China more popular than sex

On The New York Times website, ‘china’ is now the most popular search term, beating out ’sex’–a close second.
Also, today’s print edition of The New York Times is carrying a rather interesting, albeit annoying, OP-Ed piece on the CCP’s obsession with China’s image during the ‘08 Olympics. The OP-Ed talks about the CCP seeing the [...]

Investigative Journalist Wang Keqin’s Lecture at Princeton

Can be watched here for free.

Pollution, CCP-Controlled Weather, and an Olympic Warning

Over the last two months, Beijing’s air quality has been abysmal. I suppose this doesn’t come as a surprise to anyone who’s lived in Beijing for a serious amount of time. Still, before spending my second summer in the city, I expected the government to have made some progress on the air quality so that [...]