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www.fastcompany.com — The latest installment of Butterfly Effect examines China's cheap knockoff cell phones. After being forced out of China and India, Chinese counterfeiters brought their product to the Middle East, where the sudden availability of information had unintended consequences for the region--and for China itself.

www.china-briefing.com — Interview by Chris Devonshire-Ellis. Miao Wei is the vice-minister for the newly formed Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. Miao spent his career in the automobile industry, working in sales, production and engineering before rising to the leadership of the Dongfeng Automobile Corporation. He is an alternate member of the 17th CPC Central Committee and joined the ministry last year.

www.erenlai.com — An interesting self criticism of medias in Taiwan made by a taiwanese journalist!