- China says Obama should not meet the Dalai Lama [Associated Press] “China said Thursday that President Barack Obama should not meet the Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, when he visits the United States in October. Although a meeting has not been confirmed, every president since George H.W. Bush has met the Dalai Lama, raising the ire of China, which says the Nobel Peace laureate is bent on splitting Tibet from China. "We firmly oppose the Dalai's engagement in separatist activities in any country under whatever capacity and under whatever name," Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said when asked to comment on a possible meeting.”
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China Uses Global Crisis to Assert Its Influence [Washington Post Foreign Service] “BEIJING -- With Jamaica's currency in free fall, unemployment soaring and banks heavily exposed to government debt, the Caribbean island's diplomats went into crisis mode earlier this year. They traveled to all corners of the world to seek help. Jamaica's traditional allies, the United States and Britain, were preoccupied with their own financial problems, but a new friend jumped at the opportunity to come to the rescue: China. When contracts for loan packages totaling $138 million were signed between the two countries in March, China became Jamaica's biggest financial partner. Headlines in Jamaica's leading newspapers, which only a year ago were filled with concern about China's growing influence in the region, gushed about its generosity.
Fighter Jet Files Stolen [IGN] “Think you have got problems when a bitter ex-lover hacks into your Myspace profile? Try having computer spies break into your $300 billion war machine developments systems. Yep, that is right, our nation's defense structure was cracked into once again recently when unidentified hackers made their way into the Pentagon's Joint Strike Fighter project, causing unknown amounts of potential national security concerns.”
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Today's Links: Obama & the Dalai Lama, China helps Jamaica and Pentagon project hacked
No police negotiator? Bring out the fire hose
The lead character in the drama you see unfolding in the photos above is a man suspected of killing his 71-year-old mother-in-law and his 13-year-old nephew on March 30 in Shenyang, Liaoning Province. For good measure, he allegedly also killed a "bicycle caretaker" yesterday, the same day police cornered him in a room on the eighth floor of a hospital. His wife somehow tipped police off regarding his whereabouts (we don't know why he was in the hospital).
Today's Links: Missiles, Microraptors and Roujiamo
"'What needs to be stressed is that China has always advocated the peaceful use of space, opposes the weaponisation of space and arms races in space.'"
"China will not loosen its one-child policy, despite a top family planning official’s acknowledgment Tuesday that it was partly to blame for a worsening problem of too many boy babies and not enough girls in the world’s most populous nation."
"'Hawks say (the missile) boosting (Chinese) spirits, strengthens our country's power, not to mention that others are also doing it; Doves say this violates the outer space treaty, increases international distrust, and might cause a new round of outer space weapon competition.'"
"The Chinese broadcasting monitor has called for only 'ethically inspiring' television shows during prime time to foster national harmony before a major meeting of the ruling Communist Party..."
"Chinese scientists have found fossil remains of a four-winged dinosaur called a Microraptor, with feathers on both its forelimbs and hind limbs. ... Six fossilized specimens were found in Liaoning Province in northeastern China. They are dated between 124 million to 128 million years."
"The Beijing drive-through, which opened Friday, is the first in McDonald's venture with China Petroleum and Chemical Corp. Jeffrey Schwartz, McDonald's China chief executive, said 25 to 30 more joint sites would open in the next 12 to 18 months."
"Sony BMG Music Entertainment and Warner Music Group have partnered with a joint venture operating in China that develops technology for distributing music downloads and other content to mobile phones, the record companies said Tuesday."
"... 'The Place Hotel & Spa' is expected greet customers at an average price of 350 US dollars per night, much more expensive than the current 220 dollar average among Shanghai's five-star hotels. Located in downtown Jing'an District, the hotel is tucked amidst a group of high-end hotels ..."
"When new ticketing machines go into use at Metro stations around the city, passengers will be able to buy tickets with bankcards, not just coins, notes or a public transport card."
"China's new bullet trains will make their debut runs between Shanghai and two nearby cities on Sunday, the Shanghai Railway Administration confirmed yesterday."
"Prosecutors discovered that Zhou was suspect of bribery and falsification of value-added tax invoices during their investigation into the city's pension fund scandal, the Procuratorate said."
"If you don’t have the fortune of knowing what roujiamo is, check out these photos. If you detest the vile weed as much as I do, you’ll also want to make sure you know how to tell them to hold the cilantro."
"So there I was in my basement in my underwear eating a bag of Cheetos and downing a six-pack of Mountain Dew wondering how I could date an Asian woman. I had seen enough cute Asian girls in kung fu movies, hadn’t I?"
"Let's keep a few things in perspective. Rui is no 'ordinary grass-roots Chinese person.' I first met him not in Beijing but in Davos, Switzerland at the World Economic Forum."
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Just Plane Scary: You are better off not leaving home
Tickets for domestic Chinese flights may be cheap, but really, is it worth it? Last week, we told you about the China Eastern plane that blew out its tires while landing. And over the weekend, reports emerged of a China Southern plane that had its tail cone (the rear of the airplane's fuselage) fall to the ground "just before the plane was to taxi to the runway":
You know you are lazy if you have a robot surf the web for you
Liaoning Province now has a personal robot to go with all of its sex toys:
Fu Erqiang, sex toy man
Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Dong Bei Ren
We’re not exactly loath to do some nude swimming here at Shanghaiist. In fact, there are plenty of places we’d go skinny-dipping. You know the pool where Elle Macpherson swims around naked in the film Sirens? That’s one of them.
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