It is easy to imagine "there really is a vast shadow world of complex and diabolical conspiracies, executed brilliantly by international networks of government masterminds." But it is hard to see how the Obama crowd could pull it off.
Remember these are the guys that could not even mastermind setting up a website.
For Mexican try:
This is NOT TexMex food or wasn't when I tried it. Went a few times food was good but it was a little pricey.
@tuna: laotou is correct. I don't know where you get "japan and china hate each other, since the beginning of time." There was trade and contacts between the Tang Dynasty as well as war. But China's cultural influence on Japan is noticeable even to the untrained eye. In the Page Museum in Golden Gate Park there a display of Chinese ceramics arranged chronologically. There you can see, in the Tang Dynasty period, ceramics in the chrysanthemum pattern that can be found as symbolic of Japanese culture.
My opinion has long been that if you remove both Chinese and Western elements from Japanese culture what remains would be poor indeed.
True, when the history is written by Hans.
@Magni Yup. More than 50 years ago I was boots on the ground in Viet Nam armed to the teeth and dangerous. But I feared no evil as I was the baddest MF in the valley. The older I get the badder I was.
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Good for quality, but pricey, hand tools.
Be aware they will push whatever they are selling. Some of the staff have no idea about the technical side of appliances.
I went there to buy a stove. I repeatedly told them I would be using bottled gas. They sold me a stove. When I went to my local gas guy, I learned there are at least three kinds of gas sold. Luckily, B&Q did not deliver as promised. I went back to the store and discovered they had sold me a stove they needed to be hooked up to the gas main. I got my money back.
The sales lady was almost in tears, 没有问题！I don't know if it a safety or design issue, but I would think B&Q would know and care.
Last week had an 8:45am flight.
Subway starts at 9am. I have no idea where to catch an airport express bus. Eight taxis refused to go to the airport. After almost an hour standing on Beijing Lu took a black taxi, this dude drives slower than my mother, 120 yuan.
Flight back was delayed so I learned the subway stops running at 6:10pm.
Getting a taxi back was easy, more taxis than customers. Taxi was 87 yuan including 1o yuan toll, airport to Beichen area. Yes, he took a longer route than necessary.
Kunming imagines being a gateway for international travelers. New airport but hard to get to and from it.
World Class Airport, NOT!
Tonight "Peacock", a performance by Yang Liping (杨丽萍), to begin her world tour, 8pm, 100-1680 yuan at Yunna Haigeng Auditorium.
Saw this lady perform at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium, in California, in 1995. Quite a good and interesting show.
I'm going to try to make it.
Not so good. Kimchi had a very sour taste. Other food was nothing to brag about. I don't think I would go back.
This bus station is not located as indicated. It is further North!
Kunming's bike share options: A user guide
发布者Seems this business model needs some rethinking: "Shanghai Puts Brakes on Shared Bikes"
www.caixinglobal.com/2017-03-16/101066418.html
Pu'er's Mojiang readies for annual twinvasion
发布者Seems to me that 3.35 million attendees who have spent a combined 2.35 billion yuan (US$340 million) is a pretty good reason to throw a party. Brinbg on the bands and food!
Provincial audit reveals enormous government waste in Yunnan
发布者Only 5%? Better than I would have guessed.
Hillary Clinton's state department lost $6 Billion USD in one line item. Yunnan guys got to up their game.
Premier Li Keqiang visits Yunnan, stressing anti-poverty measures
发布者Mass urbanization results in poor uneducated, unskilled rural workers migrating to urban centers where they are denied education for their young and healthcare for the aged. Without the requisite hukou, they are unable to avail themselves of labor contracts or protection of labor laws, these newly 'urbanized' folk are cheap labor to be exploited.
There was a time when annual reports by Chinese ministries reported actual spending against budgets. The last of these reports I saw indicated, while budgets had been impressively increased, actual spending on education and healthcare had declined year on year.
Recently, it was announced that 12.6 billion yuan would be spent to provide three years training to new 'Family Doctors.' This was in response to low pay for General Practice doctors. The goal is to double the number of low trained underpaid doctors to alleviate pressures on overworked, highly trained and highly paid doctors.
Statistics will show more doctors, more healthcare and more spending. Three year doctors for the poor?
Premier Li Keqiang visits Yunnan, stressing anti-poverty measures
发布者Invoking the hukou system, which has existed in China for four millennium give or take a few centuries, as fueling capitalism is absurd.
How come it had no effect until the last 40 years?
The cheap labor and population control provided by the hukou system strengthens China's centrally planned system by providing the coercive control necessary to effect a modern serfdom key to economic growth to succeed on the cheap. Only by tying most Chinese to the land can the selectively chosen be allowed to participate in wealth, education, healthcare and prosperity.
Fortunately, as the water rises so do all boats.