So, you’re cruising down your favorite US highway in your brand new convertible at the cool rate of 80 MPH without a valid US drivers license. You roll down your window and begin crooning with a tune on the radio, only to be interrupted by the siren of a cop car, which is now tailgating [...]
Thanks to Casper for bringing this Al Jazeera report and video on “black jails” to my attention. Further evidence that, in China’s dealings with corruption, everyone loses out.
No one ever expects to get arrested, extradited, questioned, detained or otherwise entangled in a snafu when visiting or residing in a foreign country, particularly if you’ve put forth a best effort to understand that country’s rule of law and follow it by the book. China’s legal intimidations are enough to keep most people in [...]
Heightened concerns over swine flu come with ten confirmed cases in the US, over 1,000 in Mexico and 61 fatalities as of this writing. In addition, more suspected cases have been reported throughout New York, including a possible outbreak involving at least 75 students at a preparatory school in Queens. Talk about hitting close to [...]
It is my opinion that the single largest obstruction to China’s global development is not their environmental degradation or their guang gun conundrum or the widening gap between rich and poor, but corruption, which both feeds and bleeds into virtually every other hurdle that the country now faces. It appears that China’s President, Hu Jintao, [...]
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