哀兵必胜“Conquer English to Make China Stronger!” Li Yang Crazy English is either self-help, huckster nationalism, or according to novelist Wang Shuo, “the same shit as racism.” South African dockworkers refuse to unload a case of weapons sent from China to Zimbabwe. Conservative Bernard Henry-Levi tells pro-Tibet readers not to forget “the planes, trucks, and light and heavy weaponry” China supplies the Janjaweed in Sudan. China’s worst train crash in a decade takes 70 lives in Shandong province. Urban wages are up 18.7% nationwide. The trend’s mirror image is a labor shortage and rising prices around the world. An American English teacher was beaten at a Carrefour supermarket in Zhuzhou when a mob believed him to be French. Shanghaiist reports the encounter, with a no less worrisome update: the mob didn’t beat him, it just watched. Amid Chinese attacks on Western servers such as CNN’s, the Carrefour website goes down for “maintenance.” Chinese students across the U.S. are using death threats and violence to demonstrate China’s virtues: “Another factor fueling the zeal of many Chinese demonstrators could be that they, too, intend to return home; the Chinese government is widely believed to be monitoring large e-mail lists.”