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Photos from Beijing Trip

Here are some photos from my short trip to Beijing, with commentaries. All pictures taken with an iPhone 3G, mind the quality. Panoramic photos taken with Pano (awesome App, highly recommended).


Arrived!


Probably one of the tourist hangout places.


Same place. See the big white logo in upper right-hand side?


Apple Store Beijing.


The back alley of that place.


Panoramic awesomeness!


There's some sort of live performance there, in Chinese. So, I just moved along.


Inside of a mall, not many people there.


Foreign Language Bookstore.


Anything is Possible, the logo looks a little bit curly but somewhat familiar...


... especially with this store's logo, which is right in front of the previous store. Then I took a mental note: "anything is possible".


Some sort of clock tower with writings that I don't understand.


Some kind of Chinatown street market, in China.


Airport, going back home. Thanks for the awesome time!

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Scott Adams: China is Doomed

For years I have marveled at the fact that the Chinese government could be so practical. They didn't seem bogged down by the superstitions and sideshow passions that you so often see in other governments. China's leaders make decisions like engineers. For example, every time I hear someone yapping about how China harvests organs from executed criminals, all I'm thinking is That's a practical way to get spare parts.

China's leadership isn't big on religion. And apparently they don't see any upside in war. They handle their money wisely. They put a lot of energy into building infrastructure. And they care more about stability than human rights. In other words, they value efficiency over feelings. It's exactly the way you'd expect a bunch of engineers to run a country. Obviously this approach has served China well.

The bad news for China is that their up-and-coming leaders have backgrounds in law, economics, and history. In time, the lawyers will start passing lots of laws that individually make sense while collectively strangling the business sector in red tape. The economists will all disagree with each other, and the historians will be planning for the past. So China is pretty much doomed. But they had a good run.

Pretty interesting.

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Hello from China

Too bad I can't access Twitter or facebook.

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