On my last few visits to China, I have noticed an interesting phenomenon — the conversion of 3-wheeled motorcycles commonly used by the elderly and handicapped into what I can only describe as fake cars. Someone is making serious money converting these 3-wheeled motorcycles into vehicles that look like they want to be cars when…
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Holiday Traffic Jam
I’m a little late to the party, but this video has been flying around The Interwebs all weekend. It is a drone-shot video of an insane traffic jam on a highway just outside of Beijing — a highway that I have travelled many times. https://youtu.be/O3kL6nMap2s I must admit that I chuckled at some of the headlines which…
Zhengzhou Traffic Jam, 1984
Traffic jams in China just aren’t what they used to be.