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Some contextual information would be nice. It's an interesting story when an individual slanders an entire nation, but not because of the word they used. ...

Not to nitpick, but in the world of hotels, this "7-star" ranking is purely a BS marketing gimmick. The Burj is a 7 star hotel because they deemed it so. That said, the level of service there is surel...

Is that guy who just delivered a pizza to my house involved in some international conspiracy to shame the Chinese people? ...

People wearing masks in China. Imagine that. Maybe we should reprimand all the deliverymen, ayis, and other blue collar folk who choose not to choke on China's smog each day for China bashing and dee...

Sega, I actually didn't mean you personally were an asshole. Actually, I was referring to Western doublespeak, and the fact that while America and other nations also do bad things (and act like asshol...

Sega, that's a reasonably insightful analysis of how not to seem like an asshole, even when you are behaving like one. You should write for Xinhua. They need people like you. One thing that's rarely ...

Spoken like a true intellectual, Richard. I stand corrected, you are quite obviously a man of letters....

Your strong words are somewhat diminished by your illiterate idiocy, Richard Lee. I am torn between the belief that you are a parody of the ugliest aspects of jingoistic Chinese blather, or actually t...

Vlad: They were already accounting for those tariffs in their pricing - trust me - they weren't passing on their illicit savings to consumers. Tariffs have continued to decline, while competition ha...

Wee Ling Soh, That's not very nice....

This story does not suggest that wine will go up in price. It's already way too expensive. What has been determined is that certain wine suppliers who were pricing their wines so high in part because ...

Should the 'league of golf' stand as a reminder to us all of the greed and avarice that plagues us in this world?...

There is another new service, Dial a Meal, who just dropped a book in my mailbox. ...

Mozzarella, like other mass-produced cheeses here (feta, cheddar, etc) comes from lots of different places. New Zealand, Australia, and the US, for example. There are a few domestic producers in China...

Alec, I have been pondering while many responses of late (insult, victimization, vitriol - in that order)have been so distasteful but I think you've hit the nail on the head. It's hard to feel compa...