So as the war rages on in the United States to fix the most broken health care system in the developed world, two American educated entrepreneurs steam ahead building the Expedia of health care portals for China, Meiloo.com. With 280,000 unique visitors just last month, Meiloo is marching to a new tune for getting the most out of the health care system.

Currently focused on elective treatments, Meiloo.com has solid revenue models through percentages of all surgeries and consultations booked through their platform. Obviously there are some potential holes here, but a good start in a $9billion a year business in China.

So the question we have to ask ourselves, will the answer to our health care issues in China, the US and across the world be answered by the best and brightest entrepreneurs who seek profit by caring for the tired, the sick, and the huddled masses? Or should we not leave it in the hands of small and big business, as we have seen the shortcomings in the US over the past thirty-five years?

Please leave your thoughts and ideas here.

It was only a matter of time before the authorities decided to crack down on Facebook. Finally they have also become tired of the never ending event notifications, status updates discussing your “friend’s” decision to go to M1NT or Bar Rouge this weekend, and the random friend requests. In all seriousness the authorities control over the “web waves” is a cause for concern. But, let’s be honest, it is more of an annoyance than anything. Stack it on top of the typical day of blazing internet speeds, and it is sure to upset expat web users.

This is not meant to be a political post, as an outsider I do not want to delve into the internal political decisions of a soveriegn nation.

I use Facebook and Twitter everyday for both work and personal use. I try not to be “spammy” on either. Some friends take me aside and ask me not to post so much, but honestly I tell them I am posting interesting current events and business articles they should be looking at. Granted most of the people that are taking me aside, don’t really understand how to use Facebook and Twitter to effectively “share” information, but they are coming around.

Yes I do post NextStep event information, but they are good informational events, not another party on the Bund. The majority of my postings point people to great current events like this article, this article and this article (oh, wait I cannot pull the links from my Facebook profile to share with you right now…I need to start bookmarking them again on my Webdexer.com)

If you want to find out more about me, you can click here to view my NextStepDirectory.com profile.  From there you can check out my Linkedin and Twitter (once it is running again).

A confusing turn of events over the past week that now has the Hong Kong American Chamber of Commerce spearheading the movement to get the US a pavillion at the 2010 World Expo. Am I the only one wondering why the HK Amcham is taking the lead on this matter? I know the Shanghai Amhcam has been working on this in coordination with the Beijing chamber for the past year, but to no avail. This really is a matter of American corporations coming together for the mutual good of our future face as business managers and owners in the China landscape. It will be an embarasment if we do not have a pavillion. This is now the second time I am petitioning for all American business owners to write your Senators and Reps, get them to make an initiative from the states. I don’t need to pull out a calculator to tell you that the money needed for the pavilion project is peanuts compared to the financial meltdown war chest that has been opened over the past 5-1/2 months. If you are reading this and you are American and you are a business owner, and you have not yet written your officials in Washington, then open your mailbox and get writing today! See a previous post for a quick copy and paste email text body.

I don’t want to be singing the bad news bears here, but it is reality people. Watch this video, and think about what it will mean for China.  RMB holders beware, there is a perfect storm aligning, and at the center of it is a banking system built like a house of playing cards. A slight breeze will send everything crumbling, and we are talking Typhoon force winds are not in our distant future.

Check out this video at YouTube to see what I am talking about. It is powerful.

Wen Jia Bao and his closest advisers are in Davos, and by all accounts it sounds as if some in media are beginning to take a more relaxed stance on China. To be honest it speaks of the times we now live in. If one day you condone the actions of a nation state, and the following you pride them for their economic achievements so that you may benefit, it makes you as a profession or nation look quite pathetic. If you have a stance and belief, keep it, please don’t peddle a flip-flopping opinions that are delivered as fact. For too long the western media and government has and still remains to look negatively upon China, and rightfully so on many levels, but what they have so conveniently left out of the stories in recent years is how they have benefited from China’s monumental rise.

Look at the facts of information decemination. It is only in the past eighteen months that media has latched onto the debt obligations the US now holds with the Near East. When times got rough and it was no longer to our (US and European) advantage to continue selling our debt at the rapid rate we had no problem with at the onset of this decade, the media and US government started speaking up. We got ourselves into this situation, and it will take a community effort to etract ourselves from this mountain of debt and trade imbalance. The answer is not confrontation and protectionist policies. The answer lies in cooperation between China-US-UK-Euro to fix what has gone so wrong.

I have been emailing my Senator’s office, Arlen Specter, since I first learned of the near certainty of the US absence at the upcoming 2010 World Expo. His office has told me the 111th Congress would have a look at it. Well I have decided to go straight to the top. Let’s see how open and transparent this new administration is, do they practice what they preach? You can see below the message I sent to Barack Obama on day one of his administration. Let’s see if he responds. Keeping my fingers crossed…

As an American entrepreneur in China for four years, my livelihood is very much tied to the dynamic, and often shaky, Sino-US relationship. Something that will leave a black eye to kick off the Obama Administration with the Chinese will be our lack of participation in the Shanghai 2010 World Expo. This expo will be the highest attended world expo in history, with more than seventy million Chinese and expatriates expected to attend. The Federal Government, by an act of Congress in 1991, cannot fund US participation in World Expos. If there is ever a place to kill two birds with one stone, then here it is looking the administration straight in the face. You can help the endeavoring entrepreneurs and business managers in China while simultaneously shifting away from the Bush Administration policy of cold bully tactics with the Chinese. This is your chance to step forward with the Chinese and make the first gesture of goodwill and cooperation. It won’t hurt your standing with the regional party head Xi Jinping, who is most likely to become the next President of China.

There are literally on days left for an executive order. I have already contacted Senator Arlen Specter’s office on this matter, who have given me a positive response with their desire to work on this, but nothing has moved forward. “On this day” “we can” bring change to an extremely pivotal diplomatic relationship. Create the legislation, free up $10-15mil USD, and let’s change US-SIno relations today, not tomorrow.

There is an urgent cry from US business owners and architects in China to get Congrees and the new administration on board, and on board quickly. There have yet to be only limited plans drawn up for the US pavilion, and they must be done so immediately, but unforutnately the funding will have to come from an act of Congress. Click this link to find out more. Ground must be broken by mid-February. Action is needed now, because the Bush Administration and the 110th Congress dropped the ball on this small yet critical issue.