Blognotes from a photographer life...

Mar 8, 2008

NO BLOG IN CHINA



Just back in Bangkok from 3 weeks in Yunnan, Southern China... Connections were difficult, and accessing the blog, as many other websites, impossible.. But it was a nice experience covering an area that is mostly dedicated to internal travel rather then to foreign visitors. We also shoot a story on Ruili, the border town with Burma where Jade market  seems to be very far from Beijing control. Now I’m heading for Burma to shoot a story on the Arakan region.

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  1. About Yunnan, I've read that it is one of the most beautiful provinces of China.
    Is Ruili as bad as they say: a living and breathing "AIDS factory"?

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  2. ..no more and no less then many other parts of Asia.What is startling is how China manages to keep a clean face while society is rotting down.

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  3. How different then, is this corrupt or rotting society from any other? I'm not Chinese, by the way...

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  4. Why should China be different? Because of the well torn "socialist" label that still decorates the billboards? China wants to be the super-power of the future, and wants to get there fast.. Possibly avoiding internal conflicts, or controlling them.. And this is it..

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