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A blind activist who exposed a campaign by Chinese officials to force women to have abortions was jailed for more than four years yesterday in one of the country's most controversial human rights cases since the Tiananmen Square massacre.

A top ten list. Number 9: “I’m a tank-driving consultant. My office is right next to Tiananmen Square.”

J. over at the always informative Jottings From The Granite Studio sheds some light on how the Great Helmsmen's portrait in Tiananmen Square continues to shine down looking its best.

United has tentatively won the right to transport passengers from DC to Beijing, non-stop. I wonder if that means they'll serve Peking Duck as airplane food, or Maryland Crabcakes?

If you ask Ma Lik, people in Hong Kong only deserve suffrage when they all agree that Beijing is full of lovable overlords and Tiananmen Square really wasn't so bad as those disgruntled anti-China foreigners in the world's media say it was. ImageThief has a different take.

As many as half of all toy manufacturers in the Pearl River Delta could go out of business within the next two years, an industry expert said Monday, following the closure of the Smart Union toy factory here last week.

Ma Jian, author of Beijing Coma, a new novel about the Tiananmen Square "incident", tears China's literary elite a new one in this scathing editorial asking where have all the good Chinese writers gone - the ones that marched in 1989 and weren't afraid to speak their hearts, minds and souls.

Chris comments on a recent proposal by Chinese urban planner, Ma Yansong, to greenify Tiananmen. The plan would have the dull concrete replaced with a big green park - similar to Manhattan's centrepiece.

With no "traditional" value, and only a patchy history, Ma suggests that perhaps it's time to change up one of China's most (in)famous landmarks.

Jonathan Pomfret argues: "For better or worse, it's safe to say that we're at the doorstep of a new era of China bashing in the West. The post-Tiananmen Square crackdown honeymoon where the zeitgeist was 'we can all get rich together' is over. It's been replaced by China = bad guy."