“It’s Time To Stop the Absurd Promotion of John Naisbitt’s ‘China’s Megatrends’,” (Updated with Photo)
On the Diane Rehm show, the host interviews John and Doris Naisbitt about their book, “China’s Megatrends: The 8 Pillars of a New Society” According to the book’s promotional materials:
China is creating an entirely new social and economic model, fitting to Chinese history and ...
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Though I agree with a lot of what they say, the Naisbitts’ analysis is as hollow as a tennis ball. I’m sure they are sitting pretty atop the Chinese government’s list of 外国朋友。
[...] Oy. This one makes all the other crappy pop-business China books look scholarly and well-informed by comparison. Kind of what a China book would look like if it was co-authored by L. Ron Hubbard and Dr. Phil. Tags: China News [...]
Someone should conduct a study of these guys, Robert Lawrence Kuhn and John Naisbitt….
Its all about money. they are simply greedy and communist regime love to hear this kind of stories from non chinese perspective. its all crap!!
[...] to even the slightest challenge to its authority, cheered on by Party lackeys at home and by their apologists abroad. The Party, having in 1989 suffered a breakdown of order and the most direct challenge yet [...]
It’s an uplifting book for Chinese. But I think the Chinese leaders prefer to read books like “The coming collapse of China”. Even though it failed to predict the China demise, it warned the leaders to watch out for the pitfalls. It’s hard to fall into a hole when someone told you that there was a hole.
[...] more on the Naisbitts from the China Digital Times have a look at It’s Time To Stop the Absurd Promotion of John Naisbitt’s ‘China’s Megatrends.’ The Naisbitts are shameless self-promoters, which they can be in the west, though if they’d taken [...]
[...] be better to leave it alone than to write in the heat of passion and regret it later. (And I was not the only one to find this interview shocking for its unabashed brown-nosing and [...]
No surprising that anything positive said about China will raise many protests from those who have little understanding of this country and its people. China bashing has become such a fashion in the world, especially in the west, that some hardcore China haters cannot stand it when someone ever dare to say anything good about China. It is a damn shame because no matter how you try to black paint the Chinese system — it works; it has brought a backward country of 1/5 of the world population out of poverty and become a economic giant. Maybe this is what get on some people’s nerves — how dare China be strong! Sure China should follow the superior democratic system of the west or else. Human rights is always a weapon raise by the China haters – what hypocrites! The west has trampled human rights no less that any other country — oh wait — only that the west should be above blame. Anyway, wake up and try be a little fair. Try not to interfere with other country’s internal business.
[...] Too often it seems that China doesn’t want friends, it wants sycophants.* [...]
I admire the Naisbitts’ courage to base their book on media content analysis. Undeniably they did a good job in analyzing a huge amount of media content, trying to separate facts from official “propaganda”. This book is certainly a good reference for those westerners who are interested in China and are filled with information from western perspectives. But, knowledge of . But calling it a ” great book to learn about China” is simply too much.
The title is somewhat misleading too. T speaks of the megatrends that Chinese officials wish to see and say happening, which are less than anything, but never came to reality. For example the final chapter, when addressing human right issues, is so weak.
[...] stop talking about the rise of the great nation, excitedly (such as the Global Times) collecting any piece of praise from westerners, whom we still worship as our superiors, as if the Middle Kingdom has returned to the ancient [...]