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America Attacks Beijing Part I-A

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In the early twenty-first century the American army attacked Beijing. It was completely overwhelmed. A meeting of the American Chiefs of Staff concluded:
This defeat was not only a strategic defeat, but also a tactical defeat.
I. The military used the Beijing Tourist Bureau’s Tourist Map of Beijing, the Beijing Department of Transportation’s Transportation Map of Beijing [...]

Beihang’s Lame Internet Service

Students are censored from non-mainland China websites from their classrooms and dormitories. Torrents are blocked (Yay! for encrypted headers). The residential Internet service is spotty at the best of times and nonexistent at the worst of times. It is almost always slow.
For the past ten days or so my Internet connection has just stopped working [...]

Airport Expressway Needs Widening

I saw a friend off at the Beijing airport today. It was my first trip out there in about two years. The relatively newly built airport expressway was absolutely overwhelmed with traffic. This is only going to get worse in the future.
I remember the first time I was on that expressway, during my first trip [...]

Spring Pictures at Lama Temple

The weather in Beijing today was very nice and Jinjin and I decided to go to Yonghegong, definitely one of the most photogenic temples I have been to in China.

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