Some opportunities around for real estate developers in the new free trade zone being developed in Shanghai.  And if you manufacture air filters, the northern areas (especially Dongbei) would probably have a lot of potential customers (see these photos).  Thanks to Angela X and Sinocism for some of the links.

• Mistress-Driven Anticorruption: Study Says 15% of Accusers Are Lovers from The Wall Street Journal
• Q&A: Nate Silver on China and the New FiveThirtyEight from The Wall Street Journal (central planners and their statistics committees…)
• Xinhua, NDRC to set up price research institute from Xinhua (only in planned economy do you need to have statistics bureaus)
• Xinhua Insight: China’s Silicon Valley becoming Internet finance breeding ground from Xinhua
• CCTV: Chinese pay higher price for Starbucks coffee from Shanghai Daily (could be part of an image or brand marketing strategy by starbucks, i would wager this discovery does not phase most regular consumers)
• Shale gas sector gears up in China from China Daily
• What China can learn from Hong Kong in its fight against corruption from CNN (doubt it would work)
• Chinese couple sells babies for iPhones and shoes, authorities say from CNN (trending on weibo)
• Patti Austin cancels gig after Beijing asthma attack from BBC (horribad weather/air right now, see these recent pictures from Harbin and Shenyang.)
• Propaganda artists from North Korea paint a rose-tinted China from The Guardian
• Authors Accept Censors’ Rules to Sell in China from The New York Times
• Is it Too Soon for Xiaomi to Go Global? from Silicon Hutong (yes)
• Chinese authorities pull plug on ‘vulgar’ foreign-made TV from CNN (will simply push more people online, to view other cultural media on streaming video sites)
• China Seeks Clearer View of Government Debt Mountain from The Wall Street Journal
• Students Compete to Meet Powerful Alumni from China Buzz
• U.S. Businessman Accused of Being Mob Boss in China from TIME (hard to figure out one way or othe other)
• Pilot free trade zone in Shanghai to build open economy from East Asia Forum (i’ll believe it when i see it.  i have a friend who works in real estate and they are planning projects in the new ftz.)
• Q&A: Huawei Executive Talks About Cyber Security from The Wall Street Journal (expects 10+ years to get into US institutions)
• Viral Chinese Cartoon Explains How to Become President from The Wall Street Journal (very naive view, filled with propaganda)
• Can Wuhan Become the Detroit of China? from The Wall Street Journal (i visited Wuhan once about 3 years ago, that’s what it looked like too — dusty and smoggy)
• Chinese Companies Fare Poorly on Transparency, Study Says from The Wall Street Journal
• China’s Building Cities So Fast, People Don’t Have Time to Move In from Gizmodo (this is the problem with inorganic urbanization by fiat, just because you build a city does not mean the people you want to move there have the productive means or ability to live and work there)
• China set to announce reforms of creaking pension system: sources from Reuters (probably worse underfunded than those in North America)
• British man sentenced for bigamy in Guangzhou from China.org.cn (unfortunately not a big surprise considering the cornucopia of laowai around)
• Xiaomi sells 100,000 MiPhone 3 units in 83 seconds from CNet (impossible to get unless you knew someone at the company, almost none of the “fans” were able to get phones during that first couple of minutes and are rallying on weibo about it. no inventory overhang at least.)
• India, China, Pakistan, Nigeria on slavery’s list of shame, says report from CNN (forced labor, black jails, etc.)