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news.investors.com — "If China's growth decelerates that fast, that far," wrote columnist Walter Russell Meade on his Via Meadia blog, "the biggest question in world politics won't be how the rest of us will accommodate China's rise. The question will shift to whether China can last."

abcnews.go.com — In China, it has been the summer of the "Blood-Soaked GDP." The phrase has become a sort of protest of what they consider the economic-growth-at-any-cost-mentality that has propelled Chinese infrastructure growth for the past two decades.

blogs.forbes.com — "We will actively boost consumer demand," said Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao at the National People's Congress on Saturday. "We will continue to increase government spending used to help expand consumption..." And that’s exactly what everyone—Chinese consumers, Washington’s trade officials, and American marketers—wanted to hear.

online.wsj.com — Videogame companies and investors are rushing to tap the promise of China's game market, but many of them are discovering that a slow-moving bureaucracy and rampant piracy remain significant hurdles. "World of Warcraft," the online role-playing game that is by far China's most popular, is one example.

www.askmen.com — A senior Chinese public health official says the tenfold growth in the number of syphilis cases over the past decade in China has been driven by the country's rapid economic growth. XiangSheng Chen says prostitution, worker migration from the countryside to cities, and poor health care systems means cases are now increasing 30 percent a year.