[Closed] Don't take your sat nav to China

i used to live in a large shared house. one of the share-ees was from China. no matter how much you tried he wouldn't discuss anything relating to Tibet. in his opinion it was Chinese territory.

he was a bit miffed when one of the housemates hung some Free Tibet posters in the kitchen and a Tibetan flag from the wondow.

I guess more of concern than having your atlas confiscated is that all maps, books, globes and electronic mapping produced in China and exported to the rest of the world now have to be Chinese propaganda.

Tibet is a bit more complicated that the Brad Pitt film made out - it wasn't a happy place full of peaceful yak-milk-drinking buddhists before the Communists arrived.

You take that back, Brad would never lie to us!

it wasn't a happy place full of peaceful yak-milk-drinking buddhists

its easy to confuse Tibet with Milngavie though

edit - mind you its also easy to confuse tibet with milngavie if you use iOS6

I did.
They didn't.

its easy to confuse Tibet with Milngavie though

😆

(brought up in Milngavie)

There are no maps on my phone sir. They are in the cloud.

[i]customs officer snaps rubber glove[/i]

And they are Apple maps sir. They don't even know how to get out of their own office.

I guess this does not include google maps apps on your phone because they have never taken that off me on my trips there, and I do pop over the border a fair bit.
As for Tibet, rather a socialist government than some half baked religious cult that they had lording over them before but I guess that is an argument for another thread.

its easy to confuse Tibet with Milngavie though

Try the Byres Road Waitrose 🙂

Scruffy sandal-wearing lanky blokes wandering about with their precocious offspring, looking for organic houmous. And that's just me, the other customers are even worse.

I met with a Chinese delegation once that included the head of police for North Western China 😯 - I have his business card somewhere .

i used to live in a large shared house. one of the share-ees was from China. no matter how much you tried he wouldn't discuss anything relating to Tibet. in his opinion it was Chinese territory.

Sounds about as much fun as traveling halfway around the world to study and then being harangued about Northern Ireland by Chinese students who have listened to a couple of U2 albums.

*Applauds!*

Meanwhile, in Merka, there's all sorts of paranoia about Chinese phone companies installing tracking gizmos and frickin' laser beams in to mobile handsets. [url= http://www.zdnet.com/cn/dear-america-enough-with-the-china-bashing-already-7000006044/ ]Clicky. [/url]

i used to live in a large shared house. one of the share-ees was from China. no matter how much you tried he wouldn't discuss anything relating to Tibet. in his opinion it was Chinese territory.

Sounds about as much fun as traveling halfway around the world to study and then being harangued about Northern Ireland by Chinese students who have listened to a couple of U2 albums.

Agree - and you can assume the Chinese student was just too polite to mention British colonial expansion into Africa, India, Hong Kong etc., not to mention what we did to the indigenous populations of North America and Australia when we arrived there!

In fact, over their thousands of years of history, China has been one of the most benign and least aggressive to its neighbours, of any civilisation. In fact - they have been the ones countlessly invaded and humiliated, right up until modern times, which goes some way to explain their current sensitivity to questions of soverignty.

All of which makes the western politicians tendency to scare-monger about Chinese aggression and expansionism all the more two-faced and unpaletable.

Rant over....