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Imagethief was tickled to read today in Xinhua an article from the Boao Forum for Asia, an annual Chinese talking shop, on how Asian media will rise up to challenge western media juggernauts. It seems that Asians take umbrage that they are 96.2% of the world's population and yet produce only 0.3% of its international media. Or something like ...

With all due respect to the many fine people who have worked there, the China Daily is not one of the world's great newspapers. Last night, at a cold and windswept drinkathon at an outside table at Shanghai's Cotton bar, Imagethief found himself in a conversation at which the China Daily was compared extremely unfavorably with Shanghai's own ...