Is China using the Olympics as an excuse to crackdown on Falun Gong and other dissidents...
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How is it that the obvious is so easily ignored?
 
I was given a Lapel pin in the shape of an American Flag and it was made in China, there is no problem there after all this is the United States of China or so we have been sold out...
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Historic FTA with China is "comprehensive".
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I'm not sure if I will be in China when the 2008 Olympic Games are on - sadly I am not likely to be in Beijing at the time, but where ever I am in the world I will be watching.  The Chinese are very keen to impress the world and I am sure they will.
They impress me almost every day!  read more »

I am glad to see Communati back. I hope I find time to do some regular postings.

Just over a week ago, I arrived in China to complete a contract of four and a half months, teaching English at a Language College at Shaoxing, which is about 3 hours drive from Shanghai.  read more »

While we sit in a rising pool of unknowns, wondering if we are coming to recession, are in recession, or going into a calamity of proportions yet unknown, we still debate what got us here in the first place. Globalization is blamed for much of our ills and indeed the loss of jobs and industry has brought us to the last stage of an economic empire-that of a service industry.  read more »

Hotei or Pu-Tai is better known as the Laughing Buddha.The image of Hotei is based on a Chinese Zen monk who lived over 1000 years ago.Many regarded him a future Buddha because of his benevolent nature.  read more »

I originally wrote this on another site in June 2006:

Question: Was Chinese dissident Jiang Ljun convicted of subversion with the help of Yahoo in providing the contents of Jiang's email account?
Answer: Most likely!

Is this a wider warning that Big Brother is really alive and kicking, and that the internet is part of his domain.You better believe it. Be warned!  read more »

Farewell little "Pumpkin" we wish you well in your new life with Grandma in China.

She beamed into our lives through world TV news programs a few weeks ago; that poor little abandoned three year old at a Melbourne, Australia, train station. She was nick-named "Pumpkin" by Australian authorities, because of the Pumpkin Patch clothing she wore on that fateful night.  read more »

The sounds of silence regarding Burma are deafening. Facing certain violence, the Buddhist monks of Burma took to the streets to peacefully demand change in a country that has been ruled for forty-five years by the iron hand of military dictatorship.  read more »