“Beijing,China” on The Daily Caller

When Austin Sendek was growing up in Northern California, he was never allowed to use the regional slang term “hella.” (more)

Officials said CNC World would present “an international vision with a China perspective”. (more)

Google Inc. said late Monday that it will stop automatically redirecting visitors from in China site to one in Hong Kong, a practice it started in March to defuse its censorship fight with Beijing. (more)

Here are some thoughts on a few recent and important money-politics headlines: (more)

JOHANNESBURG — The flight alone would cost at least 100 times the average North Korean worker’s yearly salary, and nearly as hard to come by is the permission to leave one of the most strictly controlled communist states. (more)

China’s on-again-off-again approach to U.S-China military interaction and Beijing’s refusal to allow Secretary of Defense Robert Gates to visit China during his recent Asian trip reveals a dysfunctional military relationship that’s the result of much more than Beijing’s displeasure over U.S. arms sales to Taiwan. It reflects fundamentally different national strategic objectives and the changing locus of leverage that result from China’s growing power and influence relative to the U.S. (more)

A diary which publishers claim is that of the man many blame for the Tiananmen massacre is to be published in Hong Kong. (more)

BEIJING – China will chart its own course on currency reform based on its needs, and external pressure will only delay the reform, Assistant Finance Minister Zhu Guangyao said on Tuesday. (more)

Every war requires a unique grand strategy, but certain strategic principles never change. They apply to all wars and are essential to victory. So why is the Obama administration deliberately avoiding the one most essential to winning the war with Islamist-Jihadism? (more)

BEIJING — Continuing a bizarre series of attacks on Chinese schoolchildren, a man broke into a primary school in eastern china on Friday and beat five preschool children with a hammer before setting himself afire, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported. (more)

China has agreed to build two civilian nuclear reactors in Pakistan, the Financial Times reported, citing Chinese companies and unnamed government officials in Beijing and Islamabad. (more)

BEIJING — China is on the verge of requiring telecommunications and Internet companies to detect, stop and report leaks of state secrets by their customers, the latest in a string of moves designed to strengthen the government’s control over private communications. (more)

In the past few weeks, thousands of Chinese netizens have successfully jumped the “Great Firewall,” China’s cyberblockade on sensitive Internet content. (more)

White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said on Monday that President Barack Obama wants China’s yuan currency to be market-based. (more)

As Americans ponder how to get the U.S. out of its current trade mess, we are constantly warned to do nothing – like impose a tariff to neutralize Chinese currency manipulation – that would trigger a “trade war.”  Supposedly, no matter how bad our problems with our trading partners get, they are less bad than the spiraling catastrophe that would ensue if we walked a single inch away from our current policy of unilateral free trade. (more)