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- From gold farmers to kings: online gaming in china [US China Today] "Apparently the virtual world has not been hit by the financial crisis. In early April, Changyou, the online gaming division of the popular Chinese portal site Sohu.com, had its initial public offering on the Nasdaq exchange. The stock jumped 25% by the day’s end, raising over US$128 million in company proceeds."
- Love, lust and time to party as hotel 'captives' scent freedom [SCMP] "Dozens of people partied in the lobby of the quarantined Metropark Hotel in Wan Chai last night to celebrate their impending release today, as guests told tales of love, lust and laughter from the week-long internment. Sheets that had covered the windows of the locked-down hotel for days were ripped down amid the festivities, revealing smiling guests raising glasses of wine, beer and other liquor and kissing one another."
- Travellers’ Tales: Chinese Don’t Get Sick [The FEER Blog] "Gao Hongbin, China’s vice minister of agriculture, proclaims, “Foreigners have illness, Chinese people don’t have illness, Chinese pigs even more don’t have illness.” Even a room full of cynical journalists cracked up at that one. Ah, we’re transported back to the SARS days. It’s China’s standard “mushroom farmer” approach to media management again: Keep them in the dark and feed them bullshit."
- The US Expo 2010 Pavilion Totters [Shanghai Scrap] "The hope among many Americans that the US pavilion would be financed by Americans is now unlikely to be fulfilled. Yesterday’s announcement of a construction deadline was accompanied by the first (to my knowledge) announcement that the US State Department has authorized the US pavilion group to accept donations from foreign individuals and entities as well as US ones... What’s the practical effect of this development? Most likely, it guarantees that the US that - if it gets a pavilion at all - will follow the precedent set at Expo 2005, in Aichi, Japan, where the US pavilion was largely underwritten by Toyota. So far, Dell and 3M have signed on as the US pavilion’s only corporate sponsors; it’ll be interesting to see how much longer they’re going to want to be associated with what is quickly becoming a national shame."
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The lack of an American Shanghai Expo pavilion is a national shame? Get a grip. Consider: a) incredibly few people in America even realize there is an expo next year, b) if made aware of its existence, they wouldn't give a shit, and c) they'd be justifiably irate if the US gov't coughed up even $1 in an effort satisfy Shanghai's little need for attention and global mianzi. You've really been pushing this America-NEEDS-a-pavilion meme for the past several months, Shanghaiist. Please stop.
So every time Shanghaiist posts a quote from another news source, that means Shanghaiist is "pushing" the opinions found therein?
Shanghaiist, quit pushing on us the tired line that Chinese pigs don't get sick. And quit pushing on us your crazy views that quarantined people drink alcohol and kiss each other.
Jeez.
Agreeing with the other Americans on this site. Shanghaiist stop pushing this "National Shame", "America needs a pavilion", "America is left out of the World Expo". Frankly speaking Americans do not care about the world Expo. Most, if not all, of the Americans I have spoken to outside of Shanghai don't even know about it and when told about it thought it was an event from a bygone era.
The time for the World Expo has come and gone, can we all just move on now. Seriously.
Besides what can the U.S pavilion offer to the people of Chin?. They already study us in microscopic detail. Of course they still don't understand America but a pavilion isn't going to change that. They will have the same perception of America before or after the Expo.
stupid phucks in sichuan.. the driver should have ran them over in their electric mopeds..
agree wtih moneyinabox..."national shame"...you must be kidding?! Fact is the EXPO is a massive waste of resources for all involved and the idea of an EXPO (World's Fair) is redundant. Shanghai Scrap needs to get their head out their ass.
more interesting to me is what event will the CCP "push" after the EXPO...god knows we can't go one day without an event to look forward to or rally round.
And undoubtedly with China's paranoia, visas for "foreign friends" will be hard to come by for this Expo and millions of free tickets will be distributed to area students and rural farmers to revel in the glory.
To be fair, the term "national shame" does not come from Shanghaiist but from the source blog, Shanghai Scrap. I am getting tired of hearing this take on the US' attendence pushed though.
It is clear that American corporations just don't feel like sponsoring such an event in the current business climate. This would not be an issue anywhere except in China, where the presence of a glitzy US pavilion was intended to be a counterpoint to the glitzy Chinese pavilion, putting a rising China on equal footing with the US symbolically. Heaven forbid the propanganda aims of the event planners would be "sabotaged" in such a way!
Eh! It seems the only people who really care whether there is a US pavilion or not are the event planners and the few Americans involved with the fundraising effort.