China from Planck's Constant Archives

Posted on December 12, 2011 10:21 PM

Finalists of the 36th Miss Bikini International World Contest pose for a photo at a beach in Qingdao

The more a country appreciates burgers, BBQs, beer and boobs, the more civilized it is.

Read the Rest: The Chinese Appreciation of BBQs, Beer, and Boobs

Posted on December 11, 2011 10:37 PM

Researchers from Greenpeace and IPEN, which campaigns against chemical pollutants, bought 500 toys and children's products in five Chinese cities in November, including Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong

A wide range of toys and children’s products made in China, including those sold by reputable American brands, apparently contained either lead, arsenic, cadmium, mercury, antimony or chromium.

Read the Rest: Chinese Toxic Toys

Posted on October 4, 2011 11:10 PM

Barred from using lead in children’s jewelry because of its toxicity, some Chinese manufacturers have been substituting the more dangerous heavy metal cadmium in sparkling charm bracelets and shiny pendants being sold throughout the United States, an Associated Press investigation shows.

Read the Rest: Chinese Jewelry is Dangerous

Posted on May 16, 2011 08:55 PM

Chinese officials have recalled some 170 tons of milk powder tainted with deadly melamine in the latest evidence that products from the last industrial scandal were repackaged and placed back on the market.

Read the Rest: Chinese Knock-offs Can Kill You

Posted on March 31, 2011 06:16 PM

The Chinese deal in two kinds of knock-offs. The counterfeit, which looks like a real name brand product, but merely has a fraudulent label sewn on to appear genuine and Shanzhai, which almost look and sound close to a real name brand.

Read the Rest: 13 Shanzhai Sound-Alike Fakes

Posted on March 16, 2011 09:57 PM

Years ago you could buy any counterfeit product from a Chinese-owned Canal Street business simply by asking for it, however the police have done such a good job these past few years closing these places down that the sellers have been forced to move their operations to the surrounding side-streets. Now we observe roving gangs of young Chinese selling the fugazies on the sidewalks of Hester Street, one block north of Canal.

Read the Rest: Louis Vuitton Whores Shopping In Chinatown

Posted on November 26, 2010 08:41 AM

A slick, short and cogent argument for eventual Chinese supremacy is made in this ad from Citizens Against Government Waste.

The ad begins by asking "Why do great nations fail?"

Read the Rest: China Versus the US 2030 AD

Posted on July 2, 2010 08:38 PM

Although Steve Jobs has said a number of times that Foxconn “is not a sweatshop,” I don't see why he bothers. Apple users will buy his products even if he used black slaves or child labor because Apple users are sheep.

Read the Rest: When Steve Jobs Speaks People Die

Posted on July 13, 2009 02:53 PM

I often come across well-meaning bloggers who exhort their readers to buy only American-made products. However, it is a futile gesture for a number of reasons:

Read the Rest: I Do Not Buy American

Posted on May 18, 2009 09:40 PM

Before you continue reading, I must warn my dear reader that because of the cheap manufacturing process used in making the chairs there is a graphic and unpleasant image of what happened to a particular person's body because of the manufacturing defect. Do not continue if you are the slight bit squeamish.

Read the Rest: Warning Do Not Buy Walmart Chairs

Posted on April 9, 2008 10:00 AM

Golden Gate Bridge in San FranciscoPhoto Credit: Kimberly White/Reuters"No force can stop the torch relay of the Olympic Games," said Sun Weide, a spokesman for the Beijing organizing committee, The Associated Press reported. "We are confident the torch relay of the Beijing Olympic Games will succeed." Someday, unless we wake up, the Chinese will...

Read the Rest: China: No force can stop the Olympic torch relay

Posted on October 10, 2007 10:02 PM

I just cannot understand how American companies can have so much contempt for its customers as to allow toys, such as the one pictured here, to be sold.

Read the Rest: Another China Toy Recall

Posted on October 4, 2007 09:17 PM

I would be worried if the Chinese mandated that all children should be brought up Jewish.

Read the Rest: A Thousand Chinese Einsteins Every Year - if they are Jewish

Posted on July 14, 2007 08:46 AM

Zheng Xiaoyu, the former director of China's State Food and Drug Administration

One of the saddest things to see is how Wal-Mart, by constantly forcing its vendors to come up with cheaper products each year eventually forces any local industry to set up shop in China where controls are almost non-existent and labor practices border on slavery.

Read the Rest: China Beats Our Meat

Posted on July 12, 2007 11:58 AM

I don't have as much a problem with Chinese products since I have never shopped in a Wal-Mart and never will. In fact, I have never even stepped into a Wal-Mart in my life.

Read the Rest: Americans Want Geographic labels on Food

Posted on March 17, 2007 05:01 PM

I have noticed for some time that I have not been receiving any traffic from China, although I do get a half-dozen or so visitors from Hong Kong every week. Just to make sure, I clicked on the Great Firewall of China and took the test; sure enough, Planck's Constant is banned in Red China.

Read the Rest: Banned in China

Posted on February 18, 2007 06:52 PM

Islamic clerics have to be certified by local Chinese authorities that their political beliefs are not in conflict with Chinese culture, sermons are chosen that do not encourage Jihad, and even which version of the Quran is used is also strictly controlled. And as we know, for good reason. In effect, the Chinese force all Muslims to practise a very narrow, cleaned-up, state-controlled version of Islam.

Read the Rest: The Year of the Pig

Posted on February 5, 2007 10:18 PM

a traditional Chinese wedding ceremony held in Yu Garden, a famous Chinese garden in Shanghai.

If the average Chinese citizen ever becomes as well off as Europeans or Americans, they will not need a one-child only policy since well-educated, well-off westerners average less than one child per couple anyway.

Read the Rest: China`s one Child Rule and unintended consequences

Posted on October 28, 2006 05:44 PM

Chen Ning Franklin Yang (born September 22, 1922) is a Chinese American physicist who worked on statistical mechanics and symmetry principles

There are 6 Chinese Nobel Laureates, almost the same number as Arab Nobel Laureates. Let me explain how they are related. But first, some background.

Read the Rest: List of Chinese Nobel Prize Laureates

Posted on October 27, 2006 02:07 PM

Amazingly China knows they have exactly 46,702 women sex workers in Yunnan and Sichuan. In addition, I am surprised that the Chinese cannot take on a project like this without help from the British. They are sitting on an ocean of trade dollars. I guess if the West is stupid enough to hand out the money there will always be those eager to receive donations.

Read the Rest: China Fights Aids

Posted on May 31, 2006 03:00 PM

a harangue from China to US that taunts our missteps

Here's a film that should be required viewing for all students entering high school. If this doesn't shame one into studying, I don't know what else will.

Read the Rest: In China we eat America for lunch - hahaha

Posted on February 19, 2006 11:55 AM

Congress is turning up the heat on the cozy relationship that Internet giants Google, Yahoo Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Cisco Systems conduct with China's cyber-police. If Congress is so concerned about cyber-police then why aren't they investigating the Justice Department's porn patrol, our very own cyber-police?

Read the Rest: Feds want to tear down China Firewall - But what of our own Anti-Porn Campaign?

Posted on January 26, 2006 01:10 AM

To try it yourself, type in Google.cn in your browser address and search for whatever. Search for "Porn" and get 24,300,000 links, do it in the US edition and you get 109,000,000 links. Likewise "Chinese Torture" yields 2,420,000 links, while the US edition is 13,200,000 links.