Ma Kai is a Chinese communist. He is a political economist. This spring Ma Kai was elevated to the position of Secretary-General of China’s State Council having successfully completing a five-year stint as Minister of China’s National Development and Reform Commission (“NDRC”) which controls the planned, centralized economy for most populated country in the world (1.31 billion).
There is one thing about this communist I like: He must be driving Al Gore crazy.
For years China has been in the cross-hairs of Al Gore’s earth-worshipers who demand that China adopt greenhouse gas emissions caps. In rejecting caps Ma Kai has time and time again pointed out the hypocrisy and unfairness for developed countries, like the U.S., to ask developing countries, like China and India, to halt their economic progress, and cut their own throats, by committing to mandatory greenhouse gas reductions. Ma Kai thinks that’s quite an “ask” by the developed countries and is unwilling to sentence China’s folks to lives mired in poverty for the next 50 years and beyond.
According to Ma Kai, developed nations who benefit from China’s low-wage factory workforce should not point fingers. Ma Kai sums this up when he says, “Ever increasing rates of energy consumption are the norm for developing nations, which have become low-cost factory economies, that are mainly contracted by Western companies to make products for developed countries.”