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.

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?

The Shanghai Morning Post is reporting that the new World Financial Center in Shanghai is now open to the public.  At 492 meters tall, it is the tallest building in the city (for the time being).  The new Shanghai Dragon will eclipse that mark, hitting 580 meters.

A British customer named Mark last week turned on his new iPhone to find a number of photos already on the handset. The pictures, which were meant to test the camera but were never deleted and were posted to MacRumors, show a worker at assembly contractor Foxconn's Shenzhen plant posing with a wide smile and making "peace" signs with the gadget while coworkers listen to some banging iTunes tracks.

The question now is to take a look at state-run media to get a vague idea of what leadership might be thinking.  There have been a couple instances lately where the party has used less assertive language in describing the Dalai Lama.  Now we have this article from China Radio International.  To be fair, this may have been published online in error -- although the date published was August 8.

Due to overwhelming baggage volumes, the Beijing Airport baggage system experienced a six-hour shutdown early on August 25, resulting in 10,000 bags being left behind.

I sat in the stands next to the Light family, along with many other relatives of the eight men in that boat.  I stepped back to row three to shoot the video.  Both of the Light parents are directly in front, and you can see the large crowd of Canadians that gathered to cheer on the team.  If it brings a tear to your eye, you wouldn't be alone.

I can only think of the saying, “like confronting a mortal enemy.” Such a unifying, happy event now must be thus guarded against attack; it is a bit terrifying.  Our society, our world, our civilization, has evolved to what extent?