@mike4g: Situation aware in Asia generally is not by any means low across the board - in regard to some sorts of things, yes, in regard to others, no. This includes within China. In regard to driving in China, yes, it's low.
@HFCampo: your diagram is simplistic, I'm afraid, due to vagueness of terms, vagueness of who the 'many people' are, and to its simple linearity.
Question: what may cause cultural change - people just decide to discontinue common habits? I don't think so.
@indosailor: thanks for this news - thru a Hong Kong agent? Do you have any details concerning how/when/why he was charged with visa fraud (e.g., passing thru immigration?)? Also from the US? Anyway, the person I know who did it hasn't been hassled.
@Geezer: I was referring to 1970-75 in Cambodia, massive civilian death, fleeing refugees from bombing into Phnom Penh. Disrupting NVA plans was supposed to be about protecting/advancing Democracy, wasn't it? 3 Million is way too high a figure for Khmer Rouges killings - note that the Khmer Rouge were nobody, had little local support, until after 5 years of US bombing, by which they were strong enough to take power, why was that?...hey, but look, don't think I'm trying to say they were nice guys!
@Geezer what's your point - that crazy bad things can be done in the name of religion? Yes, of course - but note that Cambodia was bombed in the early 1970s and hundreds of thousands of people were killed, all in the name of Democracy.
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Not quite what you'd call a jumping place, but not bad at all for rather standard US-type meals, not overly expensive, and with a really good salad bar that's cheap, or free with most dinner dishes after 5:30PM. You can get a bottle of beer or even wine if you really want to, but I've never seen anybody do it - maybe that's just to take out. Chinese Christian run, and they hire people with physical disadvantages, who are pleasant and helpful. Frequented by foreign (mostly North American) Christians and Chinese Christians - was started by a Canadian couple associated with Bless China (previously, Project Grace), who are no longer here, but no religious pressure or any of that. Steaks are nothing special, and I avoid the Korean dishes, which I've had a few times but which did not impress me.
As a shop and bakery, it's very good bread at reasonable prices, of various kinds (Y18 for a good multigrain loaf that certainly weighs well over a pound. Other stuff too, like granola and oatmeal that is local, as well as imported things, including American cornflakes and so forth, which some people seem to require.
Large portions, seriously so with the pizza, which is Brooklyn/American style, I guess. Convivial, conversational, good place to drink with good folks on both sides of the bar, especially after about 9PM.
Too bourgeois.
Really good pizza and steaks. The wine machine fuddles me when I'm a bit fuddled, & seems unnecessary. Good folks on both sides of the bar.
Ain't no flies on Salvador's.
$17 billion Chongqing-Kunming railway nears completion
发布者@Haali: how long does it take to get back from the train station in Kunming once you arrive from Chongqing?
Tomorrowland resident DJ Yves V descends on China
发布者Well, I'm not really into it either, but rock on...
Sani music goes international — The story of Manhu
发布者Stone faces manufactured at Stone Forest to boost it as a tourist attraction?
Belt and Road pushing Yunnan companies international
发布者Think I'd rather go by road, I might see or learn something unexpected.
Belt and Road pushing Yunnan companies international
发布者On the other hand, how many airports does the world need?