The previous claim to fame of the White Swan Hotel in Guangzhou was that my sister and brother-in-law spent several days at the newly-opened luxury hotel while on their Far East honeymoon in 1983.
Now a guest of a different order has been sequestered in the inn on Shamian Island. According to the South China Morning Post (no link, paid), the hotel management on Thursday evicted all the guests and residents of the 840-room luxury hotel so as to make way for a 'mystery guest'. Guess who? The numero uno of the pathological, criminal Stalinist state of North Korea... Kim Jong-il, aka Dear Leader. (His father, you will remember, was Great Leader.) More on the the Dear Leader's visit to the hottest hot-bed of unfettered, robber baron capitalism: IHT
The Dear Leader is also expected to make a visit to Shenzhen. Goodness me, how time flies. In 1983, Shenzhen, just across the border from Hong Kong, was a small fishing village... now Shenzhen is a city of ten million souls (give or take a million). Shenzhen in Wiki
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