The way I and many fellow westerners see it, children do not belong to their parents. All parents need to do is love their children and give them the skills to look after themselves, they don't need to control their lives once the child has enough skill to live their own life.
There is something very nice about close knit Chinese families. Where I object to it is when parental disapproval gets in the way of love. A friend of my girlfriend has fallen victim to this. Because she wasn't from the same city and was 2 or 3 years older than him, her boyfriend's parents disapproved of their relationship. She is now going to marry another man, despite still loving the first guy and he perhaps still loving her. Tragic.
Baiyun Lu closed for 18 months, civilian "air raid shelter" to be built
Posted bynobody is going to bomb Kunming
Editorial: Hydro expansion will fail without energy market reform
Posted byCoal may seem 'cheap', actually it's very expensive in terms of the pollution and the knock on effects of said pollution, which are very expensive to 'fix'. It's just that the plant don't pay these costs of it, they are 'externalised'. Slap a big dirt tax on coal, and watch how quickly the highly populated provinces start using cleaner energy like tidal, solar, wind, nuclear, hydro.
Interview: Tracking Kunming's trash with Adam Liebman
Posted byreally interesting stuff, good job
Rural Yunnan township takes flak for alcohol ban
Posted byThe local government's logic is correct, as many people have no self control once they have had one drink. However, as we know from previous attempts at prohibition, people find ways to drink.
China to harmonize English nationwide
Posted byyou think they could just show it to a well educated native english speaker like myself to check the English is correct and not too hilarious. A lot of the English I see in the lifts etc seems to have been copied by people who have absolutely no experience of the roman alphabet, they confuse I and l, u and v, a and e, t and f, etc, so they end up typing complete gibberish.