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ESWN translates an essay by Rui Chenggang, the CCTV anchor who started the uproar over Starbucks in the Forbidden City. Fascinating and complicated. Read it.

Pictures of a Chinese schoolgirl caught on camera giving a blowjob to schoolboy posted on BBS forums in China. Chinese netizens offer some funny comments.

Yippee! China's yawning trade surplus rose to a monthly record high of $28.7 billion in August as the gap with the United States and Europe widened despite a global economic slowdown.

Burglars caught live on the internet. This is the future, now all we need is remote controlled 'deterents'

Wild China, the joint venture between the BBC and CCTV aired earlier this evening on BBC 2, and it was spectacular!

I was at work when suddenly a mass of people moved along the street at the foot of our building. Here are the impressions I caught during a 5 minutes coffee break.

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.

The sign, captured in an article in the Beijing Times, is intended to warn passers-by that the area around the Sihui station is a hotspot for scams. It is #2, however, that has caught the most attention: "Streetwalking and soliciting prostitutes, as illegal activities, are strictly prohibited in this place"

A three minute silence was observed Monday at 2.28pm Beijing Time (6.28 GMT), one week after the terrible earthquake in Sichuan. This was accompanied by three minutes of noise by drivers of cars, ship and trains blasted their horns for three minutes of noise.

Here you can see a CCTV report which includes coverage of the three minutes from across China