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Two videos of Chinese pole dancers, featuring Pengpeng from Shenyang City of China.

Why is China putting up with behaviour that threatens to provoke its arch-rival, Japan, into acquiring nuclear weapons, and keeps a roadblock in the path of integrating East Asia's industrial economies and the Russian far east's resources into one great powerhouse?

China may be far freer than North Korea, but it's a perilous way station for North Korean refugees who flee hunger and darkness in their homeland. Branded as illegal immigrants and subject to arrest and deportation, some dwell in hidden work camps or caves. Others scrounge for food in the hinterlands.

Will China take over North Korea? As the world rumored whether North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il has died away in a stroke or close to death, that is the question from Gordon Chang, author of the Coming Collapse of China.

For the avid river swimmers of this Chinese border city, North Korea is 10 minutes' brisk freestyle away and yet a world apart.

Each day in the warmer months in Dandong, hundreds of Chinese swimmers plunge into the narrow Yalu river dividing their country from the North and dozens kick 500 meters to the opposite side for a rest and a glimpse of the poor, withdrawn communist state.

CHINA'S relationship with its former satellite North Korea is unravelling fast, underlined by reports yesterday that the People's Bank of China has frozen all North Korea's accounts.

I can't explain this one. Just watch. It's not porn, I swear.

Apparently, according to this, communists do it better. Somehow I doubt it applies to China.

Only safe for work provided you don't have fast readers nearby.

via mf.rox.com, by way of mutantfrog.com

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.

SEOUL (Al'Reuters) - North Korean leader Kim Jong-il may visit key ally China next week amid heightened concern over a possible nuclear weapons test by the reclusive state and its defiant missile launch in July, a news report said on Thursday.