Free-line skating in Beijing

With Reporterfy Media ...

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' : (

With Cyrus Jannsen ... With Lee Barrett ... Bonus film, with RT America ...

The karst mountains and countryside around YangShuo, GuangXi province ... The LongJi rice terraces, YunNan province ... Great Wall BeiJing ...

ShānHǎiGuān, 'Mountain Sea Gate', close to QinHuangDao. Where the Great Wall of China meets the ocean ...

There are nearly 300 photographs in this beautiful slideshow ...

XinTianDi ('New Heaven and Earth') is a delightful, up-market area partly based on renovated traditional mid-19th century ShiKuMen ('Stone Gate') houses and alleyways. Here you find boutiques, book stores, cafes and restaurants, hotels and shopping malls. Most of the cafes and restaurants feature both indoor and outdoor dining and are popular by day and by night.

The beautiful Dragon's Backbone rice terraces; about 60km from GuiLin ...

With Wei's Travel ... Bonus film - with Aleese Lightyear, in BeiJing ...