Posts Tagged ‘ China ’

Occupied Tibet: Two monks self-immolate

April 25, 2013
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Hindustan Times [India]    

"Two young Tibetan monks of Taktsang Lhamo Kirti Monastery in Zoege, eastern Tibet, immolated themselves in Tibet on Wednesday. The Kirti Monastery in a press release issued here said the two monks set themselves on fire protesting against China's continued occupation of Tibet. Both of them died at the site of protest. The deceased have been identified as Lobsang Dawa, 20, and Kunchok Woeser, 22." (04/25/13)

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China doesn’t “own” America

March 11, 2013
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Orange County Register
by Derek Scissors  

"China has fallen behind Japan as the largest foreign holder of U.S. securities. The Department of the Treasury's new numbers are good only through June 30, 2012, but it puts Japan at $1.84 trillion and China at $1.59 trillion. There are lots of things to say about this, but one stands out: The loose talk about China 'owning' America never made any sense and perhaps now can finally end. China's share of all American securities (corporate, municipal, etc.) is only about 2 percent, since the value of all U.S. securities is in the neighborhood of $70 trillion. China's direct holdings of U.S. securities fell $130 billion between June 2011 and June 2012. Did anyone notice?" (03/11/13)

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China: Regime claims monk incited self-immolations

December 9, 2012
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Fox News    

"Police detained a monk and his nephew in China's Sichuan province and accused them of instigating the self-immolations of eight ethnic Tibetans on the instructions of the Dalai Lama and his followers, state media said. The report in the official Xinhua News Agency did not detail what evidence police had of the exiled Buddhist spiritual leader's involvement -- which was denied by the self-declared Tibetan government-in-exile in northern India." (12/09/12)

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Occupied Tibet: Seven self-immolations in seven days

October 29, 2012
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Hindustan Times [India]    

"The number of Tibetans who self-immolated in the last one week is now seven, rights groups have said, adding that news of two more cases that took place in [occupied Tibet] earlier this week only coming out on late Saturday. Two Tibetan men, cousins Tsepo, 20, and Tenzin, 25, set fire to themselves in a protest in their village north of Lhasa on Thursday afternoon." (10/28/12)

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China: Xi’s absence fuels speculation

September 11, 2012
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Bloomberg    

"Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping’s absence from public events for more than a week fueled speculation about the health of the leading candidate to succeed President Hu Jintao in a once-in-a-decade leadership change. Since speaking at the Party School of the Communist Party on Sept. 1, Xi canceled a Sept. 5 meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. After foreign journalists in Beijing were told the same day that Xi would meet Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt on Sept. 10, the event wasn’t included in an official agenda distributed Sept. 7. The foreign ministry said yesterday no such meeting was planned." (09/11/12)

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China demands Japan release activists abducted over island protest

August 15, 2012
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Reuters    

"China demanded Japan immediately and unconditionally free 14 Chinese activists held over a protest landing on disputed islands on Wednesday, as tensions between Tokyo and its neighbours flared on the anniversary of the end of World War Two. The landing by the activists on an island chain in the East China Sea and their detention by Japan's coast guard came on a day of regional diplomatic jousting, underscoring how history dogs Japan's ties with China and South Korea." (08/15/12)

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Hong Kong: Pro-democracy protesters take to streets

July 2, 2012
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Times of India [India]    

"Tens of thousands of pro-democracy protesters took to the streets of Hong Kong hours after Chinese President Hu Jintao swore in the city's new leader and urged him to resolve what he called 'deep disagreements' among the islanders. The by-now annual July 1 demonstration -- marking the end of British colonial rule in 1997 -- was the biggest in years as people took advantage of Hong Kong's laws that make it the only place in China where public protests are permitted." (07/02/12)

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China: Apple to pay $60 million in iPad namecase

July 1, 2012
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Loveland Reporter-Herald    

"A Chinese court says Apple has agreed to pay a local company $60 million to settle a dispute over ownership of the iPad name. The Guangdong High People's Court said Monday that Apple and Proview Technology reached the settlement through mediation. The court said that ended the legal case." (07/01/12)

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China puts its first woman astronaut into orbit

June 17, 2012
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Reuters    

"China put its first woman into orbit on Saturday, one of three astronauts to attempt a critical space docking in the latest challenge for the country's ambitious space programme. A Long March rocket blasted off in the early evening from the remote Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in the northwestern Gobi Desert, carrying with it the Shenzhou 9 spacecraft and the three astronauts, including 33-year-old female fighter pilot Liu Yang." (06/17/12)

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Putin, Hu meet on rising Russia-China partnership

June 5, 2012
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San Jose Mercury News    

"The leaders of Russia and China met Tuesday to foster an evolving partnership that has counterbalanced U.S. influence and shielded Syria from international moves to halt its crackdown on a 15-month uprising. Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Beijing on his first visit to his country's vast neighbor since resuming the Russian presidency earlier this month." (06/05/12)

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Tibet: Chinese occupiers abduct hundreds after Llasa immolations

May 31, 2012
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Voice of America [US state media]    

"Chinese police reportedly have detained hundreds of people as part of a security lockdown in the Tibetan capital, Lhasa, after two people set themselves on fire there earlier this week to protest Chinese rule. The U.S. government-backed Radio Free Asia cited a local source late Wednesday as saying that Chinese authorities have locked up about 600 Tibetan residents. It said many others from outside the Tibetan Autonomous Region [sic]have been expelled." (05/31/12)

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China: Regime moves to censor Weibo users

May 30, 2012
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MSNBC    

"China's Sina Corp has introduced a code of conduct for users of its Weibo service -- the local version of Twitter -- amid accusations of censorship to rein in what has grown into a raucous online forum to air political and social grievances. The code of conduct, first announced earlier this month, stipulates that users of Sina's Weibo microblogging site cannot post information that is against the principles of the constitution, cannot harm national unity, disclose state secrets or publish false information, among other rules." (05/29/12)

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Tibet: Two self-immolate vs. Chinese occupation

May 28, 2012
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Times of India [India]    

"Two men set themselves on fire to protest against the Chinese government in Tibet's capital, Lhasa , in the middle of a large crowd which had gathered to worship the Buddha on Sunday . One of them died while the other is seriously injured. ... This is the first self-immolation by Tibetans in Lhasa in recent times indicating that the protest has spread deep in Tibet, thus mounting renewed pressure on the Chinese government." (05/28/12)

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Filipino, Chinese regimes to impose fishing bans amid turf conflict

May 14, 2012
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Telegraph [UK]    

"The Philippines and China are to both impose fishing bans in the South China Sea as the two countries are locked in a tense territorial standoff. China had already announced its annual ban, which it says is aimed at curbing overfishing, and includes the waters around the disputed Scarborough Shoal. The Philippines on Monday refused to recognise China's measure .... But Albert del Rosario, the foreign secretary, said ... that the Philippines would issue its own ban." (05/14/12)

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US, Chinese regimes to collaborate on Internet censorship justifications

May 8, 2012
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ABC News    

"Asserting that cyberattacks against the U.S. don't come only from China, the U.S. and Chinese defense ministers said they agreed Monday to work together on cyber issues to avoid miscalculations that could lead to future crises. ... Because people and businesses in both China and American have been victims of cyberattacks, officials have been talking more about building a better relationship so that they can work together." (05/08/12)

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Chen leaves US embassy under promise of safety from Chinese regime

May 2, 2012
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Epoch Times    

"Chen Guangcheng, the human rights lawyer who made a dramatic escape from house arrest last week and spent six days in U.S. care in Beijing, has now been given assurances of safety and will remain in China. Chen left the embassy on the afternoon of May 2, according to American officials who briefed foreign journalists in Beijing." (05/02/12)

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China: Regime cracks down after dissident’s escape

April 29, 2012
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Los Angeles Times    

"Supporters of blind human rights dissident Chen Guangcheng, who fled house arrest and is reportedly under protection at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, are now facing police detention, activists in the U.S. and China said Sunday. ... Officials at the embassy and in Washington have still not confirmed or denied that they are keeping Chen, 40, a lawyer who was imprisoned for exposing forced sterilizations and other abuses by authorities and was placed under house arrest after his release in September 2010." (04/29/12)

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Let freedom ring and self-censorship

April 26, 2012
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The Libertarian Standard
by Tim Swanson  

"Several prominent libertarians, such as Peter Schiff have gone on record suggesting that China is more free-market than the US. Others such as Jim Rogers (2010 Schlarbaum laureate) has stated that 'America is more communist than China' and that 'China isn't communist' and that 'China is not going to be communist ever again.' What evidence do they have of this utopic land of milk and honey? Or as Carl Sagan would say, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence." (04/25/12)

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Chinese, Russian navies launch joint exercises

April 22, 2012
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The Australian [Australia]    

"China and Russia yesterday launched their first joint naval exercises, raising strange new dynamics in the balance of power in the region that has seen the US and India rattling sabres and tensions rise between China and its neighbours over territorial claims. ... The six days of Chinese-Russian drills are taking place in the Yellow Sea off the city of Qingdao in Shandong province on China's east coast, the official China News Service said." (04/23/12)

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Philippine president: No war with China over shoal

April 17, 2012
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Sacramento Bee    

"China and the Philippines say they won't escalate their weeklong maritime standoff over an uninhabited shoal in the disputed South China Sea, but each still appeared to be waiting for the other side to give up Tuesday. The Philippines pulled out a warship and replaced it with a coast guard vessel to 'de-escalate the situation' over Scarborough Shoal off the country's northwestern coast, President Benigno Aquino III said Monday. But the vessel continued the Philippines' faceoff against two Chinese maritime surveillance ships." (04/16/12)

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What is happening in China?

April 15, 2012
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The Libertarian Standard
by Tim Swanson  

"[I]n the West it seems everyone from farmers to factory workers, from interns to captains of industry has an opinion about what is going on in the middle kingdom. But the truth is, outside of the Politburo, no one really knows what has been decided and what will be implemented. And this is by design." (04/13/12)

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Philippines: Warship in standoff with China vessels

April 10, 2012
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Omaha World-Herald    

"The Philippines said its largest warship was engaged in a tense standoff with Chinese surveillance vessels Wednesday at a disputed South China Sea shoal, after the ship attempted to arrest Chinese fishermen but was blocked by the surveillance craft. Foreign Secretary Albert Del Rosario summoned Chinese Ambassador Ma Keqing to resolve the dangerous impasse diplomatically." (04/10/12)

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China: Ni Yulan sentenced to two years, eight months

April 10, 2012
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New York Times    

"Ni Yulan, a rights advocate crippled from abuse during previous imprisonments and later left homeless on the streets of Beijing, was sentenced by a Chinese court on Tuesday to more than two years in prison, an advocacy group said. The court in the Xicheng district of Beijing sentenced Ms. Ni and her husband, Dong Jiqin, on charges of creating a disturbance, according to Chinese Human Rights Defenders, a group based in Hong Kong. It said Mr. Dong was sentenced to two years, while Ms. Ni was sentenced to two years and eight months because of an additional charge of fraud."

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Anonymous planning more attacks against China sites

April 9, 2012
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Reuters [UK]    

"The activist hacker group Anonymous plans to launch further attacks on Chinese government websites in a bid to uncover corruption and lobby for human rights, a member of the group said on Monday. Anonymous, a loosely knit group that has attacked financial and government websites around the world, hacked into Chinese government websites last week, defacing several, media reports said." (04/09/12)

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China: Regime considers allowing direct investments overseas

April 3, 2012
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New York Times    

"China may loosen overseas investment rules for private investors, the country’s central bank chief said Tuesday, less than a week after the government approved a trial of financial overhauls in Wenzhou. ... The Chinese central bank is easing policy as the nation, with the world’s second-largest economy after that of the United States, encounters challenges, but it has stuck to a gradual approach because of concerns over inflation and property risks." (04/03/12)

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