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With everyone else on the planet weighing in on Obama's visit to China last week, I didn't want to miss the party. I wrote a brief article for the website of the magazine Foreign Policy comparing Chinese and American press coverage of the visit. The title and blurb are theirs (the title is much better than mine, but I never used the phrase ...

From the strange PR files comes this article in today's Shanghai Daily about the Guizhou provincial pavilion at the Shanghai Expo. The theme is apparently liquor and girls. This seems like a winner on many levels (after all, it worked for the NFL), but the implementation is a bit weird:The province will make the liquor the centerpiece of its ...

An outstanding video from photojournalist Dan Chung, who was in the stands for yesterday's National Day parade and has produced a three-and-a-half minute version with a mix of time-lapse and slow motion. Much more watchable the tedious CCTV version (which, airplanes aside, felt like it was all in slow motion). More on the parade from me ...

We interrupt this hiatus, as we threatened we would from time to time, to bring you some video from this evening's dress rehearsal for the upcoming military parade celebrating the 60th anniversary of the People's Republic of China. As it happens, the mustering area for many of the armored vehicles participating in the parade is just north of my ...

To have one ethnic minority erupt in angry rioting looks like misfortune. To have two erupt in angry rioting suggests that a rethink of the overall approach might be a good idea. Urumqi has been in chaos for the last 72 hours, and reports suggest that at least for the moment things are not improving. Considering all the obsessive attention paid to ...

A few days ago ESWN published a translation of an opinion piece from the China Youth Daily in which the author asserted that the entire movie is an advertisement for the United States Military. Originally I was going to mock the opinion piece out of hand, but then I thought that, in all fairness, I ought to at least see the movie before I did so. ...

This article is a couple of weeks old now, but I still suggest taking a moment to read Gady Epstein's recent Forbes piece on the challenges facing China's successful video sharing sites. More than any other article I've read recently, this article lays out the unique political minefield that these companies are tiptoeing through. In particular, ...

Brings all new meaning to the phrase ''dirty bomb''. And what on earth is that guy on the right holding? The latest installment in our unfolding series of strange photos from Chinese anti-terrorism drills. From this series of photos of China's ''Great Wall-6'' anti-terror exercise. Previously: Introducing the Jinan precision Segway assault ...

ESWN translates a good essay on proposed reforms of CCTV's ''Network News'', the nightly news broadcast that is something of a televised version of the People's Daily: A protocol driven recitation of government messages.Since inception, the ''Network News'' has been described as a three-part program: In the first ten minutes, the state leaders are ...

        MCNAMARA    I believe the President made it clear    that there would be no firing on ships    without his express permission.        ADMIRAL ANDERSON    With all due respect, Mr. Secretary, we    were not ...