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www.ft.com — Everybody from Lou Dobbs to Paul Krugman is beating up on China. China, we are told, is cheating. It is cheating by making it harder for western companies to invest there and for stealing their technology when they do. It is cheating by directing cheap credit to favoured industries. It is cheating by allowing companies that operate in China to pay their workers less and pollute more.

www.8asians.com — Citing blueberry-flavored potato chips, strawberry and milk-flavored Cheetos and aloe juice from Minute Maid, Hatton says that it seems like every major U.S. food label, “is trying to bite into China’s $186 billion fast food and processed food industries by creating new products made just for Chinese taste buds.” Other strange American-Chinese products?

chinahopelive.net — Reflections on East-West differences in self-understanding as presented by psychologist Richard Nisbett's in "The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently... And Why".

english.people.com.cn — After a series of studies on how Chinese people perceive tones in the language, a research team from the Life Sciences College at China Science and Technology University - led by Professor Chen Lin - recently suggested that people speaking Chinese use the right side of their brain more frequently than Westerners who speak English and that Chinese should pay more attention to the potential developm

www.guardian.co.uk — The country's government has let it be known that western classical and religious music is no longer acceptable. Why?