Every Chinese Statistic Requires Extra Zeroes

Looks like things may have gone considerably

past merely "loosening up" in China. There's a

big press dust-up about this 3-day Chinese

sex-tourism orgy with an army of 500 hookers.

The problem seems to be that the misdeeds

took place on a historically sensitive date for

Japanese-Chinese relations.

So if they had all been Korean clients,

there wouldn't have been any problem?

Extremely odious, and, er, illegal, too

Openly practiced in hotels in major cities

The "compromising videos" were an especially

deft touch in this bizarre para-economic Chinese

corruption racket. One wonders if they

were compromising digital videos already

prepared for Internet streaming.

This way to the concubines, your excellency