This first section is a collection of jokes poking fun at the party after a Chinese journalist asked Gary Locke, ““I hear you flew here coach. Is that a reminder that U.S. owes China money?” Netizens took Locke’s frugality as a sign of respecting state funds, instead of wasting the money on lavish treatment for himself. They chose to mock the journalist, and the current state of gov’t corruption, with questions that show the same kind of faulty assumptions. -Translated by Yaxue. You have brought your wife with you to Beijing, don’t you know officials in China like to keep mistresses? Officials in your country don’t keep mistresses, is that because they are not virile enough? You have so few corrupt officials in the US, is […]