China

Foreign spies seek out Chinese girls

Fri, 18 May 2012 15:30:43 +0000

Somebody's LOST IT here!

State TV Host Offers Advice on How to Throw Out ‘Foreign Trash’

Yang Rui/CCTV News said:

Cut off the foreign snake heads. People who can’t find jobs in the U.S. and Europe come to China to grab our money, engage in human trafficking and spread deceitful lies to encourage emigration. Foreign spies seek out Chinese girls to mask their espionage and pretend to be tourists while compiling maps and GPS data for Japan, Korea and the West. We kicked out that foreign bitch and closed Al-Jazeera’s Beijing bureau. We should shut up those who demonize China and send them packing.

Crony Capitalism at Work...

Fri, 18 May 2012 10:32:47 +0000

The depth, breadth and scale of official corruption in China is really astounding...

"evidence is mounting that the relatives of other current and former senior officials have also amassed vast wealth, often playing central roles in businesses closely entwined with the state, including those involved in finance, energy, domestic security, telecommunications and entertainment. Many of these so-called princelings also serve as middlemen to a host of global companies and wealthy tycoons eager to do business in China.

.“Whenever there is something profitable that emerges in the economy, they’ll be at the front of the queue,” said Minxin Pei, an expert on China’s leadership and professor of government at Claremont McKenna College in California. “They’ve gotten into private equity, state-owned enterprises, natural resources — you name it.”

For example, Wen Yunsong, the son of Prime Minister Wen Jiabao, heads a state-owned company that boasts that it will soon be Asia’s largest satellite communications operator. President Hu Jintao’s son, Hu Haifeng, once managed a state-controlled firm that held a monopoly on security scanners used in China’s airports, shipping ports and subway stations. And in 2006, Feng Shaodong, the son-in-law of Wu Bangguo, the party’s second-ranking official, helped Merrill Lynch win a deal to arrange the $22 billion public listing of the giant state-run bank I.C.B.C., in what became the world’s largest initial public stock offering."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/47472124/ns/world_news-the_new_york_times/

Chinese Fishing Boats Held for Ransom

Fri, 18 May 2012 06:03:35 +0000

This kind of thing could eventually force the Chinese to take some sort of ACTUAL stance on the China Seas (this is North Korea here)

Global Times - 29 Chinese fishermen allegedly seized by NK

NY Times - 3 Boats Held by Gunmen, China Says

As a commenter says

Tianwang said:

As the dispute in the South China Sea remains unsolved, such incidents will happen in the Yellow Sea. I feel that China's territorial waters are now not under the control of the Chinese authorities. Forbearance cannot bring us peace forever. Sometimes, we must show our power.

�HEY GOOD LOOKIN�! GOT A FUTURE? IF NOT, GO JOIN THE ARMY!�

Thu, 17 May 2012 09:38:39 +0000

What Chinese Artists Say About China

WSJ said:

"We thought the answers would be extremely positive, but it’s quite varied. It’s not nearly as positive as you’d think. They still have many worries"

More Fallout Over Bo

Thu, 17 May 2012 07:02:55 +0000

16 Retired Chinese Communist Party Officials Call for 2 Top Leaders to Step Down

NY Times said:

Mr. Wu said the signers were mostly in their late 70s and 80s and wanted to express their support for Mr. Bo’s dismissal. But they also think that the men behind Mr. Bo should go.

. . .

Mr. Wu said that Mr. Liu, the propaganda official, also opposed calls for political change and blocked them from being disseminated in the news media. “We thought that such a person should not enter the next Politburo,” he said.
Mr. Wu said that police officials had visited him and other signers to try to persuade them not to post the petition, saying that “anti-Chinese forces” would exploit it. But he said they decided to go ahead anyway because of their strong feelings against the two men and their antireform policies.
Shortly after its posting, the petition and associated search words were blocked on popular social media sites.

The Chongqing Economy . . . and China's

Thu, 17 May 2012 05:23:55 +0000

An interesting accounting of Chongqing's economy vs. China's in recent years

The Chongqing Economy: An Illustrated Primer

The "Last Tribe in China"

Tue, 15 May 2012 05:03:29 +0000

Wengding village in Yunnan, near the border with Burma

The video points out that head-hunting was outlawed in 1950

http://english.cntv.cn/program/program/chinainsight/20120514/108520.shtml

The Problems Are So Serious...

Mon, 14 May 2012 10:53:20 +0000

We've talked about and around these basic issues here many times...Why don't the leaders in China see the handwriting on the wall???

"But now, with the recent political upheavals, and a growing number of influential voices demanding a resurrection of freer economic policies, it appears that the sense of triumphalism was, at best, premature, and perhaps seriously misguided. Chinese leaders are grappling with a range of uncertainties, from the once-a-decade leadership transition this year that has been marred by a seismic political scandal, to a slowdown of growth in an economy in which deeply entrenched state-owned enterprises and their political patrons have hobbled market forces and private entrepreneurship.
“Many economic problems that we face are actually political problems in disguise, such as the nature of the economy, the nature of the ownership system in the country and groups of vested interests,” said Zhang Ming, a political scientist at Renmin University in Beijing. “The problems are so serious that they have to be solved now and can no longer be put off.”
On Thursday, China released data that showed its economy was continuing to weaken. Many economists have been urging the government to loosen controls over the financial system, to support lending to private businesses while reining in state-owned enterprises, to allow more movement in exchange rates and interest rates, and to improve social benefits.
Such changes would curb the state’s role, lessen corruption and encourage competition. But making them would involve a titanic power struggle. Executives of Chinese conglomerates, army generals, Politburo members, local officials and the “princeling” children of Communist Party elders have little incentive to refashion a system that fills their coffers."

http://chinadigitalt...l-shows-limits/

China Has No �Legal System�

Mon, 14 May 2012 02:47:04 +0000

Like I said, it's " . . . under the leadership of the Communist Party". From the Wall Street Journal:

Two Big Stories, One Conclusion: China Has No ‘Legal System’

WSJ said:

In considering the possibility that Chinese criminal law might be invoked to punish misconduct in either case, it would a mistake to think of China’s legal institutions as a “legal system.” Legal institutions in China, especially the criminal law, are part of a political system that ultimately directs their application and their use. They are essentially grounded on the dominant notion that law is to be used to keep the Party in power.

French Fry Brother...

Sun, 13 May 2012 15:07:05 +0000

"A Gary Locke to put the government officials in place, and now a French Fry Brother to put the people in their places, those American imperialists are too sinister! "

http://www.chinasmack.com/2012/pictures/young-american-shares-fries-chats-with-old-chinese-beggar.html