Having traveled briefly through China, we learned many things from observing. The people are very patriotic. Over thousands of years they have learned to get behind policy from Bejing or more locally.

They are a proud people who want to join the Western world standard of living as quickly as possible. There work ethic is relentless and human aspect of getting the job done is not considered.

They want the games to work in a huge way. it's an opportunity to show off and be on show. The censorship in the land is an extension of the culture. They are a socialist / communist country and with that comes censorship. It's been in place a long time.

Taxi drivers being given uniforms to wear is not suprising. There are shops on the high streets in many cities which sell uniforms. The people love organisation. The thrive on uniforms and the drivers in Bejing will be the proudest drivers in all of China for the next few weeks and beyond.

Written by Chris Wethered who runs a sailing website at http://www.boatpride.com

Bla, bla, they don't look like us and they produce cheat products!

Food shortage, you don't have to buy those 'cheap products' if you had a choice. Your comment is giving the westerners a very bad name.

Oh yeah, we produce cheap products but you American produce war and weapons. If you don't like cheap products, don't use them. Say something like this is meaningless.

To food shortage,

Such a keen observer of world affairs! But do you know Americans, who is only 3% of world population, consume an unproportional food in the world? Do you think it is fair for other people who share the same flesh and blood as you?

Without the cheat products from China, you'll have less money to purchase food to put on your own table. If you don't like their product, be proud enough not to buy them. As simply as that.

Nobody look like you, be smart. And it is great that the world does not have 5billion you. Otherwise, the world will be awfully boring.

To food, your are wrong. We will never be short of money (dollars), cuz we can print it as much as we need! Since when the world had been a fair place? I heard that Tibetans used to eat Dalai Lama's feces as medicine to treat illnesses. It's not fair for the Chinese to ask them to take aspirin.

But we cannot print food or feces.