As “Asia’s World City,” Hong Kong should seize every opportunity to demonstrate its self-aggrandizing title, like how Jean-Bédel Bokassa loudly justified himself as the self-proclaimed Emperor of the Central African Republic after the French colonizers left.
Well, we have a...
published: Aug 13 2009 - 11:00pm
China is going to be the new global giant in the 21st century. Its GDP is expected to overtake that of the United States in 2030. We all know that. But how are the Chinese people going to benefit? Ask some Chinese male movie stars who seem to have a brilliant career in Hollywood.
In the year 2009,...
published: Aug 6 2009 - 11:00pm
Faced with a rising Oriental Kingdom equipped with an increasing self-confidence about who’s going to be the global boss in the 21st century, westerners are going to have to adjust their mindset if they want to maintain a convivial atmosphere with the average Chinese citizen during a casual...
published: Jul 30 2009 - 11:00pm
The latest nation to pay the price for offending the Chinese is Australia. Four employees of the Australian mining giant, the Rio Tinto Group (including Stern Hu, a Chinese-born “Australian citizen” and the firm’s chief iron ore salesmen), were arrested and charged with bribery...
published: Jul 23 2009 - 11:00pm
Xinjiang is fast becoming China’s Palestine as a racial war has erupted between the Islamic Uyghurs and the Han Chinese. Let’s say you’re a western male expatriate CEO based in Beijing. And now you’re in Hong Kong, sipping a dry martini with your Shanghai model girlfriend at...
published: Jul 16 2009 - 11:00pm
To the abhorrence of Beijing, there were a few Union Jacks unabashedly on display at the pro-democracy rally on July 1. Such a sight of unbecoming treachery—never so prominently displayed in the 12 years since the handover—is so shockingly offensive that it would cause any red-blooded...
published: Jul 9 2009 - 11:00pm
As America’s global empire declines, China is wasting no time in pulling one over on them in the tiny battleground of Macau. Squaring off against a string of luxurious Las Vegas casino operators, Beijing has proven itself to have the upper hand in this, the first battle between the two...
published: Jul 2 2009 - 11:00pm
China-bashers love to lash out at the nation over issues such as human rights and party corruption. How wrong would they be if they insisted on mocking the Middle Kingdom from an ideological macro-perspective, but miss out on all the details?
I crossed the border from Macau to Zhuhai last weekend....
published: Jun 25 2009 - 11:00pm
