http://www.hojohnlee.com/weblog/archives/2005/06/08/china-is-run-by-engineers/ Sat, 30 Aug 2008 03:33:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.2 http://www.hojohnlee.com/weblog/archives/2005/06/08/china-is-run-by-engineers/#comment-707834 Tue, 12 Feb 2008 21:03:29 +0000 http://www.hojohnlee.com/weblog/archives/2005/06/08/china-is-run-by-engineers/#comment-707834 There goes my theory about engineers being better human beings There goes my theory about engineers being better human beings

]]> http://www.hojohnlee.com/weblog/archives/2005/06/08/china-is-run-by-engineers/#comment-487137 Sat, 20 Oct 2007 19:45:30 +0000 http://www.hojohnlee.com/weblog/archives/2005/06/08/china-is-run-by-engineers/#comment-487137 [...] Yesterday Jasper Becker, publisher of Asia Weekly and the author of Dragon Rising (among many other titles), gave an informal talk about the 17th National Party Congress (which as Bradley mentioned, began today) , at a dim sum brunch hosted by the Yale Club of Beijing. At some point he pointed out that China’s leadership is unique in that all nine members of the politburo come from an engineering background (President Hu Jintao, FYI, has a degree in hydraulic engineering),as opposed to the lawyer types you’ll find amongst politicans in the West and elsewhere (Tony Blair, Bill Clinton). (Random fact of the day: “Little Bush,” as the Chinese call him, is the first American president to hold a Masters in business administration.) [...] […] Yesterday Jasper Becker, publisher of Asia Weekly and the author of Dragon Rising (among many other titles), gave an informal talk about the 17th National Party Congress (which as Bradley mentioned, began today) , at a dim sum brunch hosted by the Yale Club of Beijing. At some point he pointed out that China’s leadership is unique in that all nine members of the politburo come from an engineering background (President Hu Jintao, FYI, has a degree in hydraulic engineering),as opposed to the lawyer types you’ll find amongst politicans in the West and elsewhere (Tony Blair, Bill Clinton). (Random fact of the day: “Little Bush,” as the Chinese call him, is the first American president to hold a Masters in business administration.) […]

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