Yellow Metal Peril

China Matters has a must read post that digests two articles from the only news source worth a damn anymore, McClatchy. It's all about the gold, babies.
Since I said must read, you'll have to go there to link to the two McClatchy articles by Kevin Hall that explore the real reasons for the war on Banco Delta Asia, read those too to get a remembrance of what reporters are supposed to do, rather than playing the ultra-cool government stenographers of the New York Times and the Washington Post.
As far as I can tell with Google, no other newspapers, including those of the McClatchy group, chose to publish the articles, at least in their on-line editions.