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Interesting, if pukeworthy narrative of Mao and what he did. People who experienced much of this are in their 40s and 50s in China.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sU6ZcmQiiV8
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/ ... 14,00.htmlAt least 12 people were killed in riots Tuesday near the Chinese city of Kashgar in the restive northwestern region of Xinjiang, state media reported.
No details were given about what might have set off the violence, although Xinjiang see periodic outbreaks of anti-government violence by restless members of the region's native Turkish Muslim Uighur ethnic group.
The Xinhua News Agency said rioters armed with knives attacked victims in Yecheng county outside the city starting at about 6 p.m. They killed 10 people and police shot two assailants to death, the report said. The Xinhua report could not be independently confirmed. Chinese authorities maintain tight control over information and the circumstances surrounding such incidents are often murky.
True. Antony should not have responded like this. Just say the it is not worth responding to the China concern.jagbani wrote:Antony said Arunachal is an integral part of India as Jammu and Kashmir and as defence minister it was his right and duty to visit the state, which has recently celebrated 25th anniversary of its statehood. "I was surprised to see such a reaction.
Now I see what caused the heartburn in China.In a message not likely to be lost on China, Arunachal Pradesh’s own Mohonto Panging led the fly-past by three Sukhoi-30 aircraft as Defence Minister A K Antony inaugurated a festival here today to mark 25 years of Arunachal attaining statehood. Panging incidentally was denied visa by Beijing recently for a trip as part of a defence delegation.
At least 12 people have been killed in riots near the Chinese city of Kashgar in the restive north-western region of Xinjiang, state media reported.
No details were given about what might have set off the violence, although Xinjiang sees periodic outbreaks of anti-government violence by members of the region's native Turkish Muslim Uighur ethnic group.
The Xinhua news agency said rioters armed with knives had attacked victims in Yecheng county outside the city starting at about 6pm. They killed 10 people and police shot dead two assailants, the report said.
The Xinhua report could not be independently confirmed. Chinese authorities maintain tight control over information and the circumstances surrounding such incidents are often murky.
Xinhua said police were chasing others involved in the attacks but did not say how many suspects there were.
The periodic attacks in the region occur despite a smothering security presence imposed following 2009 riots in the regional capital of Urumqi that pitted Uighurs against migrants from China's majority Han in which almost 200 people died.
Xinjiang saw more deadly violence last summer, when a group of Uighurs stormed a police station in the city of Hotan on 18 July and took hostages, killing four. Then, just days later on 30 and 31 July, Uighurs in Kashgar hijacked a truck, set a restaurant on fire and stabbed people in the street.
Authorities said 14 of the attackers were shot by police in Hotan, and five assailants were killed in the violence in Kashgar.
China says those events were organised terror attacks, but an overseas Uighur rights group says they were anti-government riots carried out by angry citizens. Uighur activists and security analysts blame the violence on economic marginalisation and restrictions on Uighur culture and the Muslim religion that are breeding frustration and anger among young Uighurs.
In reply to thatPhilip wrote:"lah-ho-axe" in Xinjiang!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/fe ... riots-dead
China riots leave 12 people dead
Violence breaks out in north-western region of Xinjiang, where Uighurs took part in anti-government riots last year
Xcpt:At least 12 people have been killed in riots near the Chinese city of Kashgar in the restive north-western region of Xinjiang, state media reported.
No details were given about what might have set off the violence, although Xinjiang sees periodic outbreaks of anti-government violence by members of the region's native Turkish Muslim Uighur ethnic group.
China and Pakistan are allies and friends. The Chinese should excuse the Pakistanis for such minor misdemeanors. After all the Chinese have 1.3 billion people and the deaths of a few should not matte- considering Pakistan's importance.arun wrote:The veneer of “Deeper than Ocean’s” and “Higher than Himalaya’s” friendship of the Momin for Kaafir’s peels off with Momin Mohammadden elements in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan going to bat for Mohammaddens living in areas occupied by Kaafir P.R. China:
Pakistani militants say Chinese woman killed for revenge
China must act hard now,
No No. The Chinese are clever. They all read Sun Tzu. They will mollycoddle the Pakis. The Pakis too are clever. They love the pork eaters because they get arms in Pork oil. Who cares if a few people are killed? China has many people who can be killed and China won't notice the difference. And Muslims - you know, they welcome death.sameer_shelavale wrote:China must act hard now,
China must give ultimatum to the terrorists "Stop killing chinese or we wont supply you weapons"
Following this, I had tweeted yesterday the following:Prem Kumar wrote:From today's Rediff - not exactly a military move but if true, this could be construed as an "act of aggression":
http://www.rediff.com/news/slide-show/s ... 120301.htm
They could be testing the waters, pun intended
Will be interesting to see MEA response
BINGO - see today's Chindu:Betting Rs. 100 that the Chindu won't report this. Even if they do, it'll be the Xinhua response to this event!!
But its true that China has more toliets and chopsticks than India .shiv wrote:sameer_shelavale wrote:No No. The Chinese are clever. They all read Sun Tzu. They will mollycoddle the Pakis. The Pakis too are clever. They love the pork eaters because they get arms in Pork oil. Who cares if a few people are killed? China has many people who can be killed and China won't notice the difference. And Muslims - you know, they welcome death.
The friendship is paramount!
Not quite. Someone who's 50 would've been born in 1962, and wouldn't have personally experienced the worst of the cultural revolution, and would've been just 14 when Mao died in 1976.shiv wrote:I prefer short 4-7 minute videos to the 60 minute ones. (Short attention span. Brain RAM is small)
Interesting, if pukeworthy narrative of Mao and what he did. People who experienced much of this are in their 40s and 50s in China.
er..did you listen to the dates on the video?heech wrote:Not quite. Someone who's 50 would've been born in 1962, and wouldn't have personally experienced the worst of the cultural revolution, and would've been just 14 when Mao died in 1976.shiv wrote:I prefer short 4-7 minute videos to the 60 minute ones. (Short attention span. Brain RAM is small)
Interesting, if pukeworthy narrative of Mao and what he did. People who experienced much of this are in their 40s and 50s in China.
A person born in 1963 would have been 12 in 1975, in the middle of the cultural revolution and would be be 49 today. Anyone over 10 is usually aware of what is happening in the world around him and his parents.Cultural Revolution (Chinese: 文化大革命; pinyin: Wénhuà Dàgémìng), was a socio-political movement that took place in the People's Republic of China from 1966 through 1976.
With economy barely making it to 7%, fiscal deficit hovering at around 6% (as opposed to government's aim of 9% and 4.5% respectively) and the growing social spending in the from of food security bill, I'm skeptical Indian Def Budget will even make it to $40 billion.China has announced it will increase defence pending by 11.2 per cent in 2012, taking its military expenditure to $106.39 billion and marking a return to double-digit growth amid plans to modernise its armed forces during a year that will see a crucial leadership transition.
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India's defence expenditure was reported at $36 billion in the 2011-12 budget — one-third of what China will spend this year.
"It is doubtful whether the message will get across because most countries know that the real budget is at least double the published one," said Willy Lam, a leading China expert at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
may be hu will take a lead out of mao's book and offer a few million chinese women to pakistan !shiv wrote: No No. The Chinese are clever. They all read Sun Tzu. They will mollycoddle the Pakis. The Pakis too are clever. They love the pork eaters because they get arms in Pork oil. Who cares if a few people are killed? China has many people who can be killed and China won't notice the difference. And Muslims - you know, they welcome death.
The friendship is paramount!
BEIJING: China said Sunday its military spending would top $100 billion in 2012 – a double-digit increase on last year – in a move likely to fuel concerns about Beijing’s rapid military build-up.
The defence budget will rise 11.2 per cent to 670.27 billion yuan ($106.41 billion), said Li Zhaoxing, a spokesman for China’s national parliament, citing a budget report submitted to the country’s rubber-stamp legislature.The figure marks a slowdown from 2011 when spending rose by 12.7 per cent but is still likely to fuel worries over China’s growing assertiveness in the Asia-Pacific region and push its neighbours to forge closer ties with the United States.Li described the budget as “relatively low” as a percentage of gross domestic product compared with other countries and said it was aimed at “safeguarding sovereignty, national security and territorial integrity
29-year-old Feng had bought a fake Apple IPhone from a dealer in the street.
When he found out that the IPhone was fake he carried a kitchen knife with him to the plaza, and was looking for the crook seller in the 27 Plaza for several days. In the process of looking for the person sold him the phone, he bumped into another group of fake cellphone dealers and started a dispute with them. In rage, Feng stabbed one of them to death with his kitchen knife.
jamwal wrote:Chinese Man Kills Vendor After Realizing He Was Sold A Fake iPhone
29-year-old Feng had bought a fake Apple IPhone from a dealer in the street.
When he found out that the IPhone was fake he carried a kitchen knife with him to the plaza, and was looking for the crook seller in the 27 Plaza for several days. In the process of looking for the person sold him the phone, he bumped into another group of fake cellphone dealers and started a dispute with them. In rage, Feng stabbed one of them to death with his kitchen knife.
Bo Xilai, the Communist Party chief of Chongqing city, was not in his usual seat at a session of China's annual parliament.
He was expected to gain a senior post in the party reshuffle this year.
But a scandal involving his police chief has tarnished his reputation.
At China's annual National People's Congress, Mr Bo usually sits with his colleagues from the Communist Party's politburo. But at the latest meeting, he failed to take his place.
China's national broadcaster filmed these top leaders as they listened to a speech, and stopped short just before getting to the seat usually occupied by Mr Bo. {What's the big deal}![]()
I wonder if the word "soul" is censored too.Chinese censors are actively targeting social media to quash discussion of banned topics, suggests research.
The US study gives the most in-depth look at the extent of China's policing of discussions on microblogging sites.
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That system, known as the Great Firewall, stops people visiting some sites outside China, returns no results for searches of banned terms, censors chat and vets blogs. Banned topics include the Falun Gong spiritual movement and human rights activist Ai Weiwei.
In a similar way, the study found that messages containing these banned terms tended to be deleted from the Sina Weibo service.
It also found that the censorship system could be quite nimble and react quickly when words or phrases start to assume a more political meaning. For instance, the word "lianghui" became sensitive when it started to be used as a code word for a "planned protest".
Similarly, a word meaning "asking someone to resign" became sensitive in the wake of the high speed train crash in July 2011 that killed 40 people. Mistakes by officials have been blamed for leading to the disaster.
The study also found significant variation in how active the system was in different regions of China. In Tibet about 50% of messages were deleted, compared to 12% in Beijing and 11% in Shanghai.
Mr Bamman said he was surprised at the extent of the censorship and at the fact that some banned terms, such as Falun Gong, were appearing at all.
"The fact that we see these terms in messages would seem to imply that the censorship is not an automatic process," he told the BBC. This exposed, he said, the tension between government demands for active policing and reluctance on the part of companies to inhibit what their customers do.
He speculated that the sheer amount of messages passing through the social media services might also make it harder to censor all the content the government finds troubling.
And, he added, many people would find ways around the controls.
"People will talk about what they want to talk about," he said, "they may just have to find different ways to say it."
A paper detailing the study is due to be published in the March edition of the First Monday journal.
Rhetorical question. If the Chinese can make a J-20 at 1/10 the cost of an F-22 and in less than half the time, where is the difficulty in creating a fake iPhone that works as well as the real one and is inexpensive?
Not surprising that Pakistan and China are allies.You see the J-20 is as good or better than the best because the Chinese can and do produce copies as good as the original. iPhones too. This news item about a stabbing is just a rare instance of a one-off crook cheating a man. Criminals exist in all cultures. Do you know how many murders were there in India last year? People in glass houses should not throw stones. If you check back the record the IAF which has 1/3 the number of aircraft the PLAAF has, had over a dozen crashes last year. The PLAAF had just one or less than one. Google for reports if you like and produce at least one report of a PLAAF crash last year. I challenge you.
No, Sir. Days of phree ka maal are long gone. Just saw a program on the documentary channel of women being trafficked from East Europe to all over the world. The commentator showed Dubai, a destination for these women and said that the cheapest come from China and the most expensive are Arab women.Rahul M wrote: may be hu will take a lead out of mao's book and offer a few million chinese women to pakistan !
linkTop to bottom, a culture of payola in China
THE mid-level official whose wife drives a Lexus, the electricity supervisor who owns a flat for his mistress, the sons and daughters of low-ranking government employees who think nothing of dropping a few thousand dollars on an afternoon shopping trip - China's corruption rate is astonishing even to its cynical citizens.
Systemic corruption continues to escalate, with the number of officials being investigated last year increasing. It poses a serious threat to the country's wellbeing, with 29,000 people (not all of them government officials) being convicted for bribery , embezzlement and malfeasance by the courts last year.
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While the government has declared the prosecutions a step-up in its much talked-about battle with corruption, most Chinese take another view as the local party secretary's son whizzes past in his yellow Maserati. "What is exposed to the public is just the tip of the iceberg and many of the cases are only the result of an (internal party) power struggle among the officials." Li Xinde, director of China Public Opinion Supervision Web, an NGO engaged in anti-corruption, said yesterday.
"Corruption is prevailing. Though measures against it, and theories of how to deal with it, have been thoroughly discussed in past years, no sign of any real containment to corruption has occurred," Mr Li said
There are no opinion polls, no official candidates, not even a declared race - but a political campaign has begun in China.
Senior politicians are vying to secure promotion when the Chinese Communist Party reshuffles its top leaders later this year.
Some are using China's annual parliamentary session, currently taking place in Beijing, to push their competing claims.
Whoever emerges at the top of the party will have been selected by senior leaders using an unknown process at secret meetings.
Chinese citizens will not be involved.
China will begin the process of handing over power to a new group of leaders at the end of this year when the party holds its 18th congress.
Seven out of nine people on the party's politburo standing committee - the country's most important decision-making body - are due to retire.
Xi Jinping, the current vice-president, and Vice-Premier Li Keqiang are the only ones expected to retain their seats.
The 55-year-old is one of a growing band of people who want to join the political system in order to have a say in how the country is run.
But like others before her, she now knows that the Chinese Communist Party has little patience with those that might oppose it.
Ms Ye was one of dozens of independent candidates who tried to stand at elections for district-level people's congresses, local government bodies below the NPC currently taking place in Beijing.
She wanted to stand in Beijing's Xicheng district.
She said that when she tried to stand as a candidate, she was harassed by the police, roughed up and ultimately prevented from putting her name forward.
"At first I thought they'd let me stand, but as it went on, it became too difficult. The suppression was outrageous," she said.
Undeterred, she campaigned anyway, standing in residential compounds handing out leaflets and telling residents about her intentions.
When voting day came, she put her own name on the ballot paper - as you are legally entitled to do in China - and urged her supporters to do the same.
Ms Ye does not know how many votes she received that day though, as the number cast for each candidate was never made public.
"The Chinese government doesn't really want true democracy," she said afterwards.
That certainly seems to be the case at the moment.
Chinese top leaders are currently engrossed in a battle to see which of them will shape the country in the coming decade.{So basically, it is like the Burmese junta on steroids.}
But that fight will largely bypass the people they will end up governing.
"Now reforms in China have come to a critical stage," Wen said, warning: "without a successful political reform, it's impossible for China to fully institute economic reform and the gains we have made in these areas may be lost, and new problems that popped up in the Chinese society will not be fundamentally resolved, and such historical tragedies as the Cultural Revolution may happen again in China."
Clearer than truth" : determining and preserving grand strategy. The evolution of American policy toward the People's Republic of China under Truman and Nixon
Author Crowley, Monica Elizabeth
ISBN/ISSN 9780599751422
Broad Subject Political science
Summary This dissertation attempts to establish a theoretical bridge between international explanations and domestic political explanations for how and why nations determine, sell, then modify, their core grand strategies. It is a two-level approach to explain why leaders manipulate low-level conflicts to mobilize popular support for expensive, long-term security strategies, and then once the grand strategy is established and the mobilization underway, how and why leaders adapt policies that support it. The interaction between international circumstances and domestic politics is crucial to determining how and why leaders manipulate conflict and ideology---either by stressing or de-stressing them---in order to mobilize support at home for the grand strategy or to preserve that support when it appears threatened.
The evolution of U.S. policy toward the PRC during the Truman and Nixon administrations offers insight. The research was undertaken with two main objectives: (1) to advance a modified bridge theory of foreign policy that takes into account international and domestic political effects, and (2) to offer an original and comprehensive study of the 1972 China initiative, how it was affected by domestic politics, how it was sold to the American public, and its effect on and connection to other policies.
The Nixon case---the centerpiece of the dissertation---shows (1) that the interests of at least one dominant power can affect the system and that the system can also affect those interests; (2) that cooperation may result from an increase in the number of players (or at least an increasing of importance of one of the players, i.e. China); and (3) that domestic politics may figure significantly into a decision to reverse earlier policies.
This dissertation offers an integrated approach connecting shifts in the international environment, the creation and sustaining of long-term grand strategy, problems of generating and sustaining domestic support, and the manipulation of ideology and conflict.
Perception of Beauty
Only white is beautiful
In China light skin is beautiful and brown skin is avoided like the plague. Chinese women use skin whitening beauty products and avoid the sun while western women use tanning products and embrace the sun. Travelling around China you will often see Chinese women out and about with an umbrella to protect their delicate white skin from the ravages of the sun.
In ancient times white skin was a sign of wealth and status and brown skin was a sign of poverty and labelled you as a low class labourer or farm hand. Hundreds of years later this belief still dominates perceptions of beauty.
Queuing
Queuing is for suckers
Queuing is for the weak and pushing and shoving are the norm. This sounds very harsh but you will see the reality of it when you go to banks, train stations, shop counters and most other places where people would normally queue in the west. Chinese are slowly improving and you can see nice orderly queues at many bus stops but the general rule in many places is that if you want service, you will have to join the pack and fight for it.
Noise and restaurants
The louder the better
Chinese people love to talk loudly and constantly while they eat and meals in a Chinese restaurant are very noisy and boisterous affairs. Restaurants should be noisy and the noisier it is, the better it is. If you like don’t mind the noise, share meals with the Chinese you meat during your travels and you’ll have a great time. If you prefer a quiet peaceful romantic candlelit dinner while you travel in China, order room service.