Why I’ve Never Been to China (& prefer Taiwan)

American Taels Beautiful Island

July 25, 2019October 16, 2021 Trista di Genova 0 Comment aboriginal culture in Taiwan, air & environment pollution, attitudes toward foreigners, communist propaganda, Comparing Chinese vs Taiwanese mentality, employment, expat living and lifestyle in Asia, Falun Gong, Ilha Formosa, PRC brainwashing, sociology, Taiwan is better than China :), teaching in Taiwan

Wild East Editorial / By Trista di Genova When I’m ‘stateside’ in the U.S., people first — almost invariably — make the mistake of thinkin’ I’m talkin’ ’bout THAILAND. Guess it’s ’cause bein’ one of the world’s WORST in geography skills, we Yanks usually don’t know the difference between the

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Hard to beat China's cat-and-rat computer games

January 6, 2010 Phillip Charlier 0 Comment Big brother, blogspot.com, censorship, China, China's internet controls, Facebook in China, Falun Gong, freedom of expression, information control, netizens, No Electronic Theft Law, Taiwan, The Green Dam project, Tiananmen, Tibet, Tudou.com, Urumqi riots, VPM, Vulgar Information Reporting Center, Youtube

By John Hancock, in Beijing Special to The Wild East Democracy and free expression are thriving in China — in cyberspace. While Big Brother asserted himself in 2009, this did not prevent foreign ideas from invading his Internet space and there has been a renaissance in self-expression, comparable to the

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