At 2003-05-02 00:25 +0000, Bill Stewart wrote:
At 11:02 AM 05/01/2003 -0400, Tyler Durden wrote:
Sunder wrote...
"Not that I've been there, but the last I heard, China was still an almosttotalitarian communist state and free travel in China is not possible." Your information is almost staggeringly out of date....
Interesting. I've recently been reading a book by a guy who spent much of the mid-90s illegally tramping around the ethnic areas of western China (particularly the Tibet/Burma borders with Sichuan and Yunnan) trying not to get thrown out of the country too often.
Is that sort of like documented immigrants (not undocumented _citizens_ like Mexicans who live within earshot of the border, speak no english, pay no taxes, and think they're part of Aztlan - perhaps there's an analog to this class of _citizens_ in China; I'm no expert on politics in East Asia) who are being jailed and kicked out of the United States, also for just about no good reason at all? -- Freedom's untidy, and free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things. They're also free to live their lives and do wonderful things. --Rumsfeld, 2003-04-11