China Bestsellers for March: Financial Savvy for Kids
The children’s book bestseller list in China is currently led by the German financial coach Bodo Schäfer’s widely translated ‘A Dog Named Money.’
A young cyclist leads the way in Shanghai during the early stages of the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic, in April 2020. Image – iStockphoto: Robert Way
Financial Advice for Kids
In our look at China’s bestsellers in March, we’re making a change to bring you Beijing OpenBook’s rankings on the Chinese market’s charting children’s books.
Having looked at illustrated books
per se for several months, we’ve found that illustrated work is so concentrated in books for young readers (as happens in many other markets, too) that there’s more to be gained from surveying the children’s book rankings, which will include both illustrated and unillustrated work for younger readers.
The politics of standing up to Xi’s China
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The new Defence Minister, Peter Dutton, has been criticised for warmongering this week, and the government stands accused of trying to set up a China panic to boost its re-election chances. The toughest critic probably was Kevin Rudd. The former prime minister told the ABC’s Leigh Sales that the government was seeking “the khaki terrain of a national security agenda”.
Rudd told me that “Morrison and company are addicted to the drug of ‘standing up to China’ every day of the week” because it helps the government politically. National security was “old faithful for the next election” while other issues weren’t running in the government’s favour. “And that is what the agenda shift to China is all about.”
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Jin mocked Australia’s ability to stop the People’s Liberation Army taking over Taiwan and his choice of words was truly fascinating:
They always feel that Anglo-Saxon whites and Christian whites should be the leaders of the world…
[O]n the surface, these people seem to love peace very much and want to stop a war. In fact, it can be seen from their hypocritical words that their goal is that the white-dominated world should not be disturbed.
The white man is the master of the world, and the others are nothing more than belongings of the world. This group of people in Australia are entrenched white supremacists.
Weak, racist, self-destructive : Chinese General attacks Aussie military capabilities28/04/2021|2min
A Chinese General has dismissed Australia’s attempts to bolster its military preparedness with a major escalation in defence spending saying Australia is neither strong nor powerful.
“We don’t need to take it seriously,” General Jin Yinan said in an interview in China.
General Jin said if Australia insists on intervening “it would only cause greater damage” to the country itself.
He also sensationally declared “white supremacy” was a key motivator for Canberra’s military-related decisions.
However, Home Affair Minister Karen Andrews hit back at his comments during an interview with Sky News and defended Australia’s military capabilities.