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1. Blogroll
Only some of the (formerly) many links on the masthead to the right have worked in recent months. So I’ve made up my mind and built an extra page – Blogroll, see »there.
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2. Syria Peace Conference
The good news is that “regime change” is not a terribly easy business anymore. In the long run, that could serve global peace rather well.
The bad news is legion.
But peace is always possible, as demonstrated in the picture underneath. (Looks kind of contrived, but whoever arranged this, it wasn’t me.)

Give peace a chance – hug a Statesman
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3. Else
No big blogging activities here recently, but I wrote a blog in German this weekend, about political rituals in China ahead of Spring Festival.
[…] held poverty in check and pulled out the roots of poverty, and from infrastructure construction to relocation projects, the…