-— Most Chinese don’t even care about politics. They’re more interested in earning money and shopping. ——
Let a thousand KFC’s bloom. My, how times have changed.
I mention these issues because I want Americans to know the real story about China. Sometimes its funny to watch expats first come to China. They are either reformists or lame James Bond wannabees. The reformists get ignored and the James Bond types are good for comedy. It’s like watching the Three Stooges pretending to act CIA. I met one guy claiming to be a spy for the State Department and working at China Daily. He would go into over-drive blasting China Daily behind-the-scenes incompetence, but one day he over-reached and mocked a Tibet article, he got into trouble because a NYTimes reporter had written the article and China Daily was going to re-publish it. He spent 2 days trying to convince his Chinese colleagues that they gotta support the Free Tibet movement. Why this guy never got fired nobody could figure out why. I could only conclude that he kept his job because he was the China Daily snitch. He would go into HR office at least once or twice a day to snitch on his Chinese and foreign colleagues. I made this discovery because the newspaper put me near the office for a few months where I could over-hear his snitching. It was unbelievable the type of expat snakes you will meet in China. It was always the Leftist foreigners who gave me the biggest headaches in the country. They want to out-Mao Mao. Most Chinese just didn’t care. It was just an ordinary bureaucratic job for them to be a reporter.