12 May 2008

My Shanghai Diary - parts I, II, III, & IV [by B. Raman]
Chennai Centre For China Studies (C3S), Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Self-description: "B. Raman, C3S Paper[s No. 153, 154, 155, and 157] dated May 10, 2008. (Based on the writer's visit to Shanghai from May 6 to 9, 2008, for a discussion on the 'Beijing Olympics & Security')."
An extract from 'My Shanghai Diary - I: A Miracle Within a Miracle': "[...] 3. Statistics are irrelevant with regard to Shanghai. The statistics of today will become outdated next week and so on. That is the pace of its development. Shanghai is proud that every important country of the world is represented there - in its industries, in its business world, in its financial centres, in its architecture and in its arts and culture. 4. Shanghai is a miracle within a miracle. If China is rapidly overtaking the rest of Asia - even the rest of the world - in its economic development and modernisation, Shanghai has already overtaken the rest of China many times over in every aspect. [...]"
An extract from 'My Shanghai Diary--IV: Suspicions & Ground Reality': "[...] 7. India is not among the ill-wishers of China. It applauds the Chinese economic miracle. It applauds even more the great achievements of Shanghai. India wants the Olympics to succeed and will co-operate in every possible way with the Chinese authorities in preventing any terrorist threat. If the Olympic Games turn out to be less spectacular than China had wanted them to be and if the unrest and the global movement against China continues, the Chinese will have to blame themselves for it [...]"

A paper to be read along with:
* My Shanghai Diary - I: A Miracle Within a Miracle
http://www.c3sindia.org/terrorismandsecurity/242/my-shanghai-diary-part-i/
* My Shanghai Diary - II: Why Anger?
http://www.c3sindia.org/terrorismandsecurity/243/my-shanghai-diary-ii-why-anger/
* My Shanghai Diary - III: Why Sorrow?
http://www.c3sindia.org/terrorismandsecurity/244/my-shanghai-diary-iii-why-sorrow/
* My Shanghai Diary - IV: Suspicions & Ground Reality
http://www.c3sindia.org/tibet/246/my-shanghai-diary-iv-suspicions-and-ground-reality/

[The author of the paper, Mr B. Raman, is Additional Secretary (retd), Cabinet Secretariat, Govt. of India. - ed.]
URL http://www.c3sindia.org/terrorismandsecurity/242/my-shanghai-diary-part-i/
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) - the paper was not archived at the time of this abstract. However, in a few weeks time it will be available at web.archive.org/web/*/www.c3sindia.org - ed.
Link reported by: B. Raman (corde--at--vsnl.com)
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