I was watching the first part of the documentary series about Soong Mei-Ling (Madame Chiang Kai-Shek) on TVB Pearl. One of the talking heads was Hao Po-tsun, and the caption informed us that he was Premier of ##### 1990-93. Someone from TVB had diligently blocked out this politically incorrect description. Marvellous.
The program also described Soong Mei-Ling as being legendary in three centuries. This is stretching things somewhat – she was on a toddler at the start of the 20th Century, so she couldn’t really have been legendary!
In Monday’s Guardian (in an article about a proposed tunnel between Spain and Morocco), I found this rather surprising piece of information:
There are also proposals for a tunnel to link China and Taiwan, which would stretch at least 78 miles.
Considering the reluctance of the Taiwan government to allow direct air links, how likely is it that they would build a road tunnel to the mainland? Wouldn’t it be rather an ambitious project?
Ordinary Gweilo 
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