Peering into the Precipice

For those that haven’t read or heard, the CCTV’s new HQ compound suffered a heavy blow last month during the peak of the Chinese New Year festivities. There are plenty of stories and pictures that can be easily found online, so I won’t delve too deeply there. I did, however, just read a decent article at a favorite blog of mine, Absurdity, Allegory & China, taking a post-mortem analysis what’s going on there at the moment. From the sounds of it its business as usual – sweep the detritus under the carpet and hope no one notices the scarred earth that remains before the next big rain. I’d be interested in what is planned to happen in the next few months – perhaps a midnight implosion of the skeleton while no one is awake?

Anyhow, its a good read.