Another one to file under F for fake... 

Xinhua, China's official news agency, can now apparently report news events before they actually happen. Such is the case with China's recent space walk, where Xinhua scooped all those other chump news agencies by two whole days:

A news story describing a successful launch of China's long-awaited space mission and including detailed dialogue between astronauts launched on the Internet Thursday, hours before the rocket had even left the ground.

The country's official news agency Xinhua posted the article on its Web site Thursday, and remained there for much of the day before it was taken down... The article, dated two days from now on September 27, vividly described the rocket in flight, complete with a sharply detailed dialogue between the three astronauts. AP via Shanghaiist

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Well, it looks as though the authorities may have been aware of this whole milk scandal as early as last year. And there are some pretty serious allegations floating around that Baidu might have been paid 3 million yuan to keep the scandal out of its search results. Read more »

I've said it before, and I'll say it again. When it comes to Baidu vs. Google, I have yet to see any advantage that Baidu has besides its dodgy MP3 search. Imagethief and Silicon Hutong just posted two excellent articles about Baidu that I recommend everyone read:
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Mark Twain said that, though I don't think he'd ever been to China. Although if he were around today, he'd probably have noticed familiar patterns of scandal-denial-apologize in the Chinese media. Typically, it goes a lil' something like this:

1. Scandal or embarrassing incident occurs (i.e. SARS, tainted food or milk, underage gymnasts, etc.


2. Offending party in China covers up or denies any wrongdoing


3. Smoking gun emerges; offending party is doubly embarrassed due to cover-up/denial in step 2. 

Now I'm no authority on politics, but China's "emergence as a world power" (I'm getting tired of hearing that phrase) is going to require a change in strategy if it hopes to gain the world's trust and respect as a nation--which it does. And the Chinese propaganda posse is not helping, if this recent government-released work instruction for the tainted milk scandal is any indication:
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Virtual private networks, or VPNs, have been widely used in the business world because of the high level of security that they can provide. Essentially, a VPN can be thought of as a tunnel, a private and secure connection within the public network. Private and anonymous Web surfing may not mean much to the average Internet user in America, but in a country like China where the Internet is heavy monitored it certainly proves to be a valuable tool. Being a newcomer to this technology myself, I was pretty surprised at how effective VPNs really are.
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