Beijing is cleaning up its spiritual deviations and air pollution. Kind of.
Measurement of the API (Air Pollution Index) has suffered a technical breakdown. Whatever the visibility, API meters get stuck at below 100. Not 101 coz that is no more “blue sky day”. Soon Beijing will reach a record of blue sky days so the city can triumph and give the IOC a nice report.
So, all what you read about Beijing like the following chart from a study made by KU Leuven, all distorted news from the foreigners.

Foreigners are leaving the city in droves, running out of visas. Networking events become very “Chinese” with so many regulars sitting in the USA, Australia or Belgium trying to figure out when they can return to the sin city. Business for apartment rental is at record lows, so is hotel occupancy for some; foreign restaurants also suffer.
No more sinning. Bad for the image. Nightlife is slowly becoming sanitized (not because of Dettol). CCTV is everywhere, so better behave – patrons of “Pavillion” (Gongti Xi Lu) are warned at the door. Now hurry coz they are closing at the end of June till 1 November. Maggies and all remain closed. “Special barber treatment” is also disappearing.
Luckily we still have China Daily, progressive as ever.

China Daily: lingerie – China Daily: Carla and no lingerie

Its website keeps me informed about lingerie or the anatomy of Carla, the first lady in France (she needs lingerie?).
Now, if anybody gets too excited, there is always a way to alleviate certain physiological pressures, just look up the ads on China Daily website to get your playboy massage (I chose no. 5). I am not sure looking at the ad if we can give no. 5 a massage or it is the other way round. Invoices no problem, you can have a girl as a meal.


In the meantime our Chinese friends are busy rehearsing how to applaud, how to smile, how to drink, how to dress and I guess also how to breathe. We want a disciplined and well informed public. The city might request TV experts to control the audience. The U.S. are good at that, the American public being unable to feel nor think, they are instructed at laughing, clapping, weeping, etc. Just watch the sitcoms and stuff like that (made for clueless audiences).
Not sure the American cheerleaders are welcome, nor Carla promoting her new album. China Daily informs:
First lady confesses to drug habit on album
France’s First Lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy sings of 30 lovers and hard drugs on a new album that she insists was not inspired by her whirlwind romance and marriage to President Nicolas Sarkozy.