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Today’s News Quote of the Day, from the New York Times:

“Everyone talks about eyeballs,” said William Bao Bean, an Internet analyst at Deutsche Bank Securities. “Well, they’ve got all the eyeballs in China. And now they’re beginning to cash in on that.”

Ow my globalization: Chinese Dodge

Summary from Automotive Digest:

Situation

Chrysler Group to import small Dodge car from China’s Chery automaker, beginning in 2008
Deal confirmed by DC, 1st such pact w/ Chinese automaker by any major Western producer
Tentatively named Dodge Hornet, ‘B-car’ subcompact will be smaller than Dodge Caliber
Chrysler turns to China because cost of building domestic B-car all but wipes out profit
Deal pressures UAW on carmaking costs
Holding prospect of small SUVs, compacts also farmed out to China

Significance

Chery already exports cars to about 20 countries in SE Asia, Africa, Middle East
Chrysler CEO Tom LaSorda praises Chery’s manufacturing record
Says it’s “good fit” w/ domestic automaker’s engineering, design staffs
Chery deal still to be ratified by DC supervisory board, UAW chief Ron Gettelfinger is member
Chery-Chrysler liaison began after Chinese automaker broke off agreement w/ US dealer group working w/ Malcolm Bricklin

Detroit Freep news article has more

Today’s phrase is “unappetizing sexual taxidermist”

So You Want To Be A China Sex Blogger from Maciej Ceglowski tells the story of an expat Brit inin Shanghai whose blog contained the poorly chosen mix of swaggering colonial sex yarns, culturally insensitive jabs at his host country, and loud criticism of an authoritarian government.

It looks as though some combination of internet sleuthing, mob rage, and government is going to give him a pretty bad rebellion in his boxers soon.

Christ, what an asshole.