Letters to the Editor
Published Letters: 78 Editor's Choice: 28
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only city wages are increasing
[Read the article: Made (expensively) in China]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Wages for city workers...increasing. Wages for office workers in Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzhen, Xiamen, QingDao, Guangzhou, Dalian... increasing, but not very fast. There are a lot more college graduates now a days to choose from. I can always go to the NorthWest of China and get an OK mechanical engineer fresh-graduate for as little as 2000RMB / month (around $300USD). Same with chemists, IT people, etc. I would not want to hire an older engineer from a state-owned company, so their wages can't go up as fast.
Remember, there is still an itinerant population of some 100 million people here...redundant agricultural labor. What causes wages to go up (I believe) is real-estate and cost of living. There is no shortage of unskilled labor in China, and there is a huge pool of high-school graduates and college graduates are to choose from. In short, I don't think anyone is going to break the middle-class barrier by being a secretary or factory worker (or even Line Supervisor) for many years to come.
If anything, there is a shortage of employment infrastructure to protect young workers shipped in from the countryside.
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Mr. Coles anti-Jewish sentiments
[Read the article: Is the "Israel lobby" distorting America's Mideast policies?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]According to Mr. Cole as he says in Paragraph 5, the authors’ of the paper “…do not raise these points [about Israel’s lack of moral stature] to smear Israel or single it out for special criticism -- as political realists, they are well aware that no state is perfect -- but simply to argue that it is not entitled to special treatment. America's self-interest dictates that the Jewish state should be approached like any other nation, which it manifestly is not.”
OK. Not entitled to special treatment. Ask the questions; “Why is France an ally of the US?” “Why is England an ally?” “Why is Germany an ally?” “Why is Japan an ally?” Then ask the question “Why should Israel NOT be an ally?” If we accept that founding of all nation states is accompanied by moral outrages, then we must accept that the nations we claim as our allies are NOT determined by how morally good those allies were when those countries were formed, but rather are determined by historical happenstance, as well as shared values. Israel was NOT the US ally before 1967. The US did NOT give significant arms or aid to Israel the Six Day War. But since that time, Israel has formed a relationship with the US. Israel shares many of America’s values. It arguably is more democratic than the United States. It has a free-press (which is often very critical of its government’s policies. )
The answer is simple. Mearsheimer, Walt and Cole DO NOT WANT Israel to be considered like any other country. They hate Israel. And they hate it because it is a Jewish state, not like any other country