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• The Dalai Lama again says Tibet is part of China. That must make it awkward for the 'Free Tibet' crowd.
• The internet has helped launched China's first big hip-hop group.
• China's online porn crackdown continues, but the museums are a different story.
• A good primer: North Korea for dummies.
• I've been remiss in not linking to this earlier: Asia Business Intelligence has been reborn. A great site for anyone interested in Chinese and Asian business affairs.
• (15:06) Bloggers are making onto the op-ed page of the SCMP. Todd Crowell of the interesting Asia Cable (for example, his take on Taiwan's need to wake up to reality) has written the most sensible and best of three reflections on Tung's resignation.

  It may be that he [Tung] was a little too decent for the position he was thrust into...In his governing style Mr Tung never could strike the happy balance between being a Mandarin, which was probably his natural bent, and a western-style politician...In the longer term, Mr Tung will not be judged on how he handled bird flu, SARS or the civil service, or whether he was too beholden to local property tycoons. His historic mission was to guide Hong Kong through the stormy early years of "one country, two systems". Judged from that perspective, he has not done badly.

  I would quibble with Tung having the position "thrust" upon him. Mr Crowell has taken the same tone as Jake van der Kamp a few days back in praising Tung's handling of HK in the transition from British to Chinese rule. I think that overstates the case, especially as the Basic Law has been shown to be practically worthless in the face of Chinese "re-interpretations". Tung's record was mixed, as are all politicians' records. But he got more wrong than he got right.
• (16:02) Korean live hot dogs.
• Tyler Cowen worries about bird flu. The Reconbinomics site has plenty of material on bird flu including how efficient it is at human-to-human transmission. FuturePundit comprehensively reviews the bird flu story and decides it is something to worry about. There's an interesting look at the Recombinomics analysis of bird flu.
• I'm really enjoying watching Penn and Teller's Bullsh!t series. It makes me miss my subscription to the Australian Skeptics magazine.
• Thomas Barnett on China's Hu Doctrine and its similarity to another. As I explained in an earlier discussion For discussion: what are the similarities and differences in the China/Taiwan situation and the Canda/Quebec one?