The Internet Time Group has <a href="http://www.internettime.com/blog/archives/001373.html#001373" title="Internet Time Group: China Bloggers">pictures of the China blogger dinner</a> at the Berkeley China's Digital Future Conference.

--A critique of <a href="http://msittig.freeshell.org/docs/jian_guobiao_essay_utf8.html" title="Chinese/English translation">the Jian Guobiao essay</a> by the translator himself on <a href="http://www.zonaeuropa.com/weblog.htm" title="GLOBAL CULTURE & POLITICS weblog">东南西北</a>, <a href="http://www.zonaeuropa.com/01484.htm" title="EastSouthWestNorth weblog">"Let Freedom Ring"</a>:

<quote>Jiao showed a blind admiration for the American political system, using it as the standard towards which everybody else ought to be moving.  Obviously, he has not been paying attention to the details of what has been going on over there right now.  The United States is a deeply divided country, with a great deal of hostility and hatred among political camps.  I will simply say that I would not wish a fate like that on any other country.</quote>

Not on China?  or Afghanistan?  Saudi Arabia?  <a href="http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/fromthefield/108237489853.htm" title="Reuters Alternet Sudan report">Sudan</a>?