Chinese invade Detroit.

[pangea]

Red Dawn 2 is being filmed in Detroit right now. Here are some photos from the streets of Detroit... It's not the Russians this time but the Chinese are coming. I'll let the rest of the itulip folks insert comments. ;)

http://jalopnik.com/5377128/red-dawn...yline=true&s=i

[D-Mack]

Re: Chinese invade Detroit.

Why are they using a US Hummer ? Confiscated by the creditor?

http://reddawn2010.com/index.php?opt...ries&Itemid=10

[don]

Re: Chinese invade Detroit.

This has none of the sticking power of the original. We had it drummed into our heads that the Russkies were the bad guys from our childhood on. The Chinese have made all our consumer crappola seemingly forever, in the Land of Limited Memories. Plus many people know they buy a lot of our Treasuries. Compare that to the Bear profile of Red Dawn 1. Bad Guy Chinese hasn't happened yet.

[halcyon]

Re: Chinese invade Detroit.

THe American psyche is simple:

1) They need a common enemy to unite against

2) They don't read books, read newspapers or do a lot of independent thinking, thus

3) Movies are the best way to make them emotional, reduce the last bits of sanity they have left and make them hate/attack < Oceania | EastAsia | insert your favorite orwellian term here >

Maybe the turban wearing terrorists are not scary enough any more.

[pangea]

Re: Chinese invade Detroit.

More from the website:

[we_are_toast]

Re: Chinese invade Detroit.

I'm still trying to decide if letting China have Detroit is a good thing or a bad thing.

[jimmygu3]

Re: Chinese invade Detroit.

More from the website:

I'll bet you a million yuan that these photos are going to circulate in the right wing blogosphere without the movie mention. "Look at what Obama is turning America into!" :eek:

Jimmy

[ASH]

Re: Chinese invade Detroit.

I'm still trying to decide if letting China have Detroit is a good thing or a bad thing.

Actually, I'm thinking that the Chinese government might do a better job of running Detroit than we are.

[WildspitzE]

Re: Chinese invade Detroit.

Red Dawn 2 is being filmed in Detroit right now. Here are some photos from the streets of Detroit... It's not the Russians this time but the Chinese are coming. I'll let the rest of the itulip folks insert comments. ;)

this movie looks to be worse than the original.

[Ghent12]

Re: Chinese invade Detroit.

I'll bet you a million yuan that these photos are going to circulate in the right wing blogosphere without the movie mention. "Look at what Obama is turning America into!" :eek:

Jimmy

Screw that, I'm going to distribute them myself! This will be priceless!

[flintlock]

Re: Chinese invade Detroit.

Great posters!

Red Dawn II huh? How appropriate.

[Shakespear]

Re: Chinese invade Detroit.

The stupidest thing I have seen in a long time. Anyone paying to see this needs to spend more time at the Library (if they are still open).

Sugar Candy for the Minds of the "Crowd".

[pangea]

Re: Chinese invade Detroit.

GM moved all it's non-US operations to Shanghai a few months ago, but it didn't even make the headlines.

"It should signal to everybody that certainly North America is going to be important to righting the ship, but basically the bread is going to be buttered out of Asia,"

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GM power has shifted to China


Aug. 30--SHANGHAI -- Largely overlooked in last month's sweeping management reorganization of the new post-bankruptcy General Motors Co. was a recentering of power to Shanghai.


Nick Reilly went from overseeing GM's Asia operations based in Shanghai to overseeing all of the automaker's operations outside of North America, except for Opel -- ending decades of bureaucratic silos that had carved up the globe into regional divisions.


So while GM's Canada and Mexico operations report through the United States, most of the rest of the world reports through China.
"It should signal to everybody that certainly North America is going to be important to righting the ship, but basically the bread is going to be buttered out of Asia," said Michael Robinet, vice president of global vehicle forecasts at CSM Worldwide. "GM fully understands that, and that's the reason why they put more decision-making capability out of Asia for their future fortunes."


As GM looks to sell off majority control of its Opel division in Europe, the Detroit automaker will likely draw on lessons from its China operations, where it is partnered with Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp. and Wuling Motors, for managing its new relationship.


GM is working with the German government in what's become an increasingly messy process to find a majority owner for Opel. Among the potential partners: Magna and a Russian bank or Belgium-based investment company RHJ International SA.


GM has learned much from its Chinese partners.


"We are familiar with operating in a shared ownership environment, which is quite different than what I call a 'command-and-control environment,' " Kevin Wale, president of GM China, told the Free Press during a recent interview. "You have to communicate very well. You have to understand that both sides of a partnership have to win all of the time."


That communication requires time.


"We often say that we make the same decision four or five times," Wale said. "But you have to do that to make sure everyone is lined up and that people aren't working against each other."


While GM sales in the United States are down 37.7 percent to 1.1 million so far this year, its sales in China are growing at an astonishing rate.
GM's July sales in China through its joint ventures increased 77.7 percent to 144,593, which the company says makes it the best July ever in its books. For the first seven months of the year, GM's China sales were up 42.8 percent to 959,035, according to GM.


In early August, GM celebrated the sale of its 1 millionth vehicle in China this year -- a man named Ye Banjun purchased a silver Buick LaCrosse -- with a giant cake.


"Asia is the shining jewel that they have," George Magliano, an industry expert at IHS Global Insight, said of GM.


"If you look at GM going forward, they are a smaller company, they are more refocused. If they turn themselves around and they have resources ... to put behind things, it's going to be China and Asia."


Some of GM's success in China this year, Wale said, is credited to the Chinese government's stimulus aimed at attracting lower-income, rural shoppers to new cars.


"The government has been very active in promoting low-end consumption of vehicles," he said.


This has helped GM's Wuling venture, which saw sales jump 90.7 percent to 87,925 in July compared with last year. That growth is driven largely by the Wuling Sunshine minivan.


GM recently announced a new deal with its Chinese partners to export Wuling mini-commercial vehicles from China to South America, the Middle East and North America.


GM also looks poised to enter into a venture with China FAW Group Corp., China's second-biggest automaker, to make light trucks, Bloomberg News reported last week.


"So far, China's growth has exceeded anything anybody thought possible," Mike DiGiovanni, GM's executive director of global market and industry analysis, said in July.


And for GM, said Magliano, Shanghai is "the crown jewel in the new empire."
Free Press business writer Jewel Gopwani contributed to this report.


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[D-Mack]

Re: Chinese invade Detroit.

Why are they using a US Hummer ? Confiscated by the creditor?

http://reddawn2010.com/index.php?opt...ries&Itemid=10

now it's correct

Iconic Hummer brand sold to Chinese manufacturer


By TOM KRISHER (AP) – 28 minutes ago
DETROIT — Hummer, the off-road vehicle that once epitomized America's love for hulking trucks, is now in the hands of a Chinese heavy equipment maker.
General Motors Co. and Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery Corp. finally signed the much-anticipated deal for GM to sell the brand on Friday.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/...kb-VgD9B7P6M80

[touchring]

Re: Chinese invade Detroit.

I'll bet you a million yuan that these photos are going to circulate in the right wing blogosphere without the movie mention. "Look at what Obama is turning America into!" :eek:

Jimmy

so the whitehouse is the enemy of detriot? i'm starting to think so.