At week's end, Beijing speaks up and rejects the carbon tax based tariffs included in the House version of the cap and trade bill passed on Friday 26. Beijing points correctly to the fact that the tax is a WTO illegal international trade restriction.  "It has always been China's position that the international society should fight climate change together, but..."  What happens next is the graybeards in the U.S. Senate explore the irony that the unelected crony leadership in Beijing is more common sensical than the Obama administration on the policy of climate change.  Meanwhile, also in the category of ya-can't-make-this-stuff-up, the Kim regime releases a beer commercial on Pyongyang TV (above).   This is for stress management while the rocketeers light up the Korean peninsula with Scuds.  Speaking Sunday 5 to my North Korean panel, Gordon Chang, Forbes.com, Mary Kissel, Asia Wall Street Journal at Hong Kong, and Evan Ramstad, Wall Street Journal at Seoul.  So far, Team Obama responds with plans for more multi-national consultations on the sorry, beer-soaked frat boys around the wine-sipping Kim.