links for 2007-03-08

A painting of a young girl acting out an anti-Japanese street drama, but an “Anti-Japanese painting?” Come on, Kyodo News, you can do better than that.

“China has accepted the US request for consultation and the two sides will launch talks in Geneva in the last 10 days of this month,”

“I am worried that there is adverse sentiment towards China in the US and among countries throughout the world. It is good that China is increasingly globalising but I am worried that it is buying political ill will in the US, including in Congress,” Paul

“It might be time to admit that we really don’t understand China. The country simply does not conform to our most basic beliefs about what makes nations grow.”