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All these stories and speculation about poor old BJ and her pre-olypmic pollution woes! How about some good ol' facts 'n' figures to drive a stake into her public relations heart?!?!?! Aiya! (sigh!)

I wanted to note some areas of disagreement on a wonderful New York Times article that makes me happy to see some journalists really caring about the US/international affairs contrary to this past 8 years

China meats the world!

The rather insightful Like Cooking A Small Fish blog has some good commentary on a recent essay by political scientist G. John Ikenberry and his thought regarding China's rise to power and whether it will be a peaceful ascent that falls in line with the Western model or not.

"No country in history has emerged as a major industrial power without creating a legacy of environmental damage that can take decades and big dollops of public wealth to undo.But just as the speed and scale of China’s rise as an economic power have no clear parallel in history, so its pollution problem has shattered all precedents."

The story of how a once obscure search engine has come to be the most-visited site in China. This site supposedly trounces Google and Yahoo in the Middle Kingdom. The kicker, though, is that it mixes ads into your search results and lets the censors do what they please. Very interesting.

The rise of various Asian nations has led to the recent rise of Nationalism. As news of evidence of the horrific 1937 "Rape of Nanking" comes to light, Asian holocaust deniers crawl out and attempt to distort history...to the point of asserting that "the Chinese are inferior to the Japanese".

The second summary to "The rise of China into the world?s agenda - Challenges and Implications" seminar held at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel.

World researchers discuss China's uprising economic dominance and the relations with the United States with a lecture titled "China Bashing".

A recent TV series called 'The Rise of Great Nations' has caused a lot of debate over what China wants. After watching the series, the Sun Bin blog believes China wants to democratise.