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Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Saturday, November 21, 2009
From Barrons: What if the World is Easternized, not Westernized?
From Barrons, November 23, 2009, also available at: http://online.barrons.com/article/SB125875982246358189.html
IT COULD BE MONTHS OR YEARS UNTIL we understand the impression that President Barack Obama made on the Chinese leadership last week. It took about two months to discover that Nikita Khrushchev had nothing but contempt for President John F. Kennedy after their 1961 meeting in Vienna. The almost immediate result of the Soviet leader's exercise in character assessment was the erection of the Berlin Wall. The Cuban missile crisis followed the next year.
Khrushchev concluded -- we know now from memoirs and archives -- that Kennedy was "too intelligent and too weak." When Khrushchev instructed his East German puppets to start building the wall, Kennedy made only token protest. Intelligently, he told associates that "a wall is a hell of a lot better than a war." But the next year he faced a bigger challenge -- Soviet ballistic missiles with nuclear warheads, based in Cuba -- and he met that threat without weakness, by facing down the threat of war.
In the end, it was Khrushchev, not Kennedy, who was too weak. In Cuba, if not in Berlin, his reach exceeded his military grasp. Khrushchev based his policy too much on his assessment of his adversary's character.
Fortunately, after they looked over the brink of nuclear war in 1962, both sides were more determined to be sure that the Cold War stayed cold. There would be wars on the periphery, of which the biggest was in Vietnam, but no direct confrontations. Both sides were patient, waiting for the other to crumple from within.
Economic Engagement
China, thank the world's lucky stars, is not the Soviet Union. Its leaders, from Mao Zedong to Hu Jintao, seem to understand American weaknesses and strengths, both physical and moral, better than the Soviets did, and they are much more patient.
China has chosen economic engagement with the U.S., creating a symbiotic relationship that is several steps short of a partnership. In 2006, scholars Niall Ferguson and Moritz Schularick called it "Chimerica." They thought that the relationship, merging Chinese production and saving with American consumption and debt, accounted for as much as half of the world's economic growth in the 21st century. Between 2000 and 2008, China quintupled exports and quadrupled gross domestic product while the U.S. ran deficits of every kind. More recently, the Chimerican symbiosis has looked less inviting.
The financial crisis has pushed American politicians, economists and consumers into two camps. There are those who believe that America must not prosper too much in the next few years, choosing instead to save, invest and reinvigorate its productive economy. On the other side, which is currently in charge of most centers of power, are those who believe that America must borrow more, spend more and inflate its currency to rejustify its prices and devalue its debts.
There may be two camps on the Chinese side also, but it's hard to tell. Are there any Chinese who do not believe the U.S. intends to be the dominant partner in the Chimerican relationship? Are there any Chinese who do not laugh, at least inwardly, when they hear a U.S. official speak of America's "strong-dollar" policy? Are there any Chinese leaders who think that America and the dollar are their only options for financial partnership during the next two or three decades?
Did President Obama change any of those perceptions? Probably not.
New Investment Order
Generating a couple of trillion dollars a year in capital, China is seeking sounder investments than U.S. Treasuries -- investments that are more likely to contribute to its growth and security. China is shoveling billions of dollars into natural-resource extraction in Africa and Latin America, untroubled by scruples about the venal governments it deals with. It is negotiating regional free-trade treaties with other countries in Asia, even with Taiwan, which China considers a rebellious province that just happens to supply technology and capital for Chinese development.
The Chinese also mutter, more and more clearly, about their need -- and what they see as the world's need -- to be less dependent on the dollar. Although they continue to peg their currency to the dollar, in effect borrowing the advantages of the dollar's weakness to sell goods to the world, they also talk about new currencies and baskets of currencies to price the things they most want to buy, such as oil.
Apocalypse Soon
In a new book, columnist Martin Jacques of the British newspaper the Guardian blends all these trends and his close observation of Chinese culture. His title is his conclusion: When China Rules the World: The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order (Penguin Press).
Although we don't enjoy his obvious satisfaction with the idea that the end is at hand for the American and British Industrial Revolutions and all their consequences, Americans should take his vision seriously.
China has 25% of the world's labor force, at least half of which remain in poor rural areas. Its growth rate since 1978 has been 9.4%, compared with the 3.9% U.S. growth rate during its economic takeoff period from 1870 to 1913. China's GDP is likely to surpass the U.S. in the mid-2020s, if current trends continue.
Jacques tells us that the West, and America, may cease to be the center of the world's affairs, and that will have interesting consequences: "The dominant Western view is that globalization is a process by which the rest of the world becomes -- and should become -- increasingly Westernized, with the adoption of free markets, the import of Western capital, privatization, the rule of law, human-rights regimes and democratic norms."
Jacques constantly asks what our part of the world will be like if China does not Westernize before it becomes the most important nation in the world.
The West, he says, "will be required to think of itself in relative rather than absolute terms, obliged to learn about, and to learn from, the rest of the world without the presumption of underlying superiority, the belief that ultimately it knows best and is the fount of civilizational wisdom."
China drinks from its own fount of superiority and civilizational wisdom. How is President Obama meeting its challenge?
IT COULD BE MONTHS OR YEARS UNTIL we understand the impression that President Barack Obama made on the Chinese leadership last week. It took about two months to discover that Nikita Khrushchev had nothing but contempt for President John F. Kennedy after their 1961 meeting in Vienna. The almost immediate result of the Soviet leader's exercise in character assessment was the erection of the Berlin Wall. The Cuban missile crisis followed the next year.
Khrushchev concluded -- we know now from memoirs and archives -- that Kennedy was "too intelligent and too weak." When Khrushchev instructed his East German puppets to start building the wall, Kennedy made only token protest. Intelligently, he told associates that "a wall is a hell of a lot better than a war." But the next year he faced a bigger challenge -- Soviet ballistic missiles with nuclear warheads, based in Cuba -- and he met that threat without weakness, by facing down the threat of war.
In the end, it was Khrushchev, not Kennedy, who was too weak. In Cuba, if not in Berlin, his reach exceeded his military grasp. Khrushchev based his policy too much on his assessment of his adversary's character.
Fortunately, after they looked over the brink of nuclear war in 1962, both sides were more determined to be sure that the Cold War stayed cold. There would be wars on the periphery, of which the biggest was in Vietnam, but no direct confrontations. Both sides were patient, waiting for the other to crumple from within.
Economic Engagement
China, thank the world's lucky stars, is not the Soviet Union. Its leaders, from Mao Zedong to Hu Jintao, seem to understand American weaknesses and strengths, both physical and moral, better than the Soviets did, and they are much more patient.
China has chosen economic engagement with the U.S., creating a symbiotic relationship that is several steps short of a partnership. In 2006, scholars Niall Ferguson and Moritz Schularick called it "Chimerica." They thought that the relationship, merging Chinese production and saving with American consumption and debt, accounted for as much as half of the world's economic growth in the 21st century. Between 2000 and 2008, China quintupled exports and quadrupled gross domestic product while the U.S. ran deficits of every kind. More recently, the Chimerican symbiosis has looked less inviting.
The financial crisis has pushed American politicians, economists and consumers into two camps. There are those who believe that America must not prosper too much in the next few years, choosing instead to save, invest and reinvigorate its productive economy. On the other side, which is currently in charge of most centers of power, are those who believe that America must borrow more, spend more and inflate its currency to rejustify its prices and devalue its debts.
There may be two camps on the Chinese side also, but it's hard to tell. Are there any Chinese who do not believe the U.S. intends to be the dominant partner in the Chimerican relationship? Are there any Chinese who do not laugh, at least inwardly, when they hear a U.S. official speak of America's "strong-dollar" policy? Are there any Chinese leaders who think that America and the dollar are their only options for financial partnership during the next two or three decades?
Did President Obama change any of those perceptions? Probably not.
New Investment Order
Generating a couple of trillion dollars a year in capital, China is seeking sounder investments than U.S. Treasuries -- investments that are more likely to contribute to its growth and security. China is shoveling billions of dollars into natural-resource extraction in Africa and Latin America, untroubled by scruples about the venal governments it deals with. It is negotiating regional free-trade treaties with other countries in Asia, even with Taiwan, which China considers a rebellious province that just happens to supply technology and capital for Chinese development.
The Chinese also mutter, more and more clearly, about their need -- and what they see as the world's need -- to be less dependent on the dollar. Although they continue to peg their currency to the dollar, in effect borrowing the advantages of the dollar's weakness to sell goods to the world, they also talk about new currencies and baskets of currencies to price the things they most want to buy, such as oil.
Apocalypse Soon
In a new book, columnist Martin Jacques of the British newspaper the Guardian blends all these trends and his close observation of Chinese culture. His title is his conclusion: When China Rules the World: The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order (Penguin Press).
Although we don't enjoy his obvious satisfaction with the idea that the end is at hand for the American and British Industrial Revolutions and all their consequences, Americans should take his vision seriously.
China has 25% of the world's labor force, at least half of which remain in poor rural areas. Its growth rate since 1978 has been 9.4%, compared with the 3.9% U.S. growth rate during its economic takeoff period from 1870 to 1913. China's GDP is likely to surpass the U.S. in the mid-2020s, if current trends continue.
Jacques tells us that the West, and America, may cease to be the center of the world's affairs, and that will have interesting consequences: "The dominant Western view is that globalization is a process by which the rest of the world becomes -- and should become -- increasingly Westernized, with the adoption of free markets, the import of Western capital, privatization, the rule of law, human-rights regimes and democratic norms."
Jacques constantly asks what our part of the world will be like if China does not Westernize before it becomes the most important nation in the world.
The West, he says, "will be required to think of itself in relative rather than absolute terms, obliged to learn about, and to learn from, the rest of the world without the presumption of underlying superiority, the belief that ultimately it knows best and is the fount of civilizational wisdom."
China drinks from its own fount of superiority and civilizational wisdom. How is President Obama meeting its challenge?
Sunday, November 15, 2009
Five Things the U.S. Can Learn From China
From the November 23, 2009 issue of Time Magazine and Time.com.
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1938671,00.html
"One day this summer, Sean Maloney, an executive vice president at Intel, was bouncing from one appointment to another in northeastern China, speeding along in a van traversing newly built highways.
He gazed out at one of the world's biggest construction projects: a network of high-speed train lines — covering 10,000 miles (16,000 km) nationwide — that China is building. As far as the eye could see, there sat vast concrete support struts, one after another, exactly 246 ft. (75 m) apart. Each was full of steel cables and weighed about 800 tons.
"We used to build stuff too," Maloney mused, unprompted. "But now it's NIMBY [not in my backyard] every time you try to do something. Here,'' he joked, "it's more like IMBY. There's stuff happening here, everywhere and always."
For full text and photos: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1938671,00.html
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1938671,00.html
"One day this summer, Sean Maloney, an executive vice president at Intel, was bouncing from one appointment to another in northeastern China, speeding along in a van traversing newly built highways.
He gazed out at one of the world's biggest construction projects: a network of high-speed train lines — covering 10,000 miles (16,000 km) nationwide — that China is building. As far as the eye could see, there sat vast concrete support struts, one after another, exactly 246 ft. (75 m) apart. Each was full of steel cables and weighed about 800 tons.
"We used to build stuff too," Maloney mused, unprompted. "But now it's NIMBY [not in my backyard] every time you try to do something. Here,'' he joked, "it's more like IMBY. There's stuff happening here, everywhere and always."
For full text and photos: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1938671,00.html
Time Magazine: Immersion Mandarin
From November 23, 2009 issue of Time; Yinghua Academy creates immersion experience.
http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1938815,00.html
http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1938815,00.html
Friday, November 13, 2009
Why Baby Language DVDs and CDs Don't Work
The new highly-acclaimed book by NY Times best-selling author Po Bronson (with Ashely Merryman) expands on earlier language theories.
From "NurtureShock":
"...Kuhl (Dr. Patricia Kuhl of the University of Washington) went on to discover that babies' brains do not learn to recognize foreign-language phonemes off a videotape or audiotape -- at all.
They absolutely do learn from a live, human teacher.
In fact, babies' brains are so sensitive to live human speech that Kuhl was able to train American babies to recognize Mandarin phonemes (which they'd never heaerd before) from twelve sessions with her Chinese graduate students, who sat in front of the kids for twenty minutes each session, playing with them while speaking in Mandarin.
By thge end of the month, three sessions per week, those babies' brains were virtually as good at recognizing Mandarin phonemes ar the brains of native born Chinese infants who'd been hearing Mandarin their entire young lives.
But, when Kuhl put Americna infants in front of a videotape or audito recording of Mandarin speech, the infants brains absorbed none of it. They might as well have heard meaningles noise. This was true DESPITE seeming to be quite engaged by the videos.
Kuhl concluded: 'The more complex aspects of language, such as phonetics, and grammar, are not acquired from TV exposure."
From "NurtureShock":
"...Kuhl (Dr. Patricia Kuhl of the University of Washington) went on to discover that babies' brains do not learn to recognize foreign-language phonemes off a videotape or audiotape -- at all.
They absolutely do learn from a live, human teacher.
In fact, babies' brains are so sensitive to live human speech that Kuhl was able to train American babies to recognize Mandarin phonemes (which they'd never heaerd before) from twelve sessions with her Chinese graduate students, who sat in front of the kids for twenty minutes each session, playing with them while speaking in Mandarin.
By thge end of the month, three sessions per week, those babies' brains were virtually as good at recognizing Mandarin phonemes ar the brains of native born Chinese infants who'd been hearing Mandarin their entire young lives.
But, when Kuhl put Americna infants in front of a videotape or audito recording of Mandarin speech, the infants brains absorbed none of it. They might as well have heard meaningles noise. This was true DESPITE seeming to be quite engaged by the videos.
Kuhl concluded: 'The more complex aspects of language, such as phonetics, and grammar, are not acquired from TV exposure."
Expanded Advisory Committee
The Chinese Language School of Connecticut Expands Advisory Committee
-- Professionals will work with local business leaders to expand CLSC’s programs and services --
“We’re very fortunate and extremely pleased to have such dynamic professionals working with us to expand our Chinese language learning and program services,” said New Canaan resident, CLSC president and board member, Susan Serven.
Riverside, CT, November 15, 2009 – The Chinese Language School of Connecticut (www.ChineseLanguageSchool.org), the non-profit Riverside, CT-based provider of Chinese language programs and services to students, schools and corporations, has announced the expansion of their Advisory Committee.
Former Greenwich First Selectman Jim Lash explained, "The dramatic growth of the Chinese Language School of Connecticut comes as no surprise given the high quality of their programs and the rise of the global economy. Every child will be better prepared for the new world of work by being exposed to the Chinese language and culture."
Former CLSC Board Chair, Greenwich resident Raymond E. Dunn, said, “We are very excited to gain the benefit of experience and guidance that these leaders and professionals will bring to our school. After seven years of operation we now service about 1,000 students through programs via our regular classes, tutoring, before and after school programs, workshops, special classes and summer camp. CLSC faculty or faculty alumni are now teaching at a number of private and public schools in Fairfield and Westchester counties. The interest we have found in our community for a continued strengthening and broadening of our programs is both exciting and challenging. We believe that CLSC will benefit significantly from the commitment the new Advisory Board has made to help us move our programs forward to better serve existing and future students and parents.
“We’re very fortunate and extremely pleased to have such dynamic professionals working with us to expand our Chinese language learning and program services,” said New Canaan resident, CLSC president and board member, Susan Serven. “Our expanded Advisory Committee will be instrumental in helping us expand our reach in order to allow more children to learn Chinese, and will work with us and local business leaders to broaden our services to the community,” she continued.
Advisory Committee members include:
Jeffay F. Chang, of Pelham, NY, serves as the East Coast Trust Strategist for the Goldman Sachs Trust Companies. He was named Executive Vice President with responsibility over national marketing and sales in 2008. Prior to joining Goldman Sachs in May 2004, Jeffay was a Corporate Vice President in the Private Wealth Services Group of UBS Financial Services where he provided counseling and planning services for ultra high net worth clients in such areas as wealth transfer and philanthropic planning, stock option exercise planning, and hedging and monetizing concentrated equity positions. Prior to UBS Financial Services, Jeffay was a Financial Planner in the Financial Planning Group of US Trust and before that was a Trust Officer in the Trust Settlement Department of US Trust. Jeffay obtained his B.A. from Brandeis University and J.D. from Fordham University School of Law. He is a member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners, New York State Bar Association, New York Bankers Association, Estate Planning Council of New York City and the Westchester Estate Planning Council.
Da Chen, of Highland Park, NY, the, NY Times bestselling author of “Colors of the Mountain”, “China’s Son”, “Sounds of the River”, “Wandering Warrior” and “Brothers” arrived in America at the age of 23 with $30 in his pocket, a bamboo flute, and a heart filled with hope. He attended Columbia University School of Law on a full scholarship, and upon graduating, worked for the Wall Street investment banking firm of Rothschilds, Inc.
His most recent book, “Brothers” was nominated for a 2007 Quill award. Please visit www.DaChen.org
Samantha Wu Connell, of Stamford, is currently CLSC Chinese New Year Chair. She was born in Taipei, Taiwan and emigrated to the US as a young child. Sam graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1995 with a BA in English and Psychology. After four years in marketing, she enrolled in culinary school and graduated with honors from New York City's Institute of Culinary Education Pastry Arts Program. Sam was an Associate Food Editor at Martha Stewart Living Magazine and has worked as a Food Stylist and Cake Designer. She currently lives in Stamford with her husband, Dan, and their children Quincy and Tobin.
Raymond Dunn, of Greenwich, is a co-founding partner of New York based maritime investment banking and brokerage firm Shipping & Finance LLC. Prior to that, he was an investment banker with UBS Securities for 14 years. He was Vice President of the Asian Business Society while an MBA student at Columbia and following graduation and prior to joining UBS, he was a research consultant at the OECD as a member of the China research team. Subsequently at UBS for several years, Mr. Dunn was head of international equity capital markets in New York with responsibility for both Europe and Asia. He also spent time seconded to UBS' Hong Kong office and worked extensively with Taiwanese companies. Mr. Dunn’s four children have attended CLSC and he is a member of the China Institute.
Laurie Heiss, of Greenwich, brings a successful professional background in the private sector and a deep personal commitment to educational initiatives to CLSC. Her career included high-level sales and marketing positions at GE for over a decade, Gateway Computer and IBM.
Most recently she has served two years as the Co-President of the PTA at Greenwich High School representing those 1400 member families and leading the 300 volunteers who support the operations of this large school. As a middle school parent she helped lead the parent-student effort to offer Mandarin at the high school. Previously, she chaired the Arts-in-Education efforts in the Town of Greenwich, a joint body of public and private school representatives organized as a sub-committee of PTA Council; she also chaired the Fairfield County Performing Arts & Enrichment Council.
She is a founding member of the Redding Preservation Society, a trustee of the Land Trust in Redding, where she owns a farm, and she serves on the board of The Merritt Parkway Conservancy.
She is a graduate of Connecticut College, where she received the Fielding Award base on contributions to class, college and community. She majored in Field Biology and Anthropology.
Susan S. Huang, of Greenwich, is an independent consultant in the asset management business, and is a Trustee on the boards of HSBC Global Investor Funds, United Church of Christ Foundation and Huntington’s Disease Society. She also contributes her financial and fund-raising expertise for other charitable, educational and cultural organizations, and is currently a Director of the Music and Endowment Committees, and a member of the Second Congregational Church Council in Greenwich.
Susie spent much of her career in money management and in developing the investment business in the U.S., Middle East and Asia. Her latest assignment was with Schroder Investment Management, and her other selected clients have included The Beacon Group, Ashmore, Chase VISTA Board, Lend Lease, and State of Alaska Pension Fund. Prior to her retirement from Chase Asset Management where she was Managing Director and Head of Fixed Income, she held senior investment positions at Hyperion Capital, CS First Boston, and The Equitable where she began her career in 1978.
Susie was a concert pianist in Asia and was featured as a soloist with the Hong Kong Philharmonic before coming to the U.S. in 1972. She holds a piano degree with honors from the Juilliard School of Music, a BA cum laude from Princeton University and an MBA from Columbia University. She is fluent in Mandarin, Cantonese and Shanghainese, and lives in Greenwich with her husband, Tony Kane and daughter, Shelley. She also sings in the choir at the Second Congregational Church.
Jim Lash, of Greenwich, is currently Chairman of the private equity firm Manchester Principal LLC. He grew up in Pontiac, Michigan, graduated from MIT in 1966 with a degree in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, and earned his MBA from Tulane University in 1969. Jim has served as First Selectman of Greenwich, CT from 2003-2007.
Jim’s work has involved holding principal and senior operating positions in primarily the manufacturing sector including serving as Chairman and CEO of Reading Tube Corporation from 1982 to 1996. From 1970 to 1976 Jim was a consultant with Touche Ross & Co. where his clients included the government agencies such as the city of Boston, and the country of New Zealand.
Prior to his work in management consulting, Jim’s career included serving as Assistant Dean of the Graduate School of Business Administration at Tulane University where he also taught graduate level courses in information technology.
While a student at MIT, Jim joined the Apollo Space Program team working at the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory and Lincoln Laboratory between 1962 and 1966. After graduating from MIT, Jim accepted an offer from the Boeing Company in New Orleans to continue his work on the Apollo Program and worked on this mission as an Astronautical Engineer until 1969.
Jim Lash has served the interests of literacy, higher education, performing arts, medical research and international commerce with current and recent Board memberships including the City Center in New York (Chair Finance Committee); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Member of the Corporation/Trustee, President of the Alumni/ae Association, Campaign Steering Committee); Baker Hughes, Inc. (Board member of Audit and Finance Committees), The East West Institute (Finance Committee); The American Cancer Society (Chairman of the Wayne County Detroit Unit) and the Greenwich Library Board (President).
Jim and his wife Debby Jones Lash moved to Greenwich in 1983. Debby has served the Greenwich community in numerous ways including being Chairman of the United Way Board of Greenwich and former President of the Greenwich Junior League. Jim and Debby are active in sailing and tennis and are members of several clubs including the Belle Haven Club, the New York Yacht Club and the Northeast Harbor Fleet (Commodore) here and in Maine where they have enjoyed many summer seasons.
Deborah Hsu Serianni, of Old Greenwich, is currently CLSC Parent Committee Chair, and was Vice President Global Marketing Personal Care & Wellness of Avon Products Inc., a leading beauty company and the world largest direct selling company. In this position, she was responsible for establishing global goals and strategies, new product development, advertising and print material for all regions around the world. Prior moving to the New York global headquarters, Mrs. Serianni was Regional Vice President Marketing of Asia Pacific, based in Hong Kong.
Previously, Mrs. Serianni worked for Johnson & Johnson Consumer Product Group where she most recently served as Vice President Skin Care, Asia Pacific-China. In that role, she established the successful skin care business with a multiple brand portfolio covering Japan, Korea, China, to Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines and India.
Earlier in her career, Mrs. Serianni worked at Procter & Gamble Europe where she held increasingly responsible positions in marketing, covering a vast territory including Germany, Austria, Scandinavia, Middle East and Central America.
Mrs. Serianni graduated from Oberlin College, majoring in Chemistry and Economics. She holds a Master sof Management degree from Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. She currently serves on the President ‘s Advisory Board of Oberlin College.
Robyn Wasserman, of Old Greenwich, worked in New York for ten years in real estate investment banking and in real estate finance at JPMorgan, Sonnenblick-Goldman and Prime Capital Management. She is a graduate of The London School of Economics where she earned her B.S. in Economics specializing in Accounting and Finance in 1996. She currently lives in Old Greenwich with her husband, Tom Wasserman, who is a Managing Director at Highbridge Capital Management, and her two daughters, Emilie and Sophia. Emilie and Sophia are learning to speak Mandarin.
For information on the Chinese Language School of Connecticut’s language and cultural programs for children and adults, their Before– and After- School programs, special workshops, private tutoring or corporate language programs, please visit www.ChineseLanguageSchool.org or email them at info@ChineseLanguageSchool.org.
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