Harbin Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival

For additional photographs of this extremely impressive Winter Wonderland look at the following website.

http://rtoddking.com/chinawin2009_hb_if.htm

A New Approach To China

I have never been to China, but I have some Google news:

"We have decided we are no longer willing to continue censoring our results on Google.cn, and so over the next few weeks we will be discussing with the Chinese government the basis on which we could operate an unfiltered search engine within the law, if at all. We have decided we are no longer willing to continue censoring our results on Google.cn, and so over the next few weeks we will be discussing with the Chinese government the basis on which we could operate an unfiltered search engine within the law, if at all."
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-approach-to-china.html

Google Inc. said it has begun talks with the Chinese government about the company’s plan to stop censoring results from its search engine, after saying it may quit the country because of cyber attacks.

 http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601170&sid=aREgM8FvboOM

"Here’s hoping Google Inc. makes good on its threat to quit China.
It’s time someone in the U.S. stopped coddling the Chinese police state. The American government can’t, or won’t."

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601039&sid=ahCnUgr3zDwI

An edible replica of China's Great Wall was built entirely from solid chocolate bricks