Hantu Laut
That was 20 years ago when Chinese illegal immigrants from China risked their lives at the hands of human smugglers to sail to the United States to find a better life.
America, the "Land Of Opportunity" attracted all kind of immigrants, legal and illegal.
Today, Chinese from China will not risk their lives to go to the U.S. or anywhere else in the world. The doors are opened for them to leave the country as and when they wish. They have now become the world's largest tourism with money to throw.
In my travel to various countries in Europe and Asia the past two years I have never failed to bump into Chinese tourists, from the big city to the smallest town, they were every where. From Paris, Milan to Kathmandu, they were there.
China has come a long way to come out of the hovel it was and is now the second largest economy in the world after the United States.
I was first in Beijing in 1985 and was in Beijing again a month ago, the transformation was nothing less than spectacular. It's a miracle in motion and China will continue to gleam economically and would overtake the U.S. in the next decade.
With all the modernisation, gleaming skyscrapers and high street shoppings in the cities, there was a forgotten and neglected niche similar to Malaysia, the public toilets stink to high heaven!
Read the irony of U.S. immigration law below.
That was 20 years ago when Chinese illegal immigrants from China risked their lives at the hands of human smugglers to sail to the United States to find a better life.
America, the "Land Of Opportunity" attracted all kind of immigrants, legal and illegal.
Today, Chinese from China will not risk their lives to go to the U.S. or anywhere else in the world. The doors are opened for them to leave the country as and when they wish. They have now become the world's largest tourism with money to throw.
In my travel to various countries in Europe and Asia the past two years I have never failed to bump into Chinese tourists, from the big city to the smallest town, they were every where. From Paris, Milan to Kathmandu, they were there.
China has come a long way to come out of the hovel it was and is now the second largest economy in the world after the United States.
I was first in Beijing in 1985 and was in Beijing again a month ago, the transformation was nothing less than spectacular. It's a miracle in motion and China will continue to gleam economically and would overtake the U.S. in the next decade.
With all the modernisation, gleaming skyscrapers and high street shoppings in the cities, there was a forgotten and neglected niche similar to Malaysia, the public toilets stink to high heaven!
Read the irony of U.S. immigration law below.
1 comment:
The reason I am rather reluctant to visit China is the "stinking public toilet!" just like those in Malaysia but worse. In 1984 I travelled on the train from Beijing to Shandong... gosh, the train toilet floor was full of #&#@*&## and I was so sick and vowed never again!!
Strangely, the korean public toilet is very clean. Now how is that?
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