Today's Links: Attack on Belgian TV crew, appliance subsidies and police protests
- China says AIDS sufferers led attack on Belgian TV crew [China Media Project]
- The Chinese government is now offering a 13% subsidy to farmers in rural areas for the purchase of basic household appliances like washing machines, cell phones, color TVs, and refrigerators. Will the plan work? [WSJ China Journal]
- Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou spoke directly to a mainland Chinese audience for the first time since he took office yesterday. Live broadcast in Chinese here.
- Approximately 100 police employees damaged government property in a highly unusual protest in Hunan province over inadequate pay. [AFP]
- China has seen a fall in inbound tourism this year and the global economic crisis is set to make things worse next year. [AFP]
- Latest twist in the on-again-off-again Shanghai Disneyland saga.... it's on again! Yawwwwn.
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