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shanghaiist.com — Clothing company Benetton has done it again with yet another unorthodox ad campaign. In its latest UNHATE series, president Hu Jintao locks lips with Barack Obama in a photoshopped image.

Other political nemeses making love include: Kim Jong Il vs Lee Myung Bak, Angel Merkel vs Nicolas Sarkozy, and Benjamin Netanyahu vs Mahmoud Abbas.

rob.easternity.com — "Where do you draw the line between the culturally-explainable and the insane, between the everyday person on the street and the nutter? When you first get to China, and even sometimes for years afterward, the temptation is to try to use every single person’s behavior as a means of better understanding the culture. But the thing is, every country has nutters."

studymorechinese.com — 2 pretty amusing Chinese commercials for 7-up (with English subtitles). The video takes a little bit to get going and the spoken Mandarin gets pretty difficult/fast but keep watching. This 7-up commercial from China about the perils of Time Travel is pretty funny.

seeingredinchina.com — "I can still remember my first time. It wasn't that bad."

www.globaltimes.cn — Just hilarious: "Chinese women come home super sluts after studying in France, according to an associate judicial professor lecturing his class.

Zhang Haixia with an institute under the Ministry of Justice explained how all female students from China change into 'Super Pan Jinlian' after returning home in a short undated video published online on Tuesday by Sina Weibo user Paris Observation."

www.lostlaowai.com — Xinhua's using some interesting tactics to liven up their science and technology articles. Nothing like a bit of "spliced" nudity to give a story a bit of colour.

www.thehypermodern.com — A China rant, in the style of David Sedaris.

Before I went to China, I made sure to know nothing about it. No books, no movies, not even the lottery numbers inside fortune cookies. The only thing I knew about China was that my rosewood end table and Zen-chic Roman shades were manufactured there.

www.theonion.com — In what it's describing as a magnanimous gesture toward an economy in decline, the Chinese government announced Monday it would forgive a portion of the staggering U.S. debt if Americans agreed to dress up in costumes and perform silly dances for their amusement.

www.lostlaowai.com — Jack finished his last class and coming out the door he lit his first cigarette of the day. At his apartment door, Jack crushed his fourth cigarette and took the fifth inside. He checked his phone messages. Then he stepped back out and lit number six and headed to McDonald's.

chinanetstory.com — Come on people, we've all thought it at one time or another. Those Chinese snack food sausages do look a bit phallic, but I never thought I'd see this!