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- Exec: China's anniversary film set to break record [Associated Press] "China's star-studded propaganda blockbuster that marks 60 years of communist rule is on track to match the country's box office record set by the Hollywood film "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" in July, a senior movie executive said Monday. "The Founding of a Republic" has so far made nearly 330 million yuan ($48 million) as of Sunday since it was released on Sept. 16, China Film Group Corp. Assistant President Zhao Haicheng told The Associated Press."
- Can China Lead a Recovery? [Washington Post] "Chen Zizheng wheeled his shopping cart down one of the aisles at the Carrefour store near his house and paused in front of the bottles of Remy Martin, Johnnie Walker and Hennessy, each selling for an amount about equal to the annual salary he earned when he was a young government employee. But those days were about 30 years ago, around the time Deng Xiaoping launched China on a path of economic reform and opening up. Now China's thriving economy has made it possible for people like Chen, a 67-year-old semi-retired aerospace industry official, to plop down 1,168 yuan, or $170, for a bottle of liquor at a branch of a French "hypermarket" chain."
- Kim Jong Il Hosts Dinner for Wen Jiabao [KCNA] "General Secretary Kim Jong Il hosted a dinner in honor of Wen Jiabao, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and premier of the State Council of the People's Republic of China, on an official goodwill visit to the DPRK at the Paekhwawon State Guest House in the evening of Monday."
- Don't Blame China [Washington Post] "The time is here for our nation to actually do something about the recent financial crisis -- that is, do something to prevent it from happening again. But instead, many people are finding it easier to pass the buck than to, say, regulate the financial sector effectively."
- There Will Be No Trade War [Huffington Post] "If you were going to start a trade war against the United States, it is unlikely that your first salvo would be on chicken parts, or as the Chinese rather charmingly first announced, on dorkings. A dorking is a five toed chicken that flourishes in Surrey, England. The normal chicken has four toes. If you have not heard of dorkings before, you are not the only one. But this is where the Chinese government focused their retaliation earlier this week, in response to President Obama's decision to impose duties on Chinese tires."
- Age probe of Chinese gymnasts ongoing [ESPN] "A ruling on whether China competed with two underage gymnasts at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney has been pushed back until at least next year. A disciplinary commission of the International Gymnastics Federation told that group's executive committee, which met Sept. 23-25, that it has yet to finish its investigation."
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Wonder how much of "Founding of a Republic's" ticket sales stemmed from mandatory organizational purchases, much like the way they're forced to subscribe to meaningless newspapers and magazines pumped out by various research groups, think tanks and party organs?