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April 19, 2005

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Daily linklets 19th April

The China/Japan tensions post has been updated again, including some interesting information on who was in the crowd at the Shanghai protests.
Nine true stories about Paul, or why he won't be using a time machine to visit the battle of Waterloo.
Drinking can see you ending up in North Korea.
Catholics and catholicism in China, by new blogger Jing (via Marmot). One to watch.
China's ongoing clampdown on dissent: NGOs are now coming under scrutiny.
Agent Orange, comfort women and moral equivalence.
Macau, population 460,000, have 8 Chinese and 3 Portuguese daily papers. How do they all survive? The old fashioned way: with Government subsidies.
Australia and China are to start free trade talks. China has been granted market economy status, making anti-dumping actions harder. At the same time Australia has demanded agriculture be included in the agreement. That implies Australia feels it has a competitive advantage in agriculture. Australia, with its high wages and far more expensive costs, is a lower cost producer of agricultural goods than low wage, cheap China. Anyone from the anti-offshoring crowd listening?
Does the US Government really want the renminbi to rise?
Koreans no longer think America is their biggest threat: Japan is.
The perils of the average Joe investing in China.
Are Goldman Sachs leaving Hong Kong for Beijing and Shanghai?
A complete set of links and posts on a major dust up in Singapore's blogosphere.
A first hand account of Singapore's casino announcement.
Some Hong Kong history that you won't find in the textbooks.
An excellent simple lesson in the China/America trade problem with an elegant solution. It also links to an LA Times article: Scapegoat, Made in China, which simply lays out the real reasons behind the trade deficit.
(16:56) Got a death wish? Drive in China.
Jing says China has only mariginal influence on North Korea and has a review of Chinese-NK relations.
Hemlock on the Singapore casino announcement: Who will be the first politician in Hong Kong retarded enough to demand that the Big Lychee follow suit in casino-building â€˜in order to remain competitiveâ€™ with Lee Kwan-yewâ€™s pathetic experiment in Confucio-socialism? I give my crystal ball a quick polish and stare into it. The slimy, unprincipled, economically illiterate visage of Liberal Party boss James Tien shimmers in the glassy orb.

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