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To: Old Retired Army Guy

As a regular traveler to Beijing I can assure you that while there is some crime, and it is mostly petty crimes, they would never think of robbing a foreigner (most foreigners don’t carry cash and it’s illegal for resident Chinese to posess
foreign currency). The streets are very safe, even in the poorest of neighborhoods I can walk without fear. Same for the subways, even late at night. Scheduled to be back in Beijing mid September and looking forward to it.


16 posted on 08/06/2008 11:13:31 AM PDT by Ouderkirk (I will not vote for Obama not because he is black, but because he is RED)
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To: Ouderkirk

I agree.
Police states are the safest.
Until the police target YOU.


17 posted on 08/06/2008 11:18:46 AM PDT by SJSAMPLE
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To: Ouderkirk

You read like a commie commercial


21 posted on 08/06/2008 11:52:55 AM PDT by freeplancer
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To: Ouderkirk
they would never think of robbing a foreigner

Not even pickpockets? I've been through the crushing mass of humanity known as the Beijing Central Railway Station. It seems like it would be very easy to have a wallet lifted there.

24 posted on 08/06/2008 1:15:10 PM PDT by Constitutionalist Conservative (Global Warming Heretic -- http://agw-heretic.blogspot.com)
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