Prelude

The Hitchhiker's guide to China.

It isn't the name of a book, simply because the book is yet to be published, also because the thing called hitchhiker is yet to come into place in China, as most of the 1.3 billion population over here prefer to drive by themselves, or ride their own bicycles, or take the buses, or quarrel with the bus drivers.

Everything started with a sheet of A4 copy paper, which was to fall onto the ground but missed. "This is so unfair", it thinks. True, a normal A4 copy paper in a normal condition will just fly in the air, a little here and a little there, finally reach the ground, and get picked up by a nice office lady, probably with a pair of nice long legs, then get printed with some very important words, and five minutes later it will stay quietly within the trash bin.

But in case of this flying A4 copy paper, to its misfortune, there is no air, neither ground. There is only universe, a starwars-like universe which you have to look upward expecting a star battleship coming from the upside. There is no star battleship, yet, only this falling A4 copy paper, which does not even know if it is truely falling. However, it does have some very important words printed in elegant 10pt Arial. It reads like:

Dear Comrade Wen

The war is over, but we are thinking of another.

The plan is printed on the back, and see to it will be only seen by 9 Politburo Standing Committee members, and not picked by anybody else.

ps:
Not even those with nice long legs.

Jingtao Hu

President of People's Republic of China

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A star battleship comes from upside, flying to some point beneath the A4 copy paper, a window on top sliding open to let the paper fall into, reach the floor, and get picked by some one.

She seems to be an office lady, with a pair of pretty nice long legs.