Something has happened to US News & World Reports. Tsinghua University school of engineering really was ranked #1 and MIT #2. Lots of Chinese universities are in the top ranks. That should beg the wtf question to US News. Are they getting paid for their rankings now? Tsinghua got a perfect score from their own ... Full Comment>>

Or just go buy the VPN and save the hassle, they only cost $5-7 a month! Full Comment>>

You say that as if it was an easy thing to do. Do you even know why citizenship at birth is the law in the US? Full Comment>>

Next time? Full Comment>>

Perhaps the motto for Chinese facesaving and all things cultural could be "outside before inside" meaning the outside appearance matters first before inward change. Opposite of the Western mind. Full Comment>>

Don't mind strong assman, it's just the 'roid rage talking. He'll hit his head on a dumbbell one day and quit blubbering about. Full Comment>>

Congratulations, young padawan, a grammatically correct sentence for once! Now if only you remembered to quote properly so as to show off that fine pedigree of a Ph.D you claim to be earning. Or better yet, take thine own advice! Full Comment>>

Looks like meathead (aka astrongman) is at again, he likes to make lots of bodily threats. Not a very civilized one, probably got a shrunken brain from all the steroids. Bet he'll wind up in jail someday. Full Comment>>

Are you pointing to the cave from whence thou cometh? Do you want to meet me by the flagpole after school to settle the score? Where are you getting this Ph.D in history, at Buffoon U? From what high tower are you trying to preach? It's clearly not from a civilized tower or one that proves you can so much as write a ... Full Comment>>

Guess you should give back that Ph.D, especially since you need the internet to know history. The JFK administration preceds the Regan administration, Google that if you need. One of the stated purposes of the FCC is for "public safety" - a classic excuse for censorship by any government right or wrong. ... Full Comment>>

What a ninny about history you are. It was the JFK administration that threatened to take away broadcasting licenses if tv shows veered too far from the moral center. Full Comment>>

Why is this a story? He's an American citizen who applied for a standard travel visa to China. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has traveled to China without any problems. There are expats living in China who host websites that are blocked in the mainland. EChinacities didn't need to post this non-story. Full Comment>>

Learn some grammar idiot. I hope you're not an English teacher. Next time take the rock out of your eye before telling your neighbor about the speck in their eye. Full Comment>>

You can be sure Africa will benefit from Chinese investment just as Tibet, Xinjiang, Mongolia, and North Korea have benefited from Chinese investment. Full Comment>>

A note of historical accuracy. China starved in the great leap forward because Mao had the whole country grow nothing but wheat and sorghum and exported nearly all of it to Russia and Eastern Europe in exchange for weapons technology - which is how they got nuclear technology. The failure of this agricultural export ... Full Comment>>

No one must be too observant in this country as this incident shouldn't be surprising since all flash card and video resources used for kindergarten and primary school show obvious references to KFC. All french fries pictures blatantly say KFC and all "hamburgers" (i.e. chicken sandwiches)are also clearly ... Full Comment>>

Are the Chinese simply copying the cultural attitude of South Korea? Full Comment>>

Yes, the fabled Chairman would have indeed been appalled. In Chairman Mao's China the only HNWI created was Mas Tse Dong. Full Comment>>

Paranoid suspicions? You clearly know no history of communist governments. Full Comment>>