Posted on 01/30/2013 10:54:05 PM PST by Olog-hai
The New York Times says Chinese hackers repeatedly penetrated its computer networks over the past four months, stealing reporters’ passwords and hunting for files on an investigation into the wealth amassed by the family of one of China's leaders. …
The attacks coincided with a Times’ investigation into how the family and relatives of Premier Wen Jiabao built a fortune worth more than $2 billion. …
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Well...keep supporting Free Trade with Communist China...and get more fun stuff from the Communist Chinese
The NYT does not support the Chinese model, which is more or less unregulated capitalism, with small exceptions made for state-owned enterprises. It’s spent a lot of time criticizing the Chinese for labor issues because the Chinese don’t have enough government regulations for the NYT’s taste. The NYT wants Swedish-style socialism, not communism. The raw capitalism that’s part of the Chinese economic scene is why its nominal per capita GDP is 4x India’s and reflected by annual car sales that are just over 6x India’s.
Kinda hard to attack the NYT for being Liberal when you are cheerleading for the Communist Chinese, dontcha think?
By the way...all that “free market in Communist China” stuff has brought their per capita GDP to around half of what Mexico’s is....and look at all the Illegal Aliens we get from Mexico!
Chinese were looking to learn how to best issue State propaganda.
We have a winner!
Thanks Olog-hai. Gosh, having something important like the Slimes fall under foreign control would be devastating. /s
I guess this is how that “Syrian Tank Brewing Up” headline got written.
from Wiki:
In October 2012, The New York Times reported that Wen’s relatives have controlled financial assets worth at least US$2.7 billion during his time as Premier.[54]
In response, a Chinese government spokesman stated that the report “blackens China’s name and has ulterior motives”, and the websites of The New York Times were censored in mainland China.[55]
Lawyers representing Wen’s family also denied the report’s content.[56]
Wen personally wrote a letter submitted to the Politburo Standing Committee asking for an investigation to the claim and willing to make his family asset public. Professor Zhu Lijia, of the Chinese Academy of Governance, suggest that this is Wen’s last try to push the passing of the “Sunshine” law, which require government officials to release their financial information to public.[57]
Professor Jean-Pierre Cabestan of Hong Kong’s Baptist University questioned the timing of the report and suggested “It looks very much [like] some people close to Bo Xilai are trying to throw mud at the reformists”.[58]
If the New York Times is looking it's because their dem contacts ( dare we call them "handlers"?) have a shakedown angle...
Some editor has made the call that even though the dem handler has an agenda giving him this information - on balance it's a good story.
I believe that call is made many times a day in the MSM which is why the press has become a joke.
I don't have a problem with their economic system - capitalism works. The NYT dislikes that economic system precisely because it's capitalist.
That China's GDP per capita is 50% of Mexico's is a modern miracle. In 1979, when the China's economic reforms started, after the meeting with Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew, its GDP was less than 5% of Mexico's. That's another way of saying that relative to Mexico, Chinese incomes have gone up 10x. Any way you look at it, that's quite a feat.
In that time frame, China's GDP per capita went from 20% less than India's to 4x India's. That blistering growth happened precisely because of China's turn to capitalism. And that turn to unregulated capitalism in many industries is both the cause of its growth and the liberal media complex's unending critiques of Chinese economic policies.
When was the last time you heard any media criticisms of Iran's Marxist economic policies? Yes, the amusing thing about Iran is that its theocrats combine a Leninist model of government with a Marxist economic policy. The Chinese still have a Leninist model of government*, but the economic system, with partial exceptions for Party-owned sectors, is unfiltered capitalism.
* The Leninist phrase "dictatorship of the proletariat" is a fancy way of saying the Party's non-hereditary self-appointed kings-in-all-but-name get to appoint the aristocracy-in-all-but-name that runs day-to-day operations, all in the name of the "proletariat".
Telmex's Carlos Slim own 8% of the Times - a stake he bought during the financial crisis. I think the NYT hired Walter Duranty long before Slim was born, though.
You gotta admit - the rebels found the chink in its armor.
“Hacked” as in correctly guessing reporters’ and editors’ passwords being “Obama2012”.
When was that hack, 1960?
Maybe it was just a Syrian Fire Drill.
And Murdoch’s companies will eventually be the Gulf States’ propaganda arm, or rather, one of them.
Or maybe it was flatulence - as a result of excessive hummus intake - that somehow caught fire.
;’)
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