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Drunken Assault Shocks Pattaya as Tourist Attacked Unprovoked
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Don't forget the Chinese tourists packing into Becester SHopping village, to buy Made in China brand names in the UK I was rather shocked to go in to the Citygate Factory Outlet Mall on Lantau Island in Hong Kong, and find most of the discount Nike goods were not from China, or anywhere in Asia, but from Turkey. A long time friend is an academic in Taipai. He is vehemently anti-Communist, but he had particular scorn reserved for Hong Kong Chinese, who he regarded as too "white" inside, and that they didn't think like Chinese At the time Hong Kong went back to China, he was pretty happy. I wonder why, because surely it was the Communists in charge now. maybe, he saud, but at least they are Chinese. Around about the same time, there was the Nick Leeson affair' the British broker who brought down Barents Bank after he tried to cover up losses using customer money. He went on the run for a little while, and ended up in a Singapore jail, before being transferred to a British prison. My friend thought the punishment was too lenient (think he got 5 years, which I thought was enough). My friend thought Leeson should have been executed, because of the harm he caused society. And thats the difference between Western individualism, and Chinese confucianism. The latter is all about a harmonious society. It's sometimes presumptuous to assume they are guided by the same moral British, well run, it wasn't a democracy. Chris Patton was probably the wrong choice for the final governor. Some suprising footage of a previous Chinese leader, Jiang Zemin, berating HK journalists in 3 languages, including English, concerning the HK Chief Executive. Its instructive. Chinese moral compasses are not Maoist, Leninist, Marxist. They are based on characteristics that are much older, very traditiona;. I suspect Taiwan is actually closer to Communist China than it is, say, the United States. Which means, they will work things out one day with their kith and kin. -
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Drunken Assault Shocks Pattaya as Tourist Attacked Unprovoked
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