China Orders Hotels to Stock Condoms

(Beijing, China) The Chinese State Council last year "urged" local governments to provide condoms in all public places. Today, the city of Beijing ordered all hotel rooms to be stocked with condoms.

Beijing, preparing to host the 2008 Olympics, has ordered hotels to provide condoms in all bedrooms in a bid to stop the spread of HIV/AIDS after cases of infection soared 54 per cent in the first 10 months of this year.

For the ChiComs to admit a problem with HIV/AIDS is significant since one can reasonably assume that the infection problem is likely much larger than reported. Remember, the information is being provided by communists.

On a related subject, I'm curious about whether Chinese hotels have bedbugs. Long considered eradicated in the U.S., a resurgence of bedbugs is now being experienced in American hotels after being introduced by international travelers.

The intriguing mystery to me is whether the blood-sucking insects can feast on an HIV-infected person one night and transmit the virus to a new host on a subsequent night. If so, condoms won't help.

Companion post at The Jawa Report.