China: Blogger beaten to death

Exactement what we need to be reading in the run-up to the Olympics and fuel for the 5th-column media who'll be heading over to cover the truth behind the assurances.

The Beijing seniors must be quaking in their flip-flops over how they'll control the ferreting and inevitable demos by such as falun gong.

That murdered blogger would have been me if I'd stayed on to taste post-1997 China: I have never trusted the powers-that-be one inch and would have filed unwisely one evening after gazing on the rice wine while it was red and ... et voila.