. All Animals of the world take Note !
Beware!
The Chinese have arrived, and there are over
one point three Billion of them.
And they all eat meat and they love meat so run for your lives, they are multiplying fast and soon there will not be enough animals for them to eat.. Yikes. Alas it does not end here, “people” say go to Dali and Llijiang, in Yunnan province, because it is so beautiful there, a mix of traditional tribal, or ethnic minorities, in quant towns. So I went there, but someone forgot to tell me, that they told the same thing to one Billion other people, so when I arrived there, they were all there…Yikes Normally I would say every Chinese man and his dog, but due to the particular “situation” and with respect to the dogs I could say every man and his uncle, but not even that works, as China has a one child only policy, so there are no uncles… he he he Crazy! Then try to talk politics, with the locals, or social issues, every thing here is so, so, complex, the brain goes into overtime trying to find “reason” but interesting. So you may have figured out that these “nice places” in China are all visited by the billions of other Chinese tourists, and it is just too much for me, like an over rated Disney land. I tuck my tail under my legs, yipe, and run. I am now off to a place they call “the end of the earth.” It is on the border of China, Mongolia and Kazakhstan. They keep telling me “no one goes there” ahhh so there I go! I will cross into Kazakhstan from there.
Meeting all sorts of interesting people, from all walks of life, the new generation of Chinese, who all want to talk with a foreigner. Travellers from every place on earth, (my hat of to the group I met from Argentina, Peru, and Spain, very special…) A short explication; they refused to stay in hotels, so they stay rough in temples or homes offered, doing animations for the people, circus circus.. ) So many different stories, opinions, ideas, thoughts philosophies, religions, cultures, and eating habits, meat meat meat. China a country growing, changing so fast, a new generation with new ideas, old timers watching the change, new social economic challenges, how will it all turn out in ten years??
Perhaps as a man once sung (Bob Dylan) “they are heading down a dead end street, at a hundred miles an hour.”
Stay tuned the adventure continues….

. This is not a Thesis, nor an antithesis, not an academic paper for a doctorate, not a philosophy, nor a psychological analysis, it is just an observation, by me on my travels, titled…
Embassies, civil servants, bureaucrats, and other people encountered on my travels.
I have travelled around the world to all the known continents and, and have visited over 130 countries. On my travels I have been encouraged, excited, surprised, and shocked. But there is one thing that I just cannot get over, and that is, “people who are brain dead.” I have never understood how people can be like this! Indifferent, apathetic, non caring, dysfunctional, retarded, brain washed, cold, heartless, selfish, uncaring, unhelpful, arrogant, aggressive.. I am referring to people that I meet, especially, those who I Have to deal with in order to move on, in my travels, travel agents, consulates, embassies, and other so called government agencies, civil servants, functionaries, and bureaucratic personal. I always thought the goal and function of our growing experience in life, was to “move ahead, to move forward, to grow, to Advance, to Evolve.” Alas sometimes what I see is so the opposite, devolution.
This year I travel to Sri Lanka, then on to India, and from there to Nepal, the idea was to go from Nepal, cross the Himalaya mountains, through Tibet to China. I met with the second in charge, to the Ambassador of China, in Nepal, and he explained that I could not go through Tibet alone, on the bus, due to the (and I quote) “few trouble making Europeans, who want a free Tibet.” So I decided that I would go through Nepal to India (easy) then through Kashmir and Jammu to Pakistan, and from there onwards, to all the other “Stans”, which is my goal. Once again an interview with the Pakistani ambassador, (cant cross through from Jammu in India, to Pakistan, because this is ‘disputed’ territory, (according to Pakistan) Now I could go on and on about the people who I came into contact with in these embassies, their reaction and communication with me, it just boggles the mind, how these people function at all. I wonder how they manage to get up in the morning, and get dressed, breakfast and get to work, I am talking about some very dysfunctional people, who are incapable of the very minimum of communication and human interaction!! Yikes…………
Alas now I have changed my map, and now head through Thailand, Laos, through Yunnan, China, into XiJiang province and into Kazakhstan. What happened to humanity? Is it just me, or is there really devolution of education, intelligence and civil awareness. I see TV programs like the Simpsons that glorify the term dysfunctional, young travellers who think its cool to call each other “Psycho and retard,” who cares and whatever, are the saying of the day. I care, I believe we need to care, to evolve, to grow, to move ahead, forward not backward, to be positive, loving, learning, studying; growing in knowledge. Lets make a difference to this world, by uniting in spirit, to be better people, loving, caring, sharing, wise, generous, intelligent, forgiving, honest, kind, patient, tolerant, let us all reach for enlightenment, for Truth and Light.
Love, Joy, Peace and light.
Clive
lots of stories to tell you will write again soon

. In the land of the Uighur People, cruel, crazy, beautiful,
Xi Jiang
[ A personal experience as an introduction into Xi Jiang and the Uigher People. On the train ride to Xi Jiang, the Chinese train inspectors were very sever with the people, max control, “sit down and shut up” and I mean that literally! Under my bunk bed, there was an elderly little Uigher lady, transporting some very strong moonshine, (which she later shared with me, yikes) The train inspector started giving her a hard time, insulting her, and treating her worse than a dog, because her luggage was too heavy. I intervened, and said that I would take half her weight, as I was travelling light, a big hoo haa, and I went out to find someone to help me translate. I found two very ‘western looking’ girls, who I thought were foreigners or tourists, but they explained that they too were Uighers,(Chinese) and they went on to explain that the Chinese hate the Uighers, and the lesson began for me. The official explanation is, the Beijing government say that there are over 100 different ethnic minority groups living in China, and they have all integrated into the Greater China, and live well together, under Chinas new economic growth..] Believe what you want !
In the state of Xi Jiang Provence in china; the biggest and most desolate of the Chinese provinces, but also perhaps the most rich; with its oil and mineral wealth. Unlike Tibet which was always part of the greater Chinese empire, and a lot of people dispute that! Xi Jiang was not, and for those of us who do not know, the Uighur are the original Turkmen people now spread out all over central Asia, most known in Turkey, Kazakhstan Uzbekistan etc. So basely they are Not Chinese, but now have to be Chinese, and that has caused a lot of problems with China. Today I met a guy who told me that they have no right to grow a beard, or to dress like a Muslim. The Chinese government does every thing it can to prevent these people from being who they want to be, to the extent that they are rounded up by the thousands beaten tortured and imprisoned. These are the original Turk people, their land occupied by China, with a programme of social, economic and political genocide, and not much is being done about it, because of the “Power of China.” This place is so different, the food, the people, the language, the culture, the landscape, desert with camels, and in the back ground, the mountains, covered in snow……Huh, desert heat and snow covered mountains !!
Wow with over 50 very different ethnic minorities, the desert, and the snow covered mountains, its so bazaar, because during the day I am baking, and I look out and see “snow” on top of the mountains, and I wonder……
The people are so un-Chinese, they are very open, friendly kind, I could be arrested for writing like this let them try !!! This is what travelling is all about, meeting these people, seeing, listening, learning, experiencing!!! Ok I think I will get on my Camel now, and head out into the desert, ahhh the ancient silk road Marco Polo and Clive Compion…The adventure continues, and No I did not fall off the “end of the world” here, well, almost !! Clive

(From the Lonely Planet) THE BEGINNING OR THE END?

Uighurs have, with good reason, always viewed Han Chinese as invaders, and relations between the two nationalities have never been good. However, ties have become far more strained since the early 1950s, when communist China began bolstering the Xīnjiāng population with Han settlers.
Although China has invested a fair amount of money in developing Xīnjiāng’s economy and infrastructure, Uighurs frequently argue that real opportunity – economic or otherwise – is re-served for Han Chinese. Little Han-Uighur interaction is apparent, although there is some in the capital, Ürümqi.
This long-simmering Uighur resentment saw several riots in the early 1990s; tensions boiled over in February 1997 when Muslim separatists in the northern city of Yīníng started serious riots that led to a swift crackdown by Chinese security forces. At least nine people died and nearly 200 were injured, making the protest the most violent to date, according to the Chinese media. Hundreds of Muslim residents were arrested for their roles in the riots: three were executed on the day of their trial, the rest given life sentences. In response separatists blew up three buses in Ürümqi, killing at least nine passengers and wounding many others.
The violence returned to Yīníng in April 1997, when a mob attacked prison vehicles transporting some of the convicted February rioters. Again, several people were killed or wounded. In 2001 Chinese secret police raided a number of Uighur underground mosques in Korla; one prominent leader and a handful of others were tried and executed. And this was before 9/11. Běijīng took full advantage of the events following 9/11 to further crack down on Uighur nationalism by locking up or executing thousands of suspected ‘Islamic terrorists’ – with, ultimately, Washington’s tacit approval (and the rest of the world’s cacophonic silence).
Xīnjiāng is like a whole other country enclosed within China’s borders. Here the language is not just a different dialect, it’s a completely different linguistic family; and it’s no longer about whether you dip your dumplings in soy sauce or vinegar, it’s how you want your mutton cooked. What lies within such desolate lands that motivates faraway Beǐjīng? A thumbnail sketch it’s larger than Alaska (one-sixth of China’s territory); hyper-rich with Silk Road history; popu-lated by a mixed salad of nearly 50 ethnic minorities; geopolitically crucial, as it borders eight nations; and encompasses a geographical palette of shimmering desert aquarelles taiga pasture land dotted with flocks of sheep and grand mountain ranges. Oh, and it sits atop 30% of China’s oil reserves.
KASHGAR 喀什
Kashgar (Kāshí) is the end of China’s New Frontier, itself the end of China. Or as some would say “the end of the earth,” I once stood in a very desolate place in Namibia, on the edge of the Great fish river canyon, which makes the grand canyon in America look like a piss pool. The bushman tribe, or “San People” say this is the “end of the world!” so, does that mean that I have reached both ends of the “end of the world”?? I now remember standing on top of Machu Picchu in Peru, and being told that the Mayan people believed the same thing?? Maybe the world is square and has “four ends to it, can any one help me, and tell me where the fourth is?? ”The first intrepid Chinese traders and emissaries, must have envisioned themselves at the “end of the earth” as they approached this readymade oasis for the first time, millennia ago. (Considering it’s 1000km through a desert furnace, and its varmint brigands from the site of modern Ürümqi, they were some brave souls.) Its strategic crossroads location has seen it at the epicentre of cultural conflict and cooperation for well over two thousand years. so I must end here from Goats heads in soup (or are those sheep’s heads) they all look the same, staring out from the soup at you, and all the other unknown and unidentifiable foods sold on the street here, with the hundred different dialects and languages, once again, here I am, thinking….again lost for words…
Clive
. Clive in China 2012

By sheer coincidence, during the month of May, June, 2012. my time spent travelling in China, the worlds most known news magazines, such as Newsweek, Time, The Economist, and Forbes, ALL had China as their headlines. It seems as if the whole western world is “looking” at China and asking all the same questions, what is happening in china? Economically, socially, politically, human rights etc. I am one of those travellers, (old school) who does the same, as I travel in a country, I like to try and get in “touch” with the people, to try and understand, who they are, and how they live, what they think, etc.
I have to say here, that in all the countries I have travelled around the world, China is one of the most complex as far as the past, present, and future goes, it is growing so fast, the “new generation” are seeing change in front of them, at an alarming rate, it is almost as if they cant keep up. They are trying to find, an identity, in this new globalised world, with MTV, mini skirts, French couture and cosmetics, sex rock and roll! The modern young Chinese do not have a real “history”, they can identify with, to direct them into their future. The ancient ruling Dynasties, with their rich history and culture, was virtually destroyed by the “revolution” and finalised by Mao, and the cultural revolution. So it is either, identify with ancient dragons, and men with long white beards, enormous moustaches, in flowing robes, which they don’t, or with the revolutionists, Mao and the communist movement, which they don’t. So what I see is, that they are more and more drawn to the “western” style of life, capitalism, (they love shopping) rock and roll, modern European cloths, I Pod and I Phone, all mixed up with their ancient history and culture. And what a mix it is, from one extreme to another, I see a girl, (many) trying to be very western, very short skirts, high heel shoes, I Phone plugged in, and next to her, an old man who probably walked with chairman Mao on the Great Long Walk. All I can say it reminds me of a song by Bob Dylan “they are headed down a dead end street, at a hundred miles an hour”
Travelling through the mountains with the ethnic minorities in the North, near the border of Lao, and Burma, all the way through the big cities, to the very extreme North, up near, the border of Mongolia, Xi Jiang Province, the biggest and most desolate province in China. I have seen, I have been, and words at the moment just do not seem to be sufficient to explain what I have seen, and what I think. This is one of the only countries in the world where the brain goes into overtime, one really has to exert the brain to think, to try and understand, not only the language, but the food, (vegetarian’s nightmare) the people, the culture, the different ethnic groups, and so on, and so on. “Wow” is all I can say right now; what an experience! And I thought Africa was something, or India, different!
I want to write about Xi Jiang Provence “the ancient silk road, the people the scenery, the history of these people, mixed with Kazaks and Uighur people, and a mix of so much else, but it will take another newsletter, as I see this one is getting too long, so stay tuned and look out for Xi Jiang and Kazakhstan, thanks for taking the time to read this, always in consideration for you, with the desire for love, Peace, harmony and light for all !