Can China focused sites please NOT use feedburner to host your feeds? If you guys haven’t noticed, the feeds.feedburner.com domain is blocked in China. At least post the original rss feed as well. I noticed some sites are already doing this. Thanks guys:
China Law Blog Chinalyst- although they added a stupid alternative feed hosting service. To bypass, the rss.xml is still valid Thank you.
Beijing Newspeak wrote their view on the incident I wrote about in my previous post. I wrote a comment that I have pasted here for convenience:
While no doubt the actions taken by the authorities were over the top and unacceptable (the alleged racial profiling part), I think people should realize that this is how things work here. Good or bad, that’s it. We can’t change it. We can complain all we want, but that won’t change things.
No doubt the 3 of you who read my blog have heard about the incident in Sanlitun on Friday night (Sept. 21). If you haven’t, read the following articles:
Beijing Boyce: Sanlitun smackdown targets blacks Africabeat: Beijing: Chinese police beat up Africans Reuters: Beijing police raid busy bar district for drugs Zhongnanhai Blog: Black men are rounded up and beaten in Sanlitun drug sting Particularly, the Africabeat article has eyewitness quotes such as:
It’s Friday and this photo sums up this past week quite nicely…
I read on a few China-focused blogs this morning about a report put out by the “China Institute of City Competitiveness”. First of all, why would there be such an organization? Any way.. Some of the blog postings are:
China Law Blog’s post entitled Beautiful China Cities. I Know It When I See It. bezdomny expatria’s post relevantly entitled make sure you’re sitting down… The report mentioned above was covered by the China Daily, China’s English “Newspaper”, if you could call it that.
Beijing is “whole” now. Hooters has come to town! Yesterday, Sunday, was a soft opening, and I was there. The food and sights, both free. The official opening is this Wednesday, Sept. 12. Tonight there’s some VIP event there, but, I’m not a VIP, so… When you read about Hooters in Beijing on Tuesday, remember, you heard it here first! Prime real estate! Corner of Gongti and Xin dong lu. (Close to the old Frank’s place) As a couple of my friends said: Sureal.