Shop extermination is getting more and more common these days and with rent and wages going up, it will spread like wildfire if people continue to use Taobao so much. I had to put my foot down some weeks ago when my wife wanted to order diapers online, to save 6 yuan a pack compared to our local babyshop. I'm all for using Taobao for foreign stuff hard to get around here or if the price is significantly lower, but finding, negotiating, ordering, giving sensitive information to tons of vendors AND sit around waiting for a week+ to save 10-15 yuan is insane.

Ich bin Karl. Ich bin expert. Meine dispatcher says zere is something rong with deine kabel.

Our son is 15 months old now and we've never been asked to show any papers on him. Of course if/when we leave China it's a different thing, but for now we don't really need any papers. Regarding dual nationality, my country -like China- doesn't accept it BUT most of the time there's actually nothing they can do about it legally. If your kid has the right to Chinese citizenship he'll get it and if you go to the British embassy and he's entitled to British citizenship as well they have to dish it out also. Basically what you'll sometimes end up in are two countries both telling you you have to give up the other one's citizenship but in reality there's not much they can do about it without seriously violating the rights of the child.

Does anyone know if there are any airport hotels open yet? I have someone coming to visit next month and they can't get a connecting flight the same day.

And a bad thing,, excessive censoring on sites like GoKunming.