Hurt our economy? Whose? US economy or the Europen economies or the Chinese economy?
First, the Chinese talk is pep political talk. It is just a defence against the criticism that Chinese forex reserves being mostly in dollar are falling in value.
Second, to diversify forex reserves, the Chinese will have to sell dollars to buy Euro and other stronger currencies. That would mean further fall in dollar aND RISE IN the stronger currencies. This means immediate part loss in value f Chinese Forx Reserves.
Third, so long as China continues to have huge current account surplus with the US, it will continue to have this problem of accumulating dollars reserves. So, how will China diversify unless Cina greatly reduces it dependence on US for exports?
Fourth, it is the US which will have problem buying so much from China as the economy slows down unless China is able to buy significantly higher US goods/ But what US goods can China buy from US for her poor population?
Fifth, further appreciation of Euro etc viv a vis the dollar may not be liked by these European countries because they lose competitive advantage.
The baisc imbalance created by huge and sustained current account surplus by China and deficit by the US will cost both the countries dearly. This imbalance will have to be corrected by both the economies. US consumers have to cut down on imports from China as the dollar falls, and China has to find markets elsewhere and reduce her exports to the US.

Any kind of censorship is an act of fear.

I know that there are people out there in the world who are doing things that my have a negative effect on my existence, but I am not going to try to shut them down out of fear. I am going to try to be as ruthless in my commitment to my principles as they are in their commitment to their madness.

Once you start reacting to things out of fear there is not end to it.

I know a lady I work with who doesn't like Walmart and the way people who shop in Walmart look. Her solution? The government should enforce birth control measures against people in Walmart. That is not a joke or a fiction. I really know this lady. She has an idea in her head of the way people should llook and where they should shop, and she is so retreated into her own mind that anything resembling reality – that is an actual person that may not conform to her school girl preferences – makes her so uncomfortable that she just wishes more than anything that it would not exist. That is weakness at its utmost. This woman is so weak, so inhibited in her own mind, so wrapped up in her own little world that she actually wants the government to make the world like the imaginary world in her head.

Obviously people in Walmart are not terrorists, and you would think it is okay to censor terrorists, but once again, that is an act of fear.

Am I so naive as to believe that there are no dangerous people in the world. If I am the strong man, then I can go out into the world fully aware of dangerous people, different people, unfamiliar people, etc. etc. etc. and not be so unsettled in my mind as a person dominated by their fears.

I simply intend that I should be as ruthless in the response to evil as evil is in its disregard for human life.

Take a guy who is afraid of bullies. That guy is afraid of physical harm. A bully isn't afraid of inflicting physical harm on someone. So to resist bullies, you don't put in force all kind of laws to restrain bullies, because then you are doing things out of fear, which was precisely the problem with the bullies to begin with. They inspire fear. What you do, is teach a kid to be so ruthless and violent himself, that is with an understanding of virtue, that when the bully comes calling, he is even more ruthless than the bully and scares the bully sh*tless.

If a bully comes up to a classmate and says give me your lunch money and the classmate, being scared runs to the teacher, who later watches over the child, you still have a bully and a scared child. If you teach that child, when the bully comes to him to just kick that bully in the crotch as soon as he opens his mouth, well then you have strength in the hand of the good person and the bully is rendered inneffectual by a person even more ruthless than himself.

Someone may say, what if the child gets beaten up. You may have to get beaten up a few times before you are able to withstand the beater. The fact that you are afraid of getting beaten up is precisely the problem.

Fear is the inspiration of all modern politics, and certainly behind all censorship.

If you are afraid of what terrorists might do, then don't outlaw any expression of terrorism. Believe me, the terrorists won't become nice guys because you shut down their website.

What you do is become so ruthless and terrible in your reaction to lawlessness that nobody wants to be a terrorist or a neo-nazi, or commit hate crimes, or crimes of any sort.

Of course the people who engage in this kind of censorship probably all eat tofu, so what kind of backbone can you expect.

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u'll have to unlock the phone u should of done it in europe its much easier. but you will have to find a place to unlock it. well i don't know what phone it is but if u have your original sim card and put it in and turn it on and it says an american carrier /AT&t or T-mobile than it would work here.