Chinese sea skippers scupper Chinese road hogs

   
If only the drivers and riders of motor bikes and motor cars on the streets of China
could be as mature as the skippers of boats and ships on the sea lanes of China.
        
This Australian Laoshi finds it difficult to equate the two as from the same place.
        
In your earlier column you speak of discipline and freedom [Elaborating on freedom
and discipline; April 24, 2009] and you espouse a balance between the two.

For the life of me, I cannot see any balance on the streets of China. Once behind the
motor vehicle, the Chinese become something else, and I can understand Jackie Chan's
point of view. There needs to be an imposition of control from somewhere, for there
seems to be little innate discipline exhibited by the arrogant and ruthless users of
vehicles on China"s streets.
        
Maybe these motorised "thugs" could learn a lesson from the civilised seamen who
navigate China"s sea lanes?