News That Stays News

Linked January 20, 2011

1. Nicolas Kristof on China. Good news- Xi Jinping, Chinese heir apparent, has a daughter attending Harvard. But then again, Benjamin Netanyahu went to MIT, and he’s no picnic.

2. Blackwater is helping a South African PMC called Saracen stick its fingers in the Somali civil war, with the help of financing from the UAE. I’m glad that journalists continue to ignore Blackwater’s desperate attempt at rebranding by calling itself Xe.