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Grandpa Wen, so happy to see you!
North Korea knows how to put on a show. Visiting Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao was this week treated to a special performance of the "Arirang" mass games, the world's biggest choreographed extravaganza with as many as 100,000 participants. This time it included one-off Chinese messages -- which in the time honoured tradition of opaque Communist regimes were likely meant as more than just a simple part of a celebrations. Full Article | Comments [1]
"The hidden danger of blogs"
The web is awash with the sites of state secrets bureaux, I discovered after a colleague dug up a report posted on one of them about the commercially and diplomatically sensitive detention of executives from mining giant Rio Tinto. Full Article
Karaoke Blues
Has the fat lady sung in China? Karaoke is much maligned in most of the West and much loved in most of China. After years in Beijing, I've become perhaps too fond of all-night singing sessions in the city's ... Full Article | Comments [1]
