One not-so-subtle technique employed by the Chinese government to show who’s the boss in Tibet truly reflects their character(s).
Every sign in Tibet uses Chinese characters that are invariably much larger than the corresponding Tibetan script.
Even The Idiot gets the message!
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Lhasa, Tibet
“You will feel like your mind is sublimed and soul purified as we pass the highest freshwater lake in the world,” blared the loudspeaker on the Qinghai-Tibet Railway. The world’s highest altitude railroad, a construction marvel inaugurated in 2006, reaches an altitude of 5,072 meters (16,640 feet) between Xining and Read more
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A story about the recent heat wave on Chinese TV was illustrated by shots of women in Beijing, Xi’An and other cities wearing hot pants and miniskirts to stay cool.
Indeed, contemporary Chinese women are as chic and hot/cool as their European counterparts when it comes to fashion. And young Chinese men Read more
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