• Academic corruption is hurting China. As opposed to all the other kinds, which are really hurting. Or the Great Firewall, which is really really hurting China.
• In more important science news, Chinese experts say there are no such thing as "lake monsters".
• Mishandling the China challenge.
• No free lunch for Mugabe from China, says ACB.
• As part of Disney's attempt to blend in with the local culture, they are undergoing the ritual sweatshop allegations.
• Jews in Mongolia (via New Mongols)
• Howard French in today's must read doubts China can become a great power without real friendships or meaningful global ideals. He's absolutely right.
• A report on internet filtering in Singapore (via SIRC).
• Chinese dissidents in Taiwan are causing all sorts of bother.
• The oil shortage in China is getting global attention: Brad DeLong reproduces a NYT article, Gateway Pundit (via Instapundit, who is taking more of an interest in China these days...part of China's rise?) and Bingfeng have photos, Economists View talks about China's oil price controls, Barcepundit dregs up a 1998 article on a sex/oil swap in Ningxia. As I noted in yesterday's linklets, the SCMP puts some of the blame on supply bottlenecks as well as the price control system. Article below the jump. And Alex Tabarrok notes even America that suffers from chaos due to price controls. Another example is rental controls.
• Related is the blog discussion of oil's economic impact.
• New Economist notes the latest blowback against Europe's restrictions on Chinese textiles (originally covered in It's Getting Chilly). The Sino-American textile negotiations are still going but China remains optimistic.
• Aceh and EU diplomacy.
• (18:11) Will has some poll suggests for Xinhua on foreign bloggers.

Shenzhen's oil shortage is set to ease with the delivery of new supplies, Vice-Mayor Zhang Siping said yesterday. "We have successfully received more supplies to supplement our depots and that will ease the fuel crisis soon," Mr Zhang was quoted as saying by Shenzhen media.

Cities across Guangdong have been hit by an oil and petrol shortage. Service stations have been forced to limit supplies, or close. Mr Zhang said Shenzhen's supplies of diesel reached 41,500 tonnes on Monday and it had 23,500 tonnes of petrol after the arrival of nine oil tankers from Sinopec and PetroChina.

"More supplies will arrive by the end of the month if there is no typhoon coming," he added.

Mr Zhang said a series of measures would be taken to ensure sufficient supplies in service stations. He said priority would be given to taxis, buses and emergency vehicles. Police also would step up efforts to preserve public order at petrol stations.

The Shenzhen government called on commuters to use public transport instead of private cars and urged government officials to reduce the use of cars. People also were asked to report speculators trying to profit from the fuel shortage.