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Obama’s strongest comments during the town hall were directed at China’s Internet controls.

“I’m a big supporter of non-censorship,” Obama said. . . .

Chinese bloggers who saw it were grateful that he addressed censorship, but many zeroed in on what they considered Obama’s waffling language.

“Learn English from Obama: Instead of saying ‘I want to eat,’ say ‘I am a big supporter of non-hunger,’” Wang Pei, a writer based in eastern China’s Hangzhou, twittered on Tuesday.

— China govt pleased but ordinary folk cool on Obama

Cash for Clunkers has the following elements of spectacle:

• Americans destroying perfectly functional cars
• Americans whose skills are uncompetitive in the global marketplace driving around in fancy new cars

Somewhere in China and India they must be having a good laugh.

— Philip Greenspun

A man has died after catching his girlfriend as she jumped from the seventh floor of an apartment block in China.

The young Chinese man, identified only by the surname Wang, held out his arms to break the woman’s fall as she plummeted from their apartment in Quanzhou in south-eastern China.

Mr Wang was killed by the impact of his girlfriend landing on top of him, while the woman suffered bone fractures and other serious injuries but was not in critical condition.

— PerthNow

“No, my man, I be askin’ you who set to offer Pakistan nuclear plants.”

Hu Becomes Undisputed Leader of China

— Associated Press

I’m askin’ you who becomes undisputed leader of China . . .