Today's Timerick: China Increasingly Obscures True State of Its Economy to Outsiders (thanks to Liza Lin)

 

China is a mystery to anyone who cares

to look into their country and endure the endless stares.

Are they rich or are they poor; nobody seems to know.

Are they going off to war or keep the status quo?

Such a giant country with a teeny tiny way

of sharing information with those who overstay.

The Sphinx was quite a chatterbox, compared to old Beijing;

the Chinese would not tell you if they got a bad bee sting!

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The people who live in Ukraine

are going to get a migraine

when Putin decides

to trust his broadsides

and sends troops to start raising Cain.