Pilots Stike!

[Dunnybudgee]

Surpised?

Not really surprised at the reaction, except for the fact that a couple weren't shot against the hangar wall as a lesson to others.... But then maybe the local provincial governors tart was on their next flight out...

As someone who spend a few months there I can happily asert that nothing much has really changed in the last 60 odd years.

There might be fancy western brand names on sale downtown. And they may have given a carefully orchestrated impression of humanitarian progress to gain access to foreign technology and skills. Some may even drive locally made obselete VW's, and 99% copied Jap motorbikes - instead of bicycles. Their government's style of brainwashing might even be slightly hipper than it was under Mao, but at the end of the day it is still nothing more than a totalitarian dictatorship, with a slightly hipper rap.

Believe anything else and IMHO you are deluding yourself. The "Peoples" republic has never had much to do with concern for the people... IMHO.

Human rights? Workers Unions? Judicial fairness? Governmental transparency? Yeah right...