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Washington DC sees a key Sino-US figure departing, Deputy Secretary of State, Robert Zoellick, is resigning. Famous for his statement that China should be a stakeholder in International relations, Zoellick will join Goldman Sachs. Unlike his precedent, Richard Armitage, who is mostly credited for buidling a strongest ever US-Japan alliance, Zoellick is a architect and set a tone for US-China relations.

Xinhua points out that Mr. Koizumi is going to have a farewell trip to the US, and it also picks up Koizumi's planned trip to Elvis Presley's Graceland. Xinhua also reports that Mr. Koizumi intents to propose a "US-Japan Global Alliance", to set up a tone for post-Koizumi leaders.

6 Chinese died seperately during watching the Soccer World Cup television live broadcasting. One woman in Hangzhou, south of Shanghai, got too excited and died after wataching South Korea-France game, in which South Korean's Park Ji Sung scores in the 81st munute to tie 1-1 with France. 5 others, from 20 soemthing to 60s, died similarly in Southern provinces of Hunan and Guangdong.

Talking of the World Cup, just the rest of the world is as crazy as China, where soccer fans, men or women, young or old, deadly addicted to soccer games, Guess how many people in the United Stats like watching soccer? 4%. Most of these 4% will be new immgrants from Asia, Africa and Europen countries.