Xinhua officially blames Xinjiang 'separatist militants' to have carried out the attack, allegedly based on evidence found at the crime site.
I do not like to contribute to hate-mongering. The Uighur have a motive for carrying out a terrorist attack: decades of violent cultural oppression in their own lands at the hands of the Chinese government.
So yes, a few 'goat-herders' (your words) from Xinjiang can carry out such an attack. Just like a few 'goat-herders' set the US on fire in 2001, whether or not that was an inside job.
While I believe that the only way to defuse the situation is to give the Uighur more independence, this attack will probably just have the adverse effect.
People are blaming today's Jews: the Muslims. Reactions on Weibo range from violent ("we should eliminate all muslims") to mild ("let's not judge all Xinjiang people the same way"). But I don't like the racial turn this is taking ...
Dianxin. It's 199 a month and some 500 to install if there's no optical wire running to your dwelling yet. That 500 could've been spent better, as they've run a cable from the distributor box in the hall downstairs, through the main door, four flights up on the outside of the house, in through the window and then through our own door. This way anyone can cut our internet and it looks stupid, a wire waving in the wind.
But at least the bottleneck has been found. Turns out it was the WiFi router. A software upgrade and reset took care of that.
Downloading at 2.5 MB/s now, when the stars are aligned, but otherwise pretty fast too.
20M is pretty disappointing at our place. At noon, some Chinese speedtests report 1MB/s download and 100KB up. But access to the outside world doesn't get a lot faster. My torrents stay at around 500KB/s.
Thanks for this. I always wondered what could possibly connect the ferocious paddling with triangular snacks. And was obviously too lazy to look it up for myself.
Later, I heard that Daju used to be quite busy but the requirement to pay 200 RMB per person to simply use the road next to Yulong reduced the influx of tourists to a trickle. There is still an establishment rocking a "Best restaurant in all of China" sign, it seems to be mostly used for playing Mahjong as was the hotel we were staying in. Surprising they weren't out of business yet.
The next day we crossed the Yangtze and mounted on the other side. This also yields interesting pictures of Daju.
No country will be very happy to allow an increasingly militaristic China to build tracks that could one day roll an entire regiment to their doorstep. Not going to happen.
First and last experience. Absolutely horrible. I came in late with a big flesh wound. The doctor sewed it up and told me to come back in the morning "perhaps to redo it, and to change the bandage". When I did come back the next morning, they just changed the bandage and sent me off.
When I peeked at my own wound, I noticed it was horribly done. "Like a vet did the stitches," as someone commented. I then had to stay a night in a different hospital in order to do it right, with a 40% chance of getting infections. This cost me a lot more, thanks to Richland fucking up in the beginning.
Whatever X-rays were taken were not printed out and given to me so I couldn't go to another hospital for a second opinion or treatment.
The nurses didn't seem to know where half the things were and the doctors had to repeat orders to get basic things like scissors.
In the next hospital, it was noticed that I had fractured my jaw in two places. On the five X-Rays taken at Richland, they did not notice the fractures.
Pretty sure these people are not actual doctors and are therefore criminal.
Four people signed up for the highest-level class and got a teacher who does all the talking, refers to herself as 老师 and makes classes absolutely uninteresting. As of this moment, only 1 person is still going on a regular basis.
While staff is friendly, they are absolutely incapable to help out with visa matters in an adequate way. Lack of information beforehand, lack of support and lack of information during the visa process meant that I am waiting forever for my residence permit to be processed, without any information about why it's taking so long, why they can't get started ... I'd say this school is a good option if all you wanted is a visa, but they can't even handle this properly.
Anyone giving this school a 5-star rating hasn't been to any decently-run schools in Kunming, such as Keats'. The only redeeming quality is facilities and space, those are indeed excellent.
Have been studying at Keats for almost four semesters now and I'm very enthusiastic about the quality of the teachers and the commitment of the school's staff.
One point of criticism is that I think they could put in some effort to group people of the same level together, rather than base it on who was together in last semester's class.
I stayed here in the early days of March 2013. Dave and his wife are swell owners, the staff attentive, the food good, rooms in perfect order, WiFi fast enough... Much like the old hump, the entire place is an excellent place to relax and make friends. And that is what you come to do in Dali, after all. The location is a bit isolated from the old town, but nothing is really far away in Dali. Besides, it makes for a better starting point to walk up Cangshan.
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Dragon Boat Festival
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Dragon Boat Festival
Posted byThanks for this. I always wondered what could possibly connect the ferocious paddling with triangular snacks. And was obviously too lazy to look it up for myself.
Interview: Environmentalist Li Yuan
Posted byAnd on not wasting water: get rid of Taiyangneng. The amount of water you waste while waiting for it to warm up is simply silly.
Hiking from Daju to Lugu Lake, part 1
Posted byI recently undertook a bike trip to 'Big Tool' and put some pictures up of the same valley. It's amazing how dreamy it is.
Check them out (especially the gallery at the end):
www.worldofnonging.com/[...]
Later, I heard that Daju used to be quite busy but the requirement to pay 200 RMB per person to simply use the road next to Yulong reduced the influx of tourists to a trickle. There is still an establishment rocking a "Best restaurant in all of China" sign, it seems to be mostly used for playing Mahjong as was the hotel we were staying in. Surprising they weren't out of business yet.
The next day we crossed the Yangtze and mounted on the other side. This also yields interesting pictures of Daju.
See: www.worldofnonging.com/[...]
Chinese academic ponders globe-spanning railways
Posted byNo country will be very happy to allow an increasingly militaristic China to build tracks that could one day roll an entire regiment to their doorstep. Not going to happen.