Recommended reading: E-waste investigation, China media ecosystem, Fortune 500

The Editors suggest checking out the following links:

Shanghai Scrap: Contaminated Exports � From Where? - Freelance journalist Adam Minter, who is on Shanghai's scrap beat, gets ready to dig up the dirt on the massive global e-waste trade. His preliminary notes here.

Seed: Exporting Pollution - "We send it to Europe; they send it to Asia. But what happens when China starts sending more our way?"

Shanghai Daily: 30 Chinese firms make Global 500 list - Fortune's 2007 Global 500 list includes 22 mainland companies (Sinopec #17), two from Hong Kong (Jardine Matheson) and six from Taiwan (Hon Hai).

positivesolutions: Curious praise and the circular flow of information - An illuminating look at the media's practice of quoting and re-quoting China information

WSJ: China Closes Newsletter - Popular NGO newsletter China Development Brief has been asked to close by the government

IHT: China's gift of building to East Timor typifies charm offensive in Asia - Another Chinese soft power story - this time building buildings in Timor-Leste (to which the article strangely refers by both its former and present name). The author seems to feel the term "soft power" is an epithet for China's projects overseas.

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