People's Republic of China Nov 22, 2009

krisna · Post by **krisna** » 20 Jan 2011 09:10

Here is a sample of some glaring "Chinglish" found around China:
“Fried crap!” – item on restaurant menu
“Oil gate” – gas station
“To take notice of safe: Slippery are very crafty” – slippery when wet
“It is small to fry the chicken miscellaneous” – item on a restaurant menu
“Mixed elbow with garlic mud” – item on a restaurant menu
“Myriad stretch golf, ethereally luxury home”– real estate advertisement
“Acid food” – item on restaurant menu
“Hospital for Anus and Intestine Disease” – now the "Dongda Hospital for Proctology”
“Ideas powder” – Italian spaghetti
“Fry the dark winter in the sun's way” - A thick wheat-based noodle in Japanese cuisine
“Please lead your child to tare the life”– Warning sign in elevator
“Danger! Inhibition astraddle transgress” – Do Not Enter
“Bake the cell phone” - Hand dryer.
“Harsh browns” – hash browns
“To run business” - Open
“Drink tea” - Closed
“Deformed Men” – Sign on handicapped bathroom stalls
“Question authority” - Help desk
“Big Bowl Fresh Immerse Miscellaneous Germ” – item on restaurant menu
“No entry in peacetime” - Emergency exit
“Cow bowel in sauce” – item on restaurant menu
“Escape urban and enjoy looking at in Provence good time bandits” – tourism billboard
“Terrorized US Pork Steak” – item on restaurant menu
“Pleasanty surprise of groping” – on a fashion billboard
RaulDeSouza is based in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan, and is Reporter for Allvoices
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shiv · Post by **shiv** » 20 Jan 2011 09:18

krisna wrote:chinglish
RaulDeSouza is based in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan, and is Reporter for Allvoices

Now that's a friendly Pakistani saving Chinese face...

krisna · Post by **krisna** » 20 Jan 2011 09:19

Shiv wrote:The best way to find out what it does is to do it and see what happens. After all, when a friendship goes beyond mere "cordial relations" to being "Taller than the tallest mountain and deeper than the deepest ocean" - an irrelevant thing like religion and dietary preferences should have no effect whatsoever. But if it has an effect, we will find out. And perhaps either the Chinese will adjust and stop eating pork for their friends the Pakistanies, or the Islamic republic of Pakistan will pass a law making pork legal.

Arjun · Post by **Arjun** » 20 Jan 2011 09:29

TonyMontana wrote:Seems kinda petty to me. Almost scraping the barrel a little bit.

Read up on Pak history and their current troubles....Most of the rioting and mob violence started due to issues you and I might find petty.

Hari Seldon · Post by **Hari Seldon** » 20 Jan 2011 10:45

Arjun wrote:
TonyMontana wrote:Seems kinda petty to me. Almost scraping the barrel a little bit.
Read up on Pak history and their current troubles....Most of the rioting and mob violence started due to issues you and I might find petty.

+1.
And that includes the match that litup lalmasjid in isloo as well.

DavidD · Post by **DavidD** » 20 Jan 2011 13:18

krisna wrote:chinglish
Here is a sample of some glaring "Chinglish" found around China:
“Fried crap!” – item on restaurant menu
“Oil gate” – gas station
“To take notice of safe: Slippery are very crafty” – slippery when wet
“It is small to fry the chicken miscellaneous” – item on a restaurant menu
“Mixed elbow with garlic mud” – item on a restaurant menu
“Myriad stretch golf, ethereally luxury home”– real estate advertisement
“Acid food” – item on restaurant menu
“Hospital for Anus and Intestine Disease” – now the "Dongda Hospital for Proctology”
“Ideas powder” – Italian spaghetti
“Fry the dark winter in the sun's way” - A thick wheat-based noodle in Japanese cuisine
“Please lead your child to tare the life”– Warning sign in elevator
“Danger! Inhibition astraddle transgress” – Do Not Enter
“Bake the cell phone” - Hand dryer.
“Harsh browns” – hash browns
“To run business” - Open
“Drink tea” - Closed
“Deformed Men” – Sign on handicapped bathroom stalls
“Question authority” - Help desk
“Big Bowl Fresh Immerse Miscellaneous Germ” – item on restaurant menu
“No entry in peacetime” - Emergency exit
“Cow bowel in sauce” – item on restaurant menu
“Escape urban and enjoy looking at in Provence good time bandits” – tourism billboard
“Terrorized US Pork Steak” – item on restaurant menu
“Pleasanty surprise of groping” – on a fashion billboard
RaulDeSouza is based in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan, and is Reporter for Allvoices
Report Credibility

chaanakya · Post by **chaanakya** » 20 Jan 2011 18:16

http://www.timesnow.tv/Chinese-tourists ... 363180.cms

China today (Jan 20) said that the three Chinese citizens, who were arrested in India without valid travel documents recently, were not spies but "tourists" who entered the Indian territory by "mistake". "The relevant report is inaccurate," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson told a media briefing.

"In recent days three Chinese tourists crossed over to Indian border by mistake along the India-Nepal border. They were detained by Indian police", Hong said. He said the three were not spies. "The reports that three Chinese tourists were spies or had engaged in money laundering were groundless," Xinhua news agency quoted Hong as saying. "The Chinese Embassy in India is in touch with the Indian police and urge the Indian side to properly handle the issue", Hong said.

The three, including a woman, were arrested near the Indo-Nepal border for allegedly sneaking into the Indian territory and taking pictures of vital installations, according to the Indian paramilitary personnel. The three, identified as Liao Xing, Yu Dangli and Yang Liu, were arrested by Shashastra Seema Bal (SSB) near Rupedhiya border in Uttar Pradesh on January 17 when they were taking pictures of some important installations.

An Indian PAN card, two mobiles and a camera were recovered from them. They were booked for illegally entering country and under the Passport Act.

What happened to 8 indian diamond bussinesmen ( alleged smugglers as claimed by China) caught in China and incarcerated without trial.

krisna · Post by **krisna** » 21 Jan 2011 05:42

chinese espionage and french trade secrets-stratfor

uddu · Post by **uddu** » 21 Jan 2011 06:34

The rules are very simple, be it for the Chinese or the rest of the world. Keep the Pakis as far as you can. The more you bring them closer the more danger to your country and to your people.
The Chinese leadership may be knowing the dangers but still they have choosen the wrong path. The more they travel along this path the more danger for the Chinese nation. The Chinese people surely don't know Pakis and will never know as long as some bomb goes off somewhere killing people or someone in China starts to preach and spread fundamentalism and terrorism. so everything rests on their leadership whether to push China into boiling oil or just stay away from it as far as possible to be safe and prosperous.

KJo · Post by **KJo** » 22 Jan 2011 07:01

Why do the sugars want to give aid to Nalanda??

http://www.hindustantimes.com/audio-new ... 53133.aspx

abhishek_sharma · Post by **abhishek_sharma** » 22 Jan 2011 09:07

This Week at War: Whose Chinese Military Is It?

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2 ... tary_is_it

krisna · Post by **krisna** » 24 Jan 2011 05:27

China adopts new rules to quell huge source of unrest

New rules aimed at ending illegal forced demolitions have come into force in China, state media said, as the government moves to quell what has become the nation's biggest source of unrest.

Under the rules, which came into effect Friday, violence or coercion must not be used to force homeowners to leave.

If government authorities cannot reach an agreement with residents over expropriations or compensation for their property, demolitions can only be carried out after the local court has reviewed and approved them.

The previous rules had authorised local governments to enforce demolitions at their own will, the report said, quoting unnamed officials at the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development and the State Council, China's cabinet.

krisna · Post by **krisna** » 24 Jan 2011 07:19

Xinjiang-China’s Muslim west

travels of a paqi in xinjaing.

The Uighur language is written in the Arabic script, although it is a variant of Turkish which is now written in the Roman script. Uighur too was written in the Roman script from 1969 to 1983, when China’s leader Deng Xiaoping very cleverly restored to the Uighur Muslims their beloved Arabic script. The Uighurs rejoiced, oblivious to the fact that the loss of the Roman script deprived them of their natural advantage in learning English compared to their Han Chinese compatriots.

My local guide in Urumchi, a fluent English-speaking Uighur Muslim, told me with some trepidation that the Pakistanis had a very bad reputation, being regarded as uncouth and aggressive and always ready to make advances to local women, no matter their thick and long beards and Islamic pretensions.

A Tibetan I met later commented that in eight hours of rioting, Tibetans had only killed 18 Chinese, whereas the Uighurs had managed to kill 140 in two hours. Sounding almost embarrassed at this relatively low “score” for Tibet, he explained this to be the result of the peaceful nature of its Buddhist people compared with the ferocity of the Muslim Uighurs!

Asked about the absence of Uighurs in the workforce, my guide explained that they were not preferred by the Han Chinese contractors, implying some kind of discrimination. But he added that the contractors would find it hard to provide special Muslim food to Uighur workers, who would much rather remain unemployed than be served food which was not guaranteed halal! Preferring to be more polite than curious, I chose not to ask why the Muslim workers could not bring their halal food with them from home.

shiv · Post by **shiv** » 24 Jan 2011 18:39

Tallest Deepest Friendship!

http://www.cacianalyst.org/?q=node/5333

Beginning in 2004, in four separate attacks twelve Chinese lost their lives on Pakistani soil. In addition, on occasions China warned Pakistan that Xinjiang separatists in collaboration with local militants planned to kidnap Chinese diplomats in Islamabad. Such warnings were at their highest during the Beijing Olympic games in 2008 and at the 60th anniversary of the People’s Republic in 2009. However, timely coordination of the intelligence agencies of the two countries and Pakistan’s pre-emptive security measures prevented such plots from realization. Whether targeted attacks on Chinese in Pakistan had links with India or were collaborative efforts of local militants and Uyghurs – two convenient excuses from the Pakistani authorities – they did affect Sino-Pakistan relations. Beijing initially showed restraint, but as the attacks continued, it left diplomatic courtesy and went public pressuring Pakistan to ensure the fullest security of its nationals. Pakistan sensed the concerns of its trusted ally and provided extraordinary armed security for most of the 10,000 Chinese invited by the Pakistani government. These measures successfully prevented further attacks since the last incident in July 2007, in which three Chinese were killed.

Similarly, the liaison between Pakistan-based militants and Uyghurs and the latter’s sanctuary in Pakistani tribal areas was yet another issue on which Beijing had strong reservations. To address this issue, Pakistan intensified its crackdown against the Uyghur militants. The major breakthrough came in October 2004, when the Pakistani army shot dead Hasan Mahsum, head of the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM). Over the years, Pakistani forces have eliminated, arrested and extradited a number of Uyghurs, claiming to have broken the backbone of the militant Uyghur groups in Pakistan. The exact number of those killed or extradited is unknown, but Pakistani measures have seemingly satisfied the Chinese authorities.

In the post-9/11 period, China also openly sought Pakistan’s support on the issue of Muslim separatism in Xinjiang. Beginning in December 2001, the then Chief Executive of Pakistan, General Musharraf, visited the Grand Mosque of Xi’an at China’s request and asked the Muslims to be loyal to the Chinese government. This was the first time a Pakistani leader went public to endorse China’s polices on Xinjiang. Pakistan has since backed Beijing on this issue. The most significant display of this support came during the July 2009 riots in Xinjiang in which almost 200 people were killed. Pakistan not only endorsed China’s measures to quell the riots but used its clout to prevent certain Islamic countries to take the issue to the Organization of Islamic Conference, thus saving Beijing from embarrassment.

shynee · Post by **shynee** » 25 Jan 2011 03:19

China’s Rise = Remilitarizing Japan?

putnanja · Post by **putnanja** » 25 Jan 2011 04:16

Chinese ‘spy’ detained but deported without noise

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New Delhi, Jan. 24: India picked up a Chinese woman suspected to be operating as a spy in the guise of a TV reporter but quietly deported her on Friday in a reflection of New Delhi’s eagerness not to precipitate matters with its testy neighbour.

The 39-year-old woman, identified as Wang Qing, had posed as a TV reporter to meet Naga militant leader Thuingaleng Muivah in a government guesthouse in Delhi, sources told The Telegraph.

On Saturday, the foreign ministry “conveyed its displeasure” to Beijing.

The sources claimed that the alleged spy had revealed during interrogation that she was associated with the Chinese intelligence agency People’s Security Bureau and that this was her third trip to India.
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I don't know why India has to be so nice to China when china is continuing to precipitate issues with India. Also, couldn't the government had used this to secure release of 20 Indian businessmen held illegally in china without proper trail??

wig · Post by **wig** » 26 Jan 2011 18:50

China to build 10 more mega nuclear rectors

China will construct 10 more mega nuclear reactors with a whopping investment of USD 121.5 billion, in addition to 25 currently being built, to step up its atomic power generation to meet its rising energy demands.

China is expected to raise its 2020 target for the nuclear power industry to 86 GW or 5 per cent of its power generation with an annual investment of 70 billion Yuan (USD 10.6 billion), state run China Daily reported today.

To reach the capacity China will build 10 more nuclear power projects during the 12th Five-Year Plan (2011-2015), Zhang Guobao, former director of the National Energy Administration said.

China, the world's second-largest economy, aims to get 15 per cent of its power from renewable sources by 2020

http://www.ptinews.com/news/1300549_Chi ... r-rectors-

Hari Seldon · Post by **Hari Seldon** » 26 Jan 2011 18:57

putnanja wrote:Chinese ‘spy’ detained but deported without noise
I don't know why India has to be so nice to China when china is continuing to precipitate issues with India. Also, couldn't the government had used this to secure release of 20 Indian businessmen held illegally in china without proper trail??

Because right now we are not yet strong enough to take on PRC openly.

Also, we might have tried to do a swap or some such and PRC may not have been amenable to it. They're not running out of entry-level comrade spies anytime soon.

Now the above opinions may no doubt be construed as dhoti-shivering or some such. Maybe they are. However, GoI's actions

shiv · Post by **shiv** » 27 Jan 2011 17:28

A video on Pakistan-China friendship
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWiwy_iRTwA

Raghavendra · Post by **Raghavendra** » 27 Jan 2011 19:00

^lovely music

svinayak · Post by **svinayak** » 28 Jan 2011 06:00

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comm ... China.html

Appeasement is the proper policy towards Confucian China
We all learned at school how the status quo powers mismanaged the spectacular rise of Germany before World War I, a strategic revolution so like the rise of China today.

Is China now where Germany was in 1900? Possibly. There are certainly hints of menace from some quarters in Beijing. Defence minister Liang Guanglie said over New Year that China’s armed forces are “pushing forward preparations for military conflict in every strategic direction”.
Professor Huang Jing from Singapore’s Lee Kwan Yew School and a former adviser to China’s Army, said Beijing is losing its grip on the colonels.
“The young officers are taking control of strategy and it is like young officers in Japan in the 1930s. This is very dangerous. They are on a collision course with a US-dominated system,” he said.
Yet nothing is foreordained. Which is why it was so unsettling to learn that most of the leadership of the US Congress declined to attend the state banquet at the White House for Chinese President Hu Jintao, including the Speaker of House.

shyam · Post by **shyam** » 28 Jan 2011 07:17

“Little Rabbit, Be Good” A Subversive New Years’ Video Card

An animated homage to the incoming Year of the Rabbit is circulating in Chinese cyberspace. The subversive video makes reference to numerous recent news events, and ends with an armed rebellion by the rabbits (ie the beleaguered Chinese people) against the Tigers (ie the government):

TAE claims that this video is going viral in China.

Raghavendra · Post by **Raghavendra** » 28 Jan 2011 16:05

Chinese Journalist Fired for Being Critical http://www.time.com/time/world/article/ ... 90,00.html

Trial of police official's son turns cause célèbre http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/0 ... index.html

Rupesh · Post by **Rupesh** » 28 Jan 2011 22:53

Karmapa cash haul: Chinese link found

Investigators probing the huge cash haul from a transit home of the 17th Karmapa Ugyen Trinley Dorje are suspecting that the religious leader is in regular touch with Chinese authorities to help Beijing control Buddhist monasteries from Ladakh to Tawang.

Evidence emerging during investigation indicated that the currencies of China, Japan, the US, the UK, Australia, Thailand and several other countries recovered from Gyuto Monastery in Dharamsala have come from Chinese sources.

Sources said investigators have found that such funds regularly keep coming to the Tibetan religious leader and he could be part of a Chinese design to help Beijing control all Buddhist monasteries located in the Himalayan region beginning from Ladakh in Jammu and Kashmir to Tawang in Arunachal Pradesh.

A close aide of Karmapa, Rabjaychojan alias Shakti Lama, was arrested and was being interrogated.

Karmapa trust raid: Rs6 crore of foreign currencies seized

ADGP (law and order) SR Mardi said that huge sums of money in currencies of 25 countries including China, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, the UK, the US, Australia, Thailand, Vietnam and Germany were seized.

The recovered amount includes 11 lakh in Chinese Yuan, $6 lakh and Rs30 lakh.

DGP DS Minhas said lots of land deal documents were also found and a probe is on to determine whether these are part of some benami deals. Some travellers cheques were also found.

Minhas said the Karmapa may be questioned if needed.

Sources said that the Karmapa's personal secretary Tsering, who is also the secretary of the monastery was called back here from Dehradun. His office and residence have already been sealed by police.

Rabgyal Soshing alias Shakti Lama, a key functionary of the Karma Garchen Trust with main office in Gyato monastery at Sidhbari, 6km from New Delhi, was arrested yesterday by the police and raids were conducted following information furnished by him.

The raids were conducted following recovery of Rs1 crore from a vehicle at the Mehatpur barrier by the Una police on Thursday evening and arrest of two persons who provided clues about the source of the money.

Una police conducted the raids at the offices of the Trust at Sidhbari, Majnoo Ka Tila (Delhi), Ambala and some other places with the help of Kangra Police that led to seizure of foreign currencies worth crores of rupees.

Police was trying to verify the sources from where the Tibetan trust received the money as its authorities maintained that it was received through offerings and donations from devotees.

VinodTK · Post by **VinodTK** » 29 Jan 2011 04:56

India And The Chinese Threat

It is time India conveys to the Chinese that it will be forced to review its One China policy if the Chinese pinpricks on Jammu and Kashmir continue. China must be made to understand the Indian sensitivities on Kashmir and that Kashmir is to India what Tibet is to China.

India did not sing the One China hymn in the joint communiqué that was signed at the conclusion of Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao’s recent visit to New Delhi. That may be pragmatic but not bold enough. India has to convey the ‘enough is enough’ message to the Chinese in concrete terms, in its back-channel as well as official contacts. India has to tell the Chinese that if they continue to give stapled visas to the people from the Indian states of Jammu and Kashmir and Arunachal Pradesh (no matter if in the case of the latter it is understood to be a ‘concession’ from the Chinese side) then India will retaliate in kind.

Ignore pinpricks by Beijing

vijayk · Post by **vijayk** » 30 Jan 2011 00:46

http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?270223
CHINA HAND IN INDIA
The Great Claw of China

The confessions of NSCN(IM) leader Anthony Shimray show exactly how China is fuelling India’s northeastern insurgencies

n the last three months, however, the Chinese hand in the Northeast has been revealed in great detail. In the early hours of October 2 last year, Indian intelligence officials, along with their counterparts in the National Investigation Agency, accosted a tall, hefty man waiting outside the Patna railway station. The quarry was Anthony Shimray, a key official of the National Socialist Council of Nagalim (Isak-Muivah) faction or NSCN(IM), the biggest insurgent outfit in the Northeast. Not only is Shimray a powerful member of the NSCN(IM)’s top leadership, he is also the nephew of its general secretary, T. Muivah, currently in New Delhi for peace talks with the Centre. As the chief arms procurer for the outfit, Shimray also has first-hand information on Chinese efforts to support insurgencies.

Shimray’s early morning arrest was the culmination of a meticulous operation conducted by India’s external intelligence agency RAW in the preceding weeks. They had managed to track down Shimray in the middle of September. He was operating out of Bangkok, a haven for arms dealers, insurgents and intelligence agencies. It was to be a tricky call: Shimray could not be nabbed in a foreign land, and there was considerable debate within the government on picking him up since this was in the midst of a dialogue with NSCN(IM). Finally, with clearance, intelligence officials had a stroke of luck.

By the end of September, the sleuths had gathered from their sources that Shimray would need to travel from Thailand to get his visa renewed and visit his cadres in Manipur and Nagaland. Quietly, they managed to procure his travel details to Nepal and began to monitor his exit from Bangkok. Shimray took a Royal Nepal Airlines flight to Kathmandu in the early hours of September 27 and proceeded by road to quietly slip across the Indian border into Bihar. From here, he was to proceed by rail to the Northeast but he was arrested before that.

His subsequent interrogation has been detailed in a 100-page report, accessed exclusively by Outlook. It throws up several startling truths about the Chinese hand in Indian insurgencies. While Shimray speaks at length about NSCN(IM), he also reveals China’s links with ULFA and the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) in Assam and the United National Liberation Front in Manipur. Here are Shimray’s key revelations:

Shimray also told his interrogators how he procured arms from the Chinese in late 2007. “It was decided by our leadership stationed in New Delhi to strengthen the weaponry of the organisation,” he reveals. With Narue’s help, he contacted Yuthuna, a Chinese representative of TCL in Bangkok, TCL being the “authorised subsidiary of the Chinese arms company China Xinshidai, Beijing”. On its website, Xinshidai is described as dealing in the import and export of specialised products by China’s defence industries.

The final shopping list included 600 AK series rifles, nearly 6 lakh ammunition rounds, 200 sub-machine guns, pistols, rocket launchers, light machine guns and 200 kg of RDX. The deal was worth $1.2 million, with an additional $1 million for shipment from China. The consignment was sent through a shipping agent in Kittichai of Bangkok-based Intermarine Shipping. It was to be “loaded from Beihei, a south Chinese port. The destination was Cox’s Bazaar”, a major landing station on the Bangladesh coast. “All the correspondence with Willy Narue, our leadership in New Delhi, Nagaland and others in Thailand and China,” Shimray says, “was made on e-mail to maintain the secrecy of the entire project.” The information was saved as a draft and accessed by Chinese intelligence using Shimray’s password.

Manny · Post by **Manny** » 30 Jan 2011 07:18

This is too funny

Chinese CCTV Broadcaster Uses 'Top Gun' Footage In Military Drill (VIDEO)

http://online.wsj.com/video/cctv-tries- ... 7D30A.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/2 ... 15639.html

pran · Post by **pran** » 30 Jan 2011 08:51

Manny wrote:This is too funny

Chinese CCTV Broadcaster Uses 'Top Gun' Footage In Military Drill (VIDEO)

http://online.wsj.com/video/cctv-tries- ... 7D30A.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/2 ... 15639.html

When it comes to china the operative word is shanzhai. In their very own words and I quote
http://english.cri.cn/4026/2008/12/08/1241s430772.htm

One 'China Youth Daily' article comments that 'shanzhai' culture is actually a culture of piracy, of infringement of rights, and of thievery. 'Shanzhai' products are manufactured without approval from the authorities, saving hundreds of thousands of yuan in license fees. They are packaged similar to genuine products to flood the market with low prices. Since 'shanzhai' products have become popular under the title 'shanzhai' culture, they sway the public's judgment about how to choose the best product. However, it adds that since pirated products are never as good as genuine versions, they won't exist too long.

Prem · Post by **Prem** » 30 Jan 2011 10:38

http://bigpeace.com/stzu/2011/01/29/no- ... rotestors/
(Thief always live in fear of being caught)

China has blocked the word “Egypt” from the country’s wildly popular Twitter-like service, while coverage of the political turmoil has been tightly restricted in state media.China’s ruling Communist Party is sensitive to any potential source of social unrest.A search for “Egypt” on the Sina microblogging service brings up a message saying, “According to relevant laws, regulations and policies, the search results are not shown”.The service has more than 50 million users.News on the Egypt protests has been limited to a few paragraphs and photos buried inside major news websites, but China Central Television had a report on its midday broadcast.China’s foreign ministry did not respond to a request for comment Saturday on the events in Egypt.

Philip · Post by **Philip** » 30 Jan 2011 14:31

Cheating Chinamen yet again! This time from Top Gun.The Chinese establishment scumbags cannot change their character at all and we will see even more of such cases in the future.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... rcise.html

Chinese 'used Top Gun footage' in broadcast on real air force exercise
Chinese state television has been accused of broadcasting a clip from the film "Top Gun" and claiming it was from a real air force exercise.

shiv · Post by **shiv** » 31 Jan 2011 07:28

In discussions on Islamism and India we brand the admirers and apologists of mass murderers as "dhimmis" or people suffering from "Stockholm syndrome"

On the other hand - we look at another group of mass murderers and say "Oh - they know how to deal with dissent. Do not underestimate the Chinese". Why is the latter statement not dhimmitude? Why are the former group to be mocked and derided while the latter people touted as "realists" and keen observers of realpolitik?

Chinese beating Tibetans
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fPE_65a5Ww

Fu*k They're shooting them like dogs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKcRTfpogAM
also see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPSbVPILEj8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhjCX4KIz4Q

rsingh · Post by **rsingh** » 31 Jan 2011 21:18

^^^^

n a previous case in 2007, China's state-run Xinhua news agency issued a news story about a discovery related to multiple sclerosis, which was accompanied by an X-ray showing the head of cartoon character Homer Simpson.

abhishek_sharma · Post by **abhishek_sharma** » 01 Feb 2011 08:41

Chinese agents offered missiles to NE rebels

http://www.hindustantimes.com/Chinese-a ... 56967.aspx

A_Gupta · Post by **A_Gupta** » 02 Feb 2011 02:56

http://english.chosun.com/site/data/htm ... 00465.html

Chinese troops have been stationed in the special economic zone of Rajin-Sonbong in North Korea, sources said Friday.

This would be the first time since Chinese troops withdrew from the Military Armistice Commission in the truce village of Panmunjom in December 1994 that they have been stationed in the North.

Prem · Post by **Prem** » 03 Feb 2011 05:52

Insecure and immature China.
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/ ... ming-show/
China Asks Penn to Remove All Artifacts From ‘Silk Road’ Exhibition

Pam Kosty, a spokeswoman for the museum, declined to explain why China had made the request or whether the artifacts were already installed at the museum when the request was made. The museum has had long associations with Chinese archaeologists and scholars. It has also long been regarded as a leader in advocating for stronger protections surrounding the export and acquisition of antiquities from around the world to discourage the illicit trade in artifacts.
The original negotiations between China and the United States and within China itself that brought the artifacts to the United States last year were long and complicated. Mummies and other artifacts that have been found in the region in recent years there have been identified as Caucasoid, with long noses and light hair, discoveries that have caused controversy there. The discoveries have raised questions about who first settled that part of western China and for how long. Chinese authorities have faced an intermittent separatist movement of nationalist Uighurs, a Turkic-speaking Muslim people who number nine million in the region, and Uighur nationalists have used evidence from the mummies–whose corpses span thousands of years–to support historical claims to the region. The Los Angeles Times reported last March that the Uighur population was not happy with the idea of sending the artifacts and mummies abroad. Officials from the Bowers traveled to the region and drafted an agreement, sent to Beijing, for loans of such items from the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region Museum and the Xinjiang Institute of Archaeology in Western China, and the requests were granted in June 2010.

Mahendra · Post by **Mahendra** » 04 Feb 2011 00:59

Happy Chinese New Year

Bade · Post by **Bade** » 04 Feb 2011 02:30

Dalai Lama urges Tibetans not to celebrate New Year
http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/02/ ... Q620100214

Atri · Post by **Atri** » 08 Feb 2011 20:10

China amends rules for military

BEIJING: China has "amended" rules for its armed forces controlled by the ruling CPC to increase their capability to win "local wars" and enhance their ability to conduct military operations in non-battle conditions.

China's Central Military Commission (CMC), headed by President Hu Jintao, has amended regulations to improve the operation of party organs in armed forces, according to an official statement carried by state-run Xinhua news agency.

The amended rules aim to reinforce the guidelines of 'Scientific Outlook on Development' in the development of national defence and armed forces, the statement said.

The People's Liberation Army (PLA) of China unlike other armies has a unique status as it functioned directly under the control of the ruling Communist Part of China (CPC).

The CMC, which controls the largest standing military of the world, is headed by President Hu, who is also the General Secretary of CPC.

The new regulations also "reflect the new missions of Chinese armed forces to increase the core capability of winning local wars in conditions of informatisation and the capability of conducting military operations other than war," the statement said.

The "informatisation" wars or cyber wars were given prominence as PLA, which considers cyber wars as the most important component in the 20th century warfare, opened its first cyber base last year to handle all types of cyber threats.

The centre, according to a senior PLA official, marks the debut of a new force in China to tackle potential cyber threats and strengthens army's capacity to tackle information-based warfare.

The new amended rules placing emphasis on "local wars" followed recent assertions by China's Defence Minister Gen Liang Guanglie that regional conflicts cannot be ruled out even though a war involving whole of China appeared remote at present.

A war "which involves the whole country" is impossible at the moment, but there is a possibility that a mishap or accident might ignite regional conflicts, Gen Liang told the official media.

chaanakya · Post by **chaanakya** » 08 Feb 2011 20:41

Mahendra wrote:Happy Chinese New Year

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_zodiac#Years

Year of Rabbit, Gracious, good friend, kind, sensitive, soft-spoken, amiable, elegant, reserved, cautious, artistic, thorough, tender, self-assured, shy, astute, compassionate, lucky, flexible. Can be moody, detached, superficial, self-indulgent, opportunistic, stubborn. ( take your pick)

Followed by year of dragon (2012) , Magnanimous, stately, vigorous, strong, self-assured, proud, noble, direct, dignified, eccentric, intellectual, fiery, passionate, decisive, pioneering, artistic, generous, loyal. Can be tactless, arrogant, imperious, tyrannical, demanding, intolerant, dogmatic, violent, impetuous, brash.

and then year of snake (2013), Deep thinker, wise, mystic, graceful, soft-spoken, sensual, creative, prudent, shrewd, elegant, cautious, responsible, calm, strong, constant, purposeful. Can be loner, bad communicator, possessive, hedonistic, self-doubting, distrustful, mendacious, suffocating, cold.

Philip · Post by **Philip** » 09 Feb 2011 16:50

The "Diplomat" says that US drones can trump the PLAFs J-20 stealth.

http://the-diplomat.com/2011/02/07/us-d ... dium=email