Concerning the important discussion on the 'learn Chinese' thread: It strikes me that both the OP and the resondent wanting to exchange language lessons/practice have been very clear, that no one has been deceived, and that deception was never intended.
I am not in charge of anything and don't object to the ridiculous things that some of you are saying, and in fact I'd hate to see anyone get banned from GoKM for burying simple inquiries at the bottom of piles of self-defensive or intentionally annoying egotistical crap and thereby driving more intelligent users of the forum who are interested in real discussion or real information away from it. Most of the time I find it hard to understand how any of this might really be 'entertaining' - Tonyoad posted a message saying he was into the forums for simple entertainment - but if that's what you want, why not refer your nonsense here? I'll even play once in awhile (as I find myself doing now), but please don't destroy the usefulness of the forums everywhere for everyone else, or get yourselves thrown out into reality somewhere.


Five minutes with US Ambassador to China, Max Baucus
发布者The John Wayne film is ridiculous.
Comparing ethnic minorities/minority nationalities in China to American Indians...a lot of ugly history of interethnic conflict in China, but nothing I know of that quite equals what was done to the earlier North Americans by the European immigrants and their descendants.
Yunnan embroiled in national Viagra-booze scandal
发布者@Peter: I'm afraid 'they got rid of opium in Yunnan in one year' several times over the past century.
Climbing Away: Guoliang, Henan
发布者Place looks absolutely beautiful for climbing.
World's largest solar cell maker invests in Yunnan
发布者Never heard of this one, but I doubt it.
World's largest solar cell maker invests in Yunnan
发布者Sounds really good to me, hope to see more of the same, and not only in China.