Hi Ms Donohue, As a foreigner who has lived in Beijing for a decade now and traveled all around China, I have to say that you're thoughts and observations are spot on. I was there in China during the Tibetan incident; I was there during the Sichuan earthquake, and I was definitely there during the inconvenient times of Olympics when traffic was tightly controlled. I was also there in Beijing when SARS hit, and it's yet another example of the Chinese media concealing negative news from their countrymen. However, even though I am not was not born on China Mainland, I am a Chinese. So I can understand your frustrations because I can understand with both the Chinese side and the more liberal and Western perspective. With the Chinese, they are so used to being shielded from such news that they are too oblivious and don't mind not having complete coverage of news. I love Beijing and I love China, but I also think you were spot on about the way the government treats their own people as an inferior level of citizens. There was one particular road that was connected to the airport that people involved in the Olympics had to pass, and all of a sudden before July 20th, the date set that all construction had to stop to improve air quality, and that road underwent construction without any prior notifications to the local residents who relied on that one road to get them into the city. Also, the new national exhibition hall was built under such a rush for the car exhibition because the local officials procrastinated until the last possible minute, the traffic and roads nearby were paralyzed whenever an exhibition was on due to the lack of preparation on the part of the government. But I've sidetracked...anyway, I agree with Ms. Donohue and overall she has an excellent understanding and perception of the workings of China.