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June 29, 2005

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Daily linklets 29th June

Unsurprising headline of the day: WHO says China bird flu outbreak much worse than Beijing reported. For all bird flu, all the time, check out Recombinomics and the discussion page in particular. The other one to bookmark is the Avian Flu blog, which notes bird flu is getting worse for the birds.
Naturally ESWN has plenty of photos and reports from the riots in Chizhou, Anhui. While the growing unrest is a sign of the tensions rapidly developing China, ESWN's article reveals two interesting pieces of information: why the police took so long to respond, and that the rioters themselves are no angels. His final sentence is a telling one.
India's greatest economic problem is corruption and bureaucracy. Ashish wonders why Indian voters grumble about bribes but the complicated rules that induce corruption are never an election issue.
A discussion of Singapore's academic meritocracy also delves into the interesting analysis of "Freakonomical" and "Communal" models of meritocracy.
China's commodities demand is not insatiable.
They might not have caught the illegal loggers, but being a cop in Jharkhand has its advantages.
Maps of China and Taiwan are a fraught issue. But ESWN has found one website that has no complaints on its map of China and Taiwan.
Mao's legacy in China's current development.
Women's sumo is making a comeback.
Daniel Starr: Piracy is part of the problem. But so is Hollywood. Thoughts on IPR, content intermediation and the middlemen between content producers and consumers.
Brad Setser takes on an Asia Times article on the renminbi's revaluation.
Alex Tabarrok fisks Krugman's China article and rightly calls him a liberal demagogue. Brad DeLong has a kinder take on Krugman's article while Crooked Timber highlights the issue of free trade versus national defense. It comes down to whether you prefer to trust or suspect.
Rebecca MacKinnon writes on Nurse Ratched (remember her?) and notes Blogsome is now blocked in China.
(13:04) If you've got nothing better to do, on July 7th a Kiwi Law professor is going to explain everything that's wrong with free trade at HK Poly. Please don't ask why a law professor is the NZ expert on free trade and economics - clearly the anti-globalisation groupies don't want expertise to get in the way of a good rant.
Laowiseass has a personal encounter with Chinese foreign affairs cops.
While everyone's focussing on the anniversary of Trafalgar, this week sees a far more important British naval anniversary: the first contact between Britain and China. Amongst other things, this was the first time a Brit tried tea. It lead to the expression "not for all the tea in China".
The new ending to The Empire Strikes Back. So much more true to life.

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Glad to hear you enjoy the post Simon! You'll be interested to know the reason the British subsequently called tea "tea" instead of "cha" like everyone else up to the gates of Constantinople. As Austin Coates writes in "Macao and the British", "...when tea-drinking was first introduced to Europe, in the second half of the seventeenth century, the French and the British were in touch with the great tea-producing province of Fukien, where the same Chinese word cha is pronounced teh... The French thus introduced the into Europe, the English their own native version, tea, originally pronounced much the same as in French."

posted by: David on 06.29.05 at 05:21 PM [permalink]

Mate I'm going to have to get you on our next pub trivia night team.

posted by: Simon on 06.29.05 at 05:24 PM [permalink]

I thought that was common knowledge......

posted by: Joe on 06.30.05 at 02:52 AM [permalink]