What we’ve been reading recently:

Telegraph: RBS issues global stock and credit crash alert - “The Royal Bank of Scotland has advised clients to brace for a full-fledged crash in global stock and credit markets over the next three months as inflation paralyses the major central banks.” | bear crash credit shares

WSJ: China Stifles Parents’ Complaints About Collapsed Schools - Local officials in town of Xiager prevent parents from traveling to see more senior officials to file complaints about collapsed schools | china earthquake schools

FT: China-US energy efforts would be win-win - Vice Premier Wang Qishan on US-China energy cooperation | US WangQishan business china economy energy politics

RGE Monitor: hould SAFE be considered a SWF? - SAFE is investing more aggressively abroad - and it could have a far bigger warchest than CIC | CIC China SAFE SWF privateequity

BusinessWeek: Inside the War Against China’s Blogs - | PR blogs technology

Southern Metropolis: ‘Chocolate City’ - Africans seek their dreams in China - Translation of a really interesting story about African traders in Guangzhou. Lots of great insights here, both into the traders’ lives, and Chinese perceptions of them. | Africa china

Economist.com: Question marks - We are introduced to Joseph Needham, a Cambridge don who made it his life’s work to figure out why scientific innovation dried up in China after a fantastic head-start | China innovation science

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