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To: Lorianne

During the early days of Mao, there was a joke making the rounds that all we had to do to end the Chinese threat was to give every Chinaman a motorcycle.

They would kill each other.


2 posted on 05/25/2016 2:27:48 PM PDT by old curmudgeon
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To: old curmudgeon

Unlike Taiwan the mainland basically went directly from bicycles to automobiles. And they drive as if they’re still pedaling two wheelers. No lanes, no signals, just a weaving mass of moving steel and rubber.


11 posted on 05/25/2016 2:41:15 PM PDT by katana
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