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‘To Collapse or Not To Collapse’ Is Not The Question

Rebecca Mackinnon has started a public wiki for predictions about China in ‘09. The first entry is a post by Daniel Drezner whose blog just migrated to Foreign Policy. Drezner cites the recent Charter ‘08 manifesto signed by hundreds of... ...full story at Mutant Palm

from Mutant Palm on Tue, Jan 06 2009

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14 Feb 09 visit China won't Finance U.S. Debt; We Hate You...you are devaluing your Dollar! Hyperinflation Collapse?  »  YouTube videoWho will finance our debt? Who has confidence in the fiscal responsibility of the U.S. congress? Will our dollar collapse, and if it does, what will be the consequence of such a collapse? I don't know the answers to these questions, but I do know one...
21 Jul 08 visit It Lengthens, It Strengthens, It’s Olympic!  »  Peking Duck Collector’s Edition Fuwa Condoms: Fuwas ‘Beibei,’ ‘Jingjing,’ ‘Huanhuan,’ ‘Yingying,’ and ‘Nini’ are the new darlings of the Olympics! The Fuwas represent the hopes and dreams of the...
15 Jul 07 visit Let’s play I-Spy in China!  »  Lost Laowai Here’s a variation on the common “I spy” game, which might already be familiar to anyone who grew up in Britain and knows the ‘I-SPY’ children’s book series, such as ‘I-SPY in the Street’, ‘I-SPY Cars’,...
24 Apr 07 visit China: The Most “Second” Internet Company  »  Global Voices Fang Jun from Mindmeter started the chain blogging on “the most ‘er’ (literally means ’second’, extended meaning: ‘inferior’ and ‘er’) internet company” in China. His choice are: Sina (stops...
31 Jan 07 visit China: Out of Libya  »  Global Voices It’s [zh] since been disabled, but there was one especially eye-catching post on Tianya, one of China’s most widely-read bbs forum sites last month. ‘Save us!’ it read. ‘We’ve been stuck in Libya for over a year and...
01 Oct 08 visit Ha Jin on censorship  »  Granite Studio Sorry for the sabbatical…post-Olympic malaise plus the start of a new semester and a few key research deadlines, conspired to push my little hobby to the back burner. I know he’s a divisive figure, love ‘em or hate ‘em, but...

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