I live in China. The four o’clock knock came as an innocuous beep on my Android phone. I rolled over in bed, pressed the screen to show the message. The heavy boot of Big Brother pressed down firmly on my neck.

But the message did not come from public security. It came, surprisingly, from Google Adwords.

“Hello AdWords Advertiser,” said the message in a cheery, metallic voice. “Your AdWords account has been suspended because it doesn’t comply with our Advertising Policies and our AdWords Terms and Conditions.

“Please note that this means your account and any related accounts have been suspended, you can’t create any new accounts, and your ads will no longer run on Google, our search partners or on Display Network placements.”

And so began my adventures in the sinister and Kafkaesque of world the Adwords ban.

Head to Agendabeijing.com for the full story.

It’s been three months since Google finalized its acquisition of Motorola Mobility, the mobile arm of the one-time communications giant Motorola. To industry analysts, the emergence of “Googlerola” is simply another chapter in the ongoing patent war between smartphone makers. But to residents of Tianjin, and to Motorola veterans throughout China, the takeover marked the end of an era.

Read more on the future of the Motorola-Google partnership at AgendaBeijing.com.

Campaigns in and outside of Beijing have been catching our attention lately. When we're not being preoccupied by political poetry or typos, then it's odd names, gimmicky contests and "The World's Greatest Communist Super Hero" that are keeping us amused. A tragic crash in Sanlitun late last week has instilled a new fear of buses in us after seeing photos of the complete wreckage of a police car.

Chinese netizens took a tongue-in-cheek response to Obama and, needless to say, the outpouring of Chinese-language comments have confused Americans, some a bit more than others. Back in China, politicians are getting a more critical online response. Meanwhile, we're trying to come up with a use for China Telecom's new hard-of-hearing service and are feeling pretty good about our own record-breaking attempts. (We at least follow the rules.)

Beijing's roads are being crushed while rodeo dreams are not. Meanwhile Apple and Google are being copied in China, like it or not.