Fareed Zakaria: “To say that this new China is the same as the old (meaning Mao’s totalitarian state) is to be ignorant, ideological, or both.” Washington Post online

Internet Explorer Firefox The Turkish embassy in Beijing has a trojan horse virus on their website. No, I’m not kidding.

Tell those Mongols what you think by answering the poll on the Mongolian embassy’s website: http://www.mongolembassychina.org/

This weekend I saw the coolest thing. A little Chinese girl had one of these things and now I want one too! It’s a baseball cap with a solar powered fan, blowing a nice breeze of ‘fresh’ air in you...

“Container cu grup sanitar” I’ve seen some pretty weird spam, and now and then even spam can be surprising and noteworthy: Buna ziua, Ne cerem scuze pentru acest mesaj. Va trimitem acest mesaj...

No, I’m not referring to the number of casualties after the Sichuan earthquake. This is about ducks. Peking ducks, naturally. On Friday July 4, at 6.10 p.m., in the Shunyi district of Beijing (not ...

book review of Mara Hvistendahl’s “The New Republic” Some quotes: “The red characters painted on village walls throughout the countryside have evolved from the 1980s slogan YOU BEAT IT OUT! YOU CA...

Bush will attend the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, or so he announced this week. Merkel won’t come, because she simply doesn’t fancy the Olympic Games. Sarkozy is still considering it. At ...

Remember this Bush gaffe? I thought an interesting comment was made — somebody said to me, I heard somebody say, “Now, where’s Mandela?” Well, Mandela’s dead because Saddam Hussein killed all the ...

You think the Chinese are funny little fellows … until you meet the Japanese.