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BREAKING NEWS: This Prof knows the Real Problem of China
SINGAPORE - "China's political system doesn't suit its pace of economic development,” warns Prof. Wang Gungwu, Chairman of the East Asian Institute, live on CNBC, The Real Problem of China [Video] What a teaser and click-bait. You have to love our sensational media: "...doesn't suit its pace of economic development"… That makes ABSOLUTELY no sense! China has exactly this political system and has exactly that economic pace and, in Mr. Wang's own words, "has benefited so much from it in the last four decades." So, forty years of 10% annual growth was mere coincidence; but now that the economic pace slowed down to 6.5% annual growth –that is proof that China's political system is incompatible?
Instinctively, not. And if you listen carefully to professor Wang, he is NOT dismissing China's political system at all. On the contrary, he says "and what I like about it, they are really trying to experimenting, trying to innovate!" Mother Hyperbole alone knows why CNBC chose to make that a headline: "Political system doesn't suit...!" But, hey, because the "China expert" said the "problem" word, our gossip media wants doomsday to be marked on the calendar. Don't get your critic wrong on this. Nobody is defending a party dictatorship. Just saying: if CNBC wants to stick it to the sages in Beijing, don't tell economic creepy pasta to gullible audiences, because the fact remains that China's GDP growth still outpaces that of Europe and the United States combined.
Who is this Professor Wang Gungwu drifting on shallow waters, if not deep ancient hollow compared to that lofty marine plywood CNBC. He's been absolutely in love with political China, critical if needs be, and is favoring an authoritarian political system known as 'democratic socialism' - as it is practiced in Singapore. Therefore, I cannot help but feeling that Professor Wang's being hijacked here by CNBC as another Chinese token academician who is supposed to parrot the line of our US ideologues in pressing for China's political reform, when all Professor Wang really said was that political china is reforming its economy.
What's this CNBC obsession with 'The Problem of China'[ii] anyway? Since when did become Bertrand Russell's 1922 manifesto of the same name the meme for CNBC journalism? You don’t believe it? Here are some CNBC headlines: "China's REAL Problem" -really?[iii] "The Problem with China: It's just a teenager" -harrumph![iv] Or that one: "China's problems just gargantuan."[v] No, ... wait, here: "THIS is the real problem."[vi] Wow, this is huge: "This is a huge problem in China."[vii] Know what, China's problem is so serious, it's gonna be affecting the euro zone: "Why China is a serious problem for the euro zone."[viii] Retarded CNBC goes on and on.