life - Just missed the NK premier
Pak Pong Ju
North Korean premier Pak Pong Ju visited this afternoon the site where the Communist Party has been established just after lunch, I read from dispatches from my colleagues who try to follow him. I was just returning from a lovely lunch myself with two colleagues at Simply Thai at the same Xintiandi, who had been picking my brain on weblogs in China.
Quite a difference in the way Shanghai is dealing with its official visitors, compared to the past. In the past the city would be flooded by police, who effectively changed the traffic for a few hours in a mess, so the motorcade could pass by. Now, I must have almost passed the premier and had not noticed it, if my colleagues had not posted their dispatches. Seems a rather uneventful visit anyway.