Dave’s Wagon

What happens when you take a Chinese friend to an anti-war protest to show her the strengths of your country’s democracy?

If you’re me, one of the keynote speakers turns out to be a mohawked high school ruffian wearing an Imperial Military flag of Japan shirt who punctuates his speech with a half-dozen f-words blasted over […]

Think Chinese tea and human piss couldn’t possibly be confused? Urine for a surprise!
Via Yahoo! News:
Scandal brews over China tea-for-urine samples

A group of Chinese reporters came up with a novel idea to test how greedy local hospitals were — pass off tea as urine samples and submit the drink for tests.
The results: six out of […]

I was less-than-delighted to see Minnesota State Representative Tom Rukavina embarrass my home state on national news (video) tonight with his bill to criminalize the sale of foreign-made American flags in Minnesota.
Horror of all horrors, it turns out that most American flags are actually manufactured in dirty, filthy, Red China. This, apparently, is a grave […]

I must admit, I have something of a minor fascination with Communist propaganda.
One such example I find interesting is the flowery language and unnecessary qualifiers the USSR and China have used to name their wars. Examples include the Soviet “Great Patriot War” (WWII) as well as China’s “War to Resist America and Aid Korea” (Korean […]

A hat tip to Weird Asian News via OneManBandwidth on this find.

It’s apparently a children’s coloring book published in China called “Military Weaponry for Kids”. Above is what must be the cover, complete with two very happy children piloting a battle tank along with their sunglass-wearing, Kalashnikov-toting dog.
Now, I grew up playing with green plastic […]