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• China to launch ethic training for all civil servants –
• 类织里现象：浙江“微企业”生存状况调查 – 宏观 – 21世纪网 –
• 强生再“涉毒”：拷问双重标准 – 产经 – 21世纪网 –
• 发改委约谈中石油中石化要求加大柴油投放_新闻_腾讯网 – NRDC to oil majors–invest more in diesel production
• 湖南上访村官浮尸江中 疑在政府大楼被打死抛尸_新闻_腾讯网 – hunan petitioner beaten to death inside government building, body dumped? grim pics
• Tepco Detects Signs of Nuclear Fission at Fukushima, Raising Risk of Leaks – Bloomberg –
• How Should Auditors Handle China’s State Secrets Law? – China Real Time Report – WSJ – What do you do if a Chinese company invokes “state secrets” as a reason for not handing over documents to its auditors?

  In the case of KPMG, it’s decided to issue a “qualified opinion of scope limitation” – essentially not being able to sign off on a company’s books – for its client, Hong Kong-listed China High Precision Automation Group Ltd.

• The China Beat · Yu Hua’s Way with Words – By Jeff Wasserstrom

  This article was first posted at the Los Angeles Review of Books blog.

  Last year, I finally got around to reading To Live, Yu Hua’s acclaimed 1993 tale of a Chinese Everyman’s experiences through decades of revolutionary upheaval. It’s a little gem of a book, alternately funny and poignant, which somehow manages to feel epic despite its modest page count and tight focus on a small set of characters. After chiding myself for taking so long to get to it, I vowed to make the book required reading the next time I taught a modern China course since it is available in an excellent English language edition, translated by UC Santa Barbara’s Michael Berry. I’m pretty sure now, however, that I won’t be assigning To Live after all.

• Huntsman: GOP rivals don’t know enough about China – Yahoo! News – Republican presidential hopeful Jon Huntsman said Wednesday that recent comments by rivals Herman Cain and Mitt Romney raise concerns about taking the nation's security and economic policies toward China in the wrong direction.
• U.S. official defends science-technology exchanges with China – Yahoo! News –
• Ex-Google Reader Product Manager Posts Scathing Review Of Reader Redesign | TechCrunch –
• Solyndra Borrowed More Cheaply Than Chinese Rivals, Trina Says-Bloomberg –
• China’s Zhu Says ‘Too Soon’ to Discuss More EFSF Purchases-Bloomberg –
• Battle of the Bulge: China’s Military Recruits More Fatties –
• Mitch Moxley: A Foreigner By Any Other Name –
• China spacecraft make first successful docking (AP) –
• Chinese Government on TV Content: No Net Video Allowed! | Tech in Asia – China’s State Administration of Radio, Film and Television has been on the warpath recently. First, they threw a haymaker at China’s satellite TV stations by slashing the number of “entertainment” programs allowed daily, and now they’ve fired a shot across the bow of net video and P2P streaming company PPTV for allowing their content to be streamed to third-party TV set-top boxes with internet connections, in violation of SARFT regulations.
• Announcing Xueqiu.com – A New Social Platform for Value Investors – I am an advisor
• Beijing Set To Roll Out Massive Free Public WiFi Network This Month (But There’s A Catch) –
• China’s violent push for “stability” – China Media Project-Yu Jianrong – Since the 1990s, as reforms have gone ahead, such problems as the growing gap between rich and poor, the growing gap between urban and rural, poverty and inequality, masses of vulnerable and underprivileged, have grown more pronounced [in China]. We have seen rapid growth in the number of mass incidents, and large-scale mass incidents in particular are happening with greater frequency. In order to deal with these dangers, governments often resort to various tactics in order to hold together the stability of the system, which results in a kind of framework of rigid stability.
• RedTech Advisors Rebuts Citron Research’s Attack On Qihoo 360 –
• Zhuhai Puts Ceiling on Home Property Prices – WSJ.com – The southern Chinese city of Zhuhai set a ceiling on residential property trasactions, becoming the first Chinese city to do so and triggering concerns of similar curbs in other cities.

  The price ceiling of 11,285 yuan ($1,776) per square meter for residential property transactions, which took effect Tuesday, appears to be the most extreme property tightening measure in China so far, and analysts say it has effectively killed the luxury housing market in the affluent city of about 1.6 million inhabitants.

• Funds Flow to China’s Rail Sector Again – WSJ.com – SHANGHAI—Fresh funds appear to be flowing into China's beleaguered railway sector more than three months after a deadly train crash, which embarrassed Beijing and prompted it to reassess key aspects of the rapidly built system.
• Many Rich Chinese Consider Leaving – WSJ.com – More than half of China's millionaires are either considering emigrating or have already taken steps to do so, according to a survey that builds on similar findings earlier this year, highlighting worries among the business elite about their quality of life and financial prospects, despite the country's fast-paced growth.
• China Airlines Buoyed Most With Warming Taiwan-Mainland Relations: Freight – Bloomberg – China Airlines Ltd. (2610) may gain the most of any air-cargo carrier from warming ties between China and Taiwan as the former foes dismantle barriers to their $150 billion in annual trade.
  Taiwan’s biggest airline will add 18 flights to five Chinese cities by the end of this year, cementing its position as the operator of the most cross-straits flights since a six- decade ban on direct shipments was lifted in 2008.
• Citron Research Doesn’t Understand Qihoo 360’s Business Model | DigiCha – Famed short-seller Andrew Left of Citron Research released a report Tuesday calling Qihoo 360 ($QIHU) the “the most overvalued and misunderstood Chinese Internet Stock” and giving it a price target of 5 dollars.

  Qihoo 360 is misunderstood, by Andrew Left.

  If you want to understand the business, read the report below that was prepared by RedTech Advisors in August. CEO Zhou Hongyi is no saint and Qihoo 360 has its operational challenges, but I would be shocked if the company is cooking its books as Longtop, Sino-Forest et al did.

• Baseball bat is a hit as a defensive weapon in China – latimes.com – Although most Chinese know little about baseball, bats are a familiar accessory in a country where the pursuit of money at all costs and a weak faith in law enforcement have led many people to take matters into their own hands.
• China Says No Talking Tibet as Confucius Funds U.S. Universities – Businessweek – When a Beijing organization with close ties to China’s government offered Stanford University $4 million to host a Confucius Institute on Chinese language and culture and endow a professorship, it attached one caveat: The professor couldn’t discuss delicate issues like Tibet.

  “They said they didn’t want to be embarrassed,” said Richard Saller, dean of Stanford’s school of humanities and sciences. Stanford refused, citing academic freedom, and Chinese officials backed down, Saller said. The university plans to use the money for a professorship in classical Chinese poetry, far removed from the Tibet dispute.

• Tibetan prime minister appeals to Washington for help | The Cable –
• Huawei looks for cloud acquisitions, partnerships | Reuters – Huawei Technologies Co Ltd, the world's No.2 network equipment maker, said it is open to acquiring and partnering companies with expertise in producing software for cloud computing.
• Anger over detained Chinese activist reaches capital (Reuters) – Reuters – Supporters of a blind legal activist, whose long confinement in his village in east China has sparked widespread anger, petitioned Beijing officials on Tuesday after some said they were beaten when they tried to visit the activist.
• Governments turn to hacking techniques for surveillance of citizens | Technology | guardian.co.uk – Surveillance firms that recently attended a US conference are accused of offering their services to repressive regimes
• RConversation: Surveillance technologies and "apolitical" corporations –
• Wen Yunchao: An Open Letter to the Investors of Sina | ChinaGeeks | analysis and translation of modern China – Note: Below is a translation of an open letter written by Wen Yunchao (twitter: @wenyunchao), an outspoken blogger and free speech activist on the Chinese Internet. It is addressed to the investors of Sina Corp, and explores the censorship practices and implications of the corporate structure of the company, which runs the most popular microblogging service in China. If you are not familiar with Wen Yunchao, the recent New York Times feature about him, Where an Internet Joke is Not Just a Joke, is strongly recommended. For an extensive discussion of the methods used by Sina to censor its micro-blogging service, be sure to read the blog post by Jason Ng at Kenengba. The post is in Chinese, but William Farris has provided a helpful English summary.
• Chinese Government on TV Content: No Net Video Allowed! | Tech in Asia – China’s State Administration of Radio, Film and Television has been on the warpath recently. First, they threw a haymaker at China’s satellite TV stations by slashing the number of “entertainment” programs allowed daily, and now they’ve fired a shot across the bow of net video and P2P streaming company PPTV for allowing their content to be streamed to third-party TV set-top boxes with internet connections, in violation of SARFT regulations.
• Announcing Xueqiu.com – A New Social Platform for Value Investors – I am an advisor
• Beijing Set To Roll Out Massive Free Public WiFi Network This Month (But There’s A Catch) –

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