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Around Shanghai: Swiss Week, Gavin Menzies, and subway etiquette

Around Shanghai: Swiss Week, Gavin Menzies, and subway etiquette

  • Cheese, chocolate, banking, watches, and neutrality. All of our favorite things about Switzerland. Now we can get experience all of them thanks to the Swiss Chamber of Commerce presenting Swiss Week. From October 18-25th you can experience a whole week of Swiss and Swiss-related events ranging from movies, to books and food. [City Weekend]
  • 1421 author Gavin Menzies will be visiting Shanghai to give a series of lectures about how China discovered everything and is responsible for everything. Shanghai Talk interviewed him. Read the crazy. [Shanghai Talk]
  • In a continuing string of exciting new museum and exhibition openings, Shanghai Normal University announced the opening of a textbook exhibit that explores the history of textbooks in China since the turn of the 19th century. And we thought things had peaked with the fungus museum. [Shanghai Daily]

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By Michael Sutich in on October 14, 2009 12:00 PM

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Around Shanghai: Is that a Fake Pentagon?

Around Shanghai: Is that a Fake Pentagon?

  • According to this website, Shanghai's planning on building a shanzhai version of the U.S. Pentagon before the World Expo. Like most weirdly shaped complexes in China, It'll be a shopping mall. [非常日報]
  • People's Daily looks at the "Bund Origin" program and reflects on the Huangpu area's last 60 years. [People's Daily Online]
  • Adam Minter interviews a migrant worker who's working to clean up Shanghai all spiffy like by refreshing the paint on windows. [Shanghai Scrap]

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By Elaine Chow in on October 9, 2009 10:00 AM

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Today's Links: Obama & the Dalai Lama, China helps Jamaica and Pentagon project hacked

Today's Links: Obama & the Dalai Lama, China helps Jamaica and Pentagon project hacked

  • 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.”
  • 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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    By Hannah Lucy in on April 23, 2009 8:00 PM

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