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September 12, 2005

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Daily linklets 12th September

China's most popular forum post ever (a post so good the China Daily copied it).
The untold history of the Chinese Exclusion Act from new blog UV Garden.
China Telecom has banned voice over IP services such as Skype. Will notes that Skype calls are encrypted.
The geopolitics of China's oil strategy.
Yahoo's founder defends the company in the Shi Tao case. The Chinese Law Prof blog says Yahoo didn't need to give the information over to the Chinese, concurring with Rebecca MacKinnon's opinion that Yahoo had a choice. Roger L. Simon isn't impressed by Yahoo's logic.
Asiapundit has a carnival of Chinese blogs and Michael Turton has a Taiwan blog roundup.
I'm still not sure if this is a hoax, but the attempt at oursourced blogging took another leap forward with the discovery of employees using IM. Who would have thought that those you talk to on IM might not be who they say they are?
Shanghaiist is having a launch party this Friday night.
Reformist Hu Yaobang's status is to be restored, potentially as part of President Hu's charm offensive with America.
Bill Clinton came to China but managed to avoid the topic.
China's snipers won't be competing at the 2008 Olympics, they'll be protecting them.
No doubt thanks to Katrina, the death toll from Chinese natural disasters is no longer a state secret.
A 3 part piece on China's alleged support for anti-US terrorists: the Hainan Island Outrage, East Turkestan, support for anti-U.S. terrorists.
Disney is wielding a massive threat: no Shanghai Disneyland unless Disney gets its own TV channel. Is the mouse mightier than the sword?
Curzon quotes Japan's thumpingly re-elected PM Koizumi: "I rule". The irony is the poor performance of the DPJ opposition will create another virtual monopoly in Japanese politics - a loss for democracy and for the competition in ideas that has driven Japan to a point of reform. Gaijin Biker notes the Japanese babe theory in action. Japundit says you can tune out those who say Japanese nails get hammered in.
Thailand is becoming the world's fake passport capital.
A warning on mooncakes.
Making rice paper in Vietnam.
The problems with Balinese tourism.
Big protests in South Korea over a statue of Douglas MacArthur. The Nomad has some photos which the State Department PR people should file under "Allies who may not like us despite fighting a war and stationing 30,000 troops there".
Debating Chinese Enterprise acquisitions.
Indian winners from the EU-China bra wars. The Economist this week also notes that since the start of this year, when textile quotas were abolished, textile exports from Asian countries have risen. A bigger pie for all....just as expected.
How the RMB might have moved in the past based on its new exchange rate regime and what it implies about the RMB level.
Today's MUST READ: China's search for stability with America (via TB). Long but worth it.
(18:10) Jack Risko is bearish on oil and the Chinese economy.
Dengue fever hits Singapore and has an impact on it's women's expanding busts.
Tomorrow reports 2 Singaporean bloggers have been charged under the Sedition Act

posted by Simon on 09.12.05 at 06:58 PM in the Daily linklets category.

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Comments:

Not that this means anything but that post ESWN wrote a blog entry about, with its 223,000 views and 4,000 comments, is not the most popular forum post ever. Not even close.

There's a thread on post.baidu.com which started on 9 June, 2004. As of today, it has collected 2,845,438 views and 53,816 comments.

It's a novel based on a Japanese anime written by a user of baidu.

posted by: laoxia on 09.13.05 at 09:45 AM [permalink]

Thanks for correcting.

posted by: Simon on 09.13.05 at 05:41 PM [permalink]