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Ride reports & bike news from Chain Reaction's Mike JFri Mar 29 7:57:18 2024 / +0000 GMTUniversal Post Manager 1.1.2 [ www.ProfProjects.com ] I know this place!
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Fri Mar 29 7:57:18 2024 / +0000 GMThttp://chainreactionblogs.com/diary/2011/11/05/i-know-this-place/At 5:30am, there aren't many people on the Beijing subway
Oh, right, how do I know this place? By seeing it countless times during the cold war, when they would parade the huge nuclear missiles and 100,000 troops in front of the world, similar to Red Square in Moscow.
Funny to think how scared we were of China back then, with missiles pointed at us and fiery rhetoric about the Capitalist world. Funny because people seem incredibly friendly and curious here in Beijing, with an immense desire to know what it's like in the United States.]]>30302011-11-05 15:32:572011-11-05 22:32:57