What is the big fuss over the Royal Wedding?

By China Watcher

Over the past few weeks, especially, former British colonies, like Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, India where the people and its media are fascinated with the wedding of the second in line to the British Monarchy. These people and the media have nothing better to do than to highlight the wedding so prominently in its attempt to build up a “make-believe” fantasy which has been missing from their own lives. There will be a live telecast of the event like the World Cup! Sad, isn’t it. Some of my own family members were also looking forward to witness the wedding, which to me is just a normal matrimony between two loving individuals. The event of course will be lavishly and extravagantly celebrated by the British people.

The British people, who wanted something to cheer up their own miserable lives, with the "Wedding" is perfectly understandable which after all, the royal family is actually their own creation when they disbanded direct Royal rule for the Constitutional Monarchy political system years ago. But for other people who do not depend on these events concerning the Royal Family for their livelihood and the happenings in Britain, why do we actually pay so much attention to it?

If the British couple survives the marriage or wanted to kill each other, how does this concern us? If this is not worshipping another fellow human being, I really don’t know what to say. In this world, we are taught to only look up to intelligent beings and leaders who can share innovative and beneficial ideas which will bring about development to mankind. And the royal family is definitely not on my list.

In China, at least it is being depicted just as a marriage and also, in the US, there is no such fanfare over just a simple wedding. At least there is sanity in this part of the world.

China should tell Germany to mind its own business

By China Watcher

I have not been writing anything for the past few months because of busy work schedule.

This morning I managed to catch a glimpse of a news report stating that the Chinese Ambassador to Germany has been summoned to the Foreign Ministry over not the fate of a German citizen but over a Chinese writer who was detained over issues pertaining to economic matters.

It comes as no surprise to me because of the meddling ways the West would try to put its foot into Chinese internal affairs just because China has different ideology and own approach in handling citizens who breaks Chinese laws.

Well, Germany is not what it used to be when it controlled part of Shanghai and Tsingtao during the early 20th Century as what is called "Slicing of the Chinese Melon". It is just an European power which is very good in making cars with a population of not more than 100 million. Yet, it wanted to act like a big brother to the US in questioning the local laws of the Chinese.

China should just tell the Germans to look at themselves first and most important, tell them point blank.. it will affects Sino-German relations in the long run.

Minus 10 points on Sino-German relations. The Chinese should start thinking twice about buying Mercedes and BMW.