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The president of Students for a Free Tibet is in Beijing right now, exactly one year ahead of the 2008 Olympics, vlogging and blogging about Tibetan sovereignty and being a general pain in the ass to the Chinese government.

Lhadon Tethong's liveblogging experiment is incredibly ballsy or incredibly foolhardy, depending on how you look at it.

China has formally banned trading in human organs state media reported Wednesday amid ongoing allegations that the nation is heavily involved in harvesting body parts from executed prisoners.

Xiaonei.com is a forum for the Chinese university denizens, which have the most politically sensitive and passionate people gathered there. When Xiaonei.com becomes more and more part of the public lives of the university students, it was inevitable that the sensitive area of politics would be involved.

Twenty-one years after first agreeing to do so, China will today outlaw the sale of internationally endangered flora and fauna.

Most of the time Chinese people's expectation of policy innovation from each new leadership and their expectation for new major reform and opening-up measures are too high.

ChinaRedux has a great post on the dangerous trade dance between China and the United States, following a move last Friday to put tariffs on glossy paper from China:

Economic conflict breeds military conflict. The stakes of trade override the ideological power of the Taiwan issue. China’s ability to continue growing at a rapid rate takes precedence, since there can be no sovereignty for China without economic growth. The United States’ role as the world’s superpower is dependent on its ability to lead economically.

US film maker Steven Spielberg said he was abandoning his artistic role in the Beijing Olympics, accusing China of not doing enough to press its ally Sudan to end devastating violence in Darfur.

Danwei reports on China's first online meme of 2008 - "Very yellow, very violent,". The article offers up a translation of Mai Tian's post entitled: "The Mop culture behind 'Very yellow, very violent'" - an interesting article about China's rather "mob-like" BBS culture.

More than a few people took notice that on August 7 2007, 1day before the activities to mark 1 year away from the Olympics, a heavy rain fell in the middle of the day in Beijing. Was the government behind it?