Italian blogger Enzo has several interesting links today*. The first two deal with Jacques Chirac's visit to China. In the IHT is an opinion piece worth reading in full, but I'll reproduce the conclusion here:

Was Chirac's eagerness to sell $4 billion worth of French products to China so great that he forgot that France's own revolution, about which Zhou Enlai was so cautious, called above all else for liberty?

Finally a look at China's crackdown on internet p0rn, questioning if p0rn is the real target (an elusive one at that). The crackdown actually hits two birds with one stone: it gets rid of p0rn sights that offend officialdom's morality and it can be used to sweep away other sites that offend officialdom in other ways.

* _{I should note that I do not speak or understand Italian, althoug my mother-in-law is an Italiaphile and fluent in the language. Enzo kindly sent these links by email. He also promises to start blogging in English one day - that day cannot come soon enough.}
** _{My French sucks as well, but I think I got the gist.}