China warns of "life and death struggle" over Tibet

reutuers ^ | 3/19/08 | By Lindsay Beck and Benjamin Kang Lim

[Flavius]

BEIJING (Reuters) - China warned of a "life and death" struggle with the Dalai Lama on Wednesday following a crackdown on protests in Tibetan regions that brought some calls for a boycott of Beijing's showcase Olympic Games in August.

"We are in the midst of a fierce struggle involving blood and fire, a life and death struggle with the Dalai clique," Tibet's Communist Party secretary, Zhang Qingli, told a teleconference of the region's government and Party leaders.

"Leaders of the whole country must deeply understand the arduousness, complexity and long-term nature of the struggle," he said in remarks carried online by the China Tibet News.

[mkjessup]

China warned of a "life and death" struggle with the Dalai Lama

Translation: they're going to kill the poor bastard, and any other Phil Silver look-alikes they can find.

[raygun]

The biggest, largest, and greatest thing that should occupy canium space is China:

Intragovernmental holdings ($millions):

2,024,392 - Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund
$ 696,301 - Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund, Office of Personnel Management
$ 326,096 - Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund
$ 224,487 - Department of Defense Military Retirement Fund
$ 215,046 Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund

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$3,486,322

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83.7% of total non-marketable government account series (comprising x funds/trusts)

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Schedule of changes to public debt - by issue / maturity date - offset against initial position 31 Dec 07

Note: debits retire / credits renew (amounts listed are units of $1,000’s)

Type - Issue_Dt Maturity (Retired)/net - price/$1000

T-Bill 07/05/07 01/03/08 (20,573,316) @ 0.97568278
T-BIll 10/04/07 01/03/08 (21,907,561) @ 0.99029333
T-Bill 12/06/07 01/03/08 (29,000,238) @ 0.99758889

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($71,481,115)

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N/A

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T-Bill 07/12/07 01/10/08 (20,552,453.0) @ 0.97548056
T-Bill 10/11/07 01/10/08 (21,855,436.0) @ 0.99007847
T-Bill 12/13/07 01/10/08 (23,000,048.0) @ 0.99775222
T-Bill 01/10/08 02/07/08 $15,965,870.36
T-Bill 01/10/08 04/10/08 $24,112,522.93
T-Bill 01/10/08 07/10/08 $23,707,753.75

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($1,621,789.96)

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($1,672,789.96)

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TIPS : 01/15/98 01/15/008 (8,408,613.0) @ 0.99130 3.730% of inflation adjusted principle
TIPS : 10/15/98 01/15/008 (8,400,538.0) @ 1.00869 3.650% of inflation adjusted principle
TIPS : 01/15/98 01/15/008 (4,929,000.0) - TIPS adjustment for inflation a/o 31 Dec 07
TIPS : 01/15/08 01/15/18 $10,383,328.69 @ 1.002762028 [$10,411,966 @ 1.625 % on inflation adj face]

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($11,354,822.31)

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($13,027,612.27)

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T-Bill 07/19/07 01/17/08 (21,711,896) @ $0.97540472
T-Bill 10/18/07 01/17/08 (21,855,838) @ $0.98942125
T-Bill 12/20/07 01/17/08 (20,000,217) @ $0.99786111
T-Bill 01/17/08 02/14/08 $ 8,978,497.821
T-Bill 01/17/08 04/17/08 $21,360,842.93
T-Bill 01/17/08 07/17/08 $23,680,869.16

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($9,547,741.089)

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(22,575,353.36)

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T-Bill 07/26/07 01/24/08 (22,944,865.0) @ $0.97527833
T-Bill 10/25/07 01/24/08 (23,399,275.0) @ $0.99014167
T-Bill 12/27/07 01/24/08 (15,000,000.0) @ $0.99763556
T-Bill 01/24/08 02/21/08 14,979,659.25
T-Bill 01/24/08 04/24/08 22,279,724.52
T-Bill 01/24/08 07/24/08 24,627,531.85

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$542,775.62

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(22,032,577.74)

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Notes: 01/31/06 01/31/08 (27,168,000) @ $0.99901510 @ 4.427 %
T-Bill 08/02/07 01/31/08 (24,010,871) @ $0.97573333
T-Bill 11/01/07 01/31/08 (25,681,327) @ $0.99009111
T-BIll 01/03/08 01/31/08 (17,000,111) @ $0.99766667
T-Bill 01/31/08 02/28/08 $19,968,135.96
T-Bill 01/31/08 05/01/08 $24,247,533.58
T-Bill 01/31/08 07/31/08 $26,981,412.86
Notes: 01/31/08 01/31/10 $26,864,204.08 [$26,922,862 @ 2.237 %]
Notes: 01/31/08 01/31/13 $15,680,302.68 [$15,704,984 @ 2.909 %]
TIPS : 01/31/08 01/15/28 $ 8,916,034.917 [$8,974,275 @ 1.75 % on inflation adj face]

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$23,416,352.22

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$ 1,383,774.481

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T-Bill 08/09/07 02/07/08 (25,469,794) @ $0.97608722
T-Bill 11/05/07 02/07/08 (27,431,639) @ $0.99102639
T-Bill 01/10/08 02/07/08 (16,006,206) @ $0.99748000
T-Bill 02/07/08 03/06/08 $29,044,222.22
T-Bill 02/07/08 05/08/08 $28,918,383.71
T-Bill 02/07/08 08/07/08 $27,428,468.27

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$16,483,435.70

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$17,867,210.18

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T-Bill 08/16/07 02/14/08 (24,089,787) @ $0.97618833
T-Bill 11/15/07 02/14/08 (27,478,804) @ $0.99132972
T-Bill 01/17/08 02/14/08 ( 9,000,058) @ $0.99760444
T-Bill 02/14/08 03/14/08 $29,600,748.83
T-Bill 02/14/08 05/14/08 $29,190,122.53
T-Bill 02/14/08 08/14/08 $28,268,221.11
CMBill 02/14/08 $**,***,*** (63-day security) - $19 billion (offered 02/07/08)
CMBIll 02/14/08 $**,***,*** (60-day security) - $30 billion (offered 02/11/08)

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Notes: 02/17/98 02/15/08 (13,574,716.00) @ $0.99514 @ 5.564 %
Notes: 02/18/03 02/15/08 (27,483,982.00) @ $0.99866 @ 3.029 %
Notes: 02/15/05 02/15/08 (23,882,592.00) @ $0.99731536 @ 3.470 %
Notes: 02/15/08 02/15/18 $19,013,510.12 [$19,204,237 @ 3.50%]
Bonds: 02/15/08 02/15/38 $13,133,183.6 [$13,295,253 @ 4.3/8%]

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($31,623,869.3)

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T-Bill 08-23-2007 02-21-2008 $24,126,059 98.003056
T-Bill 11-23-2007 02-21-2008 $26,559,713 99.152500
T-Bill 01/24/08 02/21/08 $ 15,000,076 99.863889

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T-Bill 08-30-2007 02/28/08 $26,475,196 97.679500
T-Bill 11-29-2007 02/28/08 $29,259,729 99.197431
T-Bill 01/31/08 02/28/08 $20,000,024 99.840556

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Notes: 02/28/06 02/29/08 $26,499,744 99.879165 @ 4.689 %

T-Bill 09-06-07 03/06/08 $23,972,752 97.785667
T-Bill 12-06-07 03/06/08 $25,998,685 99.234083
T-Bill 02/07/08 03/06/08 $29,094,232 99.828111

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T-Bill 09-13-2007 03-13-2008 $21,379,021 97.967667
T-Bill 12-13-2007 03-13-2008 $25,413,620 99.241667
T-Bill 02-13-08 02-14-08 $ 29,643,566 @ 99.805556

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T-Bill 09-20-2007 03-20-2008 $18,336,772 97.912056
T-Bill 12-20-2007 03-20-2008 $21,000,246 99.241667

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T-Bill 09-27-2007 03-27-2008 $18,347,011 97.977778
T-Bill 12-27-2007 03-27-2008 $20,000,017 99.170889

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Notes: 03-31-2006 03/31/08 $26,833,778 99.801852 @ 4.730 %

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T-Bill 10-04-2007 04-03-2008 $19,823,444 97.977778
T-Bill 01-03-2008 04-03-2008 $20,000,054 99.163306

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T-Bill 10-11-2007 04-10-2008 $21,203,280 97.929750
T-Bill 01-10-2008 04-10-2008 $24,307,918 99.196167

---

T-Bill 10-18-2007 04-17-2008 $21,081,042 97.864028
T-Bill 01-17-2008 04-17-2008 $21,528,454 99.221444

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T-Bill 10-25-2007 04-24-2008 $21,808,026 97.982833
T-Bill 01-24-2008 04-24-2008 $22,414,003 99.400917

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Notes: 05-01-2006 04/30/08 $26,833,509 99.811765 @ 4.975 %

T-Bill 11-01-2007 05-01-2008 $24,174,041 98.005583
T-Bill 01-31-2008 05-01-2008 $24,391,501 99.409764

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T-Bill 11-08-2007 05-08-2008 $25,058,927 98.089000
T-Bill 02-07-2008 05-08-2008 $29,082,319 99.436306

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T-Bill 02/14/08 05/14/08 $29,357,091 @ 99.431250

Notes: 05/15/98 05/15/08 $14,772,032 $0.99788000 5.653%
Notes: 08/17/98 05/15/08 $12,414,466 $1.01397000 5.436%
Notes: 05/15/03 05/15/08 $18,335,842 $0.99744000 2.680%
Notes: 06/16/03 05/15/08 $15,000,128 $0.10243700 2.100%
Notes: 05/16/05 05/15/08 $26,706,608 $0.99800526 3.821%
T-Bill 11/15/07 05/15/08 $26,480,896 $0.98167361

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T-Bill 11-23-2007 05-22-2008 $26,026,570 98.260389

T-Bill 11-29-2007 05-29-2008 $27,187,687 98.311444

Note: 05-31-2006 05/31/08 $25,929,049 99.890815 @ 4.933

T-Bill 12-06-2007 06-05-2008 $27,649,608 98.387278

T-Bill 12-13-2007 06-12-2008 $27,519,331 98.387278

T-Bill 12-20-2007 06-19-2008 $20,000,013 98.341778

T-Bill 12-27-2007 06-26-2008 $19,000,022 98.235611

Note: 06-30-2006 06/30/08 $26,496,892 99.786183 5.239 %

T-Bill 01/10/08 07/10/08 $ 24,093,885 0.98397389

Note: 07-31-2006 07/31/08 $26,424,341 99.830895 @ 5.090 %

T-Bill 02/07/08 08/07/08 $27,731,294 98.908000

T-Bill 02/14/08 08/14/08 $28,568,232 98.948444

Note: 08-15-2003 08/15/08 $21,353,791 99.771 @ 3.300
Note: 08-15-2005 08/15/08 $20,286,929 99.779503 @ 4.204

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Note: 08-31-2006 08/31/08 $26,503,562 99.913392 4.921

[ventana]

What are you saying? V’s wife.

[raygun]

What are you asking?

[Imperial Warrior]

The revocation of China’s WTO membership and the massive preferential trade imbalance they enjoy with the US to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars, is long, long overdue. Feeding China’s war machine and looking the other way when they kill their own citizens and captive populations under their control is both immoral and makes the United States party to their genocidal, jackbooted lunacy. If we want to make a dent in China’s agressive economic and military superpower ambitions, we should consider them as the global thug and enemy they truly are, and replace imported Chinese goods with American made ones and/or ones imported from genuine allies who do not slaughter their own people or make plans to wage war on the United States, its allies, or our interests.

[barker]

Who are the fools on the committee that picked China in the first place?

[goldstategop]

The ChiComs know if they cannot hold the line in Tibet, it will endanger their hold on power in the rest of China. "Life and death" struggle indeed. The Party has to ruthlessly snuff out the Tibetan rebellion in order to keep the Chinese slave empire intact.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

"It is closed to all foreigners and tourists," a police officer told them. "There is nothing to see now, but you're welcome to come back some other time."

Translation: The Tibetan streets are now awash in blood, and we don't want anyone to see that, especially before our smog-ridden Olympic Games begin.

[Brilliant]

I have this sneaky feeling that Tibet will be the Chinese dictators’ undoing.

[grey_whiskers]

"Life and Death Struggle"

...but mostly death, knowing China.

Cheers!

[Leisler]

If the Salt Lake mob can buy the Olympics, you don’t think the ChiComs didn’t? Twern’t no pick, de was bought!

[Celebratelife008]

Why aren’t we bombing the chinese for say...78 days like we bombed the Serbs? This is an outrageous use of force against the Tibetan people! Oh wait..china has nuclear weapons...and they have quite a lot of people..and they can tank our economy...oh, we will just display righteous indignation, I guess....what hipocracy...shame on America.

[uncbob]

Who are the fools on the committee that picked China in the first place?

All started with Nixon/Kissinger/Buchanan running over to China and dragging them into the 20th century

[TigersEye]

Arm Tibet!

[TigersEye]

Is any of that spam supposed to mean something to posters here?

[TigersEye]

Bump to that. Exactly right.

[Brian S. Fitzgerald]

Please enlighten us to the meaning of your post.

[JACKRUSSELL]

(Please FReepmail me if you would like to be on or off of the list.)

[Imperial Warrior]

I appreciate that TigersEye. Even if China weren’t the United States’ major economic rival and military threat, the unilateral, dangerously dependent, trade relationship we have with them to our severe detriment and to their enormous advantage is insanity and national suicide and the epitome of the fulfillment of the old communist proverb penned by the co-author of the Communist Manifesto himself, Karl Marx: “The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.” I have no intention of selling China or any other foreign nation or entity that rope even if doing so fills the corporate coffers to the brim of some GD economic traitor based in America or abroad who puts his interests and those of his consortium above that of the critical economic, technical, and national security interests of this nation.

The major reason why we have such destructive trade policies, national sovereignty crumbling, and our currency headed for collapse is due to these GD rope sellers and their phony, BS doctrine of “free trade”, a positive sounding euphemism for the de-industrialization of America and the transplantation of US industry, labor, and technology overseas. In China’s case, right in to the laps of the Chinese military hierarchy. “Free trade”, as its proponents argue has changed China from a communist totalitarian police state into a western style democracy about as well as wide open borders and the non-enforcement of immigration and labor laws has worked to secure America’s borders and improve public safety for American citizens.

Had the kind of insane, and despicable greed driven idiocy run the trade and national security polices of the United States during WWII as it does now during the GWOT, we be speaking German or Japanese in our forced labor cooperatives, at least the ones not sent to death camps beforehand.