I get how gay marriage is a threat to democracy. That makes sense. Men being monogamous with other men. Women devoting themselves to another woman. I get it. That could really ruin a great country.
But surely Twitter couldn’t ruin a good autocracy, right? Those annoying one sentence blasts that usually link to something more interesting [...]
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Speaking of brilliant ideas, how did China get to the point where it thought blocking YouTube would be a good idea. I know a few months ago there was a controversial video about Tibet (and when I say controversial, I mean it seemed to contradict a government account), but seriously, that was a month ago. [...]
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So, I’ve accepted that I’ve become to busy (euphemism for lazy) to continue posting as much as I did during the Olympic period. I’ve written a bunch of post that I never bothered to put up because I didn’t want to spend the time to work out the kinks. So I’ve moved to the laziest [...]
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During my bike ride to work down the Second Ring Road yesterday, I noticed tiny little bugs–gnats or something–gathering on my shirt. As I looked at them and wondered if one of them would end up getting smeared across my work clothes, I realized that this was meant that Beijing spring had officially arrived. This [...]
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Zhou Xiaochuan, China’s central bank’s governor, recently proposed that a new international super currency be created to replace the US dollar as the international reserve currency. The currency, which I call “Esperanto Bucks,” would be tied to the Special Drawing Rights (SDR), a weighted basket of currencies the International Monetary Fund (IMF) currently uses [...]
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Obama’s coming to China later this year, according to reports coming out of London. It should be an exciting moment. I don’t really have any comment here, I just like the title of the entry. Feel free to add your own opinions about what Obama’s visit will mean for the US and China.
Here’s the FT [...]
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For some reason, a lot of people in Beijing have decided that it is really cool to paint things onto the side of their cars. I have a friend who painted a giant Yankees logo onto the side of his car in New York, which seemed pretty dumb. But he was handed two world series [...]
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In a shocking move, Beijing has canceled planned dates for an Oasis tour that would have landed them in Beijing and Shanghai. Shocking, because apparently Oasis still has enough of a following to go on tour.
Beijing apparently just discovered that lead singer and guitarist John Lennon–I mean Noel Gallagher–played at a Free Tibet event 12 [...]
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Japanese car company, and Michael Phelps sponsor, Mazda, asked their endorser to issue an apology to the Chinese public following his pot smoking incident. And he delivered one (scroll down to watch). Can someone please explain this to me? I find it utterly baffling on so many levels that my head feels like it is [...]
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I was interested recently to read an esteemed Beijing blogger’s giving the ‘Chai’ to the SOHO chain of developments around Beijing.
SOHO complexes now dot Beijing and the most recent Qian Men development is raising some ire. Developing the Qian Men area has been controversial with the old neigbourhood pretty much destroyed. This is a great [...]
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