The Editors suggest checking out the following links:
• China Media Project — A Lei Feng for the 17th Plenum! Interesting analysis of how Hu Jintao is playing the people card to project the “harmonious society” message.
• Billsdue: The Travails Of Oak Pacific Interactive, A Former Chinese Web 2.0 Darling — One of several comments on Oak Pacific’s future recently. Is the Web 2.0 era in China already over?
• Slashdot: Wikipedia Releases Offline CD — From the comments: “I could imagine these DVDs being passed around in countries like China…”
• Straits Times: China’s key focus is on growth, says MM Lee — “Mr Lee [Kuan Yew] said any change in China’s internal political structure would come at a manageable pace and that it was unlikely – and ‘unwise’ – for China to become a Western-style democracy.”
• China in Transition: New Internet Publication Regulation to be Drafted — Online magazines will come under the purview of a new law. A new angle in China’s Internet purification campaign.
• Associated Press: China replaces top censor — “China’s chief censor has been been removed from his post, state media reported Tuesday, following an outcry this year over a reported decision to ban eight books.”
• China Economics Blog — Statistics, theories and other data-heavy goodness. An academic blogs.
• Pacific Epoch: The Admob of China — “Admob appears to be on to something: the one-year old company announced in January that it served one billion mobile ads in six months”; Pacific Epoch makes the case for China’s AdMob
• Seed: China Claims First Artificial Snowfall in Drought-hit Tibet — Is there anything the Chinese can’t do?
• Guardian Unlimited: China speeds towards ‘biggest greenhouse gas producer’ title — China may be contributing to global warming, but there must be little doubt its leaders are serious about cutting back. They live in Beijing after all.
• VentureBeat: Kleiner Perkins repents, goes to China with $360M fund — Silicon Valley’s top VC comes to China in a big way. VentureBeat with good background info on the Kleiner Perkins people in China.