Jun 25 2008
The Asian Century
Ok, I heard it for a while, and I’m glad. The Europeans dominated the 19th and the Americans carried the 20th. Now we Asians may finally get to have a little fun. And might the 22nd Century belong to the Africans or the Muslims? A little sincerely advise: pls don’t over do it. The other day I chatted with a friend who bitterly said - over the beef thing - that shall we boycott the Hyundai? Don’t want to sound snobbish, Samsung and Hyundai elevated South Korea to stardom and they indeed work very hard for it, but Asian makers don’t constitute automobile in my dictionary. Isn’t US the biggest market for those two? Heard the crying wolf story? If you start to throw your weight too liberally and too often, no one will take you seriously. US might have muscled itself bit too much (but seriously, without US, think about what this world would have been? It never failed to amuse me that everyone enjoys the protection of the US but would jump at every opportunity to denounce the big bad USA ..), but I doubt it would export something harmful. I just have that confidence that Americans have bit higher standard than the rest. A deal is a deal. Why don’t you blame or hang your negotiators? Were the rich Penguin Dads in the protest - the poorer ones had sent their families to New Zealand?