Postcards From the Middle Kingdom, No. 2

BEIJING: Hong Kong was incorporated into China under the concept of "One Country, Two Systems," and that extends even to the telephone. To dial Hong Kong from Beijing, you first have to dial an international access code, not the long-distance code for a Chinese city...

President Clinton was walking around the terra-cotta warriors down in the excavation pit --these guys are all tall and stiff. Clinton could feel right at home because it was like being around a bunch of Secret Service agents...

You know how back in the States, whenever you get something cheap and plasticky, on the bottom it sometimes says "Made in China"? Well, in my hotel room in Xian, I looked underneath the plastic teacups and they said "Made in Taiwan." Pretty weird, huh?