today i managed to grab the internet for a few hours to catch up onsome internet reading (you may remember we share the line between 4of us right now). i found out that the first flights between themainland and taiwan took place! wow, very cool. I will endeavour tofind out more about it from a western source.
why a western source? because all the news online in english here isso dull. from what i can gather the flights are just for chinese newyear and just for business travellers, and explicitly does not meanrelations are immproving...very confusing. anyway, check it outyourself on english.peopledaily.com.cn. Even on the chinadaily,there was very little about whether this actually meansanything...man i love reading analysis in the british papers!
compare the article here:http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200501/27/eng20050127_172058.html with the much better and very interesting one in atimes (nonchinese): http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/GA21Ad01.html. It isalso interesting comparing it to one on CNN, that really does notcover much of the history or situation in much depth, unfortunately :(. Its here -http://edition.cnn.com/2005/TRAVEL/01/28/bt.china.taiwan.flights.ap/
the people's daily is generally regarded as the mouthpiece of thecommunist party, and i have been told the english versions ofchinese news are much more 'liberal' than western ones too! also onthe site you will see an article about local (grassroots) electionswith the worse ever interview with an official about them. it mademe laugh reading it.., it was actually dull (how can the issue ofelections in a communist country be dull?). I've covered electionsbefore, so i wont touch on it again.
just some interesting comments about recent developments; man i musttry to read the news, and chinese news more often. I read some otherpeople's posts recently, so will endaevour to write more about me,less about my activies and less about china if i can, as that seemsto be what people write about.
anyway, onto bed now. should be paying the deposit tomorrow to myflat mate (wont move in till end of month though) :D
Adam
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