Hao Hao ReportThe best China news and blog posts

Jeremiah's got a great post over at the Granite Studio discussing a recent story in The Nationa and its wonky history. If you've any interest in Chinese history, specifically Qing Dynasty and Western Imperialism - check it out.

A Chinese-Russian alliance is forming. The Chinese client state is North Korea; the Russian and Chinese trading partner is Iran. Like China, Russia is a capitalism-utilizing dictatorship with a history of Marxism and a belief in its eventual historical conquest. Like Russia, China is a Machiavellian political actor willing to play both sides of the Islamic-Western conflict against the middle. China and Russia are the global beneficiaries of the Islamic-Western clash of civilizations. They remain largely outside its purview while benefiting from its externalities.

Chronicles past summers, presenting graphic and picture evidence of what we should expect in August 2008 (something is supposed to happen then...)

I have been thinking a lot about the Chinese mindset vs. the American mindset. The two mindsets are vastly different. And what works in America and what works for you now won’t necessarily work on a global, international scale... or in China for that matter. “When in Rome..."

Looks like the popular Prime Minister of China, Wen Jiabao has made it on to Facebook - notes Chinese Literature and baseball as his interests.

I found a blogger visiting Lhasa and has been writing on what he/she saw there. We just need more INDEPENDENT accounts like these. Thank you Kadfly, I hope you don't mind I cross-posting your good works here.

Philip J. Cunningham at Informed Comment Global Affairs has a great post about Chinese State TV and their Dialogue commentary program. I’m just going to excerpt the funny and historical bit below the fold, but the rest of the discussion, hopeful and realistic, is quite worthwhile. The focus is actually on the collaboration/mutual exploitation relationship between CCTV and Japan’s NHK.

A Year Without “Made in China”: One Family’s True Life Adventure in the Global Economy chronicles how Sara Bongiorni and her family tried to live without buying anything produced in China.

Put the words "religion" and "China" in a sentence together, and Western imaginations may go to indifference at best, to brutal repression at worst. Yet in grand historical perspective, China is a crucible of religious and philosophical thought and practice. Anthropologist and filmmaker Mayfair Yang says that the upheavals of the 20th century created an amnesia — in the West as in China itself — about this rich, pluralistic spiritual inheritance. She traces some of this story for us, and describes a subtle new revival of reverence and ritual.