China has published a warning list of what foreigners should not do during the Olympics and — naturally — it’s in Chinese.
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What parts of China are still off-limits? I am assuming they are remote border areas such as Aksai Chin and others that are militarily sensitive such as the underground submarine base on Hainan. Can anyone provide a definitive list?
Another “don’t” on the Chinese list is “Please don’t pull down blog posts without asking Robert first.” Oh, wait…
I hear there are still plenty of hotel room vacancies in Beijing in August. Maybe that debutante ball won’t be so well attended, what with new and improved visa hoops to jump through and “foreigners must register with the police upon arrival”-shite going on.
I was Friday and Saturday in China — in Shenzhen — and the atmosphere at the pedestrian border of Lowu is way more tense that it used to be. They installed a metal detector, which I and many others circumvented, and everyone has to put their luggage through an X-Ray machine, a formality that was mostly ignored by border-hoppers like me. Passport control took much longer, as they seemed to memorize every single page of our passports, and we had to answer questions — something I never had to do so far, and I have 50+ border crossings behind my belt.
As for the “entertainment” part, though, it doesn’t seem to be affected yet
“entertainment” = Whore banging?
I’d comment on this fascinating thred except it will probably be pulled tomorrow so I won’t even bother. Ooops, too late.
Oh, come on — take advantage of the opportunity while it lasts.
@1: I can’t give you an exact answer, but I used to fly regularly over China and each time noted that the flight took an oddly-shaped path that seemed to me designed to avoid certain areas of the country.
@8, If you were going to the former CIS it may have been avoiding Lop Nor the nuclear testing site in the far west of the country.
Indeed, I was usually flying to Tashkent, so that may have been it.
Robert - what’s the whole story on R Elgin’s pulled thread? Did Netizens complaints lead a Korean government agency to force you to remove it? What are the rules governing admissable speach on blogs in Korea?