http://thenewnixon.org/2008/08/21/falling-chinese-infrastructure/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 08:16:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://thenewnixon.org/2008/08/21/falling-chinese-infrastructure/comment-page-1/#comment-1085 Obama’s Anti-Exceptionalism: “Their ports, their train systems, their airports are vastly the superior to us now.” Sun, 24 Aug 2008 16:08:06 +0000 http://thenewnixon.org/?p=1776#comment-1085 [...] On many levels, this bit of Obama oratory is as troubling as Obama’s moral equivalence posture on the invasions of Georgia and Iraq.  Obama’s praise for China’s Olympics building binge ignores how those structures were assembled, the source and conditions of the labor, the lack of pollution controls in Beijing and throughout China, the many complaints that Chinese infrastructure outside the Olympics zone remains shoddy, the recent record of Chinese manufacturing scandals, including the heparin fiasco which killed many Americans, and of course the catastrophe brought about by Chinese building standards in the region rocked by the recent earthquake.  (The New Nixon’s John Taylor links to an extensive summary of the enormous shortfalls in Chines....) [...] [...] On many levels, this bit of Obama oratory is as troubling as Obama’s moral equivalence posture on the invasions of Georgia and Iraq.  Obama’s praise for China’s Olympics building binge ignores how those structures were assembled, the source and conditions of the labor, the lack of pollution controls in Beijing and throughout China, the many complaints that Chinese infrastructure outside the Olympics zone remains shoddy, the recent record of Chinese manufacturing scandals, including the heparin fiasco which killed many Americans, and of course the catastrophe brought about by Chinese building standards in the region rocked by the recent earthquake.  (The New Nixon’s John Taylor links to an extensive summary of the enormous shortfalls in Chines….) [...]

]]> http://thenewnixon.org/2008/08/21/falling-chinese-infrastructure/comment-page-1/#comment-992 Obama: China is better than the U.S. at Buried Planet Fri, 22 Aug 2008 20:17:59 +0000 http://thenewnixon.org/?p=1776#comment-992 [...] NR’s Jim Geraghty, in the Campaign Spot, chimes in, and provides (the pathetic) examples of China’s systems, noting “Yes, their power outages, crowds at train stations, and outbreaks of air rage are vastly superior to ours.” He links to Hugh Hewitt, who ponders which Obama gaffe to cover. Hewitt observes: On many levels, this bit of Obama oratory is as troubling as Obama’s moral equivalence posture on the invasions of Georgia and Iraq.  Obama’s praise for China’s Olympics building binge ignores how those structures were assembled, the source and conditions of the labor, the lack of pollution controls in Beijing and throughout China, the many complaints that Chinese infrastructure outside the Olympics zone remains shoddy, the recent record of Chinese manufacturing scandals, including the heparin fiasco which killed many Americans, and of course the catastrophe brought about by Chinese building standards in the region rocked by the recent earthquake.  (The New Nixon’s John Taylor links to an extensive summary of the enormous shortfalls in Chines....) [...] [...] NR’s Jim Geraghty, in the Campaign Spot, chimes in, and provides (the pathetic) examples of China’s systems, noting “Yes, their power outages, crowds at train stations, and outbreaks of air rage are vastly superior to ours.” He links to Hugh Hewitt, who ponders which Obama gaffe to cover. Hewitt observes: On many levels, this bit of Obama oratory is as troubling as Obama’s moral equivalence posture on the invasions of Georgia and Iraq.  Obama’s praise for China’s Olympics building binge ignores how those structures were assembled, the source and conditions of the labor, the lack of pollution controls in Beijing and throughout China, the many complaints that Chinese infrastructure outside the Olympics zone remains shoddy, the recent record of Chinese manufacturing scandals, including the heparin fiasco which killed many Americans, and of course the catastrophe brought about by Chinese building standards in the region rocked by the recent earthquake.  (The New Nixon’s John Taylor links to an extensive summary of the enormous shortfalls in Chines….) [...]

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