links for 2008-03-18

• Chinese Net Nanny on the rampage
  GZE2 - Can't wait for the Olympics...
  (tags: china tech tibet)
• Channelnewsasia.com: China Denies Tibet Tourists Ordered out
  "Because of the arson and murders which have taken place in Tibet, we do not advise foreign news organisations or foreign nationals to go to Tibet for safety reasons," he said. (GZE2 - but, its OK to go to Iraq and watch an invasion...m'eh, right!)
  (tags: china tibet protests)
• FT.com / Video & Audio / Interactive graphics - In pictures: Conflict in Tibet
  (tags: china tibet protests)
• FT.com / World - Taiwan frontrunner parries Tibet challenge
  Mr Ma declared on Monday: “Taiwan is not Tibet, Taiwan is not Hong Kong. We are a sovereign country.”
  (tags: china taiwan election politics)
• China struggles with rising crime against foreigners - International Herald Tribune
  Chinese media have reported incidents such as the robbery of three foreigners in Nanjing, the robbery at knifepoint of a foreigner in Guizhou Province and the kidnapping of a foreigner for a ransom of more than $40,000 in the southern city of Shenzhen.
  (tags: china expat crime news)
• The Weekly Standard: Pelosi to Wade into Tibentan Struggle
  Speaker Pelosi will travel this week to Dharamsala, India, (home of Tibet's 'government-in-exile') to meet with the Dalai Lama. She will be joined by there Richard Gere.
  (tags: china tibet politics congress)
• The Weekly Standard: The Real China
  You may not know that the flowers, smiles, harmony and prosperity are built on a base of grievances, tears, imprisonment, torture and blood.
  (tags: china olympics)
• FT.com / Asia-Pacific / China - EU rules out Olympic boycott over Tibet
  While the UK continues to oppose a boycott, it faces a diplomatic hurdle in May when the Dalai Lama is expected to visit London. Beijing has made clear privately it does not want Gordon Brown to meet him. (GZE2 - Will Brown kow-tow??)
  (tags: china olympics europe politics)
• Channelnewsasia.com: IOC says Beijing events could be postponed in case of heavy pollution
  Ljungqvist said that Olympic events had been postponed before, but never because of pollution. "This is the first time that air pollution has become an issue and we have taken the issue seriously," he said.
  (tags: china olympics pollution)