Finding Trouble in Asia: Let Us Count the Ways

Is it me, or has it been a surreal few months for Americans in Asia? Guidebook writers and State Department travel monitors, take note: a few new travel “don’ts” have entered the lexicon. To recap, here’s what we know not to do next time we journey East.

* Sit next to someone feverish when flying to Shanghai

* Venture too close to the Hermit Kingdom

* Get caught with classified documents and/or have a chat with the local CIA contact

* Take a nighttime dip in Rangoon

* Consort with the Kung Fu mafia

Let’s hope the rest of the year will see more successful cross-cultural forays in the vein of U.S. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, whose trip to Beijing last week was blissfully free of hotel quarantines or mysterious midnight visits.

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