I have experienced earthquakes before. Living in California for a while, and even once in Tel Aviv, I remember clearly – it was not a pleasant experience. But today was a completely different experience. I was sitting in my office on the tenth floor of the Chuangxin (Innovation) Plaza at the Tsinghua [...]
This post is going to have the word “surprisingly” very often. The fact that I use the word so often isn’t due to my really low expectations compare to the reasonable results. More often than not, it would relate to the reasonable expectations compared to outstanding results. Bear with me, if [...]
Strange as it may sound, CNN is being sued by the Chinese people. A group of fourteen Chinese lawyers filed a lawsuit in a Beijing court against CNN and commentator Jack Cafferty. According to the lawsuit, Cafferty had made insulting and derogatory comments about the Chinese people. Among other comments, Cafferty had [...]
It’s easy to dismiss the rising voices in China to boycott the West over the Tibet issue as a “party initiated unrest”. Don’t do it. Like many other concepts, Western hypocrisy is foreign here. Many really don’t understand why the Tibetan unrest is considered genuine and theirs is considered staged. It [...]
Celine Dion was coming to Beijing. Big ads were placed in the expat magazines, and I’m sure elsewhere. I have to admit, that with one exception – the Titanic theme song – I’m not exactly familiar with Celine Dion’s work. I am, however, familiar with her great voice, polished performances, but more from the [...]
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