"Sorry, Sir. Did I Happen To Leave My Cannon At Your Gas Station?"
This is a good one from TheTycho, now doing business as Carnewschina.com. We are instructed to ignore the flowers. Probably the byproduct of the camera in a Chinese “hand phone”, as they call it.
So there’s that army convoy, each truck pulling one cannon. Minutes later ….
The convoy is gone. However, they left a little memento behind. Or do they drop off one each at every Sinopec station? That could mean sky-high gasoline prices! Get the jerrycans!
Nice catch, Tycho. Now who was the girl with the phone?
Bertel Schmitt comes back to journalism after taking a 35 year break in advertising and marketing. He ran and owned advertising agencies in Duesseldorf, Germany, and New York City. Volkswagen A.G. was Bertel's most important corporate account. Schmitt's advertising and marketing career touched many corners of the industry with a special focus on automotive products and services. Since 2004, he lives in Japan and China with his wife <a href="http://www.tomokoandbertel.com"> Tomoko </a>. Bertel Schmitt is a founding board member of the <a href="http://www.offshoresuperseries.com"> Offshore Super Series </a>, an American offshore powerboat racing organization. He is co-owner of the racing team Typhoon.
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The PRC blue helmets I've been around rolled in BJ2020s, though I have seen the BJ2022s in recent years and wondered what the hell they were. I've been seeing more and more Chinese peacekeepers around. It took them a while, but they finally figured out that medical and construction units in conflict areas is pretty good publicity for the coming Chinese century.
"That cannon looks like something left over from the Korean War." Were they trying to lose the gun on purpose in order to justify a claim to the government finance department for a modern upgrade? It could be how military funding works there, lol.