Need more reasons to avoid anything even remotely tied to Red China?
Never mind its invasion and ruthless occupation of neighboring Tibet.
Never mind its counterfeiting of patented materials and deadly tampering with exported medications, pet food and toys.
Never mind its wholesale violations of human rights.
Instead focus on Beijing’s amenities awaiting international athletes and visitors to the 2008 summer Olympic games later this summer.
Virtually all public facilities in the three sports venues feature squat toilets. Westerners, of course, prefer sit-down johns. Just ask U.S. Sen. Larry Craig (R-Idaho).
Then there’s the matter of China’s notorious mangling of the international language, English—as in “steamed crap” for steamed crab and “burnt lion’s head” for pork meatballs.
And those bigots visiting “Racist Park” mistranslated from Park of Ethnic Minorities. (23 MARCH 2008)
