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www.smh.com.au — When Chinese leaders look to the past for clues to the future they fix on communist China's former patron, brother and nemesis, the Soviet Union.

In September 2009 the former president Jiang Zemin gathered China's leading Soviet historians for a tutorial at Zhongnanhai, the leadership compound. His first question, as relayed by a participant, cut straight to the chase:

www.vincewadeusa.com — A recent Pentagon analysis of the world’s supply of oil foresees dark days ahead – a lot fewer traffic jams – and the potential for armed conflict with China over black gold. The most recent JOE analysis cites Peak Oil as a basis for potentially massive oil shortages by 2015.

gochengdoo.com — Two cars from a passenger train fell into a river in Guanghan when a section of the bridge it was crossing collapsed at around 3 p.m. today. The Shiting River Daqiao [Bridge] had been weakened by the heavy rains that have been hitting the province this storm season.

news.xinhuanet.com — The rescue operation has been called off as all bodies from Sunday's viaduct collapse in central China's Hunan Province have been recovered. A total of nine people died and 16 others were injured, rescue headquarters reported at a press conference convened Monday evening.