The Donald comes to China edition...

• Rummy questions China's intentions and is upset about China's secret budgets for its military. It's not like the USA hides some of its military and intelligence budget, is it?
• Annoyed you missed Arirang, North Korea's celebration of 60 years of misery? Fear not...you can watch the video and scroll through Dan Schorr's visit to the Hermit Kingdom (all via Sun Bin).
• India's bid to rule the waves.
• Meet the nine men who run China.
• Should President Hu learn bridge?
• China has outsourced environmental degradation.
• The agendas and problems of free newspapers.
• An architectural blow to Sino-Japan relations.
• An amusing piece on a potential Chinese pre-Olympic Taiwan invasion. I'm ready to bet money that there will be no Chinese invasion of Taiwan before the Opening Ceremony of the 2008 Olympics. Any takers?
• Karaoke cabs.
• Summer saw cool biz, so winter begets warm biz. This has potential in Hong Kong - it gives everyone an excuse to wear their winter outfits for longer than the 15 seconds it stays cold here.
• Japundit explains the difference between a good and bad protest.
• Moral hazard in Chinese banking: the puts for big investors in CCB and BoC.
• Europe is America's economic threat, not China.
• China's health care crisis. There might be a solution to this and the labour shortage: a man leasing out himself.
• (14:32) American diplomacy and Singaopre.
• China's colour coded crackdown (nice alliteration) - learning the lessons of Eastern Europe's democratic revolutions.
• (16:50) Can lightning strike twice? The China Daily plagarises ESWN's translation work on Taishi. The odds are pretty low that ESWN's next piece on Taishi will appear in the China Daily.
• While on China's official media, Roger L. Simon notes Xinhua's curious biography of Sadaam, although it's not that surprising.
• Bet you didn't know China had invaded Okinawa today.
• Mark Thoma links to a paper on the effect of communism on people's preferences. The context is East German, but it has interesting implications for post-Communist China and the recent push from Beijing's leadership for redistribution towards rural areas.