ambivalentmace hits close to the mark..I worked for one of those degree mills...and I couldn't really see the justification for the degrees...Equivalency degrees (i.e the same as a native speakers) where the chinese management seemed to have the overriding vote in the joint ventures.. I would say the program was ... Full Comment>>

Zuckerberg's in-laws seem to do nothing for his own parentage..Yet milk the cash cow for all he's worth in terms of clannage...I wonder if they even acknowledge Zuckerberg's family or if it is pretty much just "you must do this to help so-and-so (china)..you are our daughter's husband" Full Comment>>

Zimbabwe? Full Comment>>

How can a nation consider itself "developing" by refusing international standards?..The only qualifications for chinese drivers to get a license in their country essentially are: (because there is no punitive enforcement), "don't hit anybody else" and "you can only go as fast as the car in ... Full Comment>>

Sometimes bendin' o'er backwards fer a person just means they're waitin' for you to break... Full Comment>>

Most Americans also know chinese are the #1 scam artists..so it kinda evens out...Large economy of worthless money...Next. Full Comment>>

Why are "smartphones" so popular in china?...because you have to sit at the bank all day to see a teller...because you have to spend 1 hour in a grocery line to get milk....because the traffic lights are 90 seconds long....because.... Full Comment>>

Went to a military park (Shitoucheng..Shoulda realized "shit" was what I was stepping into) in Nanjing...Many children and adults were pretending to shoot at me...and having a ripe gay ole time with their folly...Them chinese seemed to think it was quite funny. Full Comment>>

Buddy...Try one of the firework cities..you don't even know, man. Full Comment>>

We call this pimping. A daughter can attract more money with the same costs as a boy. Full Comment>>

Kind of makes it convenient to any lung cancer stats that might be related to air pollution. Full Comment>>

You have just figured out the key to being "wealthy" in a capitalist economy. Full Comment>>

Chinese seem to be also experimenting with using social contrivance and class as a divisive strategy between foreign representations...In the USA...between races...In Europe...between historical precedents... Full Comment>>

Chinese are also experimenting with using social contrivance and class as a divisive strategy between foreign representations...In the USA...between races...In Europe...between historical precedents... Full Comment>>

What is the difference between selling fake money to burn to trick your dead ancestors...and selling fake money to buy things on taobao to trick your dead ancestors? ..These and many more questions to be answered in coming episodes! Full Comment>>

Now?..Perhaps because they fear or spite humanitarian interests pressuring them to offer these empty residences to Syrian refugees? Full Comment>>

I find it really pitiful and pathetic when people try to defend prostitution... Full Comment>>

It is just another attempt to corral perceptions towards the British and European English speaking establishments because they are naively being promoted as absent from the tensions in the South Asian Sea. Rude awakenings TBA...On a local level, in china, it reinforces that perception with chinese citizens..On an ... Full Comment>>

Nobody wants to mention that as china ratchets up their nationalism, English becomes perceived more as cultural subordination. Full Comment>>

I guess it depends if you come to china to do your job in a manner that will benefit your life, as any professional does...or if you come to china to learn how to become chinese....if you are here to do the later, it means you will lose face because you have accepted subordination to an identity which is not your ... Full Comment>>

"2nd largest economy in the world" thinks it should shut it's door and horde from those in need?..china is glad to see it's neighbors struggle?..china will be glad to see little Syrian boys drown on the Shanghai shores?...No...china's just got a lousy hand, and it is easy to see the bluff. Full Comment>>

I think Syrian refugees should start being be shipped to china also en masse. Full Comment>>

Skepticism prevails..A move more designed in imperialism than humanitarianism. Full Comment>>

Trojan wife. Full Comment>>

One has to wonder what the expats who are not willing to speak about Tibet, the Tiananmen Massacre, the Korean War, South China Sea, the Cultural Revolution or any other negative aspect of china are doing in china? I could understand if these expats don't want to talk about negative aspects of their private lives ... Full Comment>>