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| Dodwell’s article here. Letters here |
My letter published today in the South China Morning Post. They cut out my bit about visiting the Daya Bay nuclear power station on our Classic Car Club trip, as I guessed they’d do. But in reality, Daya Bay is a “must see”! Visit a nuclear power station next time you’re passing by one! It’ll open your eyes to the wonders of “New Clear” power! In these days of our climate *emergency*….
What I say above about travel from Hong Kong to the Greater Bay Area is true. If it happened it would be great for everyone. There’s nothing to stop it happening other than crappy bureaucracy. Mainly limp, lazy Leninism on the China side.
There’s a similar issue sailing. We ought be allowed by Chinese authorities to sail a yacht to the Lima Islands south of Hong Kong Island. They’re fabulous and almost uninhabited. The only reason we can’t, officially, is just Chinese bastard Leninist paranoid bureaucracy. We’ve never allowed it, so we can never allow it. How I know they’re fabulous is I’ve been there, in a yacht. The deal is you pull in, the police launch comes out, you tell them you have engine troubles and seek safety refuge for half a day or so, to “fix” it, and hand them a few bottles of Scotch for their troubles. And it works. But it’s petty corruption, it’s a hassle, it’s wrong, yet shows up that there’s no reason it ought not be regularised. Just petty, bastard bureaucracy in the way.
