Wholly within its intense present: A Shanghai night

TRAVEL BLOG: My time in Shanghai could only have been fleeting, though. That’s all a single, unplanned night in one of the largest cities in the world can really afford. And on a backpacker’s dime, that price tag is steep.

Trade and geopolitics push Japan and China together

JERICHO ONLINE: On the sidelines of the 2017 Asia Pacific Economic Corporation meeting in Da Nang, Vietnam, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe spoke with Chinese President Xi Jinping, sparking hopes of an improved relationship for one of the continent’s deepest rivalries. “At the end of the meeting, President Xi said this is a meeting that marks a fresh start of relations between Japan and China,” Abe told reporters. “I totally feel the same way.”

Shaved-Ice in a Market Corner

TRAVEL BLOG: I have since found that the snack, xianguo baobing, is simply shaved ice; there are specialty stores that serve it. But I can’t speak for those stores. What I can speak for is that, as simple as it was, that crudely ordered shaved ice we bought in Nanshi was perfect.