Shocking Video of Little 2-Year-Old Girl in China Getting Run Over by Truck... and Why China Can Never Be Number One

This is a video that has shaken Chinese society to her roots. It shows what China has become. A two-year old girl is hit by a truck and run over. The truck doesn't bother to stop. A second vehicle also runs over the child. A total of eighteen people walk by the critically injured tyke yet no one stops to help until a cleaning lady happens by.

This is a very shocking video. Parental discretion is advised.

That poor dear child. This tears my heart out.


I have been to China several times and have seen how people will not lift a finger to help someone laying in the road. It is truly shocking. Some westerners who go to China and do help people in the streets are often celebrated on TV as some sort of heroes!


Some people have told me that China today is that way because of years of poverty and the government doing little to help so that people have come to think that they must fend for themselves and that other people do not matter.


In 2010, I was the marketing director for a Macau based airlines and, one day, the government of China revoked the airline's license causing nearly 5,000 Japanese to be stranded. That's just one example, but that sort of thing would be impossible in Japan. The Japanese government might revoke a license, but they'd make damn sure the people were taken care of and could get home first.


The Chinese government? I don't know what to think.


It is for this reason, and the related causes and symptoms, that I do not believe China can ever be number one. The social fabric of that country has come apart and there is no respect for private property and the concept of social responsibility has virtually disappeared. 


Mish Shedlock has his own comments about this video. He wrote:

There is quite a difference between failing to act out of 


fear for yourself or life vs. complete indifference as to 


what happens to a little girl run over by a van. 


The video represents the tragic state of everyday affairs in China.

The Yuan will not become the new world reserve currency.

China does not have deep enough capital markets or deep enough bond markets. China does not respect human or property rights, and contrary to popular belief there are so many problems with being the world's reserve currency that Chinese leadership does not even want it.

Mish has more at: 

Must See Heart Wrenching Video of Moral Deterioration in China

and 

Feedback on China Video Story from Mike in Tokyo Rogers, Sculptor Hopen, Others

Japanese people say that China is a very "恐ろし国"

　(very scary country). Things like this video do 

nothing to dispel this kind of thinking. 

I am also very saddened to report that this little

girl has died due to her injuries.

May god bless her soul.

More details: http://duke1.tbo.com/content/2011/oct/21/210905/chinese-toddler-dies-after-getting-run-over-ignore/news-breaking/

What the Japanese Think About Americans - Volume One

I just came back from the grocery store. As we were driving out of the parking lot, there was a huge truck backing out of the parking lot too. 

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Japanese truck and taxi drivers are the best drivers in the world. I've seen truck drivers driving down streets (sometimes backwards) where there wasn't 5 cm  (about 2 inches) space on either side of their rear view side mirrors. I thought, "There's no way they are going to make it down that street without hitting a wall or something!" Yet they did it. 

Typical American female truck driver (writer's image)

They were able to navigate the streets without hitting the sides or scratching their mirrors. I've seen Japanese truck drivers who could drive their 8 foot wide trucks down a 6 foot wide road. Of course I'm exaggerating, but I've seen some awesome driving in this country.


Hell, you should see my car. I never drive in tight spots, yet I have nicks and dings all over the place. My car bumper is a mess! (They are all my wife's fault, of course!)


Anyway, as we left the grocery store parking lot, there was this huge truck backing out and navigating a few curves and turns then out into the street. I was thinking, once again, "What an awesome driver!" When I noticed that the driver of this huge truck was a girl who looked to be in her twenties!


I said to my wife, "Wow! Look at that! That truck driver is a young girl! She looks like she's 25-years-old or there about."


I was surprised that women, especially young ones, were driving trucks in Japan. That says something about the economy and the mind-set of young people today. It says a lot about the way Japan has changed. 


Actually, this girl was petite and pretty, as truck drivers go, which really surprised me. 

Typical Japanese female truck driver (writer's image)

I then added, "That's a big difference between Japan and the United States. In America, a lady might drive a truck, but she'd be huge and fat (muscular) tough as nails, smoke cigars, have tattoos and drink Jack Daniels."


To which my wife replied, "In America, a woman doesn't need to drive trucks to do that!"


And that's what the Japanese think about Americans Vol. 1. 

Japanese Trucks! Transformers? Deceptacons?

Some Japanese truckers really trick out their vehicles. It's pretty amazing.

Annually, they have several shows where these trucks are displayed. Some of the shows are for charity. Here's a short collection of some amateur videos. Watching these trucks makes you wonder when they are going to transform into one of those Transformers or Deceptacons.