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Chris Patten, Hong Kong’s last Governor, back for a visit
By Steve on October 27, 2011
Chris Patten, Hong Kong’s last Governor, returned to the territory for the first time in 3 years to a receptive audience of well wishers. Patten, or Fat Pang as he is also affectionately known, remains…
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Border Crossings: The New Shenzhen Bay link
By Steve on October 20, 2011
Just got back from a few days in China. Rather than fly out of Hong Kong Internationally into China, we decided to go over the border locally and take a domestic flight from Shenzhen airport….
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Diversity: or How America makes Americans
By Steve on September 25, 2011
My 9 month old son, Ethan George, attended his first Republican meeting this week. Being that I am in Hong Kong I need to qualify that statement to say I am referring to the American…
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“Big Brother, Little Brother” comment riles Vietnam in the South China Sea
By Steve on June 21, 2011
The potential for conflict in the South China Sea is heating up. While American forces continue to concentrate on Afghanistan and the 40 or 50 al qaeda members still left there, more ominous issues in…
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Macau trip post lost!
By Steve on June 13, 2011
Had one of those crazy computer glitches last week. I’d been on a roll trying to keep up with the blog posts here at Beyond the Pale and a few days back I spent about an…
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I’m back… and some thoughts!
By Steve on May 20, 2011
I had made it a point at the beginning of this year that I would get much more frequent with my blog posts. I’ve come to like this little trafficked corner of cyberspace and enjoy the interaction…
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“Roughing it” in China
By Steve on April 5, 2011
Just got back from a week travelling in China. I had the opportunity to go to a fairly remote area of central Sichuan that you may recall was struck by a devastating earthquake in 2008. The education…
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Return of the Gweilo
By Steve on March 16, 2011
I lived in Hong Kong in the years leading up to July 1, 1997 when the territory was returned to China from Great Britain. During those days it was common to see gweilos (a vaguely pejorative…
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Christmas Shopping with Obama and the Republicans
By Steve on December 22, 2010
Its Christmas time and President Obama and the Republicans have been out shopping just for you. Using China President Hu Jiantao’s Platinum MasterCard they have bought a mountain of presents for the American people I…
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Nobel Peace Prize puts China “On Tilt”
By Steve on December 11, 2010
In the 1998 film Rounders Matt Damon narrates the subtleties of No Limit Texas Hold-up poker: A brilliant player can get a strong hand cracked, go on tilt…and lose his mind along with every single…