Saturday, February 13, 2010

Time to break out the earplugs

My translator buddy Brendan yesterday posted this great skit on how an Iraq war correspondent vacationing in China might interpret the situation in Beijing this month.

Originally it was supposed to be a guest column for expat magazine The Beijinger 's issue this month, but it seems the editors thought some of the content a little too 'sensitive' - especially the reference to last year's CCTV building fire (which was, of course, a trifling event unworthy of comment, and didn't necessarily happen at all).

Do go and check it out. It would be very funny if it weren't so uncomfortably TRUE.

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