World Of Warcraft China

China is one of the most dynamic nations on earth today.  The latest example of this is the conception and birth of a vast new entertainment park in Wunjin, China: a World of Warcraft playground for all sorcery alternative world fanatics.  If this place is a fabulous as the online virtual world, it will be a hit.  In the US, we pioneered these sorts of theme parks with the Disney franchise but the Chinese will probably surpass us in this area, too, over time.

 

 

I know certain people in my own family who would be overjoyed with this sort of concept amusement park!  ‘Joyland’ Blizzard Theme Park Being Built In China (PHOTOS)

 

• So geek fantasies do come true. At least they do In Wunjin district, China. Reported way back on February 7, 2011 by a French gaming blog, the videogame studio Blizzard’s World of Warcraft and StarCraft themed amusement park appears to be more than just rumor after recent photos of the construction surfaced along with a Chinese news report.

Click here for the music and portal to information about the park which is only in Chinese:  嬉戏谷.  If you click on the menus above, you get all sorts of music and nifty pictures of details for the architecture of the park:

If you pass your cursor over the various buildings and rides on these virtual maps, call this ‘Google WoW maps’…you get to see details about the individual rides.  This site is very high-definition so it loads slowly (there probably are other reasons for this such as the several layers involved and the music, etc.).

Anyway, what fun.  Wish I were about 30 years younger…now on to more Chinese news:  GM: China ‘The Crown Jewel’ Of Our Universe

 

• “China is central to our global strategy,” he said at a news conference. “We want to understand the preferences that the China market wants. We bring our best designs, best technology to China.” GM sold more cars and trucks in China last year than it did in the U.S. for the first time in the company’s 102-year history. An expansion of sales into provincial cities helped the company sell 2.35 million vehicles in China in 2010, up 29 percent from the previous year.

The US went deep into hock to bail out GM so GM could do its best work and keep its finest technology and create the most jobs…in China.  Isn’t this a delight?  Am I surprised?  No.  The only reason the Japanese built factories here over the last 30 years is only to keep our doors wide open to Japanese autos which are mostly, except for the least efficient, bulkiest production, are made in Asia.

In particular, Japanese cars built in India, China and Vietnam are shipped to the US.  This brings in the best profits.  So it is with GM: cars built in Asia are sold in Asia AND in the US.  While a token number of big behemoths are still built here.  But as gas prices soar yet again, hope of American SUV users is fading fast.

For a short while, there was panic over oil prices rising with the Gulf War I but then the price plummeted during the 1990’s to ridiculously low levels as Russia flooded the world’s oil markets with oil formerly sold only to Soviet satellite states.  Now, that bounty is finished and we see nothing but higher and higher oil prices.  All the lovely, big, fat, bulky SUVs are now albatrosses around our collective necks and the factories churning these out are closing production lines down.

To avoid pollution and worker’s rights laws and regulations as well as for cheaper labor, nearly all of our industrial production has moved overseas:  Wintek May Give More Compensation for Poisoned China Workers (1) – Bloomberg.com

 

• Wintek Corp., a supplier of displays to Apple Inc., may pay more money to workers in China poisoned by chemicals while making touch-screen panels, Chief Financial Officer Jay Huang said….Workers at a Wintek Group factory in Suzhou, China became ill in 2009 after using N-hexane to clean display panels, the company said in a May 17 exchange statement. Employees wrote a letter to Steve Jobs, Chief Executive Officer of Apple, appealing for help after the poisoning, Reuters reported yesterday, citing a letter signed by people who claimed to represent the workers.

The US executives work hard to isolate themselves from their workers.  Physically having them all on the other side of the planet and hoping a draconian dictatorship would keep them quiet and less troublesome is key to vast oceans of personal wealth.  So naturally, when one of the more successful dictatorships on earth opened the doors for businesses to relocate, they rushed in.

It is all a trap.  The Chinese knew that corporations would move in but if working conditions improved or laws were passed to force industries to treat workers better, they would all leave to new places to brutalize workers.  But the plan, hatched long ago, was for these corporations to move in, form alliances with the Chinese, show them how the technology works, how to do the creative side of things, give these foreign devils lots of very educated workers and then…TAKE OVER!  Yes, the goal is to kick out Apple eventually and become Apple’s competitor.

The Chinese already half own GM and in ten years will totally own GM.  They wish to take over Toyota, too as well as Boeing.  Speaking of the devil, the US has long been Boeing’s sales staff with Presidents trolling the planet, desperate to balance the trade deficit by selling big, fat Boeing jets.  In return, the Chinese and others demanded Boeing move factories and DESIGN to their countries which Boeing did.

787 Dreamliner teaches Boeing costly lesson on outsourcing – Los Angeles Times

• But much of the blame belongs to the company’s quantum leap in farming out the design and manufacture of crucial components to suppliers around the nation and in foreign countries such as Italy, Sweden, China, and South Korea. Boeing’s dream was to save money. The reality is that it would have been cheaper to keep a lot of this work in-house.

• The 787 has more foreign-made content — 30% — than any other Boeing plane, according to the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace, the union representing Boeing engineers. That compares with just over 5% in the company’s workhorse 747 airliner….The drawbacks of this approach emerged early. Some of the pieces manufactured by far-flung suppliers didn’t fit together. Some subcontractors couldn’t meet their output quotas, creating huge production logjams when critical parts weren’t available in the necessary sequence.

Will this cause Boeing to come home?  Nope.  The opposite. Seeing how things are not working so hot, they will…relocate to China!  End of story.  GM is rapidly doing this with the Chinese most anxious to facilitate the process.  This goes under ‘duh’.  Why we passively allow this or listen to the idiots who assure us, if we export more and more Boeing jets, we will eventually have a trade balance…this is all lies, of course.

Meanwhile, US wages continue to decline as do Japanese wages while…Chinese Wages Undermine Bond Investors as Prices Accelerate (1) – Bloomberg.com

• China, the biggest brake on global inflation for two decades, is embracing wage increases that threaten to erode retailers’ margins and demand for bonds.

Oh, our hearts bleed for the bond market gnomes!  And yes, profits will go down.  Why?  They have to be shared with the workers!  But lo and behold, the Chinese workers get more money, they buy more manufactured goods!  So they become GM’s biggest, fastest growing market!  While the US workers go deep into debt and the Japanese workers building Toyotas have to live in dormitories and ride bikes like Chinese workers did just one generation ago.

Everything having to do with transportation and trade, we see China surpassing the US.  Here is this month’s example:  China goes on the rails to rival Panama canal.  Teddy Roosevelt had a little coup whereby Panama was divided from Columbia and became a banana republic run by the US.  The canal itself was owned totally by the US.  Now, it is basically owned by the Chinese.  We had periodic coups to overthrow pesky Panamanian military leaders but this didn’t save the canal for us, it simply handed over everything to the Chinese who BOUGHT it.  No coups.  No military invasion.  Just US trade dollars at work for the Chinese.

Meanwhile, the US can’t build anything and besides this, if we want high speed rail like the Japanese which is now inferior to the Chinese systems, we have to buy from Japan, not build it here!   Florida to forego high-speed rail project, disappointing Japan › Japan Today: The Japanese desperately want us to catch up to Asia by buying even more things manufactured in Asia.  We are not escaping the collapse of society at all by spending huge amounts of tax credits in Asia.  But our politicians, bankers and stockholders love this mess.  It makes them very rich, but they are too silly to see, this is entirely temporary.

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