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www.nytimes.com — CCP has taken a new stance toward the world. An exiled former political prisoner spells it out for us in the New York Times, in case we didn't catch the implied meanings of the CCP's recent not-so-subtle gestures.

news.yahoo.com — BEIJING (AFP) – A British man with reported mental health problems was executed in China on Tuesday for drug smuggling despite last-minute pleas for clemency, the British government announced.

Prime Minister Gordon Brown said he was "appalled and disappointed" by the execution of Akmal Shaikh, a 53-year-old father-of-three, who supporters say had bipolar disorder.

www.blackandwhitecat.org — On Tuesday evening, Liu Xiaoyuan, who has acted as a lawyer for family of Yang Jia, announced on his blog that Yang will be executed within a week. Yang Jia’s mother told him that around 7pm, she was visited two officials from the Shanghai Higher People’s Court who notified her that the Supreme People’s Court had approved the death sentence for her son.