Today's Links: Football foul play, direct flights to Taiwan and classical music

• As China's inflation soars, world fears knock-on effects [AFP]
  "As China's factory floors feel the pressure from spiralling costs, there is growing nervousness in the rest of the world that the Asian giant's next big export could be inflation."
• China Could Give Classical Music a Boost [AP]
  "Facing dwindling popularity in the West, classical music could receive a boost from a large Chinese population increasingly interested in other cultures, the music director of the New York Philharmonic said Saturday."
• Chinese footballers fined as Japan protest 'dangerous' play [AFP]
  "China were fined 4,500 dollars on Saturday for picking up excessive yellow cards at the East Asian football championships as Japan formally protested against the hosts' "dangerous" play."
• Taiwan presidential hopefuls pledge China flights [Reuters]
  "Taiwan's presidential candidates said in a televised debate on Sunday they would seek direct flights between their island and China, lifting a ban that hurts local investors who do business in the vast Chinese market."
• Tibetans clash with police in western China [Reuters]
  "A dispute over the price of balloons in an ethnically Tibetan town in western China sparked a clash between thousands of residents and police, a source with knowledge of the incident said on Sunday."
• China urges Paris store boycott: state media [AFP]
  "China on Saturday warned its citizens against shopping at a leading Paris department store that wrongly accused a young Chinese couple of trying to pay with a fake banknote, state media said."

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