Stir Fried China

A Xinjiang restaurant blew up in Xinjiekou in Beijing yesterday. The official report is that a gas canister exploded, and even through this accident comes at an inauspicious time (the ongoing unrest in Xinjiang plus the PRC’s 60th anniversity celebration next week a few miles from where the restaurant used to be), I see no reason to doubt that this was anything other than the accident that it has been claimed to be. Continue reading “Why aren’t there more fires in China?”