One doesn’t want to be a flatulent ass, of course, but I can’t help

commenting on this BBC report about the building of

expressways in China. Especially this sentence:

“From Beijing, seven routes are fanning out to Shanghai, Taipei, Hong Kong,

Kunming, Urumchi and Harbin.”

Taipei is the capital of Taiwan, separated from the Chinese mainland (and

therefore from Beijing) by the 110-mile wide Formosa Strait.

Now that is a civil engineering challenge for China’s road builders!