Jakey Jake

Thursday 27th May
This morning i awoke with some answers to questions i had the night before, love it when you get the answer after sleeping with it. Anyway i started plugging away at it again and writing in the diary. Today we were catching a train to Shanghai, just 2 hours away. We stuck the telly on just for some backgroud listening. Its truly amazing how far reaching their censorship is. Pretty much anything that makes china look bad is not aired or spoken about in public, or for that matter even in private. Anything that makes the US and europe look like they are evil in contrast to a good china is put on the box, the propaganda machine gives the most skewed view of china and the government. Talk about gagging free speech. makes me think of that jack nicholson line “the truth?? you cant handle the truth”. Today we were catching the train to Shanghai. I was looking forward to seeing this city id heard a lot of hype about it expanding rapidly and becoming the new mecca of capitalism. On the train coming into the city, you could easliy get a feel for just how large a city it was, with huge apartment highrises begining from the outskirts of towm. there was very little that was under 4 storeys high. After we actually pulled into the train station, and jumped into cabs you could really see just how massive it truly was, with big buildings scattered around everywhere, and in the distance a bunch of skyscrapers in all sorts of shapes, although they were difficult to see through the smog.