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- NKorea's Kim Jong Il looks OK in new photographs [AP] "North Korea released new photographs of Kim Jong Il touring a factory following reports earlier this week that the 67-year-old leader has pancreatic cancer and less than five years to live. Wearing sunglasses and a short-sleeved shirt, Kim appeared generally OK in the images released Tuesday night — thin but no worse than in other recent photographs. He has grown frailer over the past year after reportedly suffering a stroke last summer."
- How China Wins and Loses Xinjiang [Foreign Policy] "The government's crackdown on the Uighurs, a Turkic-speaking Muslim minority group that has long chafed under Beijing's rule, was nasty, brutish, and short. Overnight curfews were imposed. Thousands of police officers dispersed. President Hu Jintao left the G-8 summit in Europe to focus on putting out fires at home. But not all aspects of China's policies toward Uighurs and other minorities are characterized by such precision."
- Something’s Rotten in Chinese Steel Industry [NYT Dealbook] "Long before four employees of the Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto were detained in Shanghai last week on suspicion of stealing state secrets, people working in China’s steel industry were complaining about bribery, deceit and a system turned rotten, The New York Times’s David Barboza writes."
- Sinopec ex-chairman gets suspended death sentence [Reuters] "China handed down a suspended death sentence to the ex-chairman of top Asian refiner Sinopec Corp Chen Tonghai for accepting about $28 million in bribes, state media said on Wednesday, nearly two years after he was suddenly removed from his post. Chen Tonghai was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve for accepting 195.73 million yuan ($28.64 million) in bribes, Xinhua said, citing a verdict by Beijing No.2 Intermediate Court on Wednesday."
- Chu Warns China on Emissions [WSJ] "China's greenhouse-gas emissions growth is on course to wipe out gains from Western conservation efforts unless it intensifies clean-up efforts, U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu told audiences in China Wednesday. In meetings with senior Chinese energy officials and in a speech at prestigious Tsinghua University, Mr. Chu continued the Obama administration's efforts to push for greater action on climate change. China recently surpassed the U.S. as the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases."
- A Chinese Upstart Goes After Detroit [WSJ] "After quitting his job as a senior engineer at Chrysler to join China's fledgling domestic auto industry, Frank Zhao had a stark premonition. "I saw the end of Detroit," says 45-year-old Mr. Zhao, who now supervises 1,200 engineers building a new generation of vehicles for Geely Holding Group Co., one of China's top-selling brands. As Chrysler LLC and General Motors Co. close plants and shed jobs, Geely's expansion plans are moving into high gear, showing how the crisis in the U.S. is accelerating a shift in the global auto industry towards China and other emerging markets."
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Kim has been known to use body doubles in the past. Moreover, unless he is holding up a copy of yesterday's New York Times or equivalent, no one can be sure when a picture emanating from NK was taken. In his two televised appearances since his 'stroke' last summer, Kim has looked a shadow of his former self. Couple that with the recent succession madness and it spells out one thing: we won't get to enjoy that pompadour very much longer.
That looks Photoshopped to me. He's out of proportion with the rest of the picture.
*Such* a bad pun...
Is it just me or is there something rotten almost everywhere around here