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China Adoption, Chinese Infant Adoption - Genes! And other China news... China Adoption Blog Adoption Blogs >China Adoption Blog >Genes! And other China news... 10/19/07 Genes! And other China news... Posted by : grant in China Adoption Blog at 06:30 am , 437 words, 251 views Categories: Current Events 2007 Because traveling families (and other people with a connection to China, like, uh, people who ve adopted from China) need to know what s going on, here s just a few headlines from the Middle Kingdom: The Dalai Lama just got a medal from America s government, and boy, is the Chinese legislature ticked off. That official statement is as good a way as any to learn China s version of Tibetan history. It also ends dramatically: No force can stop the progress of Tibet in the great family of the Chinese nation. All attempts to interfere in China s internal affairs and undermine China s fundamental interests are doomed to failure. You can practically hear the ominous music swell, can t you On a marginally related note (and of more interest to people trying to do a little uncensored net surfing while cooped up in a Guangzhou hotel), a Chinese geek has issued a report on ways around the Great Firewall. I actually never ran into the Firewall while cooped up in my various hotels, but part of the thing with it is it keeps changing. And if American news, say, is being seen as "undermining China s fundamental interests," well then, imagine CNN.com vanishing off computers across the country. Except those that know the ways around the Great Firewall. SPONSOR Not that everything is all black and white (of course). In fact, I was just reading a Time magazine article from this summer about China s "Me" Generation -- the folks who are coming of age in post-Communist China. It s an interesting piece overall for anyone who s a little curious about what everyday life is like over yonder - the stories behind the news. The "Me" Generation -...