It is easy to see why Mr Bush will be under pressure to look stern in the photo-calls in Beijing.

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Phelps was nabbed with an infamous bong hit photo after his sterling 2008 performance in Beijing.

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Started in 2005 by western-educated returnee Haidong Pan (see my photo at top right), the Beijing-based site has accumulated more than 5 million entries from 3 million contributors and is in both Chinese and English.

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None of this, however, seems to bother the headline-writers at the China Daily, which today leads with a story announcing further missile tests titled "Taiwan Heads to War Abyss, " supplemented by a five-column photo of PLA trucks replete with missiles rolling into Beijing for a 50th Anniversary celebration rehearsal.

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Some posted cartoons mocking Leung, who is backed by Beijing but widely unpopular, and circulated a satirical photo-montage joking that donations would be spent on prostitutes, shopping trips and expensive cars and houses for Communist Party bureaucrats.

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