy during the Carter and Bushes' presendency. While, one interesting point is that different presendency represent different groups of thought schools in Republicans or Demoncrats in US, and such school of thoughts are so dominated in the states, the Amrican Foreign Policies are adjusted according to the extent of those forces in congress or think tank of the presedent. Right now, the Bush administration is pretty dominated by Neo-conservatists, who are kind of anti-communist and would worry badly about "Rising China"........ So, they'll try their best to check the growth of China and make a balance power regionally either through Japan or Taiwan.

Well, I believe in different period of time, different thought will dominate the US statemen, but how the different views interact and evoleves are quite intriging! Perhaps, during the cold war, the realists and neorealists can provide the effective explaination and solutions for the bipolarity system and make recommendations, so those schools are rapidly developed, step by step the .liberals and conservatisists are rising. Although I understand from Realists point of view, why US want to make normalization relations with China in 70s, but I'm quite puzzled why Kissinger supported the Vietnam war........seems most Realists criticize about it..........Maybe some constraits from the government?

Intro to International Relations

Fri, 10 Jun 2005 22:40:46 GMT

It's so odd, there are so few mature theories for International Relations, Realism, Liberalism and Constructivism......... what else? First of all, Why we need theories? The simple answer is Coz we want to discribe, explain and predict International Relations.........The theories are also quite different from the reality coz in order to make a theory, you have to layout certain assumptions and make certain hypothesis and simplifications from the realities for your analysis. Otherwise, you'll never get out, you'll be meshed by the large amount of information and never know why it happens and how it happens, the theory can help you organize a set of disconnected realities and phenomona to make logical reasonings and conclusions.......Although Realism theory seems the earlist developed one, I always feel it's quite arbitrary and extreme, but believe it or not, now days, quite a few statemen in US still buy their points. That's why we can hear about all the headlines on "China is the biggest threat for US" blabla........I'm sure my point is kinda biased, but Why the mainstream theories don't take as much emphasis on cultures and religions as they should to explain the issues in international relations? The culture and religion are so negiligible in those issues?

I belive I need more readings to develope a reasonable argument.........

Genesis

Fri, 10 Jun 2005 21:46:56 GMT

Finally, I convinced myself to launch somthing here. Although Drupal (www.drupal.org) seems a much better tool for bloggers, but It's too complicated to me........ After all, I'm lazy........

Since it's a big progress evolutionarily for Human Beings to make records, why not contribute to the history and share the experiences and thoughts with others? It'll be a more positive way to live on the earth........After all, It's a world dominated by Homo Sapiens.........

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