One of the notorious nailhousesI have been rather busy for several projects in Europe in the past week, (including my speakers' bureau) so had to pass on the honor of writing about China's growth, the jumpy stock market and other subjects to the rest of the online world. A few headlines I do not want you to miss:
- The Fang Li interview in Variety Asia Online.
- The China Media Project points at a heated political debate in the Chinese media in Guangdong, ahead of the main political season in March.
- An inside story in The Economist of the adventures of News Corporation's Murdoch in China; at least he got his wife there and that seems a fair deal.
- Maureen Fan of the Washington Post notes a new trend: peaceful demonstrations of what she identifies as China's middle class. A nice summary, but the trend of local protests being supported by mobile phones and the internet started already some time again, with the protest in Xiamen and the nailhouses as other nice examples. Of course as noted in the piece different political interest might have caused the authorities to allow those protest, but I would not excluded the possibility that some have actually discovered that their world is not falling apart when they allow those protests and suppressing them would cause more damage than advantages.
- Lin Yifu, the famous economist who was on our target list as a speaker, might be out of our reach now the World Bank has hired him as a chief economist. Howard French reports from China.
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