On Thursday 01 May 2003 11:02, 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Your information is almost staggeringly out of date....
As for the totalitarianism part,as long as you don't complain too loudly about the government, you're fine for the most part (particularly if you have lots of $$$). (Although every now and then Jong Nan Hai will decide to crack down on something and you may come under fire.)
I recently tried to explain the American first amendment to my soon-to-be stepson, who arrived from the PRC last September. He told me that China has freedom of speech, too: if you say something bad about the government, you won't go to jail for too long, maybe a few months, maybe a year. It's not like in the old days when people would get in trouble for that. -- Steve Furlong Computer Condottiere Have GNU, Will Travel Guns will get you through times of no duct tape better than duct tape will get you through times of no guns. -- Ron Kuby