I'm sure you've heard there's some "conflict" going on in Tibet right now, in case you haven't, you can read some articles here and here. I don't have time to go into how I feel about it, right now, but I'm sure most of you can guess.

Not surprising, it's barely making news here, because as the Party likes to say there is no strife, everyone gets along.

From this week's issue of The Economist:

The country accounts for about a fifth of the world's population, yet it gobbles up more than half of the world's pork, half of its cement, a third of its steel and over a quarter of its aluminium.

The next time a Chinese person tells me I'm fat because I eat so much meat I'm going to tell them this little statistic, but of course they're not going to believe me.