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Chinese leaders order internet whitewash amid rumours attempted military coup
Daily Mail (UK) ^
| 22 March 2012
| Peter Simpson
Posted on 03/22/2012 5:21:28 PM PDT by PotatoHeadMick
'Tanks in the streets of Beijing'
Nervous leaders in China have blocked all internet reports of an alleged attempted coup.
Online reports of tanks on the streets of the capital Beijing and shots fired within the secure leaders' compound - which is located next door the top tourist attraction, the Forbidden City - are being closely monitored by the international intelligence communities, including the U.S. and UK.
Popular Chinese microblogging sites Sina Weibo, QQ Weibo and the bulletin board of the search engine Baidu, all reported 'abnormalities' in Beijing on the night of March 19.
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TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: beijingcoup; china; chinacoup; coup; energy; internet
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To: PotatoHeadMick
Well, its the Daily Mail, so let’s just wait and see...
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posted on
03/22/2012 5:28:27 PM PDT
by
THX 1138
("Harry, I have a gift.")
To: THX 1138
It is the Mail and while they do have silly stories relating to minor issues I can’t imagine they’d let their, presumably highly paid, correspondent in Beijing lose the run of himself, I suspect there might be something to this.
To: PotatoHeadMick
Today the government denied rumors that...
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posted on
03/22/2012 5:37:46 PM PDT
by
null and void
(Day 1157 of America's ObamaVacation from reality [Heroes aren't made, Frank, they're cornered...])
To: PotatoHeadMick
The hardliners want to get rid of the market economy.
I guess they want to impoverish China like it use to be.
They’ll need to call in that debt pretty quick.
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posted on
03/22/2012 5:39:50 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
To: PotatoHeadMick
If something really serious was up, China would have put all their military forces on alert and likely cut off all communications in and out of the country. That would result in increased surveillance by American intelligence assets, including RC-135 flights 30-50 miles off the coastline of China. And it would put the Taiwanese military on high alert, and American forces on Okinawa, Japan and South Korea would be put on higher alert status also.
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posted on
03/22/2012 5:40:09 PM PDT
by
RayChuang88
(FairTax: America's economic cure)
To: PotatoHeadMick
This isn’t in a backwater area, it is the same as having a shootout on the national mall in D.C. There are tourists everywhere. We may have to wait until they get back home, but if it was big enough, someone saw it.
To: GeronL
“The hardliners want to get rid of the market economy....”
Maybe they’ll team up with our leaders in DC....
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posted on
03/22/2012 5:42:07 PM PDT
by
mo
(If you understand, no explanation is needed. If you don't understand, no explanation is possible.)
To: PotatoHeadMick
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posted on
03/22/2012 5:44:01 PM PDT
by
mountainlion
(I am voting for Sarah after getting screwed again by the DC Thugs.)
To: mo
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posted on
03/22/2012 5:45:17 PM PDT
by
bmwcyle
(I am ready to serve Jesus on Earth because the GOP failed again)
To: mo
did anyone get a picture of these tanks?
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posted on
03/22/2012 5:46:56 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
To: TigerLikesRooster; AmericanInTokyo
What are you two hearing?
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posted on
03/22/2012 5:49:25 PM PDT
by
hoosiermama
(Stand with God and Sarah, the Gipper and Newt will be standing next to you.)
To: GeronL
They can call it in all they want. They are bonds. They can sell them or they can hold em. Otherwise Bernake will just print more money to pay them.
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posted on
03/22/2012 5:51:29 PM PDT
by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: PotatoHeadMick
OK, I looked around, and it looks like a power struggle may be on. Bo is what I guess you would call a hard-liner. There is quite a bit of dissatisfaction with the way economic reforms are going on over there. My wife is Chinese, from the PRC, and I've been there a number of times. One thing that is always preached is "harmony", which, considering the divisions Chinese crony capitalism has created, is in pretty short supply. The last thing the leadership wants is to appear divided.
This guy Bo looks like he wants to derail the market reforms that have been achieved. But I'm guessing the real reason they whacked this guy was because he wanted to crack down on corruption, which is rampant there. Guarantee you that's why the current leadership wanted him gone. They're all crooks and everybody there knows it.
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posted on
03/22/2012 5:54:17 PM PDT
by
THX 1138
("Harry, I have a gift.")
To: GeronL
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posted on
03/22/2012 5:59:16 PM PDT
by
mo
(If you understand, no explanation is needed. If you don't understand, no explanation is possible.)
To: mo
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posted on
03/22/2012 6:00:18 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
To: hoosiermama
I heard the news before major news outlet picked it up. Nobody knows for sure, but it seems that there is no outright coup. Maybe some low-scale confrontation such as what happened in Chongqing when high ranking police official tried to defect to U.S.. Still the power struggle is real.
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03/22/2012 6:08:00 PM PDT
by
TigerLikesRooster
(The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
To: PotatoHeadMick
That can’t happen here, because our leader doesn’t have the power to... Oh yeah, never mind.
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posted on
03/22/2012 6:17:33 PM PDT
by
BykrBayb
(Somewhere, my flower is there. ~ Þ)
To: THX 1138
China is a house of cards, that can fall at any time.
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posted on
03/22/2012 6:20:24 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Don't wake up in a roadside ditch. Get rid of Romney.)
To: dfwgator
China is a house of cards, that can fall at any time. What do you mean, economically or politically?
China has a lot of economic problems that are being made worse by corruption. Politically, the current leadership will do whatever it takes to keep a lid on any kind of social problems, even if that means putting tanks on the street. What do you think the 3 million strong PLA is for? Who are they going to attack with that large an army? No, that's for internal control...
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posted on
03/22/2012 6:38:03 PM PDT
by
THX 1138
("Harry, I have a gift.")
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