One difference is that in US your defending lawyer doesn't end up becoming your cellmate in prison. Full Comment>>

Do they still teach the Navajo language? (Windtalkers movie) Full Comment>>

Never too late to find out who your real friends are... Full Comment>>

An observant artist highlighting what happened to the best of traditional china, in today's china ---- a corpse-like girl wearing traditional chinese costume, hugging a book, lying amidst a pile of rubble (literally and figuratively). Malland nailed it, bravo. Full Comment>>

Can't even trust your own mother in china. Full Comment>>

All those with eyes to see should read this comment of yours. Full Comment>>

Not enough to cover the cost of lung cancer treatments, for sure. Full Comment>>

...more likely to spit/pee/poop :) Full Comment>>

".....seriously damaged Shanghai’s international image as China’s most developed and modern city." Yeah, that RMB800,000 per family would provide the next shock and restore the lost face. What a 'wonderful culture'! Full Comment>>

Meaning more and more mainlanders would flock to places outside china to buy their iphones/ipads...etc. Full Comment>>

In the West, creative people invent the light bulb, telephone, car, airplane, space shuttle, computer, internet, mobile phones....etc. In China, creative 'people' invent gutter oil, wall-plaster filled medicine pills, opium-laced noodles, poisonous milk powder, hospital disposed cottons filled blankets, poop on the ... Full Comment>>

Yeap. Probably be 5 minutes (you still need to put on a bit of show for the public) if he had been calling Xi Jin Ping's friends or relatives. guanxi, guanxi, guanxi.... Full Comment>>

The value of a human life in China...lol...For those who haven't heard of it for decades plenty of baby girls were killed (chinese culture --- no boys to carry on the family name has been a face losing thing for thousands of years) under the single-child policy. Coupled with the money culture the corpses were thrown ... Full Comment>>

Apparently USD24 billion is a lot of money to the Brits. You pay for what you get. We'll all see what the Brits get further down the road.......www.china-briefing.com/news/2014/06/19/china-uk-sign-trade-deals-worth-us24-billion.html Full Comment>>

Because plenty of officials, their wife, mistresses all need face by driving Mercedes and carrying LV handbags. Their kids studying abroad also need Ferraris and BMWs to lay hot foreign chicks to win face for 1.4 billion chinese. The official reason though is the toll fee collected is for maintenance and future ... Full Comment>>

'18 Year Old Arrested for Poisoning 41 Restaurant Customers .....after 41 customers' '从澳门豆捞送来中毒者共41名，据她了解，中毒者均为餐厅员工'. [员工] is employees. Full Comment>>

No need for lens now that the wolf has, in many instances, crawled out of the sheep's skin. CCP's message to the world '......to deepen mutual understanding and forge friendships between China and the rest world.' China's IQ test for the world. LOL Full Comment>>

Even more revealing the original article is. This one is in English. www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1677976/swedish-university-severs-ties-confucius-institute Full Comment>>

www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1677976/swedish-university-severs-ties-confucius-institute __...Toronto’s district school board said in October it was scrapping plans for a partnership, while Pennsylvania State University and University of Chicago made similar announcements earlier.____ The Chinese foreign ministry ... Full Comment>>

Just got back myself too. Indeed it is a substantial compliment when I said someone has high SQ. Mathematically, I would define it as spiritual maturity divided by infinity. What you have / are accumulating will leave with you when you depart, suffice to say. They are way more valuable than those you cannot take ... Full Comment>>

Ahhh...yes, thanks. I thoroughly enjoyed reading your other comments further along this thread too; it is always a pleasure to see someone with a high SQ (spiritual quotient) coupled with high IQ speaks. Your 'conversations' are one of the best examples/illustrations of polarisation. Are you noticing how polarised ... Full Comment>>

5000+ is the commonly accepted carbon dating figure. CCP's failed effort was AFTER the initial population explosion; a result of Mao's encouragement and reliance on labor productivity. That being said all these are iceberg-tip explanations. Full Comment>>

LOL The two aren't mutually exclusive. Meth-head virgins --- what better combination can those officials and their corruption partners ask for? Full Comment>>

That's why they are putting on the anti-corruption show. Full Comment>>

Another selling point for China's Tourism Board, reincarnation. China is the living proof reincarnation exists ---- look at all the corrupted CCP officials along with their business partners. 5000 years accumulation of corrupted officials and businessmen reincarnated. You find me another place on this planet with ... Full Comment>>