Monday linkage: maths, China, free speech, Burma, security app

A word of caution to economists from John Aziz: 'Over-reliance upon or excessive faith in mathematical models can lead to bad forecasting and bad policy decisions.' (Thanks to Samantha for this one.)
From Kishore Mahbubani, Dean of the the Lee Kuan Yew School of Government in Singapore and noted critic of 'Western thinking': Is China's slowdown just western wishful thinking?. (Thanks Milton)
The People's Republic of China again links economic relations to strategic relations in an unhelpful manner. (Thanks Malcolm.)
Professor William T. Tow of the College of Asia & Pacific at ANU will deliver a lecture on The Other Australian Perspective: China Is not Twelve Feet Tall and America is Not Fatally Declining at a free event on November 9 in Singapore. (Thanks Daniel)
A bibliography of works in English about Burma, published since the 1988 uprising, has been compiled by Andrew Selth and published by the Griffith Asia Institute.
New iPhone app Silent Circle promises to provide military level encryption for the average Joe Blow and thus has some interesting crime and national security implications, including making data retention laws rather pointless. (Thanks Jasmin)