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SHANGHAI: Want to know what kind of Chinese man Western women want to marry?

Take a close look at Hong Kong actor Andy Lau.

The movie star came out tops in a survey of 108 Western women living in Shanghai, where respondents were asked to rank Chinese male professionals they would want to marry.

Kungfu star Jet Li came in second in the poll.

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"The Beijing Olympic Games meets the aspiration of the Chinese people for the past 100 years and is also the common expectation of people worldwide," said Chinese President Hu Jintao

What effect does China have on prices in the West, and by extension Western interest rates and Western perceived purchasing power?

Lower CPI means lower interest rates over the past decade. Yet this article highlights than cost savings now mean higher inflation in the future as Chinese wages and the Renminbi appreciate faster than of countries where production was switched from.

Can China move up the Value Chain fast enough to offset this?

Paul Denlinger at China Vortex shares some good commentary on this week's Economist lead article about China. Essentially the article states that the angry nationalism that has swept China isn't actually at Western nations and Western media's continual mis-representation of the country, but rather misguided anger towards the gov't. Paul disagrees.

A translation of a Global Times article regarding the apparent decline of China "demonization" in Western media. As China and the West's relationship tightens, the focus of the Western news' attention is also beginning to shift. Is naivity being replaced by conformity?

Quote: “I feel superior when having sex with Japanese women because their country invaded China in the past. This is a kind of payback.”

欢迎光临!!! Interested in some "The Potato's Feet's Young Blood?" How about "Yang State Fries Rice?" Perhaps you'd prefer to try "Taste to Scold the Seafood Chum Salmon Young Surface." Whatever your tastes are, this new restaurant has all the famous Western dishes you know and love.

The China M&A market remains as one of the few places for western companies and venture capital/private equity to invest. It makes sense: the western economy isn’t doing well, shift the money to where the economy is doing much better. I don’t think it takes a rocket scientist to figure this out.

Historian Wasserstrom explains the historical resonances in the debate over Western boycotts of the Olympics, decision of individual runners not to carry the torch, and Chinese boycotts of the French chain Carrefour, with thoughts on the boycott of CNN.