- Photos emerge of components that could be for China's first home-built aircraft carrier. Naval experts I'm talking to say there's too little to go on from these pictures alone.
- China sending 140 riot police to Liberia, all of them women. (Thanks Dirk.)
- A hacking group accused of being operated by the Chinese army now seems to be going after industrial control systems.
- Massive overcapacity in China's steel sector, yet it is still expanding.
- Decidedly pessimistic take on China's economy from Bloomberg.
- Sri Lanka opens mega-port built by Chinese state-owned firm.
- It's not enough to speak Mandarin. To converse in China requires a grasp of proverbs. (H/t Peking Duck.)
- Chinese aiports now routinely outrank American ones for customer experience, but when it comes to efficiency...
- China may avoid a hard economic landing, but it has at least four huge problems to deal with: an ageing population, pollution, the water supply and the gender imbalance.
China links: Aircraft carrier, steel, airports, hackers, proverbs and more
Published 5 Aug 2013
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