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OPINION Page 6 n THE ASIAN REPORTER April 2, 2018 Volume 28 Number 7 April 2, 2018 ISSN: 1094-9453 The Asian Reporter is published on the first and third Monday each month. Please send all correspondence to: The Asian Reporter 922 N Killingsworth Street, Suite 2D, Portland, OR 97217 Phone: (503) 283-4440, Fax: (503) 283-4445 News Department e-mail: news@asianreporter.com Advertising Department e-mail: ads@asianreporter.com General e-mail: info@asianreporter.com Website: www.asianreporter.com Please send reader feedback, Asian-related press releases, and community interest ideas/stories to the addresses listed above. Please include a contact phone number. Advertising information available upon request. Publisher Jaime Lim Contributing Editors Ronault L.S. Catalani (Polo), Jeff Wenger Correspondents Ian Blazina, Josephine Bridges, Pamela Ellgen, Maileen Hamto, Edward J. Han, A.P. 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MY TURN n Wayne Chan File this story under too much of a good thing f you live in or near a major metropolitan area, mountains of bikes, filling up parks and lots — just or have travelled to one, you’ve probably en- about any spare inch of storage space. countered them — brightly colored bicycles Some of the bike-share companies have gone out parked randomly on street corners, along walkways, of business because they ran out of money after in bike racks, by storefronts, or near street signs. having provided so many bikes that just sit idle. It’s called “bike share” and it’s a relatively new Here’s my question. business model, but a promising one. Anyone with a Maybe I’m missing something, but let’s say you’re smartphone can sign up for the inventory manager in any number of bike-share charge of one of these companies through a bike-share companies. You dedicated app, find a nearby walk outside with one of your bike, assign it for your own bicycle procurement use, and ride away to your managers to inspect the desired destination. Seems current stock of bicycles. You like an environmentally walk past a field full of your friendly, win-win solution bikes stacked on top of each for everyone, right? other 15 feet high covering Well, even the best ideas A man walks by impounded bicycles from various the size of a football field. can backfire without a little bike-sharing services stored at a compound of the You have to be very careful urban administration office of Luyang district in Hefei, common sense. where you walk when Take China’s bike-share Anhui province, China. (Chinatopix via AP) stepping over a few of them situation. just to avoid the possibility of a bicycle avalanche. It turns out that a number of companies in China At some point during the inspection, basically have gone all-in with the bike-share business, while walking past a battalion of bikes, would it not setting up shop in many of China’s largest cities. If make sense to turn to your colleague and say, “You you’ve ever been to China, it seems like a perfect know, Bill, do you think maybe we have enough solution to streets packed with cars that add to bikes out there now?” And yes, I realize a manager major pollution and congestion problems. Give the for a company in China is not likely to be named people access to bikes and at least for some trips, “Bill,” but I’ve always thought Bill was kind of you save a car trip. What could go wrong, right? funny, so there you go. Apparently Chinese bike-share companies have Maybe a manager really did ask Bill that very watched the movie Field of Dreams a few too many question. But if they did, Bill obviously didn’t agree times because they appear to be working under the and perhaps replied, “Are you kidding? I can still theme, “If you build it, they will come.” Tens of see the sun! We need more bikes!” thousands of bikes, perhaps millions of them, have Some things are better left unexplained, I been produced and strewn all over Shanghai and guess. other large Chinese cities. So many of the bikes sit I’m just glad that all the times I’ve travelled to around unused that local authorities have begun China, I haven’t seen too many all-you-can-eat stockpiling them in empty lots just to keep restaurants. If they followed the model of the bike pedestrian walkways open to the public. businesses, can you imagine what a dumpling The piles of bikes have actually become restaurant might do? I Opinions expressed in this newspaper are those of the authors and not necessarily those of this publication. Pakistan’s first trans TV anchor hopes to change perceptions Continued from page 4 profession as anchor to change the general attitude of our society toward transgender people,” she said. Jan, the head of the Trans Action Alliance, hopes Malik can serve as a role model for others and change the popular perception of transgender people. “Thank god, one of us is going on television in a serious job,” Jan said. “Previously, we have been presented as a joke. I hope and I believe this will help us get our rights, our protection, and respect.” Khan reported from Islamabad. Associated Press writer Riaz Khan in Peshawar, Pakistan contributed to this report. ASTHMA IS ON THE RISE. Help us find a cure. 1-800-LUNG-USA