Comments on: China: not bad enough http://platosbeard.org/archives/335 whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must make random noises Thu, 17 May 2012 00:55:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Dr Anonymous http://platosbeard.org/archives/335/comment-page-1#comment-6372 Dr Anonymous Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:39:48 +0000 http://platosbeard.org/?p=335#comment-6372 I'm not sure i have a summary except to throw my hands up and say it was multicausal, rooted in history (and historical political economy), and that matters after independence of all sorts didn't help. I suppose one might argue that there was less room for policy maneuveur in Sri Lanka than in India, but, then, one can say almost anything one wants to about places one knows slightly more than very little. kettikilli, on the other hand, who wrote the post, is quite insightful :) Collective analyses of the U.S. psyche are fun - it was particularly interesting when they devalued the Chinese economy by about 40% on the basis of PPP - couldn't tell EXACTLY what the motivation was there - reassurance of themselves or a political maneuver by the financial elite and their friendsint he state. I’m not sure i have a summary except to throw my hands up and say it was multicausal, rooted in history (and historical political economy), and that matters after independence of all sorts didn’t help. I suppose one might argue that there was less room for policy maneuveur in Sri Lanka than in India, but, then, one can say almost anything one wants to about places one knows slightly more than very little. kettikilli, on the other hand, who wrote the post, is quite insightful :)

Collective analyses of the U.S. psyche are fun – it was particularly interesting when they devalued the Chinese economy by about 40% on the basis of PPP – couldn’t tell EXACTLY what the motivation was there – reassurance of themselves or a political maneuver by the financial elite and their friendsint he state.

]]> By: ravi http://platosbeard.org/archives/335/comment-page-1#comment-6266 ravi Mon, 25 Aug 2008 14:57:03 +0000 http://platosbeard.org/?p=335#comment-6266 Dr. A, its not that I know more about China, and from what I know, I think a lot of the analyses of the growing resentment in China is fairly accurate. But the amusing thing to me is that this sort of resorting to psychoanalysis is not uniformly applied... the great powers are analysed (mostly) in ahistorical and ideological terms (often terms set up by themselves). I don't expect, for instance, any analysis of what it is in the collective US psyche that requires NBC to report that the US did win the "total medal tally" in the recently concluded 2008 Olympics, though, as NBC gracefully offered, China came in second on this count, which is not (to paraphrase NBC) bad at all. I just visited your blog, and found your summary of the Tamil issue in Sri Lanka quite on target. Dr. A, its not that I know more about China, and from what I know, I think a lot of the analyses of the growing resentment in China is fairly accurate. But the amusing thing to me is that this sort of resorting to psychoanalysis is not uniformly applied… the great powers are analysed (mostly) in ahistorical and ideological terms (often terms set up by themselves). I don’t expect, for instance, any analysis of what it is in the collective US psyche that requires NBC to report that the US did win the “total medal tally” in the recently concluded 2008 Olympics, though, as NBC gracefully offered, China came in second on this count, which is not (to paraphrase NBC) bad at all.

I just visited your blog, and found your summary of the Tamil issue in Sri Lanka quite on target.

]]> By: Dr Anonymous http://platosbeard.org/archives/335/comment-page-1#comment-6243 Dr Anonymous Mon, 25 Aug 2008 06:35:18 +0000 http://platosbeard.org/?p=335#comment-6243 Right on! I thought the article was actually interesting, but that's probably because I don't know enough about China to know what component is misplaced fear-inducing commentary and what component is an effective analysis. But more than that, I was just happy to see you speak from a standpoint that so clearly understands how contemporary geopolitics works :) Right on! I thought the article was actually interesting, but that’s probably because I don’t know enough about China to know what component is misplaced fear-inducing commentary and what component is an effective analysis. But more than that, I was just happy to see you speak from a standpoint that so clearly understands how contemporary geopolitics works :)

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