Chinese Geopolitics

Blackstone said:

No cherry picking here, I've always considered HK part of China.

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No one doubts that. But do you know that Hong Kong is governed differently from the rest of China?

Under the "One China, Two Systems" constitutional principle, the Government is exclusively in charge of Hong Kong's internal affairs and external relations. The Government of the People's Republic of China, of which the Hong Kong government is financially independent, is responsible for Hong Kong's defence and foreign affairs.

Therefore, the survey cannot combine the two into one. Hong Kong exercises a high degree of autonomy in accordance with the law, and is vested with executive, legislative and independent judicial power, including that of final adjudication. Their own just department is responsible for all prosecutions in Hong Kong, drafting all Government legislation, and advising other policy bureaux and departments of the government on a vast array of legal issues.

Hong Kong still retains the common law system inherited as a former British colony, and Macau employs a legal system based on that of Portuguese civil law. This is part of the One Country, Two Systems theory. They have their own courts of final appeal and extradition policies. As such, respectively, they are not within the jurisdiction of the court system within China, which is only effective within mainland China, but their respective Basic Laws are subject to the interpretation power of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress. It is not within the purview of China's
Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Communist Party of China headed by Wang Qishan.

This is how the world accepts it. Even Western journalists recognize the distinctions; that China has no judicial jurisdiction over Hong Kong even though it belongs to China. BTW, Hong Kong does not have the death penalty, unlike China.

port_08 said:

There's growing technological alternative for cleaner fuel compare last century, and this need massive state intervention and subsidies to promote these alternative then reliance on coals and fossil fuels. China need to study and accelerate the growth of these safe nuclear energy but in light of Fukushima situation, safety need to be of highest priority in deployment. Wind and solar, and hydro where it make sense....China need a lot of energy to grow even bigger.

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What you say is true, but there are hidden strings to it. Most patents and technologies for cleaner fuel is held by the developed world, EU, USA, UK, Japan - whose royalties make these fuel technology unattainable for the developing world.

Being an engineer, especially working in sustainability now, people need to realize that although renewable are good, they are nowhere near the capacity required to power our world. Case in point, take photovoltiacs as an example, very good panels are 15% efficient, or at max 225 W/m2, each panel is around 3 m2, or 675W, to run my 15 kW kettle, I need 20 panels - at a ridiculous cost; forget the air conditioners and so on.

The same is true with wind turbines, they have their issues, like, decapatating birds and destoying the eco system:


Or hydro dam are a concentration pool for toxins and a whole host of other problems:


so there is never an easy fix, and to be honest, a change in our lifestyle is a better solution.

Lezt said:

Being an engineer, especially working in sustainability now, people need to realize that although renewable are good, they are nowhere near the capacity required to power our world. Case in point, take photovoltiacs as an example, very good panels are 15% efficient, or at max 225 W/m2, each panel is around 3 m2, or 675W, to run my 15 kW kettle, I need 20 panels - at a ridiculous cost; forget the air conditioners and so on.

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Why in the world would you need 15KW to run a kettle?
A moderate home only requires about 9.4KWh per day. That means you're able to sell surplus of electricity into the grid.

In a surprising turn of events, Chinese and Japanese views of each other have improved. Just two months ago, only around 6% of Chinese and 5% of Japanese had positive views of the other, and the latest survey shows about 8% of Chinese and 7% of Japanese hold positive feelings of the other. At this rate, the two nations would become friends in about two hundred years, which is faster than I would have guessed by a factor of ten.

A recent Pew Research survey measures Asian countries’ opinions of each other. Pakistan is only viewed favorably by more than half the population in one of the 11 countries that were polled (Indonesia, at 52 percent). Japan was at the opposite end—with over 50 percent favorability in 7 of the 11 nations. (China followed with 6, and India with 5.) The China-Japan rivalry is clearly reflected in the tallies: Only 7 percent of Japanese have a favorable view of China; only 8 percent of Chinese have a favorable view of Japan. In Pakistan, the United States almost beats India to the bottom of the barrel, with just 14 percent approval (India’s approval in Pakistan is 13 percent). But when asked to name the country they can most rely on as a dependable ally in the future, a full 8 of the nations picked the United States.

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SamuraiBlue said:

Accusing??
You don't have a clue of what I am talking about.

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Says the guy who was describing everything in a mecha but says it wasn't a mecha.

SamuraiBlue said:

Why in the world would you need 15KW to run a kettle?
A moderate home only requires about 9.4KWh per day. That means you're able to sell surplus of electricity into the grid.

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well that was a exageration. but then again, my kettle is 2.8 kW, the microwave is 3 kW. so it is not a small load. The issue also is, the output I gave was at peak, i.e. midday cloudless. if you are having a cloudy day, your output is much lower, or during the morning or evening. you also have inverter and rectifier losses at around 10% each unless you use the best hitachi or seimens units which would be around 3-4% each.

Main point being, PV gives very minimal output to the load that we have, most houese cannot have a 15 kW array, that would need a roof area of 60 m2 facing the sun, if you are lucky, maybe 20 m2?

Lezt said:

well that was a exageration. but then again, my kettle is 2.8 kW, the microwave is 3 kW. so it is not a small load. The issue also is, the output I gave was at peak, i.e. midday cloudless. if you are having a cloudy day, your output is much lower, or during the morning or evening. you also have inverter and rectifier losses at around 10% each unless you use the best hitachi or seimens units which would be around 3-4% each.

Main point being, PV gives very minimal output to the load that we have, most houese cannot have a 15 kW array, that would need a roof area of 60 m2 facing the sun, if you are lucky, maybe 20 m2?

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So you claim you have a 2800W kettle and a 3000W microwave?

It must be a VERY BIG home appliance or a very in-efficient one.

Jeezzz, I just realised that my earlier comment about a certain religion in China is deleted, even though I believe that I didn't use any inappropriate words against it.

This forum really has far more censorship than the Chinese government...

SamuraiBlue said:

So you claim you have a 2800W kettle and a 3000W microwave?

It must be a VERY BIG home appliance or a very in-efficient one.

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So what if it is?

Now are you against me as a person or my right to be?

SamuraiBlue said:

So you claim you have a 2800W kettle and a 3000W microwave?

It must be a VERY BIG home appliance or a very in-efficient one.

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that's quite common ... why in-efficient? you don't know how quick it gets the job done! .. do you understand what efficiency is?