Via Shanghaiist: “Screens on Beijing subway’s Line 5 all began displaying ‘王鹏你妹’ (‘Wang Peng, your sister’, equivalent to ‘your mother’ or ‘fuck you’ in English) this morning due to a ‘system error’ according to transport officials.” No time to waste. Links!
White people put on armbands and play the part of assholes, via Ministry of Tofu This is just a normal weekend, like any other — a final rest before the workweek resumes. But these links aren’t normal — they quite possibly form our best Links edition to date.
Nantong National Auto Show pole dancers. [NetEase via Shanghaiist] There’s a concert at Dada tonight under Temple Bar. If you have no idea what those things are, you must’ve come for links.
Via Christina Larson Xinhua’s evening announcement has pushed back our blogging schedule, so this post will be your Outro into the weekend. If you must have music, hum music to these links.
From CRI, anti-Japan body painting at “2012 Nanjing Autumn Real Estate Trade Fair,” via Shanghaiist Diaoyu Island stories are winding down for sure, but the National Congress is right around the corner. We keep chugging along with links.
U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta meets Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People, via NBC News (picture by Larry Downing / Reuters) As nationalistic fervor cools across the country, here’s one last compilation of Diaoyu-, Mukden-, and Japan-related links.
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