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May 25, 2005

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Daily linklets 25th May

Thailand terrorism and the links with Malaysia and al-Qaeda.
Phil notes a case of Australian hypocricy.
More on China's virgin prostitutes...it gives new meaning to "miscarriage of justice".
After the NYT's report on a Chinese blogger and their great potential to undermine the CCP, Danwei investigates and doesn't see the same thing. The FEER blog also aplies a touch of specticism. Update: Thomas Barnett says only the Chinese can change China, but the West can screw it up.
SF wants you to help the pandas for the 2008 Olympics.
There's nothing to fear from the axis of oil.
HKIA can relax: Mark finds Guanghzou Airport wanting.
The unlikely diplomacy of Saaya Irie - a 11 year old Japanese girl being exploited but helping to calm Sino-Japanese tensions. If that's the way to calm tensions, I'd prefer to leave them be.
Slowly China's grassroots democracy is taking root.
In the Must Read category: Robert Kagan says managing China's rise is a comfortable fiction (via WoC). I could not agree more.
Bill Rice says rising nationalism will be China's undoing and he's asking for thoughts on China's short and long term diplomatic goals. I can give you the simple answer: all their diplomacy is aimed at keeping the CCP in power. To do that they need a growing economy with access to markets and resources, rising living standards, spreading wealth and a dash of nationalism now that Chinese Communism doesn't mean anything any more.
The Pentagon is preparing a report on the growing "China threat". They'd be remiss if they hadn't already prepared such a report. But as the excellent Robert Kagan article above points out, if you treat China as a threat it will become that threat.
All the angst and anger for Korea and China towards Japan has had a predictable effect: it has hardened Japanese attitudes against them.
The Great Malls of China. Imagethief says uber-malls are the last thing China needs.
(19:03) Blog entry solves the murder of Hong Kong siblings. You have to read this story. And remember, if there's a weirdo in your house, stop blogging and get out of there!

posted by Simon on 05.25.05 at 07:03 PM in the Daily linklets category.

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