This is a daily collection of links, some with commentary, to news stories and interesting blog posts. It will be updated throughout the day with a new timestamp for the updates.

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• Rupert Murdoch gets blogs (Dan Gillmor has more or you can listen to it.) . Is the SCMP listening?
• Is it just me or is Instapundit turning into a product placement paradise?
• The EU's arms embargo on China isn't going to be lifted after all.
• Meet John Ledyard - the man who started American trade with China.
• The OpenNet Initiative looks at China's internet filtering (via CDT).
• China and the Middle East, and what it means for the China threat theory.
• FT editorial no China's weak link (the stock market), via Enzo. Also Brad Setser on China's growing reserves problem.
• Following Shanghai's effort, Thailand is hosting the World Toilet Summit this year.
• I mentioned the excellent Jamestown Foundation's Chief Brief the other day. Bill Rice forcefully agrees with Hong Kong journo Willy Lam's piece on Beijing's Alarm over new 'US encirclement conspiracy'.
• You really should meet Ken Rowe. He flew a North Korean MiG-15 once...from North Korea to the Americans.
• Seo Sang-moon got his driver's licence. It only took 272 goes.
• Stirrings of a Singapore intellectual periodical, perhaps leveraging the work of bloggers.
• I'm all for breastfeeding...but let's keep it to humans.
• The online gaming market in China is booming.
• Hong Kong Disneyland watch: you might not be able to buy tickets from the turnstiles. Ostensibly it is to prevent overcrowding but commissions for travel agents are more likely the reason.
• US prosecutors will release court documents in the failed case against Katrina Leung, the FBI's erstwhile Chinese informant accused of being a double agent.
• Historian Jonathan Dresner examines Japan's nationalistic internationalism and how its history has accumulated to the present tensions and attempts to keep Japan in its place will lead to a nationalistic backlash. Especially telling is the point about the re-admitting of the WW2 Axis members to the top table. Chapati Mystery comprehensive look at India's claims to a UNSC seat.
• Angeline Jolie: the Yoko Ono of our time.