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Some samples:

Fisking Gertz's hysteria over China's "nuclear threat"

The Washington Times and Gertz have been having multiple orgasms lately as they set the blogosphere on fire with frightening accounts of the great China threat, including massive investments in sophiosticated nuclear arms and preparations for an imminent invasion of Taiwan (followed by attacks on Guam and Hawaii!). A well-qualified researcher says you shouldn't believe a word of it.

Chinese rioters assault battery factory

Here we go again in the land of perennial reform. This time, the rioting villagers were expressing their dissatisfaction at the local battery factory for poisoning their children.

Typepad, Blogsome blogs blocked in China

Rebecca MacKinnon reports that despite some hopes a couple of days ago that the Typepad block had ended, it has since been confirmed that all Typepad blogs are now inaccessible in China.

She has also reported that Blogsome, the free blog service from Wordpress, is also blocked.

Finally, she's written a new article titled, China's Internet: Let a Thousand Filters Bloom. Rebecca's outrage at the US firms that facilitate the censorship is palpable, and she obviously has Cisco in the crosshairs of her keyboard.

Highly recommended!

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