People's Republic of China, Dec. 27 2011

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That would make our day, as any Chinese support in Asean will dry up overnight. The best thing that can happen to India is CHina gets into a war warlike situation with Uncle allies to the East.
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China says Japan's unilateral action on Diaoyu Islands illegal
BEIJING, April 22 (Xinhuanet) -- The Chinese Foreign Ministry says any unilateral action taken by Japan concerning the Diaoyu Islands is illegal and invalid.

This remark comes after Tokyo Governor Shintaro Ishihara, stated that the Tokyo metropolitan government is considering purchasing land on the islands. China has reacted strongly to these comments, saying China will take every necessary measure to safeguard sovereignty over the islands.

But such a strongly-worded reaction might just be what the Governor is looking for. Indeed, many Japanese don’t want to see relations with China further deteriorate.

Especially not this year, which marks the 40th anniversary of normalization of diplomatic ties between the two countries.
Another pressure point.
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Japan to forgive billions of Myanmar debt
The agreement to waive 303.5 billion yen (US$3.72 billion) debt and overdue charges was reached during President Thein Sein's visit to Tokyo, the first by a Myanmar head of state in nearly three decades, signaling its steady return to the international fold after decades of brutal military rule.
Japan pledges $7.4 bln in aid to Mekong region
With an eye to China's growing sway in Southeast Asia, Japan pledged about 600 billion yen ($7.4 billion) in development aid and expertise after a summit Saturday with the leaders of the Mekong River region.
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China begins crack down on terror in areas bordering PoK
China has launched a “strike hard” campaign to crack down on terrorism in its far-western Xinjiang region, officials have said, outlining new plans to boost security deployments in remote areas and towns near the border with Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) to combat “growing” and “imported” extremism.

Zhang Chunxian, Communist Party secretary of the Muslim-majority Xinjiang-Uighur “autonomous region,” recently addressed a high-level government meeting in Urumqi to outline new anti-terror measures, State-run Xinhua news agency said in a report.

Mr. Zhang issued an order for police to “strike down hard and fast on attackers” and for officials to “work more closely with the masses to detect terrorist activity.” The measures include a “tougher stance” to incidents of violence, monitoring religious activities and boosting deployments of law enforcement personnel in remote border towns in southern Xinjiang, according to Chinese analysts.

Xinhua quoted an unnamed security expert as saying the government was concerned by “growing religious extremism” that was “imported from neighbouring volatile central and southwest Asian regions.”

One Chinese analyst said it was clear that China's main concern was directed at Pakistan, although the government is reluctant to name directly its “all-weather” ally.

The launch of the “strike hard” campaign comes less than a month after the Ministry of Public Security released a “wanted” terror list of six alleged members of the extremist East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM), some of whom were earlier reported by Chinese authorities as being based in Pakistan.

The Ministry called on “foreign governments” to hand them over to Chinese authorities, in a statement seen by analysts as reflecting increasing Chinese concerns over the spread of cross-border terrorism and Pakistan's failure to close ETIM camps.

An official told Xinhua that the police needed to reach “key areas” faster and “determinedly use force to end [incidents] as fast as possible.”

The Xinjiang government has blamed recent violence, mostly occurring in the towns of Kashgar and Hotan near the PoK border, on overseas-trained terrorists. Officials said ETIM member Memtieli Tiliwaldi, who was reportedly trained by ETIM leader Nurmemet Memetmin — one of the six named on the terror list — at a camp in Pakistan, was behind bombings and knife attacks that killed at least 20 people last year in Kashgar.

Pakistani links

Following violence in February in Yecheng, near Kashgar, that left 15 people dead, Xinjiang Governor Nur Bekri in unusual public remarks said extremists in Xinjiang had “a thousand and one links” to Pakistan. The Chinese Foreign Ministry later sought to play down both his remarks and the Public Security Ministry's statement, praising Pakistan's efforts at the “forefront” of the battle against terrorism.

Many Uighur scholars have, however, raised concerns over the government's “strike hard” campaigns, accusing authorities of inflating the threat from groups such as the ETIM and pinning all incidents of unrest on “terrorists.”

Scholars like economist Ilham Tohti have argued that the unrest is sourced in Uighur concerns over rising Han Chinese migration, rising inequalities and religious restrictions. Government campaigns to crack down on “illegal religious activities” have also stirred concerns, enforcing tighter controls over mosques and banning religious activities among students and government servants.

Ma Dezheng, a scholar with the official Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), acknowledged to Xinhua that the ETIM had been weakened after its leader Hasan Mahsum was killed by Pakistani forces in 2003. However, he warned that terror groups in Xinjiang were still active but “increasingly family-based and showed fewer signs of being part of a large terrorist network.” Attackers, he said, “tend to be younger and include more women.”
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Not sure if this was posted before.

Ordos: The biggest ghost town in China
Has a couple of impressive pictures. I wonder if the PRC govt has some future population transfer contingency in mind.
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China to introduce new 'talent visa' to attract foreigners

Somebody please get one of these visas and send our CPM comrades to China once and for all. The unique talent they have is knowledge of an ancient and now dead concept called communism. Maybe India's growth might shoot up and China's may come down once they get there.
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Epoch Times is possibly run by Falun Gong supporters, but carries many details of how the Chinese politburo works and the rivalries and corruption within. Some details/speculations about the Bo Xilai affair.

http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/china-n ... 23536.html
Political combat continues to roil the Chinese Communist Party, with widely publicized reports that the top security official is now under investigation, and that an essay penned by adversary Premier Wen Jiabao was censored before being published.
Zhou Yongkang, the country’s security czar, could “face a reckoning” in the scandal that has gone from Chongqing in the southwest all the way to Beijing, according to The Associated Press (AP). The attempted defection in early February of Wang Lijun, former Chongqing police chief, set off a purge that extended next to Wang’s boss Bo Xilai, Chongqing’s controversial neo-Maoist city boss, and Bo’s wife. Now it may have reached the powerful Zhou Yongkang.
The reasons for the leadership targeting the powerful boss of all of China’s police forces are not given definitively. Zhou was a known supporter of Bo Xilai, and reportedly, was also the sole member of the Standing Committee to disagree in a secret meeting with the Bo’s ousting.
That Zhou is being investigated suggests a more grave possibility: he may have been involved in a coup attempt with Bo Xilai, against the leadership, a rumor that emerged in March and was never refuted.
On April 16, Chinese state media published an article by Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao stating, “Those departments that do poor work, not handle major cases or corruption cases in a timely manner, their responsibilities must be thoroughly dealt with according to the rules.” This suggests that some major cases that had been covered up will come under scrutiny and be investigated.

In recent years, several corruption cases involving astronomical amounts of money were associated with Jiang Zemin’s son, Jiang Mianheng.

The Epoch Times has learned that the Central Disciplinary Commission is investigating a major corruption case that is linked to the father and son. The money involved in the financial fraud could reach as high as 1.2 trillion yuan (US$190 billion). According to the source, the investigation of the case has disclosed detailed information suggesting that this is part of a well-developed plan to a strike at the Jiang family’s corruption.
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Bo Xilai said to have spied on top China officials
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/47182972/ns ... ork_times/

WASHINGTON — BEIJING — When Hu Jintao, China's top leader, picked up the telephone last August to talk to a senior anticorruption official visiting Chongqing, special devices detected that he was being wiretapped — by local officials in that southwestern metropolis.

The discovery of that and other wiretapping led to an official investigation that helped topple Chongqing's charismatic leader, Bo Xilai, in a political cataclysm that has yet to reach a conclusion...
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Blind China activist Chen 'escapes' home detention: activists

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/blind ... ts/942289/
Chen Guangcheng, a blind legal activist known as one of China's most prominent human rights advocates, slipped out of his usually well-guarded house in Dongshigu town on Sunday, said the campaigners, who are based in China and overseas. He Peirong, a leading campaigner for Chen's freedom, said she picked him up and drove him to "a relatively safe place'' she would not further describe.

If confirmed, Chen's freedom would be a boost for a persecuted dissident community that has seen repression increase over the past two years. His plight under house arrest has been closely monitored by Western governments and by local activists, who have seen Chen – a self-taught lawyer who was blinded by a fever in infancy – as an inspiring, determined fighter for justice.

"His mental state is pretty good. He's alive, but whether he's safe I don't know,'' He said from her home city of Nanjing. She said she left Chen a few days ago but declined to discuss further details, other than to say he is no longer in his home province of Shandong, southeast of Beijing.
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Now even our own MJ Akbar has to take potshots at PRC corruption....

The Himalayan heist

Some excerpts...
Bo Xilai was not a law unto himself; he was the law unto an oligarchy that has feasted, with a ravenous appetite, upon the prosperity of the nation. There is not enough space to go into rapacious details of how Bo, Gu and their immediate and extended family looted their country; but trust me, Indian corruption suddenly begins to look like small potatoes. Figures filtering through social media, considered reliable enough for quotation by responsible newspapers, indicate that Bo and Gu ferreted away at least $800 million to safe havens outside China.
I'm like, WTH, since when is a mere $800 mn dwarfing desi corruption by so much, eh? BUt this following piece takes the cake...
No one raised an eyebrow, because you would run out of eyebrows if you began raising one at every instance of high-level Chinese corruption. State media has reported that one railway official, Zhang Shugang, stole $2.8 billion and squirreled it out of China. A Chinese bank has said that some 18,000 officials had disappeared with $120 billion. This is merely what has been admitted.
Oh, read it all only...
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Chinese Dissident Chen Guangcheng in US protection

Hmm. Evidently holed up in the US embassy. Massive H&D loss and "loss of face" for the PRC.
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The figures that are doing the rounds in Chinese dissident circles is $200 billion by Jiang Zemin and his son. Another statistic:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-02-2 ... upers.html
The richest 70 members of China’s legislature added more to their wealth last year than the combined net worth of all 535 members of the U.S. Congress, the president and his Cabinet, and the nine Supreme Court justices.
The net worth of the 70 richest delegates in China’s National People’s Congress, which opens its annual session on March 5, rose to 565.8 billion yuan ($89.8 billion) in 2011, a gain of $11.5 billion from 2010, according to figures from the Hurun Report, which tracks the country’s wealthy. That compares to the $7.5 billion net worth of all 660 top officials in the three branches of the U.S. government.
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US must apologise: China’s statement on Chen Guangcheng -Firstpost

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By looking at this picture, I understood PRC PR machinery is awesome by showing always neat and polished background in their pictures, but occasionally like this, we can know that they are are also just like us SYRE only.
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http://www.thehindu.com/news/internatio ... 383118.ece

new dispute front in making by china?
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The meeting also discussed confidence building measures on the boundary dispute, such as opening an alternate route for the Kailash Manasarovar Yatra and additional items for border trade through the Nathu La Pass in Sikkim.
Why is India not claiming Kailash Mansarover? Han does not even know what KM is. This the holiest spot for hundreds of millions of Indians for millenia. It is an insult that Indians have to apply to Chinese to visit something that is so holy and intrinsic to them. It did not matter when Tibet was independent as Tibet-India was like Nepal-India, but it does matter now. KM is Indian territory and must be claimed.
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Check the rare maps

South China sea old name is Oriental Ocean, until European change it into south China sea. www.raremaps.com

Communist China indoctrinate their people that South China Sea are theirs. During the time of Mao Zedong Communist youth are ready to die in the name of communism.


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China Will Never Rule the World
Author Troy Parfitt discusses his newest book, Why China Will Never Rule the World.
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The above author mentions the word "Confucious" several times but never spoke about Communist Party that elites belong to or Buddhism that ordinary people practice.
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Something extremely pukeworthy (Don't read if you are eating) :-
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_boy_egg
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South Korea finds smuggled capsules from China contain human flesh

SOUTH Korea has seized thousands of smuggled drug capsules filled with powdered human flesh and is strengthening customs inspections, officials said today.

The capsules were made in northeastern China from dead babies whose bodies were chopped into small pieces and dried on stoves before being turned into powder, a statement from the Korea Customs Service said.

Customs officials refused to disclose where the babies came from or who made the capsules, citing possible diplomatic friction with Beijing.
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Lets see for how long.
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Thousands of pills filled with powdered human baby flesh discovered by customs officials in South Korea
The grim trade is being run from China where corrupt medical staff are said to be tipping off medical companies when babies are aborted or delivered still-born.
In order to keep its population down, China performs 13 million abortions a year - mainly because mothers sacrifice their newborns to avoid punishment such as severe fines or even a beating by the authorities.

The Chinese authorities have confirmed that 38 per cent of women of child-bearing age have been sterilised - but the babies that are aborted do not go to waste because of the sickening trade in using their corpses for purported medicinal purposes.
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But can barbarians pass judgement on such a noble race?
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QE coming to PRC soon is the word on the street. Disease will spread to Australia and then Germany.
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^^ What are the observed and expected effects of QE2 and QE3 on India? FII flows to India decreased since 2010, IINM.
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Rumblings underneath the surface at Zhongnanhai:
China considers delay of key party congress
China's ruling Communist Party is seriously considering a delay in its upcoming five-yearly congress by a few months amid internal debate over the size and makeup of its top decision-making body, sources said, as the party struggles to finalize a once-in-a-decade leadership change.

The two most senior posts, of president and premier, are not considered in much doubt. But any delay in the congress, no matter the official reason, would likely fuel speculation of infighting over the remaining seats in the nine-member politburo standing committee which calls the shots in China.

The makeup of those remaining positions could in turn influence the ability of the incoming new president, Xi Jinping, to forge a consensus among those immediately below him on how to run the world's second-largest economy and a military superpower.

Delay could also further unnerve global financial markets whose perception of Chinese politics as a well-oiled machine has already been shaken this year by the extraordinary downfall of an ambitious senior leader, Bo Xilai, in a murder scandal.

The top party leaders are considering a proposal to move the 18th congress, originally scheduled for September or October, to between November and January, three sources said, in a step that has been taken twice before in the past five congresses.

The delay would primarily aim to shorten the transition for the new leaders, who will be announced at the congress but are not due to start in their new state roles until March 2013, said the sources, who all have knowledge of the party's deliberations.

One source said a delay would also give time for debate over the size of the standing committee, with current President Hu Jintao's allies wanting it cut to seven, of which they would likely hold a majority, and others wanting it expanded to 11 to accommodate rival factions.
In effect, they are considering delaying the refresh of the politburo and the apex 9-member politburo standing committee. In addition, they're debating whether to decrease or increase the size of the PSC. A delay in the congress and an increase in the size of PSC to 11 from the current 9 would be a sign that top level political consensus is eroding.
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I have been insisting for a year or so that the CPC+PLA rule is going down. Slowly and surely. There will be dramatic changes in China within the next 15-20 years. When it will overturn, it will come as good a shock as the fall of the USSR.

I have some access to a strata of Chinese society that makes me say this. However my initial projection was based on a study of the Chinese communist movement and the PLA's evolving doctrine. Now I would say the process of dissent is accelerating, and in very interesting ways, that are perhaps better not discussed.

But this also makes the Indian plans to face a PLA move - all the more important. Towards the maturing of this internal crisis, at some stage - the establishment will split really hard and a last try would be made to save the institution through a nationalist adventure.
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^^

Cannot agree more with you. Internet is a huge catalyst in this. Even though the CCP invests tens of Billions to prevent its population from getting "free and fair" information and force them to stay in "chinternet", it is not being very successful. People are discovering that they are being aggressively censored and most don't like it.

The only catalyst now needed is slowdown in growth which is inevitable and also faster growth in India. India has always been shown as an example by CCP of a "failed" democracy and now chinese people are discovering its false.

15-20 years is maximum I give to CCP , they will be thrown out by then and a democratic China will be good for everyone in the world !!
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The Startling Plight of China's Leftover Ladies
The poised, professional crowd, outfitted in black blazers, leather boots, and trendy thick-framed glasses, was composed mostly of women in their mid-20s to mid-30s -- prime Cosmo readers and all there waiting patiently to hear Wu, who typically charges $160 an hour for "private romance counseling," explain their surprising plight: being single women in a country with a startling excess of men.
The majority of her talk was devoted not to such timeless aphorisms, but to describing a new conundrum in China: the plight of its sheng nu, or "leftover ladies." In popular parlance, sheng nu refers to women above a certain age -- some say 27, others 30 -- who are unmarried and presumably "left over," too old to be desirable. Increasingly, sheng nu are a topic of alternating humor and alarm for Chinese newspaper columnists, TV sitcoms, reality dating shows, and studies by government bodies like the All-China Women's Federation; according to its 2010 survey, more than 90 percent of male respondents agreed that women should marry before age 27 or risk being forever undesired
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Given China's unbalanced sex ratio, if more women opt for the single life, that simply leaves more unmarried men at the bottom of the social ladder. According to Wang's analysis of China's 2000 census, just 1 percent of college-educated men remained single at age 40, but among men in the lowest income and education bracket, fully 25 percent were single at 40. If some 24 million largely rural bachelors remain in remote villages to care for aging parents, who in turn will care for them? Moreover, a greater proportion of single men, in any society, is often linked with increasing rates of crime and violence. As one common Chinese slogan has it, a harmonious family is the cornerstone of a harmonious society. Clearly, Beijing is worried that the inverse is also true.
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It would be worthwhile for those who are familiar with Soviet political history to compare what's happening in PRC to leadership transitions in USSR. One notable difference is that PRC enforces regular transitions to prevent cult of personality from reviving. However, it doesn't fully address the attendant problems of top down rule, and the fight for patronage.

The current plan to increase the PSC to 11 members is much above typical historical norms. Please review the following historical makeups of PSC. The typical PSC is 5-7 members, which is how big it was during periods when there was a strong paramount leader. During difficult periods (e.g. cultural revolution, post Mao era), the PSC expanded to 9-10 members. It again shrunk back to 5-7 when Deng was in charge.

The current 9-member PSC itself is larger than historical norms for what is termed a stable progressive phase of Chinese polity. Part of this could be attributed to the transition from Long March era 2nd generation leadership (Deng etc) to 4th generation leadership (Hu). The selection of Hu was relatively straightforward because of Deng's influence. But the Hu to Xi transition seems much messier under the surface.

A 11-member PSC would be larger than any other in history, except for the brief 11-member PSC at the height of the cultural revolution (1966-69). Very interesting.
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Very interesting comments
Common sense on May 9, 8:49 AM said:
China is still a third world country full of collective narcissism and cronyism. China's success is about enslaving their people in factories and stealing our copyright. No innovation, no creative minds, no democracy. Who knows where we would be in 50 years. Certainly far from this Lai's presentation.

Freedom on May 9, 8:53 AM said:
@Common sense: I tend to agree with you. The exception is that if the market reforms they've made continue. They could have an economic power house if they freed their people from the government.


Common sense on May 9, 9:07 AM said:
@Freedom: Unfortunately I don't think so. It is a different culture with different values. Saving face and destiny are what they believe in; and they in general lacks honesty and curiosity for invention.


Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/david-la ... z1uOgSYvYQ
With all the negatives they still support the PRC business and trade. The reason given back then was no matter what US had to engage PRC.
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Kautilya says a cabinet can wax and wane depending upon the circumustances, capabilities and the threats to the state. So there is pressure on PRC right now to seek a large PSC.
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China travel agencies suspend Philippine tours.
Most travel agencies in China have suspended tours to the Philippines amid escalating tension in the South China Sea, Chinese state media say.
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Xinhua hits out at Philippines in its editorial

China outraged by Philippines' provocation over Huangyan Island
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"If the Philippines continue to go its own way and infringes China's substantial interests overseas, the consequence will be very severe," said Jin.
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India steps into Philippines-China spat over South China Sea
...In an unusual statement that signals India's growing interests in South China Sea, the MEA on Thursday weighed in on the growing dispute between China and the Philippines. Admitting Indian concern about the events, the MEA spokesperson said, "Maintenance of peace and security in the region is of vital interest to the international community. India urges both countries to exercise restraint and resolve the issue diplomatically according to principles of international law."

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The People's Liberation Army Daily, the official voice of Chinese military, has also published a commentary on Thursday titled, "Never Expect to Take Away Half an Inch of China's Territory." It said, "We never tolerate any unreasonable embarrassment with blind patience, not to mention that the issue matters for China's territorial integrity, national dignity, and even social stability.

"For anyone who tries to snatch the sovereignty over Huangyan Islands, not only will the Chinese government not agree; the Chinese people will not agree; and the Chinese army will not agree."

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Any conflict in that region would affect Indian economic interests. But equally, China has been commenting on issues that New Delhi considers its own bilateral ones - like Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari's recent whistle-stop India visit. And, India's commentary on the South China Sea issue has to be seen in that light.
By the way, I forgot to write this earlier - I was listening to General Dempsey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on C-SPAN talk about the security situation in Asia-Pacific and how US interest is to ensure free sea lines of communication, as significant portion of world trade flows from there.

He suddenly brings India into the picture and says that India is "modestly" sized and will be a "somewhat influential" player in the SCS .

U.S. Security Challenges at 47:50

I think India is increasing its profile in SCS. The last lines of ToI are telling, its definitely a deliberate leak from MEA.
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China appears to have taken a decision to "talk tough and act tough" from recent events,esp. its attempt to steal the maritime resources of the Indo-China Sea. Just how diabolic its policies are can be gauged from this sensational expose of the plot to assassinate HH the Dalai Lama.We are in for a tense few years with the PRC's devilish plans for the Asia-Pacific regioin.

Dalai Lama reveals warning of Chinese plot to kill him
The Dalai Lama has revealed his fears after being warned that Chinese agents have hatched a plot to kill him.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... l-him.html

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By Dean Nelson, in New Delhi

12 May 2012

In an exclusive interview with this week's Sunday Telegraph, the 76-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner, revealed he had been passed reports from inside Tibet warning that Chinese agents had trained Tibetan women for a mission to poison him while posing as devotees seeking his blessings.

The Tibetan Buddhist leader said he lives within a high security cordon in his temple palace grounds in Dharamsala, in the Himalayan foothills, on the advice of Indian security officials.

Despite being one of the world's most widely revered spiritual leaders he has enemies in China and among some Buddhist sects.

His aides had not been able to confirm the reports, but they had highlighted his need for high security.

"We received some sort of information from Tibet," he said. "Some Chinese agents training some Tibetans, especially women, you see, using poison – the hair poisoned, and the scarf poisoned – they were supposed to seek blessing from me, and my hand touch."

Relations between China and the Tibetan government-in-exile in India are poor and mutual suspicion high following more than 30 self-immolations in the last year by Tibetans in protest at Chinese moves to marginalise their language and culture.

He said suspicion of Chinese interference in finding his reincarnation following his death meant he may be the last Dalai Lama and that Tibetans could decided to abandon the institution.

A number of young Buddhist monks, including the Karmapa Lama, could emerge as the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism, he said.

Despite frosty relations with Beijing, he said he believes China will change its hardline stance within his lifetime and adopt democratic reforms to safeguard its economic growth.

He said Chinese leaders should use Buddhist logic to overcome their suspicion and anger, but confessed he struggles to control his own temper.

He said: "Advisers, secretaries, other people around me, when they make some little, little mistake, then sometimes I burst. Oh yes! Anger and shout! Oh! And some harsh words. But that remains a few minutes, then finished."

Although he sometimes regrets such behaviour, he believes it is occasionally good for "correction."

The Dalai Lama will be in Britain tomorrow to receive the £1.1 million Templeton Prize at St Paul's Cathedral for his championing of science as a vital element of religious life.

Read the full interview in tomorrow's Sunday Telegraph
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brihaspati wrote: Now I would say the process of dissent is accelerating, and in very interesting ways, that are perhaps better not discussed.
Let me try. Religious conversions?
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Re: People's Republic of China, Dec. 27 2011

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What Israel Can Teach ChinaBy Jiang Xueqin
http://world.einnews.com/article/95704893
That’s something I’ve argued before, and in September 2010, I created Peking University High School International Division as a laboratory to see if and how creativity can be taught in China.
Last week, twenty students and I traveled to Israel for six days to study what makes Israel “a start-up nation,” as Dan Senor and Saul Singer call it in their New York Times bestseller. With a diverse population of eight million, Israel lacks water, oil, and land, is encircled by hostile neighbors, and is a terrorist target. (Not to mention the international condemnations it gets for its treatment of the Palestinians.)
Yet, despite all this, it has become arguably the world’s most dynamic economy. It has 4,000 start-up companies, attracts almost one-third of the world’s venture capital, and more Israeli companies are listed on the NASDAQ exchange than companies from Europe. Start-Up Nation tells us that Israel is so innovative because of its culture of “tenacity, of insatiable questioning of authority, of determined informality, combine with a unique attitude toward failure, teamwork, mission, risk, and cross-disciplinary creativity.”
In Jerusalem, we learned that Judaism has survived several millennia of persecution because it dares to innovate. Walking around the ruins of the Second Temple, our guide, himself a former rabbi from California, explained to us how Judaism was once a stagnant and hierarchical religion based on animal sacrifice. After the Romans burned down the Second Temple, Judaism’s heart and soul, in the year 70 in retaliation against Jewish revolt, Jews no longer had a place to make their sacrifice to God. Faced with the possible extinction of their religion, Judaism responded by re-inventing itself into the modern rabbinical tradition, one based on interpretation and on prayer. “Each generation now has the right to re-define Judaism for itself,” our guide told us. And this tradition has helped Israel today to re-imagine its most pressing problems into its most lucrative opportunities.
These are technologies and management systems that once developed can be profitably exported to countries that have severe water shortages. (For example, China.) If China is the world’s sweatshop then Israel is the world’s laboratory. China needs to learn to become a laboratory if it is to survive the environmental pollution, financial mismanagement, and social inequity that derive from being the world’s sweatshop. So how can our Chinese students become the creative talent that China needs? And what makes Israel so innovative?
Israel’s answer is, as always, short and simple: Ask questions.
These two words in fact represent the cultural chasm that divides Israel and China. As Start-Up Nation mentions, Israel lacks hierarchy and formality so that when we visited a public high school in Tel Aviv, we saw teachers interrupt the principal, and learned that Israelis consider “shyness” a learning disability. When I asked an Israeli 14-year-old girl how much homework she does at night, she responded with “Why are you asking me this question?”To ask questions is not simply to raise your hand and open your mouth, which are difficult enough for many a Chinese student. It entails a radical re-ordering of how you relate to yourself, and to the world around you – it requires a flattening of the world, the centering of the world around yourself, and ultimately a willingness to overturn the world if need be. That’s what makes Israel such an innovative culture, yet also why so many other cultures find Israelis difficult to deal with.
If China is to be creative, it simply can’t declare it a national priority, or just send Chinese students overseas. It needs to re-imagine its society from one that is hierarchal and stagnant to one that is free and open, just as Judaism did two thousand years ago. While it was hard for our students to speak out, to challenge authority, and to ask questions, they in fact did learn to do so. And they discovered they like it. While we were at the Technion, our students peppered a Technion biology professor with so many questions that he couldn’t finish his presentation on genetically modified foods even after he stayed half an hour longer than he had planned. Instead of walking away angry, he did so impressed, like a true Israeli.
If Chinese must ask a question they often ask “why.” For example, why visit Israel? If China is to be truly creative, it needs to learn from the Israelis, and start asking “why not
( So How do you teach inherent quality like "creativity"?)
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China concerned by Australia-US military ties
China has raised concerns over growing military ties between Australia and the US, Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr said as he visited Beijing
Mr Carr said his three high-level meetings on Monday - including the one with Mr Yang - were dominated by questions over Australia's growing alliance with the US.
"In each case they raised the issue of Australia's increased defence ties with the United States," Mr Carr said.
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