If you would like me to write up an entry on this painstakingly long task (of getting a green card and moving back to the US), let me know.
We finally got our exit interview in Guangzhou and will be back in the US in November.
In other China news:
- Wikipedia is blocked again (at this point though, who cares, really).
- It’s been raining for the last 7 weeks.
- Here in Chuxiong, the amount of tourists went from zero to about 100 per day in the last year, pretty amazing. (Mainly domestic travel, but a few foreigners here and there).
- They are expanding Yi Ren Gu Zhen to seven sections now (we were the first, then they added the second, now they are adding five more. Each section represents about 200 high-end houses and storefronts).
- They are going to reroute the train track that cuts through the development.
- They are displacing the farmers without any compensation, even when they protest. Don’t you love capitalism?
- (When I say they, I mean the developers and the government.)
Interesting to see you are living in Chuxiong. I was there doing research through the Normal University last year. The number of foreign tourists has certainly increased based on what you’re saying. We were the only foreign ‘tourists’ there while I was at the university.
My cousin now attends Normal University. Where I live there are tourists now every day. Crazy. Small world.
Hey Stupid,
It is not captialism that doesn’t compensate when land is taken away, it is called communism!
People like progress, a new TV, car, etc. They only come with capitalism.
Given extreme captialism is just greedy, but theat is the ideological communist propaganda.
It is corrupt governments who don’t oversee the proper boundaries. Those corrupt governments are usually communism, which says, “All people are equal, but some are more equal.”
Hey James, thanks for those kind words and deep insight. I’ll keep in mind about those governments who are communism, and those corrupt governments who don’t oversee the proper boundaries…
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(sigh.)