Posts Tagged ‘damjan denoble’
To All You "China Bloggers” Out There: There Is *No Such Thing* As An “America Blogger”
Most of my regular readers here at ADM.com are well-aware of colleague Damjan DeNoble’s Sino-following pedigree and of our strong China-centric collaborations. For those others of you who are relatively fresh to this piece of online real estate, you might want to click on through to Asia Health Care Blog, its sister China Health Care Blog, or Damjan’s LinkedIn profile to acquaint yourself a wee bit better with the man behind the lexical magic and a hint of an explanation why I am honored to call myself Damjan’s friend and fellow China traveler.
Warning: don’t shoot the messenger (read: me) if you end up spending more than a couple of hours at any of his sites. On offer: a hot heap of snappy content like news, videos, opinion pieces, and a collection of comments of general interest to the blogging professional.
China HB’s New Vidcast
I thought this was particularly amazing, especially the background track. Damjan DeNoble and James Flanagan break down how Chinese doctors are not properly incentivized and why C-sections are almost 50% of the birthing procedures employed across the PRC.
So Where Do Your Best Ideas Come From?
I was thinking about some of my more prolific blogging friends lately, truly prolific and consistent e-scribes like Dan Harris, Chris Brogan, Julien Smith, Damjan DeNoble & James Flanagan, Marc van der Chijs, Jeff Wasserstrom, Will Moss, and David Wolf. It got me wondering what exactly differentiates the frequent writers from the occasional dabblers? Why do certain bloggers maintain such a torrid pace while others can’t be bothered to lift a typing finger, when lightning-quick dispatching is the very thing they do best?
Damjan & I Talk Chinese “Radishes”
In the spirit of those legendary exchanges between Bill Simmons and Malcolm Gladwell, Damjan DeNoble and I talk China.
REACTION: “Panda Huggers vs. Dragon Slayers”
Damjan DeNoble of Asia Health Care Blog had this to say about the recent Panda Huggers post.
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Lets talk about Panda Huggers and Dragon Slayers. I am neither a panda hugger nor a dragon slayer. Instead, I believe that most developed nations are fairly similar in their approaches to acquiring resources and financial might. Eventually, the growth of all developed/quickly developing economies flattens out along an average trajectory. The relevant question to me is how a country reacts to crises – does it show itself to be a fire breathing dragon, or a slothful panda? What kind of transformation is easier for its communal mindset, its people, its military might, and its political ideology to handle?
In Africa, China is doing nothing different from what European powers have been doing for centuries. Trillions of dollars of American, and European foreign aid to Africa are sitting in the Swiss bank vaults of three generations of African dictators and corporate swindlers. We can choose to attribute this sort of waist to the inefficiencies of NGO’s, or we can choose to take the more realistic view that bribing the wheels of justice and power under the cover of foreign aid has long been par for the African course. I might get slammed for that, but like Frank Rich of the New York Times points out, once upon a time Enron was Forbes’ most innovative company six years running, and Tiger Woods was the face of wholesome America.
Yet, despite these similarities, no one ever talks about a three headed dragon of America, the EU, and China working in tandem to gut the African continent. This is interesting. But, why is it so.
I tend to believe that it is a dragon duel. The EU dragon has, to some extent, already had its time of free reign in Africa. One just need to Google the words “Berlin Conference,” “Belgium,” “rubber,” and “genocide,’ or to read a history of the Rwandan genocide to see how. What’s left is really Dragon China and Dragon America, and from either perspective, China’s or America’s, it is a logical media spin to show the foreign dragon and hide one’s own tail.
At the end of the day, America still holds a gigantic advantage on the African continent in terms of influence and China still has a lot of catching up to do. This holds true for oil commitments, minerals, as well as hearts and minds.
How Many Times Have Damjan & James Been Right?
The always informative, always eloquent Asia Health Care Blog majordomos with their thoughts about the current Chinese H1N1 outbreak.
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