They really do set a new standard for academics worldwide:
The following quote appears in the article, "On China’s Capital Controls" written by "A Senior Fellow, Doctoral Tutor and Director of the Institute of World Economics and Politics under the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences"

"Predictions of China’s imminent economic crisis that appeared in internationally renowned western journals are either rubbish or wishful thinking."

At first, I was forgiving, thinking - something must have been lost in translation. But the article was originally written in English, and you can't translate an innoculous statemtent into something like that.

Sigh.

I've just had the worst week possible. Really. First, I was sick for the first 3 days. Then, I worked my ass off for 3 days straight to write a paper that was supposed to be done before break. Then I pissed away the rest of my break without anything to speak of. And now I'm really really behind. Had my break gone according to plan, I would have been only a little behind. Now I'm fucked. That, plus everything else in my life seems to be in the shitter. After 8 months, I can't still communicate in Chinese. My career plan is swarming with flies that only fly around things that are putrid and in decay. Four months in China, and all the traveling I've gotten to do was go between here and Shanghai, possibly the most boring single stretch of land in China. I'm kicking myself for skipping the trip to Korea to visit Inny who I'm way in debt to, just so I could piss away my week. Hmm, what else. Oh, due to the fucking way the airlines carve out the air ticket market, my ticket home is now useless, plus I probably can't afford to go to Frank and Flo's wedding.

Anyways, as I said, life sucks.