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UPDATE..... the port where the terrible Vietnam boat accident occurred has been closed.

Terrible accident, I feel bad for the families.

http://www.thanhniennews.com/2010/Pa...524125559.aspx

Authorities in the southern province of Binh Duong have suspended an unlicensed port where a boat accident killed 16 people on Friday, according to a local official.

Din Ky Cau Ngang Tourism Area in Binh Nham Commune, which manages the port, has also had its restaurant services along the Saigon River put on hold as well, said Tran Van Nam, vice chairman of Binh Duong Province’s People’s Committee.

Dam Trong Cuong, vice director of Binh Duong’s Department of Transport, said local authorities didn’t grant license to the business for operating the port, because it was situated at a dangerous location.

However, the tourism area has still operated the port for years despite warnings and punishments, Cuong said.

Previously police have arrested Le Van Duc, captain of the double-decker boat, which sank from strong winds and a heavy rain on the Saigon River Friday night. Le Van Quang, manager of the boat, and Dinh Van Quan, manager of floating restaurants in the tourism area, were also arrested for investigations.

Initial investigations found that Duc was disqualified for plotting the vessel, designed as a floating restaurant, while the vessel’s register certificate expired in February.

The accident took place 15 minutes after the boat departed. A birthday party of a three-year-old boy was being held on the boat with the participation of 21 passengers.

While five passengers and six crewmembers managed to swim to safety, 16 others, including four Chinese, drowned together with the boat. All the bodies, including five children and seven women, have been found as of Monday.

Investigations into the case are now under way.

“We know that it’s hardly possible to compensate a human life no matter how much money we spend, but we’ll try our best. We really hope that the victims’ families will forgive us,” he said.

Asked about some experts’ opinions that the boat capsized quickly partly because the crew members closed all the doors during strong winds, Tam said they had never been warned by the register agency about keeping windows open in such case.

He said the crew did so for the sake of customers without being aware of the risk.

Tam blamed Quan for failing to have the boat checked and registered again after its certificate expired.

While criticizing Quang for letting Duc, who wasn’t eligible to plot the vessel that fatal night, drive it, Tam explained that Duc was the only captain to be available then.

“The accident wasn’t intended […] The mistakes were caused by people who were in charge but failed to complete their responsibilities properly.

TOURISM PLUNGE
A spate of boat accidents in the country has negatively affected the tourism industry, tour operators report.

One operator has already said that its customers canceled a tour of the Saigon River following the latest tragedy.

The Thoi Bao Kinh Te Saigon Online newswire quoted Lua Viet Company’s representative as saying that Thai Binh Duong PetroVietnam Transportation Company had called off the tour scheduled for this Saturday, citing safety concerns.

The company planned to offer 200 employees and their families a tour on the river, the tour operator said.

Nguyen Van My, director of Lua Viet, said after tourist boat accidents in the Ha Long Bay and the Saigon River, it will be difficult for operators to offer sea and river tours, however well the boats are designed.

“The accidents have made Vietnam’s tourism sector look bad,” he said.

My blamed local authorities, port authorities and related agencies like boat designers and license issuers for the accidents, adding that all efforts to improve the sector’s image would be in vain if each agency goes its own way without a coordinating authority.
“We won’t avoid it, but will cooperate at our best with police to clarify related people’s responsibilities,” Tam said.

On the other hand, Pham Ninh, director of Register Agency No.6, which is in charge of registering tourist boats on the Saigon River, including Din Ky’s boat, said the boat’s register documents showed that it satisfied all requirements.

However, it is unknown if the boat was modified after registering or not, Ninh said in response to recent allegations that the boat’s design wasn’t proper and that an imbalance in the parts remaining below and above the water put it at risk of capsizing in strong winds.

He also said that whether to open a boat’s windows in strong winds depends on specific conditions of where it is operating.

Taking actions

Following the accident, warnings have been issued among waterway agencies in Ho Chi Minh City and Binh Duong.

Tran The Ky, vice director of HCMC Department of Transport, said the department will start inspecting float restaurant-designed boats, tourist boats and hydrofoils.

At the moment seven floating restaurant boats and hundreds of tourist boats are operating on the Saigon River’s section in HCMC.

The Ministry of Transport’s inspection teams will start checking passenger boats in the two localities Tuesday, according to Nguyen Van Thuan, chief of the ministry’s Transport Safety Department.

The inspection’s findings will be the base for standards to be set up exclusively for passenger boats, said Do Trung Hoc, chief of Vietnam Register’s waterway department.

According to Hoc, currently both passenger and cargo boats follow the same register procedures, while the former needs stricter ones to prevent accidents.

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More news on this great news event, the death of South Vietnam's Dragon Lady.

This article puts into great context how harmful a person she was.

She was a truly vile person yet many Vietnamese-Americans view her as a hero (a lot of them are retarded, waving their weak, pathetic, loser South Vietnamese flags so they can't help it) .

http://nationalinterest.org/blog/aut...agon-lady-5238

The Dragon Lady

Those not old enough to remember headlines from a conflict that was troubling the United States nearly half a century ago may not have paid much attention to the passing in Rome this week at age 86 of Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu. But she cut quite a figure in her day (in more ways than one, in her tight-fitting ao dai) and came to personify much of what was wrong with a South Vietnamese regime that the United States was struggling to prop up. Madame Nhu was married to the regime’s internal security chief, who in turn was the brother of President Ngo Dinh Diem. Diem came to power in 1955, the year following the accord that ended France’s war in Indochina and left Vietnam split between a communist north and non-communist south. Diem was a bachelor, and Madame Nhu functioned as the first lady of South Vietnam.

But she really functioned as much more than that. Strong-willed and outspoken, she was seen as a dominating influence on both her husband the security chief and her brother-in-law the president. Exactly how much influence she exerted on Diem outside of public view is impossible to say, but the outward indications were that it was substantial. Certainly she goaded the president toward the sort of hard-line and narrow-minded policies that made for a legitimacy problem in South Vietnam. The family was Catholic, and Madame Nhu especially became identified with intolerance toward the nation’s Buddhists. Some of the most searing images coming out of South Vietnam in the early 1960s were of Buddhist monks immolating themselves in protest. And among Madame Nhu’s most notorious comments were her reference to the protests as a “barbecue” and her offer to provide more fuel and matches if the Buddhists wanted to continue them.

By the last year of Diem’s rule, amid a growing Viet Cong insurgency and American frustration with the weaknesses of the regime that was supposed to stand in the communists’ way, Madame Nhu was seen as at least as big a part of the problem as President Diem. American patience with Diem might not have run out as soon as it did if Madame Nhu were not part of the picture. In the end, she was luckier than her husband and brother-in-law. When military officers overthrew the regime in 1963 in a coup that had received an American wink and nod, Ngo Dinh Diem and Ngo Dinh Nhu were killed. Madame Nhu was traveling in the United States at the time; she later lived out most of her exile in Italy.

The Diem regime was an example of an all-too-familiar pattern of a non-monarchical ruling family whose less desirable qualities undercut the regime’s legitimacy. This is all the more a problem when, as with Diem in Vietnam, the regime is looked to as an alternative to an insurgent opposition. The most obvious counterpart today is in Afghanistan, in which the image among Afghans of President Hamid Karzai is being formed in part by the activities of relatives such as his brother Ahmed Wali Karzai.

But before we place too much hope in what can be accomplished by ending a problem of conniving members of a privileged family, we should recall what happened in South Vietnam after Diem’s clan was overthrown. A succession of coups and military juntas followed over the next couple of years, as the communist insurgency continued to grow. Eventually continuity was achieved when Nguyen Van Thieu outmaneuvered his fellow generals and became president, but continuity—along with more than a half million U.S. troops at the peak of the Vietnam War—was not sufficient to keep the communists and their nationalist appeal from prevailing a decade later. The Madame Nhus and Ahmed Wali Karzais do present real problems of legitimacy and stability, but they often are part of conflicts whose outcomes are ultimately determined by forces much larger than themselves.

[phugiay]

This is very interesting article.

Chinese Prisoners Forced to Play World of Warcraft, Detainee Says
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/...#ixzz1NaQweR2v

A former prisoner of a Chinese labor camp claims guards are forcing detainees to play online games as part of a huge money-making scam.

Liu Dali told The Guardian website that guards traded the credits inmates built up playing games such as World of Warcraft for money.

"The computers were never turned off.""Prison bosses made more money forcing inmates to play games than they do forcing people to do manual labor," he said.

"There were 300 prisoners forced to play games. We worked 12-hour shifts in the camp. I heard them say they could earn 5000-6000rmb a day.

"We didn't see any of the money. The computers were never turned off."

Dali -- not his real name -- is aged 54 and was sent to Jixi re-education camp in Heilongjiang province in northeast China, in 2004.

He said he would spend his days either breaking rocks or assembling car seat covers and his nights playing computer games.

Dali said that if he didn't complete his credit quota, the guards would punish him: "They would beat me with plastic pipes. We kept playing until we could barely see things."

The building up and trading of game credits is known as gold farming. Millions of gamers around the world pay real money for the credits in order to save hours of playing time.

Gold farming is rampant in China and other developing nations. Many Chinese gamers have full-time jobs as gold farmers but The Guardian story highlights the first time it has been practiced in labor camps.

Quoting figures from the China Internet Center, the paper says almost £1.2 billion ($1.65 billion) worth of virtual currencies was traded in China in 2008.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/...#ixzz1NaQqLB1f

FOXNEWS

[Siddude]

[QUOTE=xmod;78391332]More news on this great news event, the death of South Vietnam's Dragon Lady.

This article puts into great context how harmful a person she was.

She was a truly vile person yet many Vietnamese-Americans view her as a hero (a lot of them are retarded, waving their weak, pathetic, loser South Vietnamese flags so they can't help it) .

Are you laughing to cover up your tears of humiliation? If you're such a big winner, then why is Vietnam under your pappa VC one of the poorest countries in the world? Why do Viet Kieu send billions of dollars each and every year to Vietnam? Without those hard currency your VC regime would have been poorer than it is already is.. LOL

You're funny but I think people are laughing at you not with you!

How come you have to learn a capitalist language, English? Why not brush up your language skills with Russian and Chinese, the language of your commie, socialist, fraternal brothers???? You know they gave you wonderful ideas about Marxism, Leninism and worker's paradise etc...

Ha.. ha ... ha... Who really got "re-educated" after 36 years??? You guys are a riot!! Thousands of people all over the world are laughing at your comments right now which does not make any sense, has no logic and is full of contradictions!!

[doehomey]

Originally Posted by TheFuturistic

I was born in North VN but it doent mean I am a son of commie ( my father actually was a math teacher and he has nothin to do with politics or our talk)

Thank you for clarifying your lineage. Please accept Doehomey's sincere apologies. Consider yourself very lucky that Doehomey did not accuse you of being an islamo fascist commie related to Gaddafi's son.

I respect any work people do for their own living or the pursuit of happiness as long as they dont cheat or hurt others, in this regard whores tend to bring pleasure

Doehomey agrees. It is a pure economic transaction bringing momentary pleasure to both parties. But for those who do not know what they are doing, it can bring long term pain or death (STD) to both parties . Here is an old economic story explaining the importance of everyone (including prostitues) to the local economy:

In a small town in Vietnam, away from the touristy hotspots, not too much business was taking place.

Everyone is heavily in debt after splurging during Tet.

Luckily, a rich Vietkieu arrives in the foyer of the small local hotel.

He asks for a room and puts a $100 note on the reception counter, takes a key and goes to inspect the room located up the stairs on the third floor.

The hotel owner takes the banknote in a hurry and rushes to his meat supplier to whom he owes $100. The butcher takes the money and races to his supplier to pay his debt.

The wholesaler rushes to the farmer to pay $100 for pigs he purchased some time ago.

The farmer triumphantly gives the $100 note to a local prostitute who gave him her services on credit.

The prostitute quickly goes to the hotel, as she was owing the hotel for her hourly room used to entertain clients.

At that moment, the rich Viet kieu comes down to reception and informs the hotel owner that the room is unsatisfactory and takes his $100 back and departs.

There was no profit or income.

But everyone no longer has any debt and the small town’s people look optimistically towards their future.

[tuanhung]

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/bre...-1226065065795

Sunglasses ban for Vietnam police: report

* From: AAP
* May 29, 2011 5:03PM


COMMUNIST Vietnam has banned police from wearing black sunglasses, chatting, smoking and putting their hands in their pockets while they are on duty in public places, a media report said.

Under a new order from the Ministry of Public Security, officers must also "keep appropriate manners and be in the right position when on duty," said the English-language website of state-controlled Tuoi Tre newspaper.

"This means traffic cops must not hide behind trees to ambush" and issue fines.

The report also said on-duty police were now banned from reading books, making or answering non-work related phone calls, drinking alcohol or eating at restaurants that illegally encroach onto pavements.

Vietnam's traffic police are seen by citizens as notoriously corrupt.

Last year US-based Human Rights Watch urged Vietnam to investigate "widespread police brutality", saying it had documented 19 incidents of reported brutality by law enforcers over the previous year, resulting in 15 deaths.

LOL but but but they need to look cool

[vanboy2]

Vietnam demands China stop sovereignty violations

Vietnam on Saturday demands that China immediately stop and not to repeat actions that violate Vietnam’s sovereignty and jurisdiction rights over its continental shelf and exclusive economic zone.

source

http://www.thanhniennews.com/2010/Pa...530011353.aspx

[TheFuturistic]

"There was no profit or income.

But everyone no longer has any debt and the small town’s people look optimistically towards their future"

this is something economically wrong ( sure, coz this is just a joke )

if that night the vietkieu visitor dont pay 100 bucks the debt will still be there for everyone who bought goods/services on credit; if another visitor come and pay 100 $ for the hotel room tomorow, the debt will still be there for everyone coz at that time the debt will be 100 $ plus interest rate and that way debt seems to be there forever for many ppl

that's the ultimate power of financial people all around the world

thats why even in US, the richest country on earth, a big part of population have zero or negative net worth as reported by NYtimes recently
http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate...youre-not-rich

[Yellow Fever]

Snakes on a train terrify passengers in Vietnam



The Associated Press. 5/30/2011 6:10:48 AM ET

HANOI, Vietnam — Railway officials have discovered snakes on a train in Vietnam — highly venomous king cobras in bags under a seat.

Railroad official Pham Quynh says passengers were terrified when four cloth bags containing the writhing cobras were spotted Friday.

The snakes were alive but had their mouths stitched shut.

Quynh says the exact number of snakes was unclear but the bags weighed 100 pounds (45 kilograms).

Security staff removed the cobras, which were likely destined for restaurants in Hanoi. Their owner apparently escaped in the chaos.

Snake meat is considered a delicacy in Vietnam, but cobras are protected by law.

Quynh says the cobras were given to forest rangers who released them into the wild Saturday after no one claimed them.



http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43214675/ns/travel-news/

[coolink]

China seriously violates Vietnam's sea

27/5/2011

Vietnam's TV reported: Friday 27/5/2011 at 5:5' PM (Vietnam's time) 3 China marine surveillance ships infiltrated deep into Vietnam's sea (120 knot from land) and directly attack/harass PVN (Petro Vietnam the main petrol company of VN) exploration ship the Bình Minh 02. This harassment caused damaged to Vietnam's ship technical equipment (probe and cable)!!

In the same day at 7 pm the national TV of Vietnam reported what happened there. Vietnam declare:

"Vietnam affirmed the infiltration of China's ship deep in the waters of Vietnam to h arras, destroy or hinder the activities of exploration and survey of the PVN is normally a very brazen act, flagrant violation of the sovereignty of Vietnam, causing major economic damage and obstruct the operation of the PVN."

26/5/2011

According to many fishing boat: after the incident hundreds China's fishing boat infiltrated deep into Vietnam water and proved very aggressive toward lone or small groups of Viet Nam fishing boats! Beside using superior number to gather all fisheries those "bloodthirsty pirates" even surrounded Viet's ships and threaten them with cold steel weapon. That's not mention more than 30 China warships and marine surveillance ships crawling at Trường Sa islands (which undoubtedly belong to Vietnam) to block Vietnam's fishing boats working there!

Meanwhile Vietnam government starting to demand China to pay compensation. China didn't answer yet.

The only good new is people still calm.

27/5/2011

According to some "Unofficial sources": Vietnam was reacting at "necessary level". Anyway i won't say more than necessary here

According to newspaper and reports

_PVN declare: Bình Minh 02 will continue its mission as usual
_Vietnam are thinking about sue China to international for this serious action
_Vietnam will greatly speed up the plan to create a new "fishermen director"
_Vietnam government advice fishing boat to work like packs and demand it's border troops, naval and sea police protect fishermen!

http://www.ft.com/home/asia

[vttnguyen]

Originally Posted by coolink

China seriously violates Vietnam's sea

27/5/2011

Vietnam's TV reported: Friday 27/5/2011 at 5:5' PM (Vietnam's time) 3 China marine surveillance ships infiltrated deep into Vietnam's sea (120 knot from land) and directly attack/harass PVN (Petro Vietnam the main petrol company of VN) exploration ship the Bình Minh 02. This harassment caused damaged to Vietnam's ship technical equipment (probe and cable)!!

In the same day at 7 pm the national TV of Vietnam reported what happened there. Vietnam declare:

"Vietnam affirmed the infiltration of China's ship deep in the waters of Vietnam to h arras, destroy or hinder the activities of exploration and survey of the PVN is normally a very brazen act, flagrant violation of the sovereignty of Vietnam, causing major economic damage and obstruct the operation of the PVN."

26/5/2011

According to many fishing boat: after the incident hundreds China's fishing boat infiltrated deep into Vietnam water and proved very aggressive toward lone or small groups of Viet Nam fishing boats! Beside using superior number to gather all fisheries those "bloodthirsty pirates" even surrounded Viet's ships and threaten them with cold steel weapon. That's not mention more than 30 China warships and marine surveillance ships crawling at Trường Sa islands (which undoubtedly belong to Vietnam) to block Vietnam's fishing boats working there!

Meanwhile Vietnam government starting to demand China to pay compensation. China didn't answer yet.

The only good new is people still calm.

27/5/2011

According to some "Unofficial sources": Vietnam was reacting at "necessary level". Anyway i won't say more than necessary here

According to newspaper and reports

_PVN declare: Bình Minh 02 will continue its mission as usual
_Vietnam are thinking about sue China to international for this serious action
_Vietnam will greatly speed up the plan to create a new "fishermen director"
_Vietnam government advice fishing boat to work like packs and demand it's border troops, naval and sea police protect fishermen!

http://www.ft.com/home/asia

Once again Vietnamese government put their tails between their legs whenever the Chinese infiltrated into Vietnam water or attack/kill our fishermen. Hey never mind what the Chinese are doing to our border/sovereignty, destroy our exploration equipment, we don't want to rock the boat, we don't want to cause a fuss, we don't want to upset our big brother China or, God forbid, get in a fight with our big brother China! lets go arrest, beat up and jail our own people for demanding basic human rights instead. They better stand up to the Chinese or they're going to lose a lot more than just probe and cable to the freaking Chinese.

[going-higher]

Next thing you know China will land soldiers on Vietnam shore if we don't fire the first shot like VNCH did even tho they know their enemy is stronger and being outnumber.

[vttnguyen]

Originally Posted by going-higher

Next thing you know China will land soldiers on Vietnam shore if we don't fire the first shot like VNCH did even tho they know their enemy is stronger and being outnumber.

There are hundreds of Chinese's fishing boat infiltrated deep into Vietnam water daily. The Chinese fishing boats are threaten the Vietnamese fishermen in Vietnam water. Where the hell is the Vietnam's navy?
Someone better start shooting those stupid fuc*s before they completely take over Vietnam's water. The freaking VC better align themself with the US and let the US Navy operating in the Vietnamese water to counter china. You don't see this happen in Japan, South Korea or Taiwan cuz these countries navies will be there to meet them. This is really pisses me off.

[TheFuturistic]

even the smallest one has its teeth and it has to bite for the survival; the Chinese should be smart to know that any conflict in the region would harm the miracle rise of asia;

Asia Pacific was never good like this and will be much better if China, the biggest player in the field, dont make wrong and greedy moves

[doehomey]

Originally Posted by vttnguyen

There are hundreds of Chinese's fishing boat infiltrated deep into Vietnam water daily. The Chinese fishing boats are threaten the Vietnamese fishermen in Vietnam water. Where the hell is the Vietnam's navy?
Someone better start shooting those stupid fuc*s before they completely take over Vietnam's water. The freaking VC better align themself with the US and let the US Navy operating in the Vietnamese water to counter china. You don't see this happen in Japan, South Korea or Taiwan cuz these countries navies will be there to meet them. This is really pisses me off.

Doehomey would like to volunteer vttnguyen to fire the first shot. As always, his brawns seems to be bigger than his brains. vttnguyen should read one of the best legal manuals on the south china sea and stop reading those little saigon rags before replying:

SOVEREIGNTY OVER THE PARACEL AND SPRATLY ISLANDS
By Monique Chemillier-Gendreau .

[coolink]

Originally Posted by doehomey

Doehomey would like to volunteer vttnguyen to fire the first shot. As always, his brawns seems to be bigger than his brains. vttnguyen should read one of the best legal manuals on the south china sea and stop reading those little saigon rags before replying:

SOVEREIGNTY OVER THE PARACEL AND SPRATLY ISLANDS
By Monique Chemillier-Gendreau .

you are the one supporting internet restriction in Vietnam aren't ya?
that's reading commie rags

I have Saigonese as my witness so please don't erase and edit stuff in 2008

[doehomey]

Originally Posted by TheFuturistic

even the smallest one has its teeth and it has to bite for the survival; the Chinese should be smart to know that any conflict in the region would harm the miracle rise of asia;

Asia Pacific was never good like this and will be much better if China, the biggest player in the field, dont make wrong and greedy moves

Legally, they cannot win. The whole earth has been discovered and there is no new land or seas to claim. It is just escalation to get better terms from Vietnam and ASEAN countries. UNLOS is 200 miles and continental shelf principle. Also there are the treaties between the French and Chinese which also binds Vietnam and China now.
Of course, Doehomey could be wrong and a madman is in charge of the Chinese military. Tibet was taken because that is where Chinese H2O comes from. Xinjiang for the oil. Inner Mongolia for the minerals. Vietnam for the oil, seas, fish, geopolitical location and because there will be 30 million excess single Chinese guys very soon. Vietnamese girls are very pretty. Pretty girls are a precious natural resource too!

[doehomey]

Originally Posted by coolink

you are the one supporting internet restriction in Vietnam aren't ya?
that's reading commie rags

I have Saigonese as my witness so please don't erase and edit stuff in 2008

Please don't put words into Doehomey's mouth. Your memory fails you. Doehomey has always stated that the INTERNET is the best tool for Vietnam. ENGLISH is also very good. Also CORRUPTION is very bad. Doehomey message has been consistent. Of course, some people are bound to not learn anything even if they have access to the internet. hint.

[coolink]

Originally Posted by doehomey

Please don't put words into Doehomey's mouth. Your memory fails you. Doehomey has always stated that the INTERNET is the best tool for Vietnam. ENGLISH is also very good. Also CORRUPTION is very bad. Doehomey message has been consistent. Of course, some people are bound to not learn anything even if they have access to the internet. hint.

will you promise not to edit this post by tomorrow?

and can you post doehomey picture for coolink to see? thanks......love u

[vttnguyen]

Originally Posted by TheFuturistic

even the smallest one has its teeth and it has to bite for the survival; the Chinese should be smart to know that any conflict in the region would harm the miracle rise of asia;

Asia Pacific was never good like this and will be much better if China, the biggest player in the field, dont make wrong and greedy moves

Many people in the world believe that China is already a superpower, or will quickly replace the United States to become a superpower. These very same people also have misconception that China is the top global economic power, but in reality, China’s economy is barely one-third the size of the U. S. economy. The truth is that China is not a superpower and I highly doubt it will ever become one. A superpower is a country that achieves dominance in ideas or ideology, an economic system, and military power. China’s economically achievements are indeed impressive but keep in mind that China started from a very low level of GDP and much of its growth comes from heavy investment in infrastructure. In terms of militarily, China’s military spending is only a fraction of what the U. S. spends. A 2009 Pentagon report estimated China’s total military spending at between $105 and $150 billion, compared to $719 billion by the United States. Also China’s influence in Asia is very limited. Who is China’s ally? Singapore? North Korea? Vietnam? India will be more likely allied with the U. S. than with China, and we all know South Korea, Taiwan, Japan’s positions. Singaporean scholar Simon Tay’s comment, “no one in Asia wants to live in a Chinese-dominated world. There is no Chinese dream to which people aspire.” By all measures, China is not a superpower. With other major economies such as India and Russia on the rise, it is hard to see China ever becoming a superpower.