Wired 10.11: The Hot Zone

"One evening, Lou attends the monthly dinner given by one of the TBA's township branches. ('I could eat out every night like this,' he says, glumly eyeing a mountain of crab, 'but I'd get sick.') Midway through the meal, the oily man who chairs the township party office staggers to the microphone and bellows, 'Together we and our Taiwanese brothers and sisters will make this town even more wealthy!' It's an odd sentiment for the party of the proletariat, but a common one nonetheless. As the man stumbles back to another round of toasts, Lou quietly exclaims in disgust: 'Communists!'"