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- Ai Weiwei, censorship and sacred facts [My Heart's in Accra] "My friend Michael Anti posted a tweet earlier today about Chinese artist and political activist, Ai Weiwei: "Ai Weiwei to undergo cranial surgery in Germany within hours, a month after beaten by Chengdu police. Let’s pray for him."The post caught my eye because Xiao Qiang, founder of China Digital Times, spoke about Ai’s increasingly vocal protests in talking about the Internet’s transformation of activism in China at the Cloud Intelligence symposium in Linz, Austria."
- Going Solar [Beijing Review] "Tight credit, weak demand, excess capacity, bloated inventories and escalating price competition all have hurt China's export-reliant solar power companies and have left many struggling for their lives during the global recession. But the largest of them, Wuxi-headquartered Suntech Power Holdings Co. Ltd., is about to breathe a little easier after securing several deals with the Chinese Government and opening factories in the United States to mitigate pressures from shrinking demand in European markets"
- Coca-Cola Says Another Former Worker Is Detained in China [New York Times] "Coca-Cola Inc. said Tuesday that a second manager who worked in the company’s Shanghai bottling plant has been detained by police on suspicion of accepting bribes or kickbacks. The announcement came just days after Coca-Cola confirmed that a middle manager at the same facility, the Shanghai Shenmei Beverage & Food Co., was detained earlier this year in a bribery investigation."
- China VP presidency bid set for party meet [AFP] "China's ruling Communist Party opened a key annual meeting Tuesday at which President Hu Jintao's heir apparent was expected to consolidate his power, with a eye towards succession in 2013. The four-day session of the 204-member central committee, one of the party's top bodies, convened in Beijing less than three weeks ahead of the sensitive 60th anniversary of the founding of communist China on October 1."
- Doritos in China: What’s in a (re)brand name? [Enovate] "In an effort to rebrand due to an increasingly competitive snack market, 2008 saw Doritos appropriate a more rebelious edge. This rebranding has included redesigned flavors, packaging, television spots and live events. They have used multiple online platforms such as xiaonei and popular forum’s such as MOP to launch the campaign and enlisted the services of renegade eighties generation spokesperson Han Han as their spokesperson."
- China’s shadow sector: power in pieces [Open Democracy] "A month-long tour of China reveals great swathes of the country under the effective sway of local gangs and thugs ruling according to private interest. After the country’s imminent sixtieth-birthday party this should be Hu Jintao’s top priority, says Kerry Brown."
Today's Links: Aiweiwei recovering, Solar heating up, and another Coke employee detained
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