Don't Watch This: Confucius
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- Washington Post lies [China Daily] "How can the Washington Post choose to project the good being done by the Chinese government for the Uygur ethnic group to convey the exact opposite? It must be an obsession to ensure that every report about Xinjiang after the Urumqi violence in early July should be an attack on the Chinese government and its policy. How else can such groundless reporting and accusations be explained?"
- China says Falun Gong ban 'works' [BBC] "A Chinese official says the country has been successful in efforts to crack down on the spiritual movement Falun Gong, 10 years after it was banned. Li Anping, from the China Anti-Cult Association, told a national newspaper that people now realised the true nature of the movement. But Falun Gong still exists, and has organised protest events outside China to mark the anniversary."
- Amazing Stat: California Uses More Gas than China [Wired] "Given all the news coverage about the rise of the Chinese economy, you could be forgiven for thinking that the world’s most populous country is hogging all the world’s resources, while the developed nations are fighting for scraps. But, at least with transportation fuel, you’d be wrong. California alone uses more gasoline than any country in the world (except the US as a whole, of course). That means California’s 20 billion gallon gasoline and diesel habit is greater than China’s! (Or Russia’s. Or India’s. Or Brazil’s. Or Germany’s.)"
- Courting India And China [Forbes] "In past downturns, companies looked to India and China as places to cut costs. During this downturn, the two nations finally have big enough populations with middle-class purchasing power to drive growth in revenue. India and China finally have big enough consumer markets to matter. While those markets are still dwarfed by the U.S. market, they are growing fast."
- Kicking Out Rio: China's Killer Strategy in Breaking the Iron Miners' Collusion [ChinaStakes] "In the game with the three iron ore giants, China may be able to break the alliance among them if it stops purchasing iron ore from one company and continues buying from the other two, who may then come to a greater appreciation of the opportunity to do business with China. China could start with Rio Tinto. If it refuses to cut its iron ore price, cutting off the Rio Tinto tap might prove a useful response."
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The blog entry on the "Amazing Stat" is over a year old. That blog admits that the Amazing Stat may out of date by early 2009. Certainly American energy usage changed after the oil crunch of summer, 2008.
All the Falungong women have a distinct look.
They look like zombies.