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but maybe not: China’s 6th peasant Olympics….

A boss that I had when working at IBM for a college summer job used to talk about “insurmountable opportunities.” After using the amazing new transit system that Beijing built for the Olympics to try to commute into and out from the city, that’s kind of how I view the current state of the system, [...]

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I’m in Beijing for about 2 weeks. Yesterday I bought a newspaper (青年报, or Youth Daily, which seems to be one of the best and most lively, although a bit above my reading level) to see what they had to say about the US election, and also what they called Obama (奥巴马:ao4 ba1 ma3) and [...]

This is very cool.

From The Beijinger.

This is very interesting (thanks to Simon Elegant) from a report on cleaning up China’s air:

One of the most surprising findings was that “the kinds of technology
currently being adopted in China are not cheap. They’re not buying
junk, and in some cases the plants are employing state-of-the-art
technology.”
The findings suggest that emissions levels from Chinese
powerplants, he said, [...]

On the one hand, I’m really glad no one is transcribing what I say. On the other hand, I have no idea what this means:

You mentioned education and I’m glad you did. I know education you are passionate about with your wife being a teacher for 30 years, and god bless her. Her reward is [...]