Edward Kus is a Research Associate in the Lowy Institute's East Asia Program.
- Keep your eye on the watchwords if you want to try and understand statements made by the Chinese Communist Party. This series of posts from China Media Project is worth following.
- In a similar vein, an interesting pictorial comment on the slumbering giant that is Chinese patriotism, on a website founded by the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley but blocked in the PRC.
- An enlightening Q&A on the upcoming leadership transition from the International Herald Tribune, featuring some more excellent links.
- Several Brookings China experts consider China's next few years in 'China's Prospects on the Eve of the 18th Party Congress'.
- Protests have erupted in China concerning the Senkaku/Diaoyu islands, but equally telling is what Chinese protesters are not chanting.
- To give you an idea of what they are chanting, here's subtitled footage of the protests outside the Japanese Embassy in Beijing on 15 September from Sinostand (warning: strong language).