Have you tried the new Lifestyle?

I've been in Shanghai for a few days now. After having visited Asia many times, it keeps amazing me. Every country I visited so far is completely unique. China is also a big story, one with many contradictions and amazements.

Apart from the red communist party flags everywhere, the presence of communism is hard to spot here. When going online, it is easier to spot (my IP address and all ip addresses to the border are owned by the state):

descr:        China United Telecommunications Corporation
descr:        No.133,Taiyun Building,Xidan North Street
descr:        Xicheng District,Beijing,China

update: just found out that this is the second tower of the unicom tower, how's that for scary?

The CNN and BBC we have on our 'special television' are occasionally blank because of technical issues.

On every street corner you can see, hear, feel and smell the enormous transition China is going through. Skyscrapers and banks are popping out of the ground as if it's nothing. Construction is going on day and night. Next to the big shiny black car is a poor looking old man with a wooden cart full of trash.

Until now, the PRC doesn't feel like a communist regime. No, it feels like an unstoppable capitalist organism: