An English newspaper affiliated to the Communist Party of China’s mouthpiece, the People’s Daily, has a fascination for polls. The website of the Global Times is asking readers — until November 2010 — ‘which country or region do you think is the most dangerous?’

When I checked on Sunday morning, India with 8.5 per cent votes was more dangerous than North Korea and just one percentage ahead of the closed East Asian state. Read more

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At this time last year I was on a flight from Mumbai where I had spent six years, to Beijing where I had spent six days on a previous recce trip.

I have now lived in China for one year, a year that seemed very long on my own in 21M. I like to think that the M in my apartment number stands for Mumbai and suburban Malad where I used to live. My only friend in this 42-storey apartment is a young professional migrant from Mumbai. Read more

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