The Editors suggest checking out the following links:

Burma’s foul regime depends on Beijing - Noted pundit Christopher Hitchens adds his own voice to the “boycott Beijing” chorus in Slate magazine over its support for despotic regimes.

Straits Times: China plays surge on talk of Beijing easing fund rules - “Yesterday’s buying sent the PrimePartners China Index, which tracks China companies listed on the Singapore Exchange, up by 6.4 per cent to 280.05 points.”

FT.com / Asia-Pacific / China - 3Com deal faces security scrutiny - US authorities will likely look into Shenzhen-based Huawei Technologies and Bain’s joint bid to take over PDA maker 3Com from a national security perspective. Among other things like Palm devices, 3Com makes anti-hacker technology.

China pleads for calm in Myanmar - Yahoo! News - China issued an evenhanded plea for calm in Myanmar on Thursday after refusing to condemn the military-run government, while Southeast Asian nations expressed “revulsion” at the violent repression of the demonstrations.

Will China Intervene? - TIME - In Myanmar/Burma, that is. TIME doesn’t think so, but a bloody crackdown on the order of 1988 in Yangon/Rangoon (or 1989 in Beijing) would be worrying.

U.S. exposes illicit China steroid sales - International Herald Tribune - The federal authorities in the United States have announced the exposure of a sprawling underground distribution network for steroids, human growth hormone and other illicit bodybuilding drugs supplied by 37 companies in China.

FT.com / Asia-Pacific / China - China admits Three Gorges dam danger -

FT.com / Asia-Pacific / China - Chinese buy into conspiracy theory - New Chinese bestseller claims that Jewish bankers are pulling the world’s financial strings

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