Chinese police launch manhunt for 'Chinese Rambo'

Often, I think I know China well. However, just as often, it occurs to me that I don't really know what I thought I knew. The visions and experiences collected and stored in my mind while I am awake are gone after I have slept. Reasoning and understanding seem to last only for a few hours before becoming illusory: the images and meanings disappear one by one, stolen from me by apparitions and secreted away, never to be returned in their original form. The understandings that I have assiduously acquired are nothing more than banal when bound together to try and shape the oldest continuous civilization on earth. Experience, learning, and proudly possessed knowledge, gained from many sources and from interaction with its people, are taken from everyone who thinks they know China and passed on to others who share them smugly, use them with confidence, reverently broadcast them as Gospel for a few praiseworthy moments. "I know China." Then, time and circumstance mangle them until they are beyond comprehension. These ,too, will be passed on and shared as truth, only to be proved wrong again. The enigma is this: China never changes, but China always changes. Its people beset by burden, affected with melancholy, inured to bewilderment, and suckled on uninterrupted millennia of incalculable hopelessness and sorrow. "There is chaos under heaven and things could not be better", said Mao Zedong. This is the real truth: "China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese" - Charles De Gaulle. China: don't ask, it is what it is... ,,,,,,,,W.D. Box

08/12/2012

Chinese police launch manhunt for 'Chinese Rambo'

2:21PM BST 12 Aug 2012Rifle-toting police in combat gear descended on a forest-covered mountain outside the mega-city of Chongqing on Saturday in search of their suspect, named as 42-year-old Zhou Kehua.

The operation was launched after a woman was shot dead on Friday morning during a robbery outside a branch of the Bank of China in Chongqing. Police believe the gunman, who made off on a motorbike, may be responsible for an 8-year crime spree in which at least six people have been killed.

"This guy is like a Chinese Rambo," Bill Bishop, an influential China-blogger, wrote on his daily 'Sinocism' news bulletin. "His evasion skills are remarkable."

A photograph of the aftermath of Friday's attack showed the female victim, apparently suffering from a head wound, sprawled facedown on the pavement.

Another image showed a security guard clutching a towel to an arm wound.

Read more at The Telegraph

Aug 12, 2012 8:54:49 PM | Crime, Current Affairs

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