Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao sits down for an exclusive interview with CNN's Fareed Zakaria.  They discussed the Dalai Lama, human rights, Internet censorship, the US financial crisis, democracy, and everything in-between.

The Davos Summer Forum:  Annual Meeting of the New Champions is underway in the Binhai New Area, about an hour east of downtown Tianjin.  The event is hosting everyone from Russian President Dmitri Medvedev's Deputy Chief of Staff to Alibaba.com founder Jack Ma to Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao.

Chinese people wonder why milk products for the Olympics and foreign shelves are safe, but those widely sold in China were laced with melamine in this widely circulated email translated by Zhongnanhai.

After the SARS scandal was blown wide open, China’s leaders promised to do better in releasing important health information to the public.  Yet we find that Chinese authorities knew about the melamine in milk products weeks before the public was told. We also find out that the Shenzhen nightclub was operating for over a year without a license or single inspection. 

I hope this is the lesson the West takes from China: To get things done, you need to set broad goals beyond the next election cycle and begin working to accomplish them.

In general terms, the Chinese seem to work together while we seem to work against each other. The competition out there is fierce and, in many ways, China has already surpassed us.

Tianjin was also badly in need of a new train station.  The old one, appropriately called the “temporary station”, resembled a barn, right down to the lack of seating and air conditioning. In fact, many parts of the waiting hall were literally open to the elements, forcing people to brace for blistering icy winds in January or try and wait under under a slowly-moving fan hanging from a 25 meter ceiling in the summer; a few thousand sweaty nongmins and a dripping wet token laowai in sweltering heat does not a happy trip make.

For the longest time, Obama was the fresh face, the new voice, the eloquent speaker, the man who could change Washington.  Now we have Palin, and the spotlight has shifted to the even newer person in town.  You can see how ridiculous this all becomes, and why celebrity status and charisma should never be defining reasons to support a candidate.  It also lays bare the shallow reasons why many supported Obama in the first place, as they get a glimpse of the other side doing the very same thing.  It's an embarrassment to supporters of both parties.

The end has come for this writer in mainland China, and thus a replacement for my current job is needed.

Former CCTV Biz China anchor Rui Chenggang is interviewed by the Daily Show about the US-China trade relationship.  The question is, who's on the top, and who's on the bottom?

Now, I understand that NBC has exclusive Olympic broadcast rights in the United States.  While I generally disagree with blocking a rather harmless amateur video where the actual competition was virtually impossible to see, I understand the laws must be obeyed.  But blocking the video everywhere?  Does NBC have the right to block people in China, or Canada for that matter, from seeing it?