tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76386488112696114912024-03-19T15:56:47.722-07:00Digging To ChinaKathy Podgershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07489944336685763154noreply@blogger.comBlogger35125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7638648811269611491.post-14229531998552524162014-10-28T09:59:00.001-07:002014-10-28T09:59:52.336-07:00China's Response To Ebola Outbreak In Africa Super Fast Due To Lessons Learned Fighting SARSChina sent medical teams to Africa to search out those infected, and medical labs to identify those infected, and to educate the people to prevent panic and spread of disease.
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Although China is still a developing country, China's was preaised by WHO for it's immediate response.
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There are many challenges in Africa it containing the spread of Ebola
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Aid Workers desperately need protective suits.
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The search for Ebola meds is urgently ongoing.
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Ebola and Cultures of Engagement: Chinese Versus Western Health Diplomacy
Authors: Erica Penfold, Researcher/Project coordinator, Poverty Reduction and Regional Integration project; Pieter Fourie, Research Fellow, Poverty Reduction and Regional Integration project, South African Institute for International Affairs
Oct 3, 2014
http://www.cfr.org/councilofcouncils/global_memos/p33560
Kathy Podgershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07489944336685763154noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7638648811269611491.post-915528224704280152013-11-25T09:29:00.001-08:002013-11-25T09:32:54.780-08:00China Announces First air Defense Identification Zone
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中国政府再亮铁拳,划定东海防空识别圈,钓鱼岛纷争,中国再进一步,中国国安局成立的大动作
Announcement of the Aircraft Identification Rules for the East China Sea Air Defense Identification Zone of the P.R.C.
English.news.cn 2013-11-23 10:11:36
EIJING, Nov. 23 (Xinhua) -- China's Ministry of National Defense issued an announcement of the aircraft identification rules for the East China Sea Air Defense Identification Zone of the People's Republic of China.p Following is the full text:
Announcement of the Aircraft Identification Rules for the East China Sea Air Defense Identification Zone of the People's Republic of China
Issued by the Ministry of National Defense on November 23
The Ministry of National Defense of the People's Republic of China, in accordance with the Statement by the Government of the People's Republic of China on Establishing the East China Sea Air Defense Identification Zone, now announces the Aircraft Identification Rules for the East China Sea Air Defense Identification Zone as follows:
First, aircraft flying in the East China Sea Air Defense Identification Zone must abide by these rules.
Second, aircraft flying in the East China Sea Air Defense Identification Zone must provide the following means of identification:
1. Flight plan identification. Aircraft flying in the East China Sea Air Defense Identification Zone should report the flight plans to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China or the Civil Aviation Administration of China.
2. Radio identification. Aircraft flying in the East China Sea Air Defense Identification Zone must maintain the two-way radio communications, and respond in a timely and accurate manner to the identification inquiries from the administrative organ of the East China Sea Air Defense Identification Zone or the unit authorized by the organ.
3. Transponder identification. Aircraft flying in the East China Sea Air Defense Identification Zone, if equipped with the secondary radar transponder, should keep the transponder working throughout the entire course.
4. Logo identification. Aircraft flying in the East China Sea Air Defense Identification Zone must clearly mark their nationalities and the logo of their registration identification in accordance with related international treaties.
Third, aircraft flying in the East China Sea Air Defense Identification Zone should follow the instructions of the administrative organ of the East China Sea Air Defense Identification Zone or the unit authorized by the organ. China's armed forces will adopt defensive emergency measures to respond to aircraft that do not cooperate in the identification or refuse to follow the instructions.
Fourth, the Ministry of National Defense of the People's Republic of China is the administrative organ of the East China Sea Air Defense Identification Zone.
Fifth, the Ministry of National Defense of the People's Republic of China is responsible for the explanation of these rules.
Sixth, these rules will come into force at 10 a.m. November 23, 2013.
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For details about the Fishing Platform Islands see the links below:
http://www1.american.edu/TED/ice/DIAOYU.HTM
http://www.eoearth.org/view/article/51cbed747896bb431f69243c/
Kathy Podgershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07489944336685763154noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7638648811269611491.post-8573380562957175062013-06-17T12:34:00.002-07:002013-06-17T19:48:45.366-07:00Tell Me No SecretsThis year, Xi and Obama agreed to hold a casual, informal, Two Nations Summitt at the US western retreet in California. The advertised purpose was for the two leaders to develope a personal relationship, so the two countries could better resolve issues.<br />
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In the two week run up up to the historic meeting, Obama repeatedly chastised China over what the US claimed was China's cyber spying to steal US business and military secrets. Obama even blasted China at the Asian meeting in Singapore..<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">This is the first time the Pentagon's annual report has directly linked such attacks to the Beijing government.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">The annual Pentagon report claims that at least some attacks on US government and other computer systems appeared to be 'attributable directly' to the Chinese government and military.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">It alleges China is using its cyber capabilities to collect intelligence against US diplomatic, economic and defence programs, and is developing the skills needed to conduct cyber-warfare.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">The new wording in the report continues an escalating effort by US officials to call out the Chinese on the cyber-attacks and to press for a more open dialogue with Beijing on the problem.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">The Pentagon report also criticises a 'lack of transparency' in China's military modernisation programme and defence spending.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">The report from the US Department of Defense states: 'In 2012, numerous computer systems around the world, including those owned by the US government, continued to be targeted for intrusions, some of which appear to be attributable directly to the Chinese government and military.'</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">China has rebuffed the claims, with its Foreign Ministry repeating that it opposes cyber-attacks as well as 'all groundless accusations and hyping' that could harm prospects for cooperation.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">'We are willing to hold even-tempered and constructive dialogue with the U.S.' about cybercrime, a spokesman said.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">The issue was highlighted in February with the issuing of a report by cyber-security firm Mandiant that claimed to have traced several years of cyber-attacks against 140 mostly American companies to a Chinese military unit in Shanghai.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">The firm identified the People's Liberation Army's Shanghai-based Unit 61398 as the most likely driving force behind the attacks.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">It said says the office block is linked to stolen technology blueprints, manufacturing processes, clinical trial results, pricing documents, negotiation strategies and other secret data from more than 100 companies.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">More alarmingly, it claimed the unit, known as the Comment Crew, also made incursions into the computer networks that control oil pipelines, power grids, water plants and other pieces of key state infrastructure.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 17px;">But the US accusations backfire when Snowden releases top secret documents that proves that the US is the biggest cyber spy of all!</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying told reporters that Washington needs to heed international concerns expressed since the programmes were made public earlier this month by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"We think that the United States should regard seriously the concerns and demands of the global community and people from all countries and furnish the global community with a necessary explanation," Hua said at a regularly scheduled briefing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Snowden flew to the Chinese autonomous region of Hong Kong on May 20 and is believed to still be there, though in hiding at an unknown location.</span></div>
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Delegates election shows CPC's vitality On Monday, the Communist Party of China (CPC) published a list of newly elected delegates to attend its upcoming National Congress, which convenes once every five years. <br />
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After a subsequent qualification check, those 2,270 representatives are expected to deliberate and decide vital issues on the party and the country on behalf of some 82 million party members and the entire Chinese population. <br />
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The selection and election process served as a vivid application of the CPC's principle of democratic centralism and demonstrated its vigorous vitality. <br />
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A political task of vital importance Last October, the 17th Central Committee of the CPC decided at its sixth plenary session that the Party's 18th National Congress would be held in Beijing in the second half of 2012. <br />
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It was widely believed that the 18th National Congress, held at a critical period of the country's reform and development, would have profound influence on the party's role in leading the country, by having a clear understanding of the situation, and reaching a consensus.<br />
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It would seem that China's stepping stone approach is working better that taking a great leap into the vast unknown of hot to hold elections that would fairly represent the 56 Nationalities as well as the various vocations and professions. Thus, the selection and election of delegates served as groundwork for a successful session. The CPC Central Committee attached great importance to the process, with general secretary Hu Jintao giving instructions on several occasions.<br />
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Actually, the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and its Standing Committee had discussed the selection last August and clarified the guidelines and policies to be used. <br />
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Measures also taken by central authorities to enhance democracy, and the transparency and supervision of the process, while optimizing the structures of the politically reliable delegates, included drawing experiences from the previous selection and election five years ago and making institutional innovations. <br />
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Before the selection, the CPC Central Committee decided that a total of 2,270 delegates should be elected by 40 electoral units across the country. <br />
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A standard for candidates was also highlighted, clarifying that they should be elite party members with a firm political stand, virtue, fine working style, excellent achievements and comparatively strong capability in fulfilling the duties of a party delegate. <br />
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The CPC Central Committee also decided that the number of candidates should be at least 15 percent more than that of the delegates, while the ratio of delegates from the grass-roots level, especially workers, should be increased. <br />
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To carry out the plan, the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee offered dedicated training for the election work, distributed flow charts of the selection and supervision procedures. <br />
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To ensure the election of more outstanding delegates and each Party member having access to election information, the CPC has taken various measures to give full play to intra-party democracy through the 10-month-long process of the election. <br />
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For a poll held at Woniu village, Xuzhou city of east China's Jiangsu Province in January, 70-year-old Feng Changxi came in his wheelchair to choose a delegate to the CPC's 18th National Congress. "The election is a very important issue," Feng said. "Today, I am bound to come here to vote for the best delegate for the Party." <br />
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Liu Xiaonan, a teacher with Peking University, received an E-mail from the university's Party committee which asked her to nominate a delegate candidate when she was studying abroad. "Although overseas, I felt I was always together with the organization as a Party member," Liu replied. <br />
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According to the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee, up to 98 percent of Party members participated in the election of delegates to the congress. <br />
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The CPC, for the first time, carried out a multi-candidate survey on the preliminary candidates of the delegates to the upcoming Party congress. <br />
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The loss margins in electing delegates to the congress were raised to 15 percent or above nationwide, according to the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee. <br />
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Many local Party committees, for the first time, publicized the list of delegates' names via media channels, in a bid to mobilize the participation of, and solicit feedback from, Party members in the election. <br />
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Hubei Daily published a list of 72 preliminary candidates of the delegates and their basic information on February 20, an effort by the province's Party committee to win more public supervision for the election. Diversity, more grass-roots delegates <br />
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With a wide span both of ages and occupation, the makeup of delegates to the 18th National Congress of the CPC is appropriate and all ratios set by the CPC Central Committee to realize full representativeness have been fulfilled. <br />
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Among the 2,270 delegates, the youngest is Jiao Liuyang, a 21-year-old swimming gold medalist at the 2012 London Olympic Games. Delegates also come from business, technology, education circles and the country's armed forces. <br />
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About 30.5 percent of the elected delegates are from the grass-roots level, up 2.1 percentage points from the previous congress in 2007, while 69.5 percent are officials at all levels, down 2.1 percentage points from the previous congress. <br />
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Among all the delegates, the number of workers saw the sharpest increase, from 51 in the 17th congress to the current 169, including 26 migrant workers. <br />
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"After being elected as a delegate, I will lead other workmates to work harder so as to build a better image of worker Party members," said Pi Jinjun, a migrant worker who serves as a stevedore at Qingdao Port in east China's Shandong Province. <br />
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A total of 1,640 delegates joined the CPC after November 1976, accounting for 72.2 percent of the total, 20.5 percentage points higher than that of the congress in 2007, according to Wang Jingqing, deputy head of the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee. "The CPC's cause has been passed from the older generation to the younger generation and maintained its dynamics," Wang said. [source:china daily]
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.Kathy Podgershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07489944336685763154noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7638648811269611491.post-84492061188360244062012-10-20T14:52:00.001-07:002012-10-20T15:45:06.509-07:00China Bashing by US Presidential Candidates Milking Latent Racism<iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/ovXtCMAnMLs" width="560"></iframe>BEIJING — Richer and more assertive since the last American presidential campaign, China is looking at the harsh anti-Chinese sentiment being expressed by both candidates with a mixture of aloofness and unease. <br />
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The Chinese say they are accustomed to China-bashing during the American election season, but there is growing concern among government officials, business executives and academics here that this time the attitude toward China among the American public and politicians is so hot it may not cool after Election Day. <br />
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From accusations of unfair trade practices to a discussion of whether it is proper for the candidates to have investments in Chinese companies, the word “China” came up 22 times, and always negatively, in the debate between President Obama and Mitt Romney last week. In the final presidential debate Monday night, when foreign policy will be the main subject, China is likely to be a center of attention again<br />
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This year we see a few changes in the China Bashing that usually accompianies US presedential elections. First, the growing Chinse middle class are watching, and secondly,US news media, like the New Yourk Times, quoted above, have taken notice, and are covering the China Bashing, rather than allowing themselves to be a vector, repeating what the candidates allege. <br />
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Even my neighbour asked me what I thought of all the China comments in the second debate. Mind you, it was a forum, and there were no questions from the forum about China Policy. Instead, the Candidates want to be sure all Americans know they are against being soft on China. A third new development, I have not heard either Obama nor Romney state that China was a Communist country.<br />
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Folks, it looks like we have turned a corner. Kathy Podgershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07489944336685763154noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7638648811269611491.post-80798026092715086862012-03-27T14:02:00.003-07:002012-03-27T14:41:53.099-07:00Dalai Lama and Tibet Religious Culture<iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/b_zkwfyCQl8" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br /><br /><iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/akVTiAO2nLg" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br /><br /><iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/4Zm44E1V4Ao" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Kathy Podgershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07489944336685763154noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7638648811269611491.post-53225799239572154362012-03-16T21:20:00.015-07:002012-03-24T08:27:13.196-07:00More Hypocricy From Obama Who Accuses China Over Rare Earths And Solar Energy<a href="http://technorati.com/politics/article/rare-earth-elements-not-so-rare/">http://technorati.com/politics/article/rare-earth-elements-not-so-rare/</a><br />According to the US Geological Survey (www.USGS.gov) deposits of REE-bearing ore exist in California, Nebraska, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, New York, Wyoming, and Alaska. Substantial reserves also exist in Australia, Canada, South Africa, Greenland, Brazil, and Vietnam. In spite of having 36% of the world’s identified reserves, China accounts for 95 % of global REE production.<br />Read more: <a href="http://technorati.com/politics/article/rare-earth-elements-not-so-rare/#ixzz1pLn74N1K">http://technorati.com/politics/article/rare-earth-elements-not-so-rare/#ixzz1pLn74N1K</a><br /><br /><iframe height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/AzdqIIH5ldg" frameborder="0" width="420"></iframe><br /><br /><a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304459804577285022878180992.html?mod=googlenews_wsj">http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304459804577285022878180992.html?mod=googlenews_wsj</a><br /><br />Even as the U.S. mounts a legal challenge to China's stranglehold on the global market for a class of key minerals, the U.S. Defense Department is playing down the impact on the U.S. military of the Chinese export limits.<br /><br />The minerals, known as rare earths, are critical to military applications—including smart bombs, laser guidance systems and night-vision equipment—but in a new report, the Defense Department said such uses represent only a "small fraction" of U.S. demand and that military needs can largely be met domestically.<br /><br />"The growing U.S. supply of these materials is increasingly capable of meeting the consumption of the defense industrial base," says the report, which has been circulated to selected members of Congress in recent days and has been reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.<br /><br /><iframe height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/QiQoMDZGCs4" frameborder="0" width="560"></iframe><br /><br /><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/14/business/global/rare-earth-trade-case-against-china-may-be-too-late.html">http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/14/business/global/rare-earth-trade-case-against-china-may-be-too-late.html</a><br /><br />Whatever the eventual implications for world supplies of rare earths, in some ways a recent Western victory on a somewhat related trade case may have strengthened China’s hand.<br /><br />The World Trade Organization ordered China last July to dismantle export duties and quotas on nine other industrial raw materials, including bauxite. An appeals tribunal upheld the ruling and added details in late January.<br /><br />China has been able to study those orders as it has redesigned its export restrictions on rare earths. The new quotas are as stringent as the old ones, making it harder for Western manufacturers to obtain rare earths in the quantities and with the timeliness their factories require. But the revamped quota rules could be easier for China to defend in front of a W.T.O. tribunal, than its earlier policies would have been.<br /><br />China, for example, has begun requiring its rare earth exporters to obtain a certificate of environmental compliance before they are allowed to make any overseas shipments. That could strengthen China’s claim that export quotas on rare earths are environmentally necessary. Without dispute, the mining and processing of rare earths have many toxic and even radioactive byproducts — which is one reason the West and Japan for decades were reluctant to produce them.<br /><br /><iframe height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/pGWGX6Vvfhk" frameborder="0" width="560"></iframe><br />A Malaysian group representing villagers and civil groups will file a legal challenge to the government's decision to approve a massive rare earths plant by Lynas, the Australian mining company .<br /><br />The Atomic Energy Licensing Board announced late on Wednesday it would grant Lynas a license to operate the first rare earths plant outside China in years, despite public protests over fears of radioactive pollution.<br /><br />It said Lynas must submit plans for a permanent disposal facility within 10 months and make a $50mn financial guarantee.<br /><br />Malaysia hopes the Lynas plant will spur growth. But the project has been the subject of heated protests over health and environmental risks posed by potential leaks of radioactive waste.<br /><br />Florence Looi reports from the eastern Malaysian city of Kuantan.<br /><br /><iframe height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/J59Y73TsUas" frameborder="0" width="420"></iframe><br /><br /><a href="http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90780/7760967.html">http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90780/7760967.html</a><br /><br />Although it decreased in the past few years, the export quotas are still higher than the demand of the world market. Besides setting quotas for rare earth exports, China also takes measures to manage rare earth's exploitation, production and other activities. China complies with the rules of WTO environmental exceptions by treating domestic and foreign industries without discrimination, rather than "protects the domestic industries in a distorting way" as the western countries speculate.<br /><br />In fact, it is not China that is selfish but the United States, the EU, and Japan that are aggressive. They know deeply the importance of protecting the rare earth resources and had already banned or restricted the exploitation of their own rare earth. China has done nothing more than reversing the long-standing, out-of-order mining conditions, focusing on domestic economic and environmental development, international trade balance as well as sustainable development<br /><br />However, advertised as the "human rights" and "green" defenders, the United States, together with Europe and Japan, has several times pressed China "to comply with the rules of the WTO”, castigating the "unfair" trade. We cannot help but want to ask, whether the restrictions over high tech products export is a violation of free trade rules, and whether it should be punished.<br /><br />It has existed for a long time that western countries deliberately abuse WTO rules for the benefit of themselves. They arm themselves with rules which are good for themselves, bypassing the rules what are bad.<br /><br />Conflict, friction is not terrible. As long as we respond positively, make use of relevant rules of trade, and actively promote the perfect trade rules, China will be able to grasp more of the initiative in international trades and maintain good economic interests of the country.<br /><br /><br /><iframe height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/LDxmDjhLXSA" frameborder="0" width="420"></iframe><br /><br />Western hypocrisy in full bloom - Columnist - New Straits Times <a href="http://www.nst.com.my/opinion/columnist/western-hypocrisy-in-full-bloom-1.61401#ixzz1pM2p9RnI">http://www.nst.com.my/opinion/columnist/western-hypocrisy-in-full-bloom-1.61401#ixzz1pM2p9RnI</a><br /><br />This week, the US, European Union and Japan have brought the matter up to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) and accused China of unfair trading practices.<br /><br />That the Chinese are apprehensive about the move is hardly a surprise, for it marks a significant shift in the tone and tenor of its trade relations with other developed nations. That the Chinese may be somewhat annoyed by all this talk of unfair trading practices is also understandable if we were to look at how the concept of fair trade has been applied to China over the past two centuries.<br /><br />In the 19th century, "free trade" meant that China was forced to open its markets to the import of opium, which led to widespread opium addiction among the population, debilitating its economy and people, and was the catalyst to the so-called "opium wars" of the 19th century.<br /><br />Today, in the name of "free trade" China is being compelled to open up its economy again -- so that it may sell its rare earth to other more powerful trading nations. Which brings us to the question of politics or, specifically, the politics of free trade and the environment.<br /><br />.................<br /><br />The same hypocricy is present in the attack on China over solar energy.<br /><a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-obama-energy-trip-20120321,0,6619187.story">http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-obama-energy-trip-20120321,0,6619187.story</a><br /><br />"If some politicians have their way, there won't be any more public investments in solar energy," Obama said of his Republican critics. "If these guys were around when Columbus set sail, they'd be charter members of the Flat Earth Society."<br /><br /><a href="http://www.pv-tech.org/news/case_accuses_casm_members_of_hypocrisy">http://www.pv-tech.org/news/case_accuses_casm_members_of_hypocrisy</a><br /><br /><a href="http://english.people.com.cn/90780/7762280.html">http://english.people.com.cn/90780/7762280.html</a><br /><br />The WTO rules, a single set of comprehensive world-wide trade rules, require member countries commit to the fundamental obligations of non-discrimination, lowering trade barriers, non-quantitative restrictions and transparency in the administration of their trade related economic system. But the WTO rules also respect the sovereignty of member states in certain prescribed circumstances.<br /><br />The WTO rules guarantee member countries a balance between their international obligations and national sovereignty by permitting the adoption or enforcement of measures in certain instances. In particular, Article XX of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade allows measures "necessary to protect human, animal or plant life or health" or "relating to the conservation of exhaustible natural resources".<br /><br />This judgment erodes China's sovereign right to protect the health of its people and conserve its natural resources. A right retained by all member states when they subject themselves to WTO trade rules. The dispute settlement body denied China the right to use Article XX of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade to justify its export duties on raw materials, simply because the export duty section of China's WTO accession protocol does not explicitly mention this article. <br /><br />The ruling of the dispute settlement body needs further discussion. It's obvious that the core clauses in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade for countries' obligations regarding non-discrimination and non-quantitative restrictions don't mention Article XX either, and yet member states don't lose the rights contained in this Article. <br /><br />The treatment that China has received begs the question as to why the protective umbrella the WTO gives to all the member states in Article XX does not apply to China. <br /><br /><br />.................Kathy Podgershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07489944336685763154noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7638648811269611491.post-8647743415917766952012-03-09T12:02:00.001-08:002012-03-13T09:00:01.592-07:00Wen Given Award For US Job Creation<iframe height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/O4xh4Yv1zuY" frameborder="0" width="560"></iframe><br /><br />When Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney attacked China's trade practices recently, he probably didn't expect that the Chinese premier he met in 2003 - when Romney praised trade between the two countries - would later be granted the "Best Friend of American Worker" award.<br /><br />Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao was given the award on Friday in Boston by the International Longshoremen's Association in appreciation of China's strong support of job growth for US workers.<br /><br />Romney, who was governor of Massachusetts from 2003 to 2007, accompanied Wen on a visit to the Port of Boston at the end of 2003, and said that trade with China brought practical interests to the state he served.<br /><br />ILA Vice-President William McNamara said that his association was honored to give Wen the award and thanked China for its great contributions in creating more job opportunities for US workers.<br /><br />The award ceremony coincided with the 10th anniversary of the first direct vessel call to the Port of Boston by the China Ocean Shipping (Group) Company in February 2002.<br /><br />Chinese Ambassador to the US Zhang Yesui received the award on behalf of the Chinese premier, and said that it represents a unique recognition of Wen's support of the COSCO-Massport (the Massachusetts Port Authority of the US) partnership, which reflects the win-win nature of China-US business relations.<br /><br />"I think today's event is a good example of how the US and China are cooperating in a full range of areas, and how Chinese business and trade can contribute to American jobs and communities in the six states of the New England region of the US, particularly in the city of Boston," he said.<br /><br />Amid stubbornly high unemployment and a persistent economic recession, the GOP presidential candidates have often assailed China's intellectual property and currency policies as they seek to convince voters they can create jobs and turn the economy around.<br /><br />Romney said China's currency manipulation has cost "millions of jobs" in the US, and if elected president, he would immediately label China as a currency manipulator.<br /><br />However, US government statistics showed that it only added about 60,000 jobs in September, not enough to change the August unemployment rate of 9.1 percent, while rising Chinese labor costs could contribute 3 million jobs in the US by 2020, Financial Times quoted a study conducted by the Boston Consulting Group released in October.<br /><br />More and more jobs are being generated by rising US exports to China, as the increasing cost of labor in China undermines the advantages of its exported goods, said Wang Zihong, director of the Economics Office of the Institute of American Studies with the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.<br /><br />According to the US-China Business Council, US exports to China rose from $16.2 billion to $91.9 billion from 2000 to 2010, up 468 percent.<br /><br />Exports to China are a vital part of the US economic growth recovery - and of sustained economic health. China is the third-largest US export market, and it continues to expand rapidly, said a statement released by the council in 2011.<br /><br />There is still great potential for China's direct investment in the US, which brings more jobs, said Wang, adding that Chinese enterprises need to become more involved in the US market.<br /><br />"None of the big economies are perfect, and neither are the Chinese and the US, but China is improving its market economy and intellectual rights to make the bilateral economic cooperation more mutually beneficial," he said.<br /><br /><a href="mailto:zhaoshengnan@chinadaily.com.cn">zhaoshengnan@chinadaily.com.cn</a><br /><br />Updated: 2012-03-06 07:06By Zhao Shengnan (China Daily)Kathy Podgershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07489944336685763154noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7638648811269611491.post-88945582911067972192012-03-01T15:56:00.006-08:002012-03-01T16:59:14.820-08:00Zhung Tse Tong and The Shanghai CommuniqueThe Shanghai Communique, issued 40 years ago, was the official public announcement of US China relations. However, there were several events that paved the way for this historic change in US foreign policy. Ping Pong Diplomacy enthralls all.<br /><br /><iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/G1p78BXVIfU" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br /><br /><a href="http://china.org.cn/english/features/olympics/100660.htm">http://china.org.cn/english/features/olympics/100660.htm</a><br /><br />In Beijing, after a careful study of the reports from Nagoya, the Foreign Ministry held that in inviting Americans to China, first consideration should be given to influential journalists and politicians. In a report written jointly by the Foreign Ministry and the State Commission for Physical Culture and Sports on April 4, it was suggested that the Chinese table tennis delegation in Nagoya tell the American team that the time was not yet ripe for it to visit China. The report was sent to Zhou and Mao.<br /><br />By then the Chinese and American table tennis players had come into contact on more than one occasion and exchanged souvenirs, which had made a sensation in the world press. The American players had expressed their wish to visit China.<br /><br />Mao was well informed of what had happened in Nagoya. He decided to invite the American players immediately. On April 7, the Chinese delegation received a directive from home: "considering that the American team has made the request many times with friendly enthusiasm, it has been approved to invite it, including its leaders, to visit our country."<br /><br />Upon receiving the invitation, Steenhoven immediately reported to the American ambassador to Japan. After reading the cable from Tokyo, Nixon decided at once that the American team should go to China, taking the invitation for the beginning of a long-awaited major diplomatic action.<br /><br />On April 14, Zhou received the guest teams from the United States, Canada, Colombia and Nigeria at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. When talking with the American players, he said, "The Chinese and American people used to have frequent exchanges. Then came a long period of severance. Your visit has opened the door to friendship between the peoples of the two countries."<br /><br /><br /><br /><iframe height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/HZKZFXLDOHE" frameborder="0" width="560"></iframe><br /><br />Richard Nixon's visit to China in February 1972 changed the course of history — reshaping the global balance of power and opening the door to the establishment of relations between the People's Republic and the United States.<br />1972年2月理查德•尼克松对中国的访问改变了历史的轨迹 - 它重新调整了全球势力的均衡,为中华人民共和国和美国两国间关系的建立打开了大门。<br /><br />It was also a milestone in the history of journalism. Since the Communist revolution of 1949, a suspicious regime in Beijing had barred virtually all U.S. reporters from China. For the Nixon trip, however, the Chinese agreed to accept nearly 100 journalists, and to allow the most dramatic events — Nixon's arrival in Beijing, Zhou Enlai'swelcoming banquet, visits to the Great Wall and the Forbidden City — to be televised live.<br />这次访问同时也是新闻史上的一个里程碑。自1949年共产革命以来,对外界充满怀疑的北京政府将所有美国新闻记者拒之门外。然而为了尼克松中国之行,中方同意并接纳了10­0名新闻记者,并且允许电视现场直播尼克松中国之行中发生的重大事件 - 例如尼克松抵京,周恩来总理欢迎晚宴,总统参观长城和故宫。<br /><br /><br />Classroom use of this video is permitted. We would appreciate feedback from viewers. Please write to us at uschina@usc.edu.<br /><br />The coverage was arguably as important as the details of the diplomacy. It profoundly transformed American and international perceptions of a long-isolated China, generated the public support Nixon needed to change U.S. policy, and laid the groundwork for Beijing's gradual move to open China to greater international media coverage.<br />对总统之行的新闻报道可以说和这次外交之行的细节同等重要。它深刻地改变了美国以及国际社会对长期与外部世界隔离的中国的印象,为中国政府逐步对国际新闻媒体开放奠定了基­础。<br /><br />While the outlines of the Nixon trip are familiar, the behind-the-scenes story of how that momentous event was covered is much less well-known. This segment of Assignment: China focuses on journalists who went with Nixon and includes interviews with those officials who sought to shape the coverage. The Week that Changed the World contains previously unreleased footage of the Nixon visit, as well as interviews with journalistic luminaries such as Dan Rather and Bernard Kalb of CBS, Ted Koppel and Tom Jarriel of ABC, Barbara Walters of NBC, Max Frankel of the New York Times, Stanley Karnow of the Washington Post, and many others.<br />尼克松中国之行虽然广为人知,这一历史事件是如何被报道的幕后故事却没有很多人了解。这一解析中国之旅的纪录片关注的是陪同尼克松中国之行的新闻记者,同时包含了对中美双­方试图影响新闻报道的官员的采访。改变世界的一周收纳了从未公布的尼克松中国之行的影像,以及对新闻界知名人物的访谈,如哥伦比亚广播公司的丹•拉瑟和伯纳德•卡尔布,美­国广播公司的伯纳德•卡尔布和汤姆•贾里尔,全国广播公司的芭芭拉•沃尔特斯,《纽约时报》的马克思•弗兰克尔,《华盛顿邮报》的卡史丹,以及其他知名记者。<br /><br />Reported and narrated by U.S.-China Institute Senior Fellow Mike Chinoy, formerly CNN's Senior Asia Correspondent and Beijing Bureau Chief, and edited by USCI Multimedia Editor Craig Stubing, the film offers a fascinating and previously untold perspective on one of the most important historical moments of the 20th century. Clayton Dube conceived of the Assignment: China project and supervises it.<br />来自美中学院的资深学者,曾经担任哥伦比亚广播公司驻亚洲资深记者,北京分社社长的迈克·齐诺伊为该纪录片进行采访和解说。美中学院多媒体编辑克雷格·史达宾进行编辑。这­部纪录片通过一个全新独特的视角,为您呈现20世纪最为重要的历史事件之一。杜克雷是该纪录片的制片人,并且进行指导。<br />.............<br /><br />Friendship First, Competition Second<br /><iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Rh9L5qAteTo" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br /><br />.Kathy Podgershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07489944336685763154noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7638648811269611491.post-17275977676328702732012-02-12T23:14:00.000-08:002012-02-16T13:41:18.400-08:00Chinese VP Xi Jinping<iframe height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/PAQ9DS2hfvI" frameborder="0" width="480"></iframe><br /><br />VP Xi is believed to become China's next leader. He will visit the US Feb 13-16, visiting Washington DC, Iowa and LA, before he heads to Ireland and Turkey.<br /><br />This is a sensitive time in the US, The Republican candidates are staging debates as they vie for the nomination to run for president against Obama. Already China has become a favorite scapegoat for US economic troubles. One US senator was forced to remove racist adverizing and rhetoric from both Republicans and Democrats could not be worse as they demonstrate how they will get tough with China.<br /><br />On the other hand, China has navigated the world wide economic crisis quite well. China's focus is on trade, and several US states have benifited from trade with China.<br /><br />Here is a brief view of China's next president from Aljeerza<br /><br /><iframe height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/LH7ZIr8HZNM" frameborder="0" width="640"></iframe><br /><br /><a href="http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/photo/2012-02/14/c_131407983.htm">http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/photo/2012-02/14/c_131407983.htm</a><br /><br /><br />The Washington Post, in advance of Xi's visit to the US, posed several questions to discover his views...<br /><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/views-from-chinas-vice-president/2012/02/08/gIQATMyj9Q_story.html">http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/views-from-chinas-vice-president/2012/02/08/gIQATMyj9Q_story.html</a><br /><br />Unfortunately, the WP wants you to pay to read. However, the last question was on sports: Xi's response...<br /><br />ON SPORTS<br /><br />"I like sports, and swimming is my favorite. Doing physical exercises keeps one fit and healthy and helps one work more efficiently. I think we all need to strike a balance between work and relaxation. This can keep us energetic and help us do our job better.<br /><br />NBA games are exciting to watch and have global appeal. They are very popular in China. I do watch NBA games on television when I have time."<br /><br /><iframe height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/NRg-_j1n5zM" frameborder="0" width="480"></iframe><br /><br />I believe that Xi's visit comes at an auspicious time, with another American stereotype destroyed by Jeremy Lin, the undrafted sensation who has just set an NBA all time record. Folks are asking, where did he come from, but you see, he was hidden in plain sight by our latent racism, because he 'didn't look like a basketball player.'<br /><br /><iframe height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/OtiyQFqkXQM" frameborder="0" width="640"></iframe><br /><br />There is nothing like exposing America's racism right before the Chinese VP's visit!<br /><br /><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/deanna-fei/jeremy-lin-asian-americans_b_1281916.html#comments">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/deanna-fei/jeremy-lin-asian-americans_b_1281916.html#comments</a><br /><br />Nearly two weeks in, Linsanity is raging for anyone who takes even a passing interest in the game, or identifies as one of the billions of Asians around the globe, or who simply relishes an unlikely hero. And yes, Jeremy Lin's breakout success is a moment of cultural pride for Asian Americans similar to what we've felt in the past with luminaries from Michelle Kwan to Maxine Hong Kingston.<br /><br />But it also feels very different.<br /><br />Because what's most undeniable about Lin -- what screamed to anyone who saw his game-winning, buzzer-beating three-pointer Tuesday night -- is that the guy has balls.<br /><br />Which obviously has always been true of other Asian males. But now Lin is demonstrating it in a way that even the most racist douchebag would be hard-pressed to refute.<br /><br />And the effect is only magnified by his relatively low-key yet evident swagger, his self-aware nerdy cool, his substantial yet unfreakish build, the fact that on TV he pretty much looks and sounds like your brother or your cousin or a kid who rode the same bus in high school. Amid all the hoopla, he's utterly unafraid to be himself -- which, in the end, is the only form of masculinity a mother truly wants for her son.<br /><br /><br /><iframe height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/lVlyiZj3A4o" frameborder="0" width="640"></iframe><br /><br />So, folks, what does a basket ball player look like?<br /><br /><br /><br />And here is a so called 'Good Read' from the Christian Science Monitor...<br /><br /><a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Global-News/2012/0213/Good-Reads-China-s-next-leader-comes-to-Washington-as-US-enters-a-funk">http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Global-News/2012/0213/Good-Reads-China-s-next-leader-comes-to-Washington-as-US-enters-a-funk</a><br /><br />Americans expect exceptionalism – remember Tom Brokaw’s Greatest Generation – and they expect their leaders to take up where the Roosevelts, Eisenhowers, and Reagans left off.<br /><br />But a slew of well-argued pieces this week show that these expectations are maybe misplaced.<br /><br />In Foreign Policy, Daniel Blumenthal – an expert on China at the American Enterprise Institute – says that it’s naïve to think that either tough talk or sweet talk are going to win over Xi and set China on a different path. The truth is that the China that Xi would eventually govern is much more pluralistic and complex than the China that Henry Kissinger and Richard Nixon negotiated with during the cold war, or as politically weak as the Soviet Union that Mr. Gorbachev so helpfully dismantled.<br /><br /><a href="http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2012-02/15/c_122701686.htm">http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2012-02/15/c_122701686.htm</a><br />Wonderful photos of Xi's never ending smile. How can he be so relaxed after hours of trans Pacific and trans America flight and hours of meetings with officials?<br /><br /><br />Xi Jinping is married to Peng Liyuan, famous folk singer.<br /><br /><iframe height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/VoDtPHGd9xU" frameborder="0" width="640"></iframe><br /><br /><br />I would like to share my observation that Xi Jinping and Jeremy Lin have a lot in common, they both seemingly came out of nowhere, when denied opportunity as a kid, they double down, and work their tails off, until they realize their dreams, then they dedicate their efforts to the 'team.'<br /><br />Xi's visit continues with what VOA terms a major policy speech. While China and the rest of the world are reporting on his visit, there appears to be a news fail here in the US, with MSM brushing him off as saying nothing new.<br /><a href="http://www.voanews.com/english/news/US-China-Must-Respect-Each-Others-Interests-Chinese-VP-139378933.html">http://www.voanews.com/english/news/US-China-Must-Respect-Each-Others-Interests-Chinese-VP-139378933.html</a><br /><br />Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping says China welcomes the U.S. playing a "positive role" in the Asia-Pacific region. But, he said, the world's two largest economies should respect each other's "core interests and major concerns."<br /><br />In what has been billed as the major policy speech of his four-day visit, Xi addressed a luncheon in Washington co-hosted by the U.S.-China Business Council and the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations.<br /><br />A number of China's most prominent corporate leaders are accompanying Xi on his trip.<br /><br /><br /><br />This folks, is the way to win. Let's not underestimate Xi Jinping.<br />.Kathy Podgershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07489944336685763154noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7638648811269611491.post-71101945578625118732011-03-29T12:23:00.000-07:002011-03-29T13:14:44.296-07:00Serf Emancipation Day<iframe title="YouTube video player" width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/la9qfDmOUc4" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br /><br />Today, life in the province of Tibet continues with some changes and with some continued traditions. The history of China is long, and hidden from most of us due to the simple fact that we do not read Chinese, nor do we really care. Since the people of China rose up in rebellion against the feudal dynastic system, starting in 1911, there has been a constabnt struggle for New Democracy against the aristocratic and priveliged elite. This story is about bringing change to Tibet, now called the Tibet Atonomous Region, or TAR. <br /><br />Here is one man's story...<br />http://english.cri.cn/6909/2011/03/28/2821s629144.htm<br /><br />Ngulho Buchung never expected to become a general when he was young.<br /><br />He was born in the fall of 1959 in a village in Nylam County in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region. His family had been serfs for generations until March 1959, when one million serfs in the region were freed. <br /><br />In January 2009, the regional legislative body decided to designate March 28 as the annual Serfs Emancipation Day to commemorate the end of feudal serfdom in Tibet. For the first time, Ngulho Buchung's family was able to own land, livestock and their own house. <br /><br />"If there were no emancipation, I might have refused to be born," he said jokingly with a laugh. <br /><br />According to his mother, his family had to serve food to rebel forces that passed by as they fled after the rebellion on March 10 that year, he said. <br /><br />"They stole food and even harmed villagers. The People's Liberation Army (PLA), on the other hand, never set foot in our houses, my mom told me. The soldiers just slept in cow sheds while chasing the rebels, and even offered their clothes to villagers during cold days," he said. <br /><br />Attracted by his mother's stories, Ngulho Buchung wanted to become a soldier. His wish came true in 1975 when he became a member of the Tibetan armed police. <br /><br />His toughness and diligence led him to become a sharp shooter, a keen detective, and a martial arts champion in the region. He learned Mandarin, calligraphy and even poems from comrades in arms. He later entered the college of armed police forces with a high score. <br /><br />In 2008, when he was a high-ranking officer in charge of Tibet's border control, his team accepted the task of guarding the Olympic torch as it was carried to the top of Mt. Qomolangma. <br /><br />For a man who received surgery on one of his knees, it was not easy to climb the mountain, reaching an altitude up to 6,500 meters above sea level. <br /><br />"It was a huge task. I couldn't help repeating it in my dreams every night during that time," he said. Every morning on the mountain, he had to heat his frozen shoes for half an hour before he could put them on, taking the risk of avalanches while marching. <br /><br />After guarding the torch to the mountaintop, Wu Yingjie, executive vice chairman of Tibet's regional government, called to congratulate him. <br /><br />"Both of us shed tears over the phone," he said, "maybe because of too much pressure." <br /><br />In July 2008, Ngulho Buchung was promoted to major general in the armed police.<br /><br />"I'm a beneficiary of the PLA. Guarding my motherland makes me energetic, anywhere, at any time," he said.<br />.................<br /><br /><iframe title="YouTube video player" width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/F7t2Ztb92mE" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br /><br />There seems to be quite a difference between the stories told by the emancipated serfs living in Tibet and the CIA aided and supported Dalai lama and his cohorts living in Dharmasala when he is not jetting about the world being entertained by the heads of various states. One of the biggest concerns for me is the absolute failure of the Dalai Lama to even acknowledge the issue of his serfs and slaves, and why he refused to emancipate them, choosing to hook up with the CIA instead.<br /><br /><iframe title="YouTube video player" width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Cr_RjVOSql8" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br /><br />To compound this, the Dalai Lama, nearing the end of his life, and his sponsers, want to continue the harrassment of China after he passes. For the past 10 years or so, he has "debated" various plans (plots?) whereby his successor can seperate Tibet from China. Here is an interesting report or update from Market watch...<br /><br />http://www.marketwatch.com/story/dalai-lama-retirement-accepted-so-now-what-2011-03-28<br />March 28, 2011, 10:51 a.m. EDT <br /><br />Dalai Lama Retirement Accepted, So Now What?<br /><br />by Jeremy Page<br /><br />The Dalai Lama's proposal to retire from his political role -- formally ending a 370-year-old tradition -- has finally been accepted by the Tibetan parliament-in-exile after 10 days of emotional debate in the north Indian town of Dharamsala. <br /><br />The queston now for his followers, and for China's atheist leaders: What happens after he dies? <br /><br />The exiled parliament passed four unanimous resolutions Friday agreeing to constitutional changes that would allow the Dalai Lama to give up his role as head of the government-in-exile, which he established after fleeing his homeland in 1959. Under the changes, to be formalized in May, his political powers will be formally transferred to a new Prime Minister, known as the Kalon Tripa, who will take power after the final results of an election held last Sunday are announced in April. <br /><br />The parliament-in-exile initially opposed his retirement, but the 1989 Nobel Peace laureate insisted it was necessary to establish a more democratic, and sustainable, system for leading the 150,000 Tibetans who live in exile and for pushing the non-violent campaign aimed at gaining greater autonomy for Tibet. <br /><br />"If we have to remain in exile for several more decades, a time will inevitably come when I will no longer be able to provide leadership," the Dalai Lama said in a message to the parliament. "Therefore, it is necessary that we establish a sound system of governance while I remain able and healthy." <br /><br />China has dismissed the Dalai Lama's retirement as a "trick" designed to impress the international community. On Monday, the Chinese government marked "Serfs' Emancipation Day" -- the date when it dismissed the Dalai Lama as head of the Tibetan government in 1959. <br />Padma Choling, the Beijing-appointed head of the current Tibetan regional government, made a televised speech on Sunday in which he insisted the Dalai Lama's efforts to revive the "reactionary rule of theocratic feudal serfdom" were doomed to fail. <br /><br />In reality, both sides have reason to worry about the future of a region that Beijing says has been part of its territory since the 13th Century, but which the Dalai Lama says was de facto independent before Chinese Communist troops took control in 1951. <br /><br />The Dalai Lama's chief concern, according to people close to him, is that the Chinese government –- which sees him as a dangerous separatist and says it has the right to approve all lamas' reincarnations -- will try to appoint his successor after his death. He says he will continue to act as a spiritual leader, much as previous Dalai Lamas did before 1642, when the Fifth Dalai Lama was enthroned both spritual and political leader following Tibet's unification under the Mongol prince Gushri Khan. <br /><br />So far the 10-day parliament meeting has offered no further clues as to whether the current Dalai Lama's own successor will be selected in the traditional manner, with senior lamas identifying a young boy as his re-incarnation after his death. <br /><br />The Dalai Lama has previously suggested a range of options, including having a referendum among his followers to decide whether he should be reincarnated at all. He has also suggested appointing his own successor while he is still alive. <br /><br />One option could be off the table, however. <br /><br />The favorite to be the next Prime Minister, a senior fellow at Harvard Law School called Lobsang Sangay, had suggested that the Karmapa Lama, the third highest in the Tibetan Buddhist hierarchy, act as a "regent" to lead after the Dalai Lama's death until his reincarnation is old enough to take over. <br /><br />The constitutional changes agreed upon Friday entail the abolition of the regency, which traditionally handled Tibet's government in the period between the death of one Dalai Lama and the completion of his successor's education. <br /><br />Bejing, meanwhile, is concerned that the Dalai Lama's retirement undermines both its ability to appoint a credible successor and its criticism of his government-in-exile as an undemocratic relic of Tibet's old theocracy. <br /><br />Ironically, as Columbia University Tibetologist Robert Barnett has noted, those concerns mean the Chinese government is now pushing openly for the Dalai Lama to stick to the traditional succession model, even as it continues to denounce the system it says he represents. <br /><br />The contradiction was on full display last week as a press conference with three local experts from the China Tibetology Research Center organized by the state-backed All-China Journalists' Association. <br /><br />Tsering Yangdzom, the only ethnic Tibetan among the experts, said the next Dalai Lama should be selected according to a religious tradition that she said dated back to the Sixth Dalai Lama, who reigned 1682-1706. The Sixth Dalai Lama is a significant reference in the succession debate as he was appointed by the Qing dynasty Emperor Kangxi, which the Chinese government maintains as a precedent. <br /><br />The government-in-exile argues Emperor Kangxi only sent representatives to the Sixth Dalai Lama's inauguration and was not involved in his selection. <br /><br />Zhou Wei, another of the experts, rejected the Dalai Lama's suggestions that he could appoint his own successor. "If he wants to win the hearts of the Tibetan people, he must respect traditions," he said. <br /><br />The third expert, Du Yongbin, said the Dalai Lama's retirement plan showed that exile government's prime minister had no real power until now and that therefore religious leader and his followers adhered to "the old theocratic way despite claimed efforts to transform their group into a secular and democratic one." <br /><br />Mr. Du went on to insist on three cardinal rules for the next Dalai Lama's selection: observe historical precedent, respect religious requirements, and comply with the Chinese government's "managing measures for the reincarnation of living Buddhas." <br />.....................<br /><br />However, the Living Buddha, Shingtsa Tenzinchodrak, claimes that the self proclaimed "retirement" of the dalai Lama is a Farce!<br />http://dailymailnews.com/0311/30/ChinaPage/index.php?id=2<br /><br /><br />LHASA – The Dalai Lama's announcement of his plan to step down as the political head of the "exiled Tibetan government" is "a self-directed and played out farce", said Shingtsa Tenzinchodrak, a living buddha of Tibetan Buddhism, on Monday. <br /><br />The Dalai Lama's announcement on March 10, in which he said that he would resign his political role, makes it very clear that he is not just a religious leader but also a politician who disrupts the Buddhist orders, said Tenzinchodrak, who is also vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the Tibet Autonomous Region's People's Congress. <br /><br />Tenzinchodrak made the comment at a seminar that commemorated the 52nd anniversary of the emancipation of about one million Tibetan serfs, or more than 90 percent of the region's population back then. Monday is the third "Serfs Emancipation Day," an occasion celebrated across the plateau region. During the celebrations, Tibetans dressed in traditional costumes and sang, danced and staged dramas based upon the lives of their ancestors. <br /><br />"The Dalai Lama wanted to use his 'retirement' rhetoric to attract more listeners and to fan the efforts for splitting Tibet from the motherland," said Tenzinchodrak. <br /><br />"The Shakyamuni Buddha required Buddhists to pursue spiritual improvement, rather than meddling in politics. But the Dalai Lama has long engaged in activities that aim to split China apart," said Tenzinchodrak. <br /><br />The 14th Dalai Lama fled to India and created the self-declared "Tibetan government-in-exile" after the central government foiled an armed rebellion he and his supporters staged in 1959. "The Dalai Lama's separatist nature is unchanged. Just as the Tibetan saying goes, 'A black charcoal will never become white no matter how many times you wash it," said Tenzinchodrak. <br /><br />On March 28, 1959, China's central government announced that it would dissolve the aristocratic local government of Tibet and replace it with a preparatory committee for establishing the Tibet Autonomous Region. <br /><br />That meant the end of serfdom and the abolition of the hierarchal social system that was characterized by theocracy. The Dalai Lama was at the core of that social order. The move came after the central government foiled an armed rebellion staged by the Dalai Lama and his supporters, most of whom were slave owners attempting to maintain the region's serfdom. <br /><br />"All ethnic groups will commemorate that day forever," said Padma Choling, chairman of the regional government, since the Tibetans were freed from the cruel and dark rule of feudal serfdom, which forever changed the human rights situation in Tibet. <br /><br />Tenzinchodrak, now 61, became the 14th living buddha of Shingtsa Temple in Tibet's Nagarze County in 1955. He was elected vice chairman of the region's People's Congress Standing Committee in 2008.–Xinhua<br />......................Kathy Podgershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07489944336685763154noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7638648811269611491.post-9027941989369204542011-02-24T14:03:00.000-08:002011-03-01T05:58:24.744-08:00Chinese Netizens Catch American Ambassador Huntsman As He Drops in on Jasmine Revolution Meetup!<iframe title="YouTube video player" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Lv9vTT-orD0" frameborder="0" width="480" height="390"></iframe><br /><br />The United States Ambassador to China, Republican Nomination for the 2012 presidential election, Jon Huntsman,Jr was caught in Beijing while instigating and kept close watching on the process of so-called ' Jasmin revolution in China'.<br /><br />He's face turned gray when caught by Chinese people lol!<br /><br />Here's the translation<br /><br /><br />0:30<br />现场的人: 请问美国大使,你跑这儿来干什么?<br />Chinese: Hi, Ambassador, what are u doing here?<br /><br />0:33<br />洪博培:就是来看看。<br />Huntsman: Just join in the fun. :D<br /><br />0:35<br />现场的人:你是不是希望中国乱?<br />Chinese: So you want China in chaos, don't u?<br /><br />0:37<br />洪博培:(啊?)不会。(转过头去)<br />Huntsman: (ah?) nah. (turned his face off)<br /><br />0:43<br />现场的人:这是美国大使。(介绍给群众)<br />Chinese: (To everyone) This man is U.S ambassador to China.<br /><br />现场群众 乙:这美国大使啊?<br />Chinese B: American Ambassador?<br /><br />现场群众 丙:这是美国大使!<br />Chinese C: American Ambassador!<br /><br />现场群众 丁:这是美国驻华大使啊!<br />Chinese D: He is American Ambassador to China!<br /><br />0:45<br />洪博培:你们都不知道?(对着大家)<br />Huntsman: You guys don't know me,really?(To the rest of Chinese people)<br /><br />0:49<br />现场群众 甲:你是装作不知道吧。<br />Chinese A: You're pretending that you don't know this, right?<br /><br />现场群众 乙: 揣着明白装糊涂是吧?<br />Chinese B: You're feigning ignorance, aren't you?!<br /><br />洪博培:............(灰溜溜地走了)<br />Huntsman: ...(leave with his body guards)<br />................................<br /><br />imagine this my friend, the 1989 issue was based on the ignorance of youngsters , they put themselves in the risks(bloody leaders escaped) by believeing the instigation from VOA and today ,since VOA(Mandarin Channel) is gonna be turnoff,at the same time, U.S Secretary of State,Hilary Clinton claimed U.S agency will concentrade much more on cyber world, so this shit happens again. A man can't step into the same river,so that's why we try to lead people away from danger. <br />................................<br /><br />Yes, we chinese know ourselves better than anyone else. Yes, the CCP is not perfect but we are not going to copy a western style. Absolute democracy will send China to hell! Maybe a future hybrid system.<br />.................................<br /><br />Chinese do not want Westerners to incite protest in China, and to make China into a big mess like Iraq, Egypt, or Tunisia.<br /><br />America is anti-China!<br />..........................<br /><br />The only country that needs Jasmine Revolution is the US. It needs it so badly, because the govn't does not act in the interest of its citizens who are poor. It wants to pass budget deficit cuts that will ruin the lives of the poor further more. The whole world feels sorry for the US citizens because they haven't had a president for decades. All that they have gotten in the White House are puppets.<br />.........................<br /><br />You secretary of the state is in charge of the the internet propaganda war; your ambassador went to the front line to inspect the operations. If the Chinese government does not respond in a commensurate way, it's disrepectful to the U.S., it's faux pas.<br />.........................<br /><br />Thanks for exposing the truth....They want to destabilize China, divide it and rule. They are not Americans but globalists....They are using America as a tool to further their agenda.<br /><br />They don't care about Americans nor about Chinese or any other country....Its all fake revolutions to further their evil agenda...if you love your family, atleast do an hour of research before coming out of your home for a revolution....do not believe what main stream media says...its all propaganda<br /><br />...............................<br /><br />I am a British Engineer with my own factory in China. I employ lots of Chinese. I live here with my family and speak Chinese.<br /><br />I can tell you categorically that all suggestions that there will be any kind of revolution in China are completely ridiculous. The Chinese are extremely happy with the central Beijing Government. Sure they have complaints about rising house prices; food inflation; corrupt local officials etc.<br /><br />Non-Chinese need to mind their own business and focus on home.<br />..............................<br /><br />CNN and some media even put a photo with some Chinese holding Chinese signs. They reported that these are protesters with signs of slogans. These media reporters are the biggest liars. In fact, the photo is from another Chinese job fair with Chinese characters of jobs. Most Americans don't know Chinese language, that's why they can be easily misled and brainwashed<br />...............................<br />I am 100% sure that this Jasmine Revolution BULL SHIT was started on the internet by them western n Taiwanese spies!! I am Chinese and I take this attempt by the west as a direct threat to my country n my ppl! They forgot how the CHinese ppl came out in support of the 2008 Beijing Olympics!! They want to test and see if the Chinese ppl is still united! From their point of view is worth every attempt! A collapse of China would do much good for them!<br /><br />LONG LIVE CHINA!<br />.................................<br /><br />有可能“茉莉花”革命就是他策划的。洋人嘴里虽说明祖,心里却不­怀好意。若心里不是怀有恶意,干吗急忙走开?Maybe the US diplomat was the one who came up with the "Jasmine" revolution to throw China into chaos. He looked "guilty" at being discovered and hastened a retreat.<br />XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX<br /><br />http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12522856<br />China's official in charge of the state security apparatus has warned of the need to find new ways to defuse unrest.<br /><br />Zhou Yongkang urged senior officials to improve "social management" and "detect conflicts and problems early on", the state-run Xinhua news agency reported.<br /><br />He was speaking at a weekend seminar which took place as an internet campaign tried to provoke a "jasmine revolution" in China.<br /><br />On Sunday, police dispersed a meeting of people who had answered the call.<br /><br />In Shanghai, three men were detained. Leading human rights activists and lawyers were taken into police custody in the hours before the protests were due to begin.<br /><br />But the call for mass participation in the demonstrations went largely unheeded.<br />XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX<br /><br />My dear friend in China told me that the buzz on the streets in china is "Mao was right about Deng." That was a year ago, during Spring Festival.<br /><br />http://www.smh.com.au/business/china-wont-take-the-cairo-route-20110214-1atq4.html<br />For 30 years the Communist Party has forged ideological unity around Deng Xiaoping's "two hands" formula of a market-based economy and uncompromising political control. When the contradictions inherent in this approach flared in 1989, Deng's solution was to defer any resolution and make the tensions worse. He massacred the students, rebuilt the party's security apparatus and then opened the market economy further.<br /><br />The nepotism and corruption enjoyed by Deng's children may have been exceptional in 1989 but these days they are the norm for those born into the communist aristocracy. Whether you are in private equity, a sprawling state-owned enterprise or a village enterprise, the end game is the same: connect the right party official (or relative) with the market and turn public money into private gold.<br /><br />Left and right agree that the Deng consensus is crumbling under the weight of inequality and corruption. But they cannot agree on whether to dismantle the ''open market'' or ''political control'' side of his legacy.<br /><br />President Hu Jintao has squandered eight years in mortal combat with his predecessor. Powerful princelings have dealt themselves out of the debate by their kleptocratic hypocrisy. The country has reached gridlock. The party is entering a period of realignment and it is not clear what the new direction will be.<br /><br />It is no coincidence that the only two obviously popular members of the Politburo are those who have come closest to challenging the Deng consensus. Much may depend on how the Mao-singing Chongqing party boss, Bo Xilai, and the democracy-talking Premier, Wen Jiabao, reach an accommodation.<br /><br />U P D A T E<br /><br />The People Doth Not Protest<br /><a href="http://www.economist.com/blogs/asiaview/2011/02/chinas_pre-emptive_crackdown">http://www.economist.com/blogs/asiaview/2011/02/chinas_pre-emptive_crackdown</a><br /><br />Perhaps China knows better, what to expect, when Tenzin Dorjee, executive director for Students for a Free Tibet called for "Tiananmen 2.0" last week. In fact, when I tried to comment on his post on Huffington Post, to site the fact that he had been with NED (privitized arm of the CIA) I was banned from commenting, censored, for three days! The Uighur sepertist group carries the Free Tibet propaganda on their site, so look for an attempt to instigate racial, ethnic and religious tensions, and planted thugs to stage "spontaneous" riots and "uprisings."<br /><br />Folks, the more things change the more they remain the same. This administration has been blaming China for everything that's wrong with the US!<br /><br />Based on the video that was secretly recorded, the journalists were not beaten, and Ambassador Huntsman is not being honest, and is behaving like a ringleader!<br /><a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/03/01/china.journalists/?hpt=T2">http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/03/01/china.journalists/?hpt=T2</a>#<br /><br />Here is more spin from Time...<br /><a href="http://globalspin.blogs.time.com/2011/02/28/in-chinas-jasmine-crackdown/">http://globalspin.blogs.time.com/2011/02/28/in-chinas-jasmine-crackdown/</a><br />Wen is the official who serves at the humane face of the government. He visits with miners, farmers, AIDS patients and petitioners seeking justice. He is usually one of the first high-level officials to visit disasters scenes, like the 2008 Sichuan earthquake. He talks up political liberalization in interviews with the foreign press, and praises fallen reformers at home. Wen has done web chats with the Xinhua news service for a few years now, and yesterday's wasn't timed to coincide with the online call for Middle Eastern-style “jasmine rallies” in China. But it seems hardly a coincidence that the many of the topics he discussed—corruption, inflation, the wealth gap—are also issues <a href="http://www.hrichina.org/public/contents/press?revision_id=192612&item_id=192610">raised by the anonymous protest organizers</a>.<br /><br />Here we have photos by a French Journalist...<br /><a href="http://www.jordanpouille.com/2011/02/25/bluefences/">http://www.jordanpouille.com/2011/02/25/bluefences/</a><br /><br />Stay tuned for more updates on this US instigated "uprising!"<br /><br />.<br />.Kathy Podgershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07489944336685763154noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7638648811269611491.post-60315249797079768622011-01-18T20:28:00.000-08:002011-01-19T10:10:04.965-08:00Hu, Not Wen, Comes To Dinner.<br />Hu, Not Wen, Comes To Dinner<br /><br />Chinese president Hu Jintao comes to the White House for a State Dinner.<br /><br />If Obama and his administration believe this visit is all about "face" they are sadly mistaken.<br /><br /><object height="385" width="480"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/wiwNTotBkV0?fs=1&hl=en_US"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/wiwNTotBkV0?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object><br /><br />As you can see from this video, China's issues are completely different from what the<br />US says are the issues. One problem the US has is trying to have "dialogue" with anothercountry by discussing onlt the US's concerns. China isn't buying that anymore. Here is the Q&A from the WSJ.....<br /><a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703551604576085514147521334.html">http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703551604576085514147521334.html</a><br /><br /><strong>I wish to stress the following four points.</strong><br /><br />First, we should increase dialogue and contact and enhance strategic mutual trust.<br /><br />Second, we should abandon the zero-sum Cold War mentality, view each other's development in an objective and sensible way, respect each other's choice of development path, and pursue common development through win-win cooperation.<br /><br />Third, we should respect each other's sovereignty, territorial integrity and development interests and properly address each other's major concerns.<br /><br />And fourth, we should make constant efforts to expand our converging interests so that China and the United States will be partners for cooperation in broader areas.<br />.....<br /><br />The hidden part of an iceburg is the bigger part, that part being US Policy makers fear that any country whose economy begins to equal ours, could, in fact, develop a military equal to ours. The US actually has a secret policy addressing this idea in real terms.<br /><br />No one should be surprised, then, to know the US has been encircling China for some time, now, as China's economy grows. Recently, we made a deal with Australia to station our Navy there as an "unofficial base" In addition, our buildup on our militarized Pacific islands is enough to worry any country, never mind the target of our paranoia, China.<br /><br />Unfortunately, it seems that our propensity for spewing out "fishy" numbers, false data, misleading stats, etc, etc, etc, has come back to bite us. Or should I say, we have come to believe our own propaganda. Our "Hey, Mikey, lets blame China," strategy was fine as long as it was just domestic politics, but when Policy makers swallow this stuff whole, watch out.<br /><br />You have all heard that the US blames China for it's huge trade deficite with the US.<br />THAT you understand, but have you actually looked at the numbers? Here is one example...<br /><br />RE Trade imbalance, who would compare Pennsylvania's exports with the UK,<br />which is 5 times the size of Pennsylvania?<br /><br />Well, that is just what the Government propagandists do when the report trade<br />deficits by country name, instead of size. Here is something you may enjoy...<br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Rank Trade Deficit by Country's Population</span></strong><br /><br /><strong>1. Ireland (5). . . . .- $4,585.41 per capita<br />2. Venezuela (7). . . - $645.27 per capita<br />3. Canada (6). . . . . - $589.02 per capita<br />4. Malaysia (10). . . - $456.63 per capita<br />5. Mexico (2). . . . . - $438.21 per capita<br />6. Japan (3). . . . . . - $351.76 per capita<br />7. Germany (4). . . .- $342.29 per capita<br />8. Italy (9). . . . . . . .- $234.93 per capita<br />9. China (1). . . . . . .- $169.22 per capita<br />10. Nigeria (8). . . . . - $97.94 per capita<br /></strong><br />(the numbers in the ( ) are the rank by country name without reguard to size.)<br /><br />What the US military really fears is an economically sound China...<br /><br /><a href="http://original.antiwar.com/john-v-walsh/2011/01/17/an-anti-interventionist-looks-at-china/">http://original.antiwar.com/john-v-walsh/2011/01/17/an-anti-interventionist-looks-at-china/</a><br />Let us consider U.S. military doctrine in the ways it might affect relations with China. U.S. doctrine is clear and unchanging from one administration to the next since the end of the<br />Cold War. No country is to be allowed to come close to the U.S. in military might.<br /><br />The most explicit statement of this came in the Defense Planning Guide for 1994-1999, a secret document prepared in 1992 and leaked to the New York Times and Washington Post. “Our first objective,” the highly classified document stated, “is to prevent the re-emergence of a new rival, either on the territory of the former Soviet Union or elsewhere, that poses a threat on the order of that posed formerly by the Soviet Union.”<br /><br />From the outset Obama has left no doubt that the policy of permanent military superiority continues under him, proclaiming just after his election, on the occasion of appointing his “foreign policy team” of Clinton, Gates, and others that “we all share the belief we have to maintain the strongest military on the planet.”<br /><br />Just last week Pentagon chief Robert Gates declared in a speech in Tokyo that the 47,000 troops in Japan were there to “keep China’s rising power in check” and so will remain for the indefinite future.<br /><br />One must also conclude that the wars in Central Asia, the implantation of U.S. bases right on China’s back doorstep, and the courting of India over the past 10 years are also part of the “containment” policy, whatever other purposes those wars and bases may have. This dimension of the U.S. wars is rarely discussed in the mainstream or liberal press.<br /><br />The implications of this doctrine are pernicious in the extreme.<br /><br />First, the very threat encourages those who might want to be friends to arm themselves to preserve their independence and sovereignty.<br /><br />Second, and much more important, military might grows out of economic power, as we have known at least since Thucydides. Thus the U.S. is declaring that China cannot have a total GDP that comes close to that of the U.S.<br /><br />Let us consider the consequences of that. What would it mean for China if it achieved an aggregate GDP not larger that of the U.S. but simply the same size? Quite simply, since China has four or five times our population, it would mean that China would have a per capita GDP one fourth of ours – or about $10,000 a year. That means unending poverty for the Chinese people. Thus China is forced to choose between poverty or provoking the ire of the U.S.<br /><br />Such is the iron logic of U.S. military policy.<br /><br /><object height="385" width="480"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/hQ0zg-_cwuc?fs=1&hl=en_US"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/hQ0zg-_cwuc?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object><br /><br />And from a Chinese perspective we have<br />DOES CHINA’S RISE THREATEN<br />THE UNITED STATES?<br />Jinghao Zhou<br /><br /><a href="http://www.asianperspective.org/articles/v32n3-g.pdf">http://www.asianperspective.org/articles/v32n3-g.pdf</a><br />In order for the Communist Party of China (CCP) to survive into the twenty-first century, it has realized that China must make peace with the international society and develop a harmonious society at home.<br /><br />The Sixth Plenary Session of the Sixteenth Central Committee of the CPC passed the “Resolution of the CPC Central Committee on Major Issues Regarding the Building of a Harmonious Socialist Society” in October 2006, placing “building a harmonious society” atop its work agenda.<br /><br />China has tried to make peace with neighboring countries and cooperate with<br />Western governments on a broad range of issues. Theoretically, the global village<br />is an international family. If every member of the family becomes strong, the<br />international family becomes stronger.<br /><br />Every nation has its own national interests, so real conflicts between different nations are inevitable. Even now, there are intensive competitions among the democratic societies. Because China is a non-democratic country, China’s rise unavoidably causes other countries to worry.Kathy Podgershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07489944336685763154noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7638648811269611491.post-27994505206577602432011-01-03T09:16:00.000-08:002011-01-03T09:36:32.097-08:00Russia - China Oil Pipeline OpensHappy New Year<br /><br />The Russia - China Oil Pipeline opened...<br /><br /><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/5g1nqcowcDo?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/5g1nqcowcDo?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object><br /><br />This is a good example of how resolving border/territorial disputed peacefully leads to trade and increased prosperity for all sides. A win-win solution. <br /><br /><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/6f9h_3CwXJI?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/6f9h_3CwXJI?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object><br /><br />Here is an excellent review of what a border/territirial dispite comprises. But today, more than ever, trade, and the possibility of finding needed natural resources make the peaceful resolution of border disputes especially urgent.<br /><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Du1dEy2KN4w?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Du1dEy2KN4w?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object><br /><br />We should ask ourselves, what is it that enables countries like China and Russia to resolve border disputes peacefully, while other countries cannot resolve border disputes, or actually go to war over disputed territory.Kathy Podgershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07489944336685763154noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7638648811269611491.post-74166235110968312742010-08-03T11:47:00.000-07:002010-08-03T12:39:10.463-07:00China Army Day August 1, 2010Yesterday news media reported that Mao's grandson, Mao Xinyu, had been promoted to major general. But when did this promotion actually take place?<br /><br />Mao Zedong founded the Army in 1927, and founded the Peoples Republic of China in 1949.<br /><br /><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/LSTZ3iDBMiM&hl=en_US&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/LSTZ3iDBMiM&hl=en_US&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object><br /><br />Perhaps some news media jumped the gun, reporting last September, that Mao had been promoted. However, it would appear that he needed to be in the Army for 10 years before he could be promoted.<br /><br />Sightings of him wearing the major general uniform may help pin the actual day.<br /><a href="http://forum.globaltimes.cn/forum/showthread.php?p=43571">http://forum.globaltimes.cn/forum/showthread.php?p=43571</a><br /><br />His promotion was announced formally on China's Army Day, Sunday August 1, 2010.<br /><br /><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/vPIqVZasJ_o&hl=en_US&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/vPIqVZasJ_o&hl=en_US&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object><br /><br /><a href="http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2009-09/29/content_8747855.htm">http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2009-09/29/content_8747855.htm</a><br />Mao said he has been in the army for more than nine years, and army rules stipulate that anyone in the army for 10 years is entitled to pursue the major general rank.<br /><br />"If there's no exception, I could be granted the rank as early as next Army Day," he was quoted as saying.<br /><br /><a href="http://china.globaltimes.cn/chinanews/2010-08/558360.html">http://china.globaltimes.cn/chinanews/2010-08/558360.html</a><br />The promotion was done before Sunday's Army Day but the specific date was not provided.<br /><br /><a href="http://mangalorean.com/news.php?newstype=local&newsid=190264">http://mangalorean.com/news.php?newstype=local&newsid=190264</a><br />Mao, a researcher at the Academy of Military Sciences (AMS), was among other military officers who were promoted to higher ranks shortly before the 83rd anniversary of the founding of the army, Global Times reported<br /><br />Bao Guojun, a spokesman at the AMS, confirmed Sunday that Mao was promoted from the rank of senior colonel to major general.<br /><br />The promotion was done before Sunday's Army Day but the specific date was not provided.Kathy Podgershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07489944336685763154noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7638648811269611491.post-72486072508637916122010-02-19T21:26:00.000-08:002010-02-19T22:44:29.254-08:00President Barack Obama Meets With Dalai Lama in the Map Room of the White House<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUknzxn9_yocVvxzzCFq_NaNlWldHFaY99Mp_XbacZSF3TXFMlhVONGBzgW5Rkgo4ypvsnTBjHHoBpqzETSfe-VtzRGBnIqgtT1S1h96QbPh_XKFozmJqSEo4FgEVl9N535s_Y1SIxuMAY/s1600-h/President+Obama+Meets+With+Dalai+Lama.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 266px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5440193558269156562" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUknzxn9_yocVvxzzCFq_NaNlWldHFaY99Mp_XbacZSF3TXFMlhVONGBzgW5Rkgo4ypvsnTBjHHoBpqzETSfe-VtzRGBnIqgtT1S1h96QbPh_XKFozmJqSEo4FgEVl9N535s_Y1SIxuMAY/s400/President+Obama+Meets+With+Dalai+Lama.jpg" /></a> NEWS: President Barack Obama meets with His Holiness the Dalai Lama in the Map Room of the White House. Feb 18, 2010 (Official White House Photo by Peter Sousa)(fair use claim)<br /><br />“The President met this morning at the White House with His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama. The President stated his strong support for the preservation of Tibet’s unique religious, cultural and linguistic identity and the protection of human rights for Tibetans in the People’s Republic of China. The President commended the Dalai Lama’s “Middle Way” approach, his commitment to nonviolence and his pursuit of dialogue with the Chinese government. The President stressed that he has consistently encouraged both sides to engage in direct dialogue to resolve differences and was pleased to hear about the recent resumption of talks. The President and the Dalai Lama agreed on the importance of a positive and cooperative relationship between the United States and China.”<br /><br />Kalpen Modi<br />Associate Director<br />White House Office of Public Engagement<br />......................................<br /><br />President George Bush, who had previously been with the CIA, was the first president to meet with the Dalai Lama. The Dalai Lama wrote a letter to President Clinton expressing his desire for independence for Tibet. Although he promised "Change we can believe in," Presiden Obama continuse the policy of the Bush-Clinton-Bush era. China, and Chinese have expressed their strongest disapproval of this meeting, and the US's continued interferrence in their domestic affairs. China also stated that this meeting has hurt the Chinese, and they would respond acordingly. Within hours of the meeting China summoned the US Ambassador and lodged their complaint.<br /><br />This meeting comes on the heels of the announcement that the US would sell over $ 6 billion worth of arms to Taiwan. What is the official policy of the US to China, and is there secret policy?<br />.....................................<br /><br />Chinese React to Dalai Lama - Obama<br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rswOSodMIQ&feature=PlayList&p=036FC13A2D23BB2B&index=24">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rswOSodMIQ&feature=PlayList&p=036FC13A2D23BB2B&index=24</a><br />......................................<br /><br />This is the meeting that enthralled the world during the Olympic Winter Games, and which could not be more controversial. One reason is that the president claimed that he was meeting with the Dalai Lama not because he was a political figure, but "the" spiritual" leader of "the Tibetans." However, that statement belies the official relationship between the Government of the USA and the Dalai Lama. This relationship was put into writing in a formal letted sent by the American Ambassador to India to the Dalai Lama in 1951. (Yes, that is correct, 1951. )<br /><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;"><em>"Your Holiness will understand, of course, that the readiness of the United States to render you the assistance and support outlined above is conditioned upon your departure from Tibet, upon your public disavoual of agreements concluded under duress between the representatives of Tibet and those of the Chinese Communists, and upon your continued willingness to cooperate in opposing communist agression.<br /><br />An essential part of our cooperation would be a public announcement by the United States that it supports the position of Your Holiness as the head of an autonomous Tibet. The United States would also support your return to Tibet at the earliest practical moment as head of an autonomous [ , ] and non communist country. The position of the United States in this regard is fundamental and will not be affected by developments in Korea or by Chinese Communist...."<br />(signed by the US Ambassador to India in September 1951)<br /></em></span><br />As you can see, the exerpt above shows that the US has supported the Dalai Lama's activities re China's Tibet since 1951. The offer was put into writing at the insistance of the Dalai Lama's elder brother, who was already a paid CIA asset. The agreement mentiond in the letter is the 17 point agreement, which certainly was not the result of duress, but must have alarmed the US, who had refused to recognise the PRC after Chaing Kai Shek lost the Chinese Civil War and fled to Taiwan. At that time McCarthyism was rampent in the US, and Eisenhower woried about the so called "Falling Dominoes" theory that "the communists wanted to take over the world," and countries would "fall" to communism, one after another, like falling dominoes.<br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Xsoc4-QnplY&hl=en_US&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Xsoc4-QnplY&hl=en_US&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="344" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object><br /><br />However, the Dalai Lama did not take up the US on it's "offer" until 1959. Why? The Chinese arrived in Lahsa, peacefully, under the provisions of the 17 Point Agreement, yet today some still falsly accust the Chinese of "invading" Tibet! Why? What was really going on, what was really the relationship between the Dalai Lama and the US?<br /><br />The Dalai Lama finally left Tibet in March 1959, two weeks lated China emancipated the over 6000 serfs and 106 house slaves of the Dalai Lama along with all the serfs and slaves in Tibet. Why didn't the Dalai Lama not emancipate his serfs and slaves himself? Why did he not keep faith with the 17 Point Agreement?Kathy Podgershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07489944336685763154noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7638648811269611491.post-34314321556757428742010-02-13T20:01:00.000-08:002010-02-13T20:21:38.252-08:00Happy Chinese New Year and Valentine's DayIn Beijing, Tibetan students celebrate the Year of the iron Tiger.<br /><a href="http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/china/2010-02/13/c_13174737.htm">http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/china/2010-02/13/c_13174737.htm</a><br /><br /><br />This year, starting on Feb 14th, Spring Festival coincides with Valentine's Day.<br /><br /><br /><br /><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4t0N8-Ps0kTEad3uqhertYyvT3-pS2uME0FyxVHZ-AAyUf9-iLotJSJll95dTmtt5sVpV6HlRKMXVT4WaXPJ8kA7teoelCjc0KPrDUKHUB-64tsfg9h4Gc1HOvUeMsDFJHBEx33UbkCjT/s1600-h/Snow+Geese+Spring+Festival+Valentine%27s+Day.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 275px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5437945813622200194" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4t0N8-Ps0kTEad3uqhertYyvT3-pS2uME0FyxVHZ-AAyUf9-iLotJSJll95dTmtt5sVpV6HlRKMXVT4WaXPJ8kA7teoelCjc0KPrDUKHUB-64tsfg9h4Gc1HOvUeMsDFJHBEx33UbkCjT/s400/Snow+Geese+Spring+Festival+Valentine%27s+Day.jpg" /></a><br /><br />Even the animals get into the mood. This is the season to make preperations for the coming new year, visit family, and enjoy special food and traditions. </p><p><a href="http://www.xinhuanet.com/english2010/special/springfestival2010/">http://www.xinhuanet.com/english2010/special/springfestival2010/</a><br /><br />Although most folks refer to the Chinese following the "lunar" calandar, in fact, they follow the solar-lunar calandar. This is a 60 year cycle. Originally used by farmers to plan planting, the wonderful calandar, with famous ox pictures, is not unlike the Old Farmer's Almanac.<br /><br />In two weeks the New year festival will conclude with the Lantern Festival, and young folks, who pine to be with their lovers, instead of family, will be together then.</p>Kathy Podgershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07489944336685763154noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7638648811269611491.post-47091117216821689322009-10-01T10:00:00.000-07:002009-10-01T14:01:25.135-07:00Happy Birthday China! 60th Anniversary Celebrations<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/dLdxb54YQIQ&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/dLdxb54YQIQ&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br />Above is the TV special, from Beijing, look for more additions here, to be posted soon.<br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/fbx2XWdLI2Y&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/fbx2XWdLI2Y&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br />BaoBao, precious treasure, Children are considered, in China to be like flowers, they are to be treasured, as they are the China's future.<br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/F442g5hz190&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/F442g5hz190&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br />And above is the begining of the end of the propaganda proping up "Cash My Check," the US supported Green gang thug, who is responsible for dividing Taiwan from China, and who refused to fight the Japanese, leading, instead, the US funded Chinese Civil War, against his very own people.<br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/xncoSsH_6xk&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/xncoSsH_6xk&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br />Above, General Joe Stillwell in China, rare footage of the dixie Mission with Mao. Unfortunately, the US ignored Stillwell and the Foreign Ministry and others making the greatest US foreign policy mistake of the 20th century.Kathy Podgershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07489944336685763154noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7638648811269611491.post-39706204451613733862009-08-12T23:04:00.000-07:002009-08-12T23:32:09.037-07:00US Government Funds Slaughter of Innocent Han Chinese in Xinjiang.<br />Rebiya Kadeer is the President of both WUC (World Uighur Congress) and UAA (Uyghur American Association<br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/9GY3M9tEQ-E&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/9GY3M9tEQ-E&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br />This video documents the elaborate advanced planing that was used to plan and instigate the deadly race riots in Xinjiang Province, China. On July 5th, Some Uighurs, incited by Ribiya Kadeer, president of the World Uighur Congress, and the Uighur American Association, staged "peaceful demonstrations," to attract police, then "killing squads" raged through side streets in Han Chinese neighborhoods, slaughtering dozens of people that "looked Asian." Uighurs are a caucasian ethnic Turkish speaking people. not all Uighurs living in Xinjiang, China support Ribyia's seperatism. Uighurs are not the only minority nor only Muslims living in Xinjiang.<br /><br />The US Government funds Ribiya Kadeer primarily through the NED. US Congressmen support her racial hatred groups. The US Congress, and the Uighur seperatist and terror groups, together, spread disinformation about Xinjiang, Uighurs and China. <br /><br />For example, they like to say that China invaded Xinjiang, the Uihgur homeland. You see, they are counting on your ignorance, indifference, and latent racist attitudes toward "Asian looking people." In fact, Uighurs migrated into Xinjiang, China, some 1000 years AFTER the Han Chinese.<br /><br />Another lie the Uighur seperatists like to spread is that China is destroying Uighur culture. In fact, nothing could be further from the truth! China is the only country in the world that has preserved the writen arabic script of the Uighur language. In all other countries, including Turkey, Uighurs write their language either in Latin or Russian based scripts.<br /><br />I have often wondered why the US continues to engage in such violent covert activities. I assume our government knows this is bad, evil, and unlawful, which is why they lie to Americans about what is actually going on. Is it lawful for the US gov to propagandise the American people? What about the People's Right to Know?Kathy Podgershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07489944336685763154noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7638648811269611491.post-43480760540689064862009-07-18T14:16:00.000-07:002009-07-18T14:27:42.634-07:00Gun Violence in US Kills More Than WarIn the US, 1 in every 31 adults is in prison, jail or on supervised release. geath by guns every yrer is more that US deaths in Wars overseas. Yet, the right to own guns continues, while those how incite using guns to kill do not have free speech protection, and can and are prosecuted.<br /><br /><object width="560" height="340"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/LbN1DHyuBZ0&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/LbN1DHyuBZ0&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"></embed></object><br /><br />Watch in this video, as a Coffee Klatch, neighbors question prospective DA about their fears about Philly being the wild west, and more dangerous that either detroit or Baltimore. The man speaking, a caucasion, refers to white people as "people like us," and to Affrican Americans as "animals."<br /><br />Phildelphia is the City where the police actually droped a bomb on the hose of MOVe members, and allowed it to burn, destroying a whole city block, in 1985. <br /><br />Tension between the "oppressive" police and the "oppressed African American" community continues.<br /><br />many Affrican Americans contend that "Whites" are making money on black on black violence, by selling durgs and guns into economically depressed inner city neighborhoods. <br /><br />Recently, a group of Affrican American kids were refused the right to swim at a privat pool, even though they had paid priveliges to do so. White folks left the pool, claiming that they felt afraid of the "black" children that looked different from them.<br /><br />Look for updated to this story.Kathy Podgershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07489944336685763154noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7638648811269611491.post-34369353213516021622009-07-18T13:19:00.000-07:002009-07-18T13:27:22.981-07:00Freedom of the Press Missing When covering Western Nations Crackdowns: How Do Western Nations Deal With Riots and Rioters?Since Nixon paved the way for recognition of China, more and more attention has been focused on how China deals with dissent. Western media make a huge issue out of what is called china's reppression od dissent, and the use of crackdowns, while at the same time covering up their own practices od opressing dissent in their own countries. From time to time, I hope to att to this topic.<br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/FyWudJwA-D4&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/FyWudJwA-D4&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br />France crushes riots, sends rioters to jail with long harsh sentances.Kathy Podgershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07489944336685763154noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7638648811269611491.post-12352297148347310702009-07-14T16:37:00.000-07:002009-07-15T15:02:54.505-07:00Carlson's Raiders Were Presented With a Silk Banner at The 70th Anniversary Celebration of the ICCIC" Held in Beijing<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/IOFvj_d8RLE&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/IOFvj_d8RLE&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br />"With the memory of their sacrifice in mind, let us here dedicate ourselves to the task of bringing into reality the ideals for which they died, that their sacrifice will not have been in vain..."<br /><br />That is so beautiful, and so inspireing.<br /><br />What a great leader, and hero he was.<br /><br />In Beijing, on June 29th, in the meeting hall of the former residence of Soong Ching Ling, The "70th Anniversary Celebration of the ICCIC" was held.<br /><br />The "Gung Ho" marine, Lt. Col. Evans F. Carlson of the U.S. Marine Corps was honoured, when all the guests joined a chorus in singing the National Anthem of the People's Republic of China, and guests from the United States sang the "The Marine Corps Hymn." <br /><br /><strong>Background: The History of the ICCIC</strong><br /><br />The Gung Ho movement was started in 1937 in Shanghai by Rewi Alley of New Zealand and some other foreigners together with a group of Chinese patriots. To win support from abroad, collect funds for development and ensure the proper use of foreign aid, the International Committee for the Promotion of Chinese Industrial Cooperatives (ICCIC) was founded in Hong Kong in January 1939. It is an international nongovernmental organization that aims to promote Chinese industrial cooperatives. Soong Ching Ling was elected as honorary chairperson. The work of the committee soon won support among the overseas Chinese and people worldwide. <br /><br />It suspended its work in 1952 and revived it in 1987. Since that year, the ICCIC has supported a large number of cooperatives in different provinces in China for cooperative principle training, environment improvement and poverty alleviation.<br /><br />The success of ICCIC's projects has strengthened its ties with other cooperative organizations at home and abroad.<br /><br />http://sclf.cri.cn/1/2009/07/03/2s1125.htm<br /><br />"Those who do not learn from the past, are condemned to repeat it. The purpose of this film is, thus, educational. We have no hatred for the Japanese people."<br /><br />From 1931 onward, the US responded to increasing japanese agression in China with verbal "condemnations," while continuing to provide material support to Japan.<br /><br />In 1932, photos of the bombing of Shanghai, shown bombs with "Made in the USA" on them.<br /><br />As Japan continued to build their Navy, and move deeper into China, and word of horrendous atrocities reached Washington, the US continued to provide material support to Japan, in the face of this agression, even after the all out war against China, the second Sino Japanese war, support for Japan contin ued. Roosevelt confined himself to moral requests to business not to sell war materials to Japan.<br /><br />October 7th, 1939, a Colliers editorial asked ...<br />"We're idealist american enough to base this motion for a war materials embargo against Japan chiefly on moral grounds, It is not decent, it is not right, at least by moral standards, for the US to be selling the japanese materials for the slow and merciless enslavement of a peacible nation. This is dirty money."<br /><br />By 1937 American magazines sensational reports that 55.4% of material support for Japanese agression against China came from America. That included materials that were unavailable from any other source, including hi grade steel, machery and lubricating oils.<br /><br />Dec 9th Japanese take Nanjing<br /><br />http://www.usspanay.org/attacked.shtml<br /><br />November of 1937 found the Japanese Army racing towards Nanking, its troops operating on the southern bank of the Yangtze and in the river delta. As Iris Chang recounts in The Rape of Nanking, the Japanese army left a swath of destruction in its path, murdering helpless civilians, committing countless rapes, and conducting wanton atrocities. The fall of the city would prove to be one of the bloodiest episodes in WWII, with more than 300,000 Chinese civilians and soldiers killed in a mere six weeks. <br /><br />The death toll, Chang notes, “exceed(ed) that of the atomic blasts of Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined”. <br /><br />(but only Chinese were killed, as Europeans, Americans and Nazi's looked on with much hand wringing)<br /><br />On Dec 12, 1937, the Japanese bombed and sank the US Gunboat panay, in the Yangze river near Nanjing.<br /><br />The Nanjing Massacre began on Dec 13th.<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoW2WYdOsvg<br /><br />Still the US continued to provide war materials to the Japanese for their war against China.<br /><br />October 7th, 1939, a Colliers editorial asked ...<br /><br />"We're idealist american enough to base this motion for a war materials embargo against Japan chiefly on moral grounds, It is not decent, it is not right, at least by moral standards, for the US to be selling the japanese materials for the slow and merciless enslavement of a peacible nation. This is dirty money."<br /><br />In July 1940, the Japanese demanded britan close the Burma Road, and the US moved it's Naval Fleet from the west coast to pearl harbour. In september japan forced the Vichey government to asccept japanese Army bases to cut the supply routs to China. 11days later Japan signed the AXIS agreements.<br /><br />Only then did Washington embargo more metals, aviation fuel and aviation techknowledgies. <br /><br />Japan then signed a non agression treaty with the soviets, so they could focus on the conquest of China and So east Asia.<br /><br />In 1941, ignoring US warnings not to do so, Japan moved troops into XSo Indochina. <br /><br />Finally, Roosevelt froze Japanese assets, and the sales of all strageic war materials, including oil, leaving Japan with reserves for a two year war.<br /><br />August 1941, Roosevelt and Churchil met at sea off Newfoundland, the Atlantic Charter.<br /><br />Dec 7th, 1941, Japan bombed Pearl Harbour.<br /><br />At the same time they started south, and the western colonial possesions fell like dominoes. Within 6 months Japan had subjigated the great crescent of so east asia.<br /><br />WWII became a global war for survival from AXIS agression.<br /><br />http://books.google.com/books?id=ow5Wlmu9MPQC&pg=PA39&lpg=PA39&dq=USA+material+support+japan+war+against+china&source=bl&ots=TGoY-EVjgT&sig=kJGHP2ZYDzKfVrYmTL9v-gBElnA&hl=en&ei=iiRdSsemJ5LSMtvjta4C&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10<br /><br />Lt Col. Evans Carlson had warned Rosevelt not to trust Japan, and that he feared Japan would attack the US, but Rousevelt brushed aside this warning and Colson had to leave the Marines.<br /><br />Carlson was returned to service immediately after hes "intelligence" was demonstrated to be spot on. He gave birth to Carlsons Raiders.Kathy Podgershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07489944336685763154noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7638648811269611491.post-52329124538351443382009-06-06T19:10:00.000-07:002011-04-13T12:05:39.698-07:00The Tiananmen AffairChai Ling's confession of foreign involvement in an interview has been removed from Youtube!<br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/i8fGgkSNkP0&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/i8fGgkSNkP0&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br />Chai Ling suew maker of this video, Gate Of Heavenly Peace, and it has been removed!<br />http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6221258.ece<br />The lawsuit against Long Bow makes no mention of this interview. <br /><br />Since its release in 1995 the film has drawn the anger of both the Chinese authorities and several student leaders and has become a significant source of material on the movement. <br /><br />However, the makers now fear that the aim of Ms Chai is to put Long Bow, a non-profit organisation, out of business by bankrupting them through legal costs. <br /><br />Their appeal says: “We believe that in commemorating the events of 1989 20 years on, it is important to reflect also on the value of independent thought, unfettered historical research, the collection and protection of archival materials and the freedom of speech in our own environment.” <br />.........................<br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gate_of_Heavenly_Peace_(documentary)<br /><br />Folks, this video of a confession by Chai Ling, one of those "students" who falsly claimed there was a massacre in Tiananmen, and which was translated into English, has been removed from Youtube! In fact, this tiny piece, whas Chai Ling in her very own voice, explaining why she left before the massacre, because as she said her handlers in Hong Kong had encouraged Her, and the students to stay in the Sq after the students had voted to end the protests and return to there respective colleges, and suffer bloodshed at the hands of the Chinese, was the only way to get thge world's attention.<br /><br />Folks, you really gotta T H I N K about this.<br /><br />No one was shot, killed, or run over by a tank in Tiananmen in June 1989. That is a proven fact, and Spanish TV as well as the Chinese Government have video to prove it.<br /><br />From Wikipedia...<br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chai_Ling<br />The Gate of Heavenly Peace documentary contains footage, dated May 28, 1989, in which Chai says to American journalist Philip Cunningham:<br /><br />"The students kept asking, 'What should we do next? What can we accomplish?' I feel so sad, because how can I tell them that what we are actually hoping for is bloodshed, for the moment when the government has no choice but to brazenly butcher us. Only when the Square is awash with blood will the people of China open their eyes. Only then will they really be united. But how can I explain this to my fellow students? And what is truly sad is that some students, and famous well-connected people, are working hard to help the government, to prevent it from taking such measures. For the sake of their selfish interests and their private dealings they are trying to cause our movement to collapse and get us out of the Square before the government becomes so desperate that it takes action." This gave rise to the public perception that the student leaders were making use of the students' lives and well-being to further their personal careers and financial interests.[1]<br /><br />Chai claims that she was misquoted in that documentary.[20] In a letter in her defense submitted to the creators of The Gate of Heavenly Peace, a group of students also involved in the 1989 protests in Beijing say that filmmakers and other critics used "selective quotes and interpretive and erroneous translation" in their portrayal of Ling, and that she and the other student leaders remained united right up until the end of the protest when they fled the Square in the last hour.[21]<br /><br />Chai and her firm have launched multiple lawsuits against the non-profit organization that created this film. An initial suit, in which Chai alleged defamation, has been dismissed. An additional ongoing suit claims that the organization infringed upon Jenzabar's copyright by mentioning the firm's name on its website. The filmmakers believe that the firm's intention is to bankrupt them through legal costs, irrespective of the merits of the cases.[22] Columnists for the Boston Globe and the New Yorker have argued that this represents a surprisingly undemocratic action by a leader of China's 1989 protests.[23][24] Chai claimed to have offered to drop the suit in June 2010.[25] However, the Boston Globe, in reporting the decision granting summary judgment dismissing the trademark suit, deemed the claim not credible. [26]<br />..........................<br /><br />http://articles.boston.com/2010-12-19/news/29320655_1_jenzabar-filmmakers-trademark-dispute<br /><br />Last week, Ling Chai — a key leader in China’s 1989 prodemocracy movement — was in Oslo to see this year’s Nobel Peace Prize awarded to imprisoned Chinese dissident and free-speech advocate Liu Xiaobo. While she was in Norway, a Superior Court judge put a stop to Chai’s protracted assault on free speech here in Massachusetts.<br /><br />With her husband, Chai now runs a Boston software company called Jenzabar Inc. And for three years, she has been trying to use the courts to go after two local filmmakers because she doesn’t like some material cited on their website.<br /><br />The dispute between Chai and the filmmakers goes back to 1995, when Chai objected to the way she was characterized in their documentary about the Tiananmen Square crackdown of 1989. The film, “The Gate of Heavenly Peace,’’ contains an interview with a very young, exhausted Chai near the end of the standoff, in which, according to the translation, she says student leaders “are actually hoping for bloodshed. . . .Only when the square is awash in blood will the people of China open their eyes.’’<br /><br />Chai said the interview was mistranslated and taken out of context. The filmmakers, Carma Hinton and Richard Gordon, stand by their work.<br /><br />Since the film’s release, the filmmakers have maintained a website that includes updates on Chai and Jenzabar and links to articles, including several from the Globe, that are unflattering.<br /><br />Chai and her company sued the filmmakers and their company, the Long Bow Group, for defamation and trademark infringement. The trademark claim seeks to bar the filmmakers from using “Jenzabar’’ as a keyword on their website, which would prevent the nonglowing stories from coming up when somebody Googles the software company. The defamation charge was quickly thrown out. The trademark dispute dragged on until a judge dismissed it last week.<br /><br />The suit is a transparent attempt to shut down negative publicity. Jenzabar hasn’t disputed the facts in the stories. It’s merely trying to make it more difficult to find them.<br /><br />It’s no fun to have people write negative things about you, and to have those things live forever online. That’s a downside of the First Amendment. But free expression is vital to democracy, and it shouldn’t be vulnerable to endless legal maneuverings.<br /><br />Going after websites using trademark law is the kind of tactic that deep-pocketed companies have been deploying more and more frequently to shut down negative commentary about them, said Paul Alan Levy, the filmmakers’ attorney and founder of the Internet Free Speech project at Public Citizen, a citizen advocacy nonprofit. Even if the plaintiffs in these cases don’t prevail in court, they can stifle their opponents by bleeding them of cash. Hinton and Gordon dropped $250,000 on private lawyers. If Public Citizen hadn’t stepped in to represent them pro bono, they would have been ruined by Jenzabar.<br /><br />“The trademark case is an excuse to punish the filmmakers for having the audacity to portray Chai and others in a not completely favorable light,’’ said Levy.<br /><br />Jenzabar’s general counsel sent along a statement yesterday making the ludicrous claim that it’s the financially-strapped filmmakers who prolonged the dispute — by not caving in, judging from the legal documents.<br /><br />Levy is certain Jenzabar will appeal both the trademark and defamation losses, and the Jenzabar statement seems to promise just that, calling the dismissal “just one more step in a lengthy legal process.’’<br /><br />Chai, who was unwell and couldn’t speak to me Friday, does good work through her Jenzabar Foundation, and she still pushes for democracy in China. But her fight should begin here at home.<br /><br />Liu, serving an 11-year sentence for subversion, could not be in Oslo to accept his Nobel Prize. In his place, actress Liv Ullman read his last public statement.<br /><br />It reads, in part: “To strangle freedom of speech is to trample on human rights, stifle humanity, and suppress truth.’’<br /><br />Was Chai listening?<br /><br />Yvonne Abraham is a Globe columnist. She can be reached at abraham@globe.comKathy Podgershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07489944336685763154noreply@blogger.com0