Archive for “WTF”

On this page the following entries were made in the “WTF” category.


An Imaginary Chinese Election

Posted November 9th, 2007 by Josh

With all of the talk about Chinese democratization in the recent 17th National Congress, I wondered what a Mainland election would look like. Would it be like an American election, with Swift-Boat ads and fund raising bonanzas? It’s hard to know, and we’ll probably never see it, but it’s fun to imagine. Oh, wait, I [...]

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When Secretaries Attack

Posted November 2nd, 2007 by Josh

Don’t get me wrong, I would never publicly complain about colleagues and certainly never bosses. However, there is one particularly Chinese experience with someone at my office that I think is fairly telling about the culture here. It’s actually 2 experiences, but they happened 27 minutes apart, so I’ll combine them. (editor’s note: this did [...]

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Politicians Know Nothing about China

Posted November 1st, 2007 by Josh

Yesterday I was listening to Real Time with Bill Maher when I heard former Democratic Presidential candidate, and ardent Hillary Clinton supporter, General Wesley Clark, make one of the weirdest statements I have ever heard about China. The panelists were discussing whether non-US born American citizens should be able to run for the White House [...]

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