{"id":8834,"date":"2021-05-11T21:44:28","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T01:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=8834"},"modified":"2021-09-09T06:35:10","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T10:35:10","slug":"episode-338-china-surprised-me-in-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=8834","title":{"rendered":"EPISODE 338 CHINA SURPRISED ME IN 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"
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NOTE:  Tension between Canada and China is very real this year.  Too bad.<\/div>\n
So I thought readers might be interested in our visit to Beijing  back in 2013.<\/div>\n

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EPISODE  338    CHINA SURPRISED ME IN 2013<\/p>\n


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alan skeoch<\/div>\n
May 2021<\/div>\n

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\u201cDad, I have booked a flight for all of us to fly to China tomorrow.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cAwww Kevin, we\u2019re quite happy here in Korea.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cChina will surprise you.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cTo much tension Kevin.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cTension?\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cTension between Canada and China\u2026..different people.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cScared, dad?\u201d<\/div>\n
\u2018No need to take risks\u2026not sure the Chinese Would like us.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cYou will be surprised, Dad\u2026pack your bag\u2026.I have <\/div>\n
booked us all into a small Chinese hotel in Beijing for a few nights.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cYour mom and I do not speak Chinese, Kevin.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cYou will be surprised to discover that many Chinese speak english.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cWhy would they do that?\u201d<\/div>\n

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LOTS OF SURPRISES<\/div>\n

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SURPRISE #1<\/div>\n

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OUR first surprise was the hat seller.   Chinese military hats \u2026 fake fur with <\/div>\n
a Communist red star.  I bought six of them from these street capitalists.  WHY?<\/div>\n
I have no idea but Thought the price was right.<\/div>\n

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2)  SURPRISE #2  <\/div>\n

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A LOT of Chinese citizens were quite ready to bargain \u2026 got to be fun.<\/div>\n
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SURPRISE #3<\/div>\n

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THE food for sale on one street in Beijing was really bizarre.  We ad read about the Chinese \u2018Bug\u2019 market.  Sure enough<\/div>\n
there were candied bugs\u2026for sale.  A special street for foreigners.   A bunch of Russian men<\/div>\n
were having a great time wolfing down some of  these bugs.   But this was special for<\/div>\n
foreigners.  No Chinese customers that I could see.<\/div>\n

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SURPRISE #4    THE CHINESE WE MET WERE GLAD TO SEE US\u2026MADE US FEEL VERY WELCOME<\/div>\n

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SO, Marjorie and I went back and bought a couple more hats.<\/div>\n

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So let me tell you about these surprises.  No one was hostile.  Granted the hat sellers wanted<\/div>\n
to make a buck but they did it in a very friendly way.     More stories about China coming<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NOTE:  Tension between Canada and China is very real this year.  Too bad. So I thought readers might be interested in our visit to Beijing  back in 2013. EPISODE  338    CHINA SURPRISED ME IN 2013 alan skeoch May 2021 \u201cDad, I have booked a flight for all of us to fly to China tomorrow.\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}