My old party actually says something bad about China

[eumaas]

http://www.pww.org/article/articleview/13265/1/266/

It's still soft but that's a big contrast to the articles of a couple years ago.

[Flex]

Yeah, that article is a bit surprisingly. gives one a pretty decent sense of the sort of atmosphere in China right now regarding capitalism and socialism. Kind of an uneasing juxtaposition of the two, at the moment. I got a bit of a sense of that in my time in China, although I imagine with the Olympics coming and the recent earthquake the landscape has changed somewhat (at least, in some areas).

[matedog]

Yeah, that article is a bit surprisingly. gives one a pretty decent sense of the sort of atmosphere in China right now regarding capitalism and socialism. Kind of an uneasing juxtaposition of the two, at the moment. I got a bit of a sense of that in my time in China, although I imagine with the Olympics coming and the recent earthquake the landscape has changed somewhat (at least, in some areas).

Beijing is a bizarre city. I saw tons of Chinese people giving flowers to the altar of Mao's body the same day I went to a mall that was strikingly similar to that of an American mall. Ironically, at this mall there were no places to sit except in partitioned areas as part of restaurants for customers. Having walked around all day, my entire body was tired and I found a ledge to sit on, obstructing nothing. Sure enough, a security guard came over and told me to move. So the only way I could sit in a public area would be if I had enough money to buy something at a store.

Oh and this was a gem of a photo:

[JulieJazz]

what is your new party, then?

[eumaas]

what is your new party, then?

I don't have any party affiliations any more.

[eumaas]

http://www.cpusa.org/article/articleview/978/1/3/