State Of Amnesia

Li Jiaqi, one of China's biggest Internet influencers, with over 170 million followers on multiple platforms (TikTok and Sina Weibo) earning him an estimated $10–$20 million per month ....

Li Jiaqi And Tank Ice Cream

..... fell foul of China's censors, when on the anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre on the 3rd of June 2022 he was livestreaming a show to millions of followers..

Thin Skinned Top Dogs

As China rises ever closer to being top economic dog ~ 2029 is the latest prediction for when they overtake the US economy for that number one spot ~ its inhabitants are becoming ever more thin skinned.

China's Illegal Imperial Territorial Claims ... Top Nation Style

This doesn't just reflect in their ignoring of international legal rulings over their land grab in the South China seas, but in the smaller petty things that a big nation should be able to laugh off. 

Soap Queen

A woman who uses the social media name 'Xiaoxiao' on China's micro-blogging site Sina Weibo, didn't take kindly to being dropped by her boyfriend, who had described her as 'Too Large'.

But rather than diet, go training, and get a new hairdo (i.e. the usual three months of 'I'm getting a 'new man'), routine that most women follow in these circumstances, she decided she wanted a rather quicker revenge on her faithless ex-paramour. So she decided to lash out her money on a bit of liposuction on any parts of her that offended, and then post pictures of her 'new' look on the Weibo website.

Waiting For The Treatment .....

Land Of The Not So Free

In the land of the not so free, there is often a delusion that they are as free as anyone .... this is an age old phenomena, but was far more easily enforced before smart phones opened up the Internet to the globe ... a change that is so revolutionary in its potential to change the world, that we have not yet begun to see its full impact play out.

Internet Usage Was Restricted To One Screen And One Mouse Driver ..

 

For instance, in North Korea, most people probably half believed for years, that the rest of the world was at least as poor as they were (although clandestine contacts with South Korea would have ensured that equally they half suspected that this was nonsense), but that is unlikely to be the case now.