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Excerpt - BEIJING, Dec 18, 2006 (AP Worldstream via COMTEX News Network) -- Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has set up a Communist Party at the headquarters of its China operations, news reports said Monday. The move follows the success of China's government-sanctioned union body in organizing unions at Wal-Mart's 68 outlets in China. The party branch was set up Saturday at Wal-Mart's China headquarters in the southern city of Shenzhen, the party newspaper People's Daily and the local newspaper Shenzhen Special Zone Daily said. ~ snip ~

Better way to handle Asian currencies By James Dorn, Financial Times, October 24 2006 Calls for government co-ordination of exchange rates to manage global imbalances are misguided. For a lesson in how exchange rate intervention can wreak monetary havoc, just look to the Plaza and Louvre agreements. The Group of Five industrialised nations – the US, the UK, Japan, Germany and France – met in New York in 1985 to agree on collective action to lower the value of the dollar. China was not a factor as its foreign exchange reserves were only $12.7bn and its overall current account was...

Chinese Naval Buildup Surprising, But Not Yet Alarming, Says AdmiralDefense Daily, June 8, 2006 The pace of Chinese naval expansion is faster than expected, but is not alarming yet, although Chinese intentions are not evident, a U.S. Navy admiral said last week. "Clearly...we kind of continue to be surprised by the growth of the Chinese Navy," said Rear Adm. Joseph Walsh, director of Submarine Warfare (N77), on June 1 during a speech on the future of the U.S. Navy at a symposium in Washington, D.C. "That is clearly something we watch." Walsh said the Chinese are focusing on fielding surface...

Symposium: China: Time Bomb WalkingAs President Bush met with Chinese President Hu Jintao at the White House this week, the issue of China’s rise as a global superpower took center stage. Serious concerns are mounting in Washington in regards to China’s increasingly aggressive global posturing. Indeed, Beijing continues to militarily threaten Taiwan, to support a nuclear North Korea, and to forge alliances with anti-American regimes everywhere, including with Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez and Iran’s nuclear-aspiring Mullahs. As the military and economic threat of Beijing becomes increasingly apparent, the question arises: were we complicit in creating this communist monster? If we were,...

By Joel Mayor Loran Cuban President Fidel Castro today handed over the keys of vehicles to two electrical workers representing 101 technicians from Havana’s electricity works. The new Chinese-manufactured motor vehicles will be used in the upgrading of the national electric grid. This was the first consignment of specialized vehicles which will replace the old fleet of gas guzzling Zil 130 and 131, GAZ and KAMAZ trucks. The Cuban leader explained that though the primary purpose of the vehicles was to conserve electrical power, the new more efficient vehicles will also contribute to fuel savings. President Fidel Castro described these...

AmericanEconomicAlert.org | Fighting for American Companies, Fighting for American Jobs China Seeks to Perpetuate Advantages, Not Solve Problems By William R. Hawkins Thursday, April 20, 2006 As Chinese President Hu Jintao comes to Washington for a summit with President George W. Bush, all those watching the media reports and reading the official statements released by the two governments should remember the most famous words of the ancient Chinese strategist Sun Tzu, “Warfare is the Way (Tao) of deception.” The techniques of Chinese propaganda developed during the Cold War have not been abandoned, only modernized. Over the last year, Beijing has...

Issue Date: April 24-30, 2006, Posted On: 4/24/2006 China Briefing: Another China on another planetCommentary by Kin-ming Liu A summit between the president of the proudest democracy and the leader of the largest dictatorship took place in Washington last Thursday.  Listening to some of the things being uttered in public, however, one can be forgiven for mistakenly thinking that the visitor must have come from another China on another planet. Hu Jintao, general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, told the gathering on the South Lawn at the White House that the Chinese are “firmly committed to the path of peaceful development.”  Later,...

The recent murder of Allen Ngai Leung, a famous Chinese-American community leader in San Francisco's Chinatown, has exposed a political tension that has silenced many of Chinatown's leaders who favor Taiwan and are against the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Leung was killed at the scene by a masked gunman disguised as a robber, who fired four shots into Leung after breaking into his business, Wonkow International Enterprises, located at the intersection of Jackson Street and Kearny Street on the afternoon of February 27. The police and the majority of the Chinese-American community leaders in Chinatown have largely been keeping silent...

Shanghai. December 15. INTERFAX-CHINA - China's plan to add about USD 300 bln to the country's 2004 GDP number, which would make it the world's fourth largest economy, has been in the pipeline for years, economists surveyed by Interfax said."It's not a big surprise," Jim Walker, chief economist for investment bank Credit Lyonnais Securities Asia (CLSA), said. "I think everybody thought the size of China's economy was badly understated."China is expected to revise its 2004 GDP numbers as part of the country's first national economic census, which was conducted by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). The results of the...

On September 13th, over 5,000 Chinese gathered outside Waldorf-Astoria that visiting Chinese president Hu is sheduled to stay, chanting and dancing for 5 hours, waving Chinese communist flag. (Other sources: for security reason Hu didn't show up. The Chinese well wishers finally got angry and turned to their organizers, then left the street scene a mess.)

China has been selling its relatively cheap but lower quality products with ease both to US and EU. With US, China is running a trade deficit of about $100 billion a year. A similar trade deficit exists with the EU. The Chinese do not feel obliged to balance the trade. They use FDI and dollar reserves in US and elsewhere as a tool to enhance their trade position. Though the US does not like it, only recently it has started to flex its muscles. Trade imbalance discussions have been going on for the last five years but the US took...

In a show of strength to save itself from demise, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) rolled out its sinister plan prepared for years, a plan in which the Party makes an insane gamble from its deathbed. It did so in the form of a “speech” posted on the Internet (see Boxun.com of April 23, 2005). The “speech” consists of two parts: “The War Is Approaching Us” and “The War Is Not Far from Us and Is the Midwife of the Chinese Century.” The two, judging from their echoing contexts and consistent theme, are indeed sister articles. The “speech” describes in...

US Secretary of Defense and 10,000 Others Support CCP Resignations By Ji DaThe Epoch Times Jun 01, 2005 Group photo of US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and the CCP Resignation Service Center staff near the Lincoln Memorial Hall (The Epoch Times) WASHINGTON DC - On May 29, the day before Memorial Day, more than 10,000 Westerners in Washington DC signed petitions to support Chinese people withdrawing from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and to urge the CCP to immediately stop arresting people who have withdrawn from the CCP as well as respect the Chinese people’s freedom of choice. The...

 Japanese paper tells China not to divide TaiwanCNA , TAIPEI Thursday, Apr 28, 2005,Page 1 The mass-circulation Japanese daily Mainichi Shimbun urged China yesterday not to use Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Chairman Lien Chan's visit as a "political tool to divide Taiwan." Instead, Beijing should use the historic meeting between Lien and President Hu Jintao, the general-secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), as a "strategic tool to enter into peaceful dialogue with Taiwan's ruling Democratic Progressive Party [DPP]," the daily said in an editorial. If the KMT-CCP summit can develop into cross-strait dialogue -- that is, the resumption of...

China's Selective MemoryBy PU ZHIQIANG Published: April 28, 2005 ew HavenEVER since June 4, 1989, when the world's cameras embarrassed the Chinese government by recording the slaughter of unarmed protesters in Beijing, spring has been a sensitive period in Chinese politics. Public demonstrations of all kinds have been repressed as if they were vicious cancers. It is indeed news, then, that people have been protesting in the streets of Chinese cities about Japan's wartime past, its textbooks' reluctance to face history squarely, and its proposed accession to the United Nations Security Council. Of course, the fundamental nature of these protests...

CCP Tries to Inspire Loyalty as Withdrawals Continue By Riordan GalluccioThe Epoch Times Apr 16, 2005 Chinese soldiers "voluntarily" swear to be loyal to the CCP in Shanghai April 5. Scenes like these are being repeated nationwide in attempts to forestall the mass resignations already underway.(Liu Jin/AFP/Getty Images) The upper levels of government are taking notice as the number of withdrawals from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) rapidly approaches the one million mark. Since the publication of the "Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party," the question of membership in the CCP has taken center stage in China's everyday affairs. Responding...

Watching the recent proceedings of China's National People's Congress — the country's legislature, if you believe China's constitution, which of course you should not — I got that sinking feeling I always get nowadays when I pay attention to Chinese affairs. Hearing the Communist-party hacks droning on about "safeguarding China's sovereignty and territorial integrity" (read: intimidating Taiwan) and "socialist modernization" (read: get rich by all means, citizen, but never forget who's running this show); watching the drilled "representatives" of the people applauding the wise decisions of the party in unison*... Sinking feeling. The words that go with the sinking feeling...

CCP Withdrawals Pass 300,000, News Broadcast in China China Official News Agency Officially Reports on the Broadcasts By Zeng Ni The Epoch Times Mar 16, 2005 According to an Epoch Times reader, on the night of March 14, the signals of more than eight provincial TV stations and more than six satellite TV stations were intercepted and replaced with broadcasts about “The Nine Commentaries On The CCP” and the withdrawals from the CCP. (Goh Chai Hin/AFP/Getty Images) Around 11:30 am on March 16 (Beijing time), The Epoch Times reported that the number of people who withdrew from the CCP exceeded...

In his FrontPage Magazine article Andrew Alexander’s Lies About the Cold War, Jamie Glazov speaks of the Soviet regime’s aggressive and expansionist designs against the West in the post-WWII period, and how de-classified Soviet sources prove that they had extensively infiltrated their agents into Western society. "...the Venona transcripts are thousands of Soviet intelligence messages that were intercepted and decoded over four decades by the FBI and the NSA (National Security Agency). Released over the past few years, these files prove that there was a large-scale Communist penetration of the U.S. government, and that Communist spies passed on valuable information...

Special Interview with Chen Yizi - Former Advisor to Zhao Ziyang The Chinese Communist Regime Faces Widespread Indignation and Discontent The memorial service for former General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party Zhao Ziyang was held on the morning of Jan. 29 in Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery in Beijing. Xinhua News Agency briefly reported Zhao's biography without mentioning his great contribution to China’s political and economical reforms, but specially indicated that Zhao had made “serious mistakes” in the 1989 political turmoil. The Epoch Times interviewed Chen Yizi, former senior adviser to Zhao Ziyang and former director of the Institute for Economic...