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Generational Dynamics Web Log for 18-Jan-2010
18-Jan-10 News - China and Taiwan compete in Haiti

Web Log - January, 2010

18-Jan-10 News - China and Taiwan compete in Haiti

US State Department will make formal protest to China over Google.

China and Taiwan compete to aid Haiti

There are 23 countries in the world whose government recognize Taiwan as a country, and one of them is Haiti. So China and Taiwan are competing to provide aid to Haiti, according to a report by Canadian Press.

China has another reason for providing aid to Haiti: Sympathy for Haitians, after China itself suffered its own major earthquake disaster in 2008.

US will make formal protest to China over Google hacking

Next week the U.S. will issue a formal protest to the Chinese government demanding an explanation for the cyber attack on Google and other American companies, according to a report from Bloomberg.

According to a CNET story, google's Chinese web site, google.cn, has already stopped censoring search results.

Text and image searches are now showing some "highly sensitive photos and page results." These are presumably in violation of Chinese law, but China has not yet pulled the plug on google.cn.

Haiti and Massachusetts dominate the Sunday morning news talk

Haiti was the major topic in the news on Sunday morning. Every network has reporters in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, now showing live scenes of pain and destruction. One surprise, appearing on several shows, was a love-fest between President George Bush and President Bill Clinton, talking about what great friends they are, as they lead a fund-raising effort for Haiti.

There was some brief discussion among political pundits of whether President Obama had responded quickly enough, but political matters were mostly put aside. It's amazing how political bickering can end in the face of a major crisis.

The major political discussions were over the Massachusetts special election to fill Senator Ted Kennedy's Senate seat. Sitting here in my apartment in Cambridge, I can only express my astonishment that a Republican has a real chance of winning on Tuesday.

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