I am lucky on that one, within walking distance from my apartment I have Taste, Metro, Ole and a few dozens of smaller import shops. However I used to live in a third tier city and had Sunday expeditions trying to grab anything imported that I could. Full Comment>>

Keep it on boy. For some reason a large number of Chinese have a serious problem with nudity, no idea why though because most other Asian countries are pretty open about it. Now that's especially the men who have a problem with it, women are... very open minded in China, at least in the more developed coastal ... Full Comment>>

It's not the foreigners "who act like their money entitles them to disrespect, or take advantage of the local chinese citizens" but the Chinese officials and the tuhao (nouveau riche). Full Comment>>

In his time, Marx warned about the fundamentally unstable nature of capitalism, always growing to better collapse, and how it inevitably leads to conflicts between nations, the Great Depression was only solved with the WW2, creating new market opportunities through murder and destruction, and so will the current ... Full Comment>>

Without Western factories Chinese would still eat rice with vegetables at every meals. No need to say thanks, we are even. Full Comment>>

The dusk of the tuhao, with that "anti-corruption" campaign thingy all the more educated Chinese will be too afraid to collect bribes like they did before, only the dumb tuhao will keep doing so and get into troubles, because they have nothing else to offer beside dirty money, they have no skills, no ... Full Comment>>

I have never heard of any foreigner having a hard time dating (getting laid) in China. Just today I got 3 young attractive girls' numbers, one of them after a quick elevator chat. I can see the sexual desire in Chinese girls' eyes when they are looking at me. Full Comment>>

I have yet to meet one who doesn't. Full Comment>>

Times are changing, the Chinese "Century" is already over, India's premier Modi has been anything but harmonious during his visit to China, Kerry as well. Everyone is pissed with China's BS and no one wants China to be the big bully it dreams to become. The industrial apparel is leaving China, Vietnam ... Full Comment>>

And yet Chinese love to point at foreigners' flaws or mistakes, it is soooooo funny to call the foreigners fat or giants, it is hilarious to let them know when their Mandarin is not perfect. I guess foreigners are expected to give face to Chinese, but not to benefit from it themselves. Full Comment>>

All of this doesn't matter for capitalism as we know it is on its last straw of survival, soon to be replaced with a collaborative society where free and sharing will be the norm. The internet of things, 3D printers, collaborative commons are the new norm. China can lie to itself, can censor the information to its ... Full Comment>>

ROFL, hypocrites here, you can't deny that the Chinese mind is twisted to assume that any Asian must speak Chinese, while non-Asians can't master their "profound" and mysterious language. That is the very reason why even though a non-Asian can speak perfect standard Mandarin many people in China will ... Full Comment>>

Male robots can't give them unlimited money, can't comfort them when they sajiao, ... sexbots for men will be ready long before boyfriend bots for women, and then the value of pussies will collapse, those women (not the majority) who are ultra demanding will remain single forever. Full Comment>>

Sister Feng's friend? Full Comment>>

The problem is that China is not willing to pay as much as neighboring countries (South Korea, Japan, even Vietnam pays more). If they want qualified and experienced ESL teachers they will have to pay for it. No teacher in his right mind will come to a heavily polluted country with censored internet and rampant ... Full Comment>>

Give me a break, I am all for gender equality, I truly love women, but in China most are just like the local men, they want everything without lifting a finger. They want more time to watch soapy Korean dramas and take photos where they are trying (yet failing) to look cute, we all know that. Full Comment>>

At least they don't have toxic smog around 350 days per year. Full Comment>>

Parents and students alike see the FT as a dancing monkey, they expect to be entertained from the first to the last minute of the lesson. Any attempt to enforce discipline as to create a semblance of "learning environment" will be met with complaints from both the school and the parents. Following any ... Full Comment>>

Agreed, HK friends of mine told me that from around 1980 to the late 1990s nearly all robberies in HK were committed by Mainland organized gangs. They would use boats to sail from somewhere around SZ to HK. No wonder HK people hate them. Full Comment>>

Sorry but the last thing that I want is hordes of locusts swarming to my country. I will stick to the Turkish or the Africans above the Chinese anytime. Sure the Chinese have more money, but they are also more unbearable. Full Comment>>

Oh c'mon! Really? Every foreign (white) males in China can get model-like women whenever they want to here, without paying for it. Yes, even that obese and balding guy in his 50s. If there are women haters they are not among us. Full Comment>>

Prostitute, model, green card chaser, gold digger, any difference? Full Comment>>

Oh well, the "headmaster" (or farmer pretending to be) needed to buy a new Rolls Royce, I hope you are all sympathetic. Full Comment>>

Japan has no corrupt... I mean wealthy Chinese immigrants? Now I really want to move there! Full Comment>>

It was outlawed back then, Mao saw "Chinese culture" as backward and barbaric, in some way he was right. It isn't outlawed anymore nowadays. Full Comment>>