80s nostalgia is getting out of control.
That’s strange, the western press and The Economist assured me that “Saving face” was a purely Asiatic practice,
That’s strange, the western press and The Economist assured me that “Saving face” was a purely Asiatic practice,
Private jets are green, EU court rules
Private jets are a green investment, the European Union’s second-highest court has ruled.
Production of the aircraft cannot be classified as bad for the environment and should not be excluded from a roster of activities deemed suitable for green investments, the EU General Court said on Wednesday.
China — they are surrounded by Japan, Korea, Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Pakistan, Afghanistan, India, and Russia. That's a tough part of the world. And they've pissed them all off — and not because of us, all on their own.
"We will form a committee to conduct a thorough investigation and hold those responsible strictly accountable." Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Choi Hwi-young makes promise
Competence had not been prioritized when selecting a leader
I am deeply sorry for causing such profound disappointment to the public over this absurd affair. We will swiftly push forward with reforms to sports administration to ensure such a thing never happens again.
It is kind of like Chinese industrial policy. Introduce enough foriegn firms to compete with domestic. Back in Mao's era there was only domestic, and it produced a form of complacency in a captured market. Same goes for soccer.Historically both Japan and South Korea have utilized strict foreign-player quotas to protect domestic talent and ensure young local players have ample playing time to develop. This has evolved as both Japan and Korea has significant improved much better (e.g. routinely qualifying for World Cup) so they relaxed these foreign-quota restrictions to promote domestic competitive play, but they only relaxed after they gotten better, not when they still sucked. They encouraged sending local players to European leagues to absorb knowledge and return as coaches and national team players.
Japan and Korea has an systemic grass roots youth development pipeline that sees large pool of kids commit to football throughout their formative prime years. Historically Chinese kids drop their interest in football too early during their formative years, but China has been adopting the Japan/Korea playbook....but developing grass roots youth talent pool organically takes at least 10-15 years to see results as next generation goes through this development pipeline.