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My thoughts are a gas

Can the Party, the solitary unit which has provided such high levels of stability (and development, it cannot be denied), police itself at the local level? Or will one local incident after another creating crisis continue to be the norm?

Ten plus years, baby. It takes some time to really understand your subject.

Blockages: HP

HP (?) is back up. Wowzers.

Typepad, no. Blogspot, no.

But the balance of power between one software engineer and the GFC is back to the status quo, so that is nice, rather than having to search around for proxies.

As We Go Up, We Go Down

The arrogance is just incredible. On the heels of China’s brutal crackdown in Xinjiang, it seems as if the Chinese government thinks it can control all information around the world.

Should I not call it brutal? Well, when the CCP shuts down all independent media, seizes all evidence about what really happened, and [...]

Failures of Law

I am just sick about the violence in Xinjiang. I don’t have any easily-digestible understanding to add to that, I am afraid. Or to be clearer, I have lots of contradictory feelings about what has been going on recently, both from the standpoint of geo-politics and from my own perspective in Shanghai.

As has been [...]

See them; I saw them; They are there!

We have entered a new world of internet restrictions. New blocks are in place to prevent procies from working. These blocks will not go away, I’d suggest, for some time…

This is fundamental change, I am afraid. Business lines might not be affected, but I suspect even they are not immune.

It is now [...]

Circumvention 101

Adam Schokora has an excellent primer on getting around the lovely government controls of which I am so fond.

I won’t post an excerpt. Click through and you will see why.

I am hoping to get my thoughts on the tactics used based on my experiences in the new future, but that is a different subject [...]

Wow!

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Honest inspections. Controlling corruption. These issues come to mind.

Shanghai has traditionally done pretty well, but this should scare apartment buyers. A lot.

Hope to see some firings based on this. Minxing? Where the heck is that?