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China eyes hosting the Winter OlympicsAfter the success of the Beijing summer Olympics in 2008, China is setting its sights on hosting a future winter games, perhaps in 2022.
As part of that plan, huge developments are underway in the north of the country, building new ski resorts and runs. And unlike this year's games in Vancouver, resort owners say that northern China never has a problem with a lack of snow.
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FanJingShan is the highest peak of the WuLing Mountains in southwestern China, at an elevation of 2,570 meters (8,430 feet). The FanJingShan National Nature Reserve was established in 1978 and designated a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve in 1986. FanJingShan is a sacred mountain in Chinese Buddhism. It became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2018.
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上海北外滩白玉兰广场春节漫步之行-迎春锣鼓秀
With Wei's Travel ...
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China's meritocracy versus Western Elite rule (with a 'vote' of which brand of the same thing can be made every 4 or so years). Is the Western 'vote' simply a way to get one's complicity into a governance that will never really be your side ?
Spoiler - the Western model 'wins' the debate - but it is an audience of long brainwashed Westerners - lol ; )
* Try to play. Google doesn't like to play ball with China related videos unless they are clearly anti. No thumbnail or bad sound, etc (plays ok as of 26th August 2020) ...
Bonus video, with Professor Zhang WeiWei & Professor Timothy Ash (a Munk debate).
Which one works for an elite and which for the common people ...
Looks like the video version has been 'black-holed' : (
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The beautiful outdoor show in HangZhou, ZheJiang province ...
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