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Via The Granite Studio, this China Daily article reports that some philosophy students are fighting back against the 'cultural imperialism' of Christmas.

This great post at the 88s tears apart an article by Anne Applebaum entitled "Blame China". In what the 88s claims is the "worst foreign policy analysis" he's ever read, the article essentially puts all the blame for a nuclear DPRK on China's shoulders.

We can only revert to the rarely seen future perfect tense to describe how elated we will have been during after the Games. The Beijing Olympic Committee has even posted a poll of what the top ten stories from the Olympics will have been. This is perfect to me. They are trying to script things...

Thomas Friedman has made a career out of knowing just enough about a topic to come up with a plausible analysis. Unfortunately he rarely shows a deep enough understanding about anything to justify the broad pronouncements that he makes. Last week in China apparently some officials called him out when he tried to lecture them on having an insufficiently engaged foreign policy.

This cool video (got via Sinosplice) shows the demolition of an old building. Just when the building appears to never want to come down, it does - on top of the poor guy demo'ing it.

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It's official, the 2007 China Blog Awards are here. If you run an English-language, China focused blog, or you just like clicking things that say "vote" be sure to check out this article for all the details.

The Hao Hao Report is proud to be hosting the China Blog Awards 2007 - Best Story. We've dubbed it the Zui Hao (Best) Report.

Living in China brings with it a number of occasions where most can do nothing but scratch their heads and say “WTF?” However, largely by the help of the English-language China blogsphere, we’ve started to create a dictionary that can assist in putting words to the weird, definitions to the disarray and captions to the confusing.

The LICtionary, or Life In China Dictionary, contains terms us expats have created to put form to the fiction that is life in China.

Blogger Matthew Stinson gets some advice from Sinosplice's John Pasden and fellow Shanghai expat Micah Sittig on some must-see and must-do things when visiting Shanghai for the first time.

In an effort to reduce the trade deficit and curb energy intensive exports, China has announced that they will reduce VAT rebates in nearly 3000 categories.

I have discussed this in length on All Roads Lead to China for the last week, and have the entire VAT reduction tariff on there as well.

If you are manufacturing in China for export, this will impact your bottom line.