{"id":1795,"date":"2007-11-24T09:03:16","date_gmt":"2007-11-24T14:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/china-syndrome-part-2467\/"},"modified":"2007-11-24T09:03:16","modified_gmt":"2007-11-24T14:03:16","slug":"china-syndrome-part-2467","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/china-syndrome-part-2467","title":{"rendered":"China Syndrome, Part 2467"},"content":{"rendered":"

For a one-party dictatorship, China’s government is remarkably ineffective at getting the locals to follow orders<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“Understanding is not adequate, responsibilities are unclear, measures are not complementary, policies are incomplete, investment doesn’t arrive, and coordination is ineffective,” China\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s premier, Wen Jiabao, complained bitterly.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For a one-party dictatorship, China’s government is remarkably ineffective at getting the locals to follow orders: “Understanding is not adequate, responsibilities are unclear, measures are not complementary, policies are incomplete, investment doesn’t arrive, and coordination is ineffective,” China\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s premier, Wen Jiabao, complained bitterly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-business","category-politics-implicit"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-sX","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":559,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/the-rock-says","url_meta":{"origin":1795,"position":0},"title":"The Rock Says!","author":"Gil","date":"May 1, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"John Rocker is pitching for the Long Island Ducks, trying to make a comeback to the major leagues after a couple years of rehab for rotator cuff surgery. 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