Twitter problem

This will never happen in America because the United State is the land of the freedom, which means they have right to say whatever they want. However, Chinese do not have that right. And like Facebook, China blocked the twitter, so people cannot have freedom of speech, but this woman is imprisoned for re-twitting. 

A Chinese woman was sentenced to one year in a labor camp on Wednesday after she forwarded a satirical microblog message that urged recipients to attack the Japanese Pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo, human rights groups said Thursday. The woman, Cheng Jianping, 46, was accused of “disturbing social order” for resending a Twitter message from her fiancé that mocked young nationalists who held anti-Japanese rallies in several cities last month. The original message sarcastically goaded protesters to go beyond the smashing of Japanese products and express their fury at the heavily policed expo site.

She used the twitter by burrowing beneath the government's firewall and I do not understand why she had to use twitter so badly. I think imprisoning her for a year for twitting is kind of harsh, but she needs some punishment because she disobeyed the law.

Chinese Stealing Talented American

The United States' Silicon Valley is known to the world as a world of technologies. However, the this might change as the Chinese company, Huawei Technologies, is trying to hire engineer from Silicon Valley.

This spring, an executive from a Chinese telecommunications equipment company made an intriguing job offer to a Silicon Valley software engineer. The Chinese company, Huawei Technologies, wanted to get into the booming market for Internet-based computing, and it had just moved its United States research headquarters here to capture some of the best local talent.

They are not recruiting few engineers, they are willing to hire almost every people from Silicon Valley. 

“How many engineers would you like for your team? Several hundred? That’s not a problem,” the recruiter said, according to the engineer.

 It sure is great opportunity for the software engineers,  and we cannot say anything about that Chinese company recruiting talented American. However, if Silicon Valley does not do anything to prevent this from happening not only losing money, America will lose their future.

Overpopulation might get worse

The Book, Big, Flat, and Crowded, by Tom Friedman also talked about the earth getting overpopulated, and this article, from NY Times, says, it might get worse.

Today the fertility level in China is around 1.7 children per woman. if China were to relax its one-child policy, then it’s reasonable to expect that fertility would rise. How much? Well, if fertility increased to replacement level of 2.1 (an increase of just under a half a child), which is not unreasonable given desired family size, the country’s annual number of births would increase by nearly 30 percent, or approximately five million additional births. By midcentury, this would add up to nearly a quarter-billion more Chinese than currently projected by the U.N. And given China’s impact on the environment, especially greenhouse gas emissions, this change of policy clearly portends a great deal.

 If Chinese start to give birth to more than one child, the world would get too crowded, so the the fuel from the hell would be gone sooner than we expected. I am not saying they do not have right to give birth to more than one child, but that sounds kind of scary.

The reason why the U.S. shoul use less fossil fuels

The main reason of greenhouse effect, CO2, is keep increasing because the world is getting flatted. And Tom Friedman said the reason why the world is heating up faster than ever is caused by India, and China's economy growth, and in this article, Yu Qingtai said,

When it comes to greenhouse-gas emissions, we cannot only look at the current situation and ignore history, nor look at overall emissions and ignore per capita figures. China’s accumulated emissions account for only 7% of the global total. Emissions are caused by consumption of energy, and this is the foundation of social development. As a Chinese person, I cannot accept someone from a developed nation having more right than me to consume energy. We are all created equal – this is no empty slogan. The Americans have no right to tell the Chinese that they can only consume 20% as much energy. We do not want to pollute as they did, but we have the right to pursue a better life.

According to this, American just cannot blame other country for using a lot of fossil fuel, because America consumes most of the fossil fuel from all around the world. Telling other countries not to consume use as much fossil fuel as the U.S. is really selfish of them, because they do not have right to interfere other countries business.