(2) 新疆基督徒获刑15年上诉被驳回. BBC Chinese, Mar 3, 2011.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/china/2011/03/110303_china_christians.shtml
(阿里木江)
(3) 中国研究鲍勃·迪伦访华演出申请. BBC Chinese, Mar 3, 2011.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/world/2011/03/110303_dylan_china.shtml
("就在一年前，迪伦原定在北京和上海的演出被迫取消")
(4) Thomas L Friedman, This Is Just the Start; A back-of-the-envelope guess list. New York Times, Mar 2, 2011.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/02/opinion/02friedman.html
My commnet:
(a) Only the last two sections are about China, which cites
Edward Goldberg, Who Lost Egypt? Globalist, Feb 11, 2011.
http://www.theglobalist.com/storyid.aspx?StoryId=8989
("neither country during the last 200 years fell completely under colonial rule for any long period of time")
In fact, neitehr China nor Egypt became a colony a century ago.
History of modern Egypt
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_modern_Egypt
(The country became a British protectorate in 1914 and achieved independence in 1922)
(b) Friedman's article states, "China and Egypt were both great civilizations subjected to imperialism and were both dirt poor back in the 1950s, with China even poorer than Egypt, Edward Goldberg, who teaches business strategy, wrote in The Globalist.
The truth is the 1950 data for China is lacking, either
(i) Real Gross Domestic Product per Capita, current price
or (ii) Real GDP per capita (Constant Prices: Chain series).
Penn World Table. Center for International Comparisons of Production, Income and Prices, University of Pennsylvania.
http://pwt.econ.upenn.edu/