Don't Watch This: Confucius
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- Wow, that's a huge amount: 1.5 million people per day are getting innoculated with the swine flu vaccine. [AP]
- This year's Chinese Blogger Conference was held in an ancient cave in Lianzhou, Guangdon. Why? You'll have to watch this video to find out. [WSJ]
- A government report has said that China's Three Gorges Dam has doubled in cost and has been plagued with multiple problems. Here's a summary of them. [Al Jazeera (on Youtube)]
- Back in 1972, when the first U.S. press corps visited China, they got rashes from the toilet seats. This year's press corps got thirty-seven-inch flat-screen televisions and three-hundred-thread-count sheets. [New Yorker]
- China is desperately trying to lure back scientists into its fold, and at least so far, it seems like its methods - grants, fat salaries, generous lab funding, but mostly the thrill of building something from the bottom up - are working. [Business Week]
- Obama's trip this time around didn't have the hard-hitting aggressiveness some people wanted towards China's human rights record. But will his softball method of confronting the PRC actually work? [New York Times]
- We always love a little crazy in our links section, so here's one - a Russian columnist thinks that China can train almost its entire population into a super army, which will then kill 1/3 to 2/3 of Americans, take over their property and use the remaining Americans as servants. [World Tribune]
- Paul Krugman recently wrote something about how China severely undervalues its currency and needs to strengthen the yuan to reduce America's trade deficit and spur worldwide recovery. Forbes disagrees. [Forbes]
- Bad English is apparently one of the main factors holding Chinese peacekeeping forces from completing their missions well overseas. We say if the world wanted to be peaceful, it'd just learn to speak Chinese already. [Reuters]
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Maybe China can use some its glorious new research efforts to shore up the failed dam project. So much for glorious han-job thinking.
And just more gutless panda licking from Forbes and Reuters.