Blogs.wsj.com

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(1) Yue Li, Public Relations Failure Fuels Fire Over Contaminated Baijiu.
http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealti ... ontaminated-baijiu/
("The country’s largest baijiu producer by market capitalization, Kweichow Moutai issued statement earlier this week saying levels of a potentially toxic plasticizers found in its products fell within China’s permitted limit, after a local online report said tests in Hong Kong on bottles of Moutai baijiu found high levels of the chemical")

My comment: There is no need to read the rest.

(2) Michael YAMASHITA 山下, Capturing Tibet. Scene Asia, Dec 13, 2012.
http://blogs.wsj.com/scene/2012/ ... ring-tibet/#slide/1

Note:
Lhamo Latso Lake  拉姆拉错
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lhamo_Latso

(3) Bob Davis, Study: China’s Corruption Doesn’t Match Gilded-Age America. China Real Time, Dec 12, 2012
http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealti ... gilded-age-america/
("Quantifying corruption is tough to do")

My comment:
(a) There is no indication that the study is published in a peer-reviewed journal.
(b) The blog said, "Next he [George Mason University economist Carlos Ramirez] turns to China and does  a search of the same newspapers from 1990 to 2011 using similar terms – 'corruption' and either “China” or “Chinese corruption.”

Those newspapers were American (Atlanta Constitution, Chicago Tribune, NY Times, Washington Post). It is a severe drawback. How many of these newspapers dispatch a correspondent to China? And how many reporters did these newspapers have in US?
(c) The blog next said, "He looks at both countries when they were at similar levels of development as measured by per-capita income (in 2005 dollars; adjusted for inflation and differences in prices between the two nations). When both countries were at a $2,800 per-capita income level  — 1996 in China, early 1870s in the US * * *"

Americans' living standard in 1870 were fourth highest in the world. See
List of regions by past GDP (PPP) per capita
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_regions_by_past_GDP_(PPP)_per_capita
(section 1 World 1–2003 (Maddison): In 1870, UK (3,190 in 1990 International Dollars) > Netherlands (2,757) > Belgium (2,692) > US (2,445) > Switzerland (2,102) > Denmark (2,003))

However, compared with Americans nowadays, the 1870s Americans were quite poor.