(Bunny stencil, the first I've seen in Beijing. Follow the rabbit!)
So, um, what's really going on here, in China? People, folk, humans, trying to survive, endeavoring to live. Really, I'm sure it's the same no matter where you go.
But I can't get over how individualistic I, and others, seem to be in the USA; how oblivious to the rest of the world, and at the same time, how connected. Last year there were 35,000 foreigners studying Chinese in China. 5,000 were American. I haven't studied the economics of China's recent growth, but it's impossible not to contemplate how this country's development and finances are influencing everywhere else in the world. The buying power is staggering. A friend from college I met up with yesterday said, "Oh yeah, China financed the war in Iraq."
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