Educator, consultant, former SoCal college ESL & Eng instructor, lifelong martial artist. Now in Shanghai. 30+ yrs visiting, studying, living & working in 🇨🇳
China has got a problem with its brand image. Prior to 2016, it wasn’t like this but XJP and his shortsighted, bullish policies have tarnished 🇨🇳’s image on the international stage. Give me DXP, give me JZM, he’ll I’ll even take HJT. But let’s face it, XJP has screwed things up
Don't blame Japan for constantly dealing with China's lousy social inadequacy that is influenced by the CCP over the past 10 years. Everything has its reason.
#AmazingChina
@joncoopertweets
You don’t happen to drive a Volkswagen or a BMW or Mercedes Benz do you? You don’t happen to wear clothing by Hugo Boss do you? Just checking to see how committed you are to your principles.
Some expats living in China have been conditioned to see nothing, hear nothing and say nothing about the wrongs in China’s society. As in “the emperor’s new clothes” they don’t want to offend their overlords. And that’s fine until they criticize other expats for daring to speak.
@vivianwubeijing
My take is that the police were a little bit overwhelmed by this outpouring of frustration and anger. I don’t think the boys running the city were expecting this or have even thought of a contingency plan, for how dare the masses question them.
@SpokespersonCHN
At least US government officials spoke with the head of TikTok. 🇨🇳 government officials banned Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, YouTube, Google, among other websites & social media apps w/o the courtesy of speaking w/ the owners of those companies to explain the rationale
The stories I have been receiving from clients whose children attend schools in central and western China confirm that this is growing with each new semester
This is an elementary school’s Monday morning political education gathering. The focus is anti-USA. The speaker accused the U.S. for trying to wipe out all Chinese.
During my elementary school I was brainwashed exactly the same way. At that time they accused Soviet Union as well
@MrAndyNgo
More black on Asian crime? When will the MSM accurately point out that Asian Americans are endangered by people of color not by the bogeyman of white supremacy?
The last of my close expat friends in Shanghai left in May. For those of you who know your history, the Paris of the East (aka Shanghai) is really beginning to feel like the Paris of the West circa post-1929, when ex-pats fled the City of Lights in droves.
@eefjerammeloo
@SLeplatre
What are you reporting on? Or are you just vacationing? It used to be like this back in the early 90s when foreigners were traveling China. I remember having one PSP agent follow me for 6 weeks while I was on holiday. Every plane, train, long distance bus & hotel, he was there
Yesterday’s quick trip to Hangzhou. I haven’t left the city in over 18 months, and hadn’t traveled in China since 2019. God, I so needed this getaway. Travel has returned to its pre-Covid days. Next trip, Hong Kong in February
@macastel3
I am so sorry to hear this but not surprised. The chorus of voices announcing that they too will leave at the end of the school year is growing every day. So many foreign teachers, foreign entrepreneurs, foreign business personnel are getting ready to pack up and leave in droves
Another victim of Covid. I’d been going to this Hangzhou-style restaurant on N. Sichuan Rd. since the mid-90s. I hadn’t been back for a year due to the end of the year busyness, CNY, the 3-month lockdown and then my summer teaching schedule. Now it’s closed for good. 😢
@Disneyland
So Disneyland resort, why don’t you advocate hosting a Pride night here in Shanghai Disneyland? Oh… Yeah… That wouldn’t go over very well with it. We all know it’s profits before principles (or pride)
@SenMarcoRubio
So does that mean my privately owned company here in China is only an illusion? Oh thank God you cleared that up! For the past 10 years I thought I had my own business but I guess I was wrong and you, who have never lived or worked in China, must know more than I
We are already seeing the exodus in my residential compound. Over 15% of the apartments are now vacant when previously there was a three-year minimum waiting list
@BethanyAllenEbr
@BeijingPalmer
@lachlan
This should surprise no one. George Bush Sr was the first US ambassador to modern-day China. He has always maintained close relations with his friends in the CCP. Just look at how fast he reopened relations between the US and China after the Tiananmen Square Massacre
Tonight the hotel sent me some security screen shots to ask if this was me swimming in the forbidden waters of the beach. I smiled and said that we foreigners all look alike. That put an end to the issue. 😂
I had to cancel my evening meetings in order to rush to my residential compound and take another PCR test all because an unlicensed KTV in my neighborhood became ground zero for the new citywide outbreak of Covid in Shanghai. Here we go again folks. Prepare for another lockdown.
@ShangguanJiewen
Communism at its finest: denying the people the right to own property and spend their money on the things they want to. Yeah… Let’s keep the masses beholden to the government like slaves, allowing them to own only wht big brother determines they should be allowed to own
@luo_yuehan
I take it that you are not in China right now, because if you were, you would know that the economy is tanking. Shanghai lost nearly 1/6 of its population as people packed up their money and kids and left the country for anywhere else than the CCP-ruled China. Get a clue
@MFA_China
So says the government that allows heavy metals and a host of other pollutants to be dumped in the Yangtze River daily. So says the government that has transformed the coastline from Qingdao to Xiamen into a filthy garbage dump
But wait… China’s economy is booming. State sponsored social media pundits tell me that every day. In fact it’s even xenophobic/racist of me to even point out that the economy might not be so vibrant.
@Zhou_Li_CHN
So, if they love China so much, why did they leave to live in the United States? Could it be that there‘s some things seriously wrong in China that drove them to seek better fortune and a better lifestyle in the US? You might want to ask that question
@HuXijin_GT
Wow… Still far less than the number of Chinese people killed by the CCP since 1949. If only the masses would wake up and recall the history of blood and tears caused to them by the CCP, maybe there would be a new dawn and a new start for China
This is one of the reasons I don’t often take the train in China. I’ve got an auntie sitting next to me with her reeking feet propped up against the seat in front of her. I’d forgotten how common this behavior is among the locals.
@MFA_China
How can you say it’s not collapsing? I have eyes to see. 40% of the businesses along the road to my work have closed down. 80% of the businesses in the office building I work have become bankrupt. But you keep saying that China’s GDP is not collapsing. Such disinformation
But China’s economy is booming! China’s state run television and all the Twitter pundits keep telling us that China’s economy is skyrocketing, it’s on fire.
Perhaps they think repeating a lie will make it true
@MrAndyNgo
A suspect with “dark skin”? The media couldn’t countenance the problem of Black on Asian crime, huh? I guess it doesn’t jibe with their narrative.
@MFA_China
Historically speaking, it wasn’t the Nationalist that split off into revolution. The Nationalists came to power in 1911. The CCP is the upstart, coming into power in 1949. So who is the true usurper of the dragon throne? That would be the CCP not Taiwan (not the ROC).
Happy Easter Everyone!
I celebrated mine at this beauty of church in Hongkou District. Hongde Church 鸿得教堂—one of the oldest with a unique fusion of Chinese and Western architectural styles.
复活节快乐
Another victim of Hongkou district’s indiscriminate “progress.” From 2014 until 2021, this little dive bar was awesome. Its checkered past, it’s rumor-laden history and just the whole vibe of the place made it an awesome go to
@ninadn21
I’m sorry Nina, but the poor did not build up China. It was rich foreign investors during the 1990s who provided the capital and the technology to allow China to enter the 20th century albeit so very late due to 40+ years of mismanagement by the CCP.
@SpokespersonCHN
You have really got to improve your English. This is not called smearing. It’s called telling the truth and showing the world what the CCP has done to the local minority peoples that you “liberated“ through violence, genocide and war.
@jenniferzeng97
This isn’t new. This has been standard protocol for more than 15 years. Granted, it is now more highly enforced than it was previously, but since 2016, this has been the law of the land. Where have you been all this time if you are just now figuring this out?
@7AlwaysQuestion
@BlairBarley
@JackPosobiec
I’m in Shanghai now and the food rationing is real. If you’re not connected or living in a high end part of town, you’re not getting food. The paltry care packages delivered by the government amount to nothing more than 2 meals and a snack and that’s supposed to last for 2 weeks
@ShangguanJiewen
Stop spreading misinformation. 70% of the businesses in the building I work in have gone belly up in the last 11 months. 40% of the businesses along the road from my house to my office have closed permanently. People are afraid to spend and the economy is tanking accordingly
@BlairBarley
@johntrewhitt62
@JackPosobiec
Why don’t you come over here to Shanghai and see what’s really happening. There are food shortages all over the town since produce delivery has been shut down for the sake of this stupid zero Covid policy. Those who don’t know jack about a topic should remain silent.
Explosion attack on traffic police in Shenyang City, China.
At around 13:50 on Mar 28, somebody set fire and then blew up the building of the Traffic Police Department of Heping District.
The police notice states that after the suspect set fire, homemade explosives using black
@bxieus
@Maytechummia
My local Shanghainese neighbor just replaced her “expensive” (¥30/hr) housekeeper with a cheaper (¥15/hr) one. The wages for which people are willing to work are plummeting.
I hear CCP pundits saying 🇨🇳’s economy is riproaring good, but until I see the level of vitality of shops, cafés and services at Pudong Airport that I see at other international airports (like Taiwan’s Taoyuan airport), I’m gonna dismiss such announcements as empty propaganda.
@RebeccaYChan
Those are not Hong Kongers protesting. Those are mainlanders who moved to HK. There is a huge difference between those two sets of people. The protest marches of June 14-16, 2019 made it perfectly clear who came from HK & who came from the Mainland.
@macastel3
Do you still think there are 100,000 ex-pats in Shanghai? I’m hearing from my government friends that the number is significantly lower than that
@MFA_China
I’m just saying… You sound a little hypocritical with all your caterwauling considering how much of the same pollutants you dump into the seas. Way to go CCP
@SpokespersonCHN
Have you even traveled to western China and looked in the villages? I’ve lived with peasants who had no running water and no electricity who made less than 1000 RMB per month and you say there’s zero poverty in China? Are you deranged, stupid or blind?
In my first morning class of the day, 10 of the 12 students had already tested positive for Covid. In my second class of the day, all 8 students had tested positive for Covid. In my final class of the day all but 1 student tested positive for Covid. Feels like 2020 all over again
@macastel3
The rents in my building have steadily dropped over the past 2 yrs though my apartment complex is in a good area (北外滩) in a high. Fortunate for me, my landlord, seeing the direction the market is turning, has frozen my rent for the last 3 yrs. Wise landlords know their markets
@Byron_Wan
That’s so interesting. When I used to live in Monterey Park, it was known as a Little Taipei (小台北) since there were so many residents from Taiwan living there. But the good folks from Taiwan started moving out in the late 90s/early 2000s for Rowland Heights,
@psurquidi
@LilacsOnTheBay
@michaeljknowles
Dude, she’s number three on the US totem pole. Do you think she doesn’t have a phalanx of secret service agents surrounding her and her hubby 24/7? Time to wake up from your rose-colored dreaming
@thocpodcast
I used to recruit & train foreign teachers for international schools in and around SH. That industry has all but dried up now. Even if I could find a candidate willing to come to China, the red tape encountered processing the entry visa makes the whole task prohibitive.
After 25+ years of riding my bike in China and never having an accident, my luck ran out tonight. A middle-age woman on a moped was yapping on her damned cell phone in a video call while rounding a corner.
@MFA_China
I think it would be a wise for China to do the same. Let the people know of the murderous mess the CCP made during the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution, the Tiananmen Square Massacre and even more recently COVID-19. Don’t ask others to do what you’re not willing to
@vivianwubeijing
That’s what I’m beginning to wonder too. Even my friends in the local police force are split between those who toe the party line and those who think the 0-Covid policy is as draconian as it is unscientific. The political foundation is splintering
@CGMeifangZhang
So which country is ratcheting up the vitriol and warmongering? And yet you keep saying that China wants peace and wants to be a world leader of peace. When you say one thing but do another, you real yourself to be a hypocrite.
Not exactly how I had hoped to spend my 端午节 but work is work and so long as there are clients asking for college guidance, I’ve got to heed the call. At least I got in a delicious 粽子 this morning before heading to the office.
Catching up with 陳禎珍, a student of mine while I was teaching ESL at Cerritos Community College more than 20 years ago. Good tea, delish 凤梨酥 and and wonderful life stories—an afternoon doesn’t get any better than this
@NiMingda_GG
Do they look down on Chinese people? Or do they look down on the CCP? The two are not the same and it is wrong to conflate hatred of the CCP for hatred of Chinese people in general
Feeling a bit blue on this humid Saturday morning. The last of my long-term, close friends working in Shanghai had her teaching contract for next year surprisingly canceled as the school is making budget cuts due to plummeting enrollment. And then there was one…😢
A humorous conversation about moving our operations to Thailand suddenly turned serious as my two local business partners really want to get the hell out of Shanghai and feel that there really is no longer any hope for the city. 😢
@AnnaChenMiaow
No, it’s events like this that trouble China watchers
This isn’t hate or jealousy. This is basic concern for the masses, something that the CCP has forgotten as it recklessly plunges ahead, trampling upon safety concerns
This is scary.
Imagine this happens while you are shopping.
At about 2:10 p.m. on March 23, at a shopping center in Jurong, Jiangsu Province,
#China
, the floor suddenly collapsed, and shoppers fell with the collapsed floor. One construction worker understairs was also trapped.
@thinking_panda
Hold on. The Nazis wanted to destroy the Jews. Most of the countries you circled defended and/or have defended Jews today. You might need to go back and have a refresher course in what the word “Nazi” really means
@GundamNorthrop
Although the cities in China are unbelievably safe, the same cannot be said of the countryside, where some of the sickest crimes imaginable occur daily.
@ZH_mzghg
This type of abusive training reminds me of the way that the Japanese used to train their youth in the years leading up to imperial Japan. History repeats itself; it’s repeating itself right now. Who has eyes to see let them see
After waiting all these years, we are finally back in the classroom having classes! Let’s all look forward to a return to normalcy in 2023. So good to see my students back in class, face-to-face, once again
A nice dinner after a long weekend of teaching. East Nanjing Rd was crowded tonight. I haven’t seen this many people for many years. It’s good to see the crowds coming back and things slowly returning to normal
@Jyves1994
What, he has no right to vent? You’re venting about him. If you don’t like to read his rages, you can always block him. Sometimes people just need to get things off their chests
Really??? Perhaps we should rephrase it as a showcase of stolen goods that would have been destroyed by the CCP during the cultural revolution. Maybe that little pot should show some appreciation for those who saved her life
A group of young Chinese perform a web series about a Chinese jade pot turned into a girl who flees the British Museum, because she wants so badly to return to her native China! The British Museum is a showcase for stolen goods.
@macastel3
So long as the kids can quote from Xi Jinping’s book of thoughts and don’t question the CCP in any way, shape or form, they don’t care about the kids’ education.
My little boy is out of surgery. The procedure was a success. The doctor was able to clean out the gunk that has been accumulating in his inner ear, which had become blocked by materials left when he was injured as a young pup.
@AndyBxxx
Andy, be a little more honest than that. The majority of US gun deaths are the results of suicide. So don’t try to twist & manipulate the data to support your ungrounded narrative