http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/chicoms/ en-us Tue, 9 Sep 2008 15:09:06 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2078122/posts Most of my Chinese friends and students act as if I am claiming that men live on Mars when I tell them about the atrocities that are taking place in North Korea. For them, North Korea is their friendly Communist neighbor and the mere suggestion that people there are dying of starvation or that the regime is murdering entire generations seems to offend people here. Most Chinese people are in complete denial about what is happening in North Korea as is the Chinese government which continues to support, defend, and even praise North Korea at every turn. On Monday, Beijing... TeachAbroadChina.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2078122/posts#comment Tue, 9 Sep 2008 15:09:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2065932/posts From faked CGI opening ceremony fireworks to “16-year-old” gymnasts, China has squashed the arguments of the supra-national idealists like it squashed the Tiananmen Square protests: ruthlessly, decisively, and with a brazen disregard for how bad it makes them look on the world stage. The first question that comes to mind is: should this come as a surprise? It isn’t as if China thinks we’re ignorant of their internal repression and human rights abuses. It also can’t be that we think those gymnasts are 16. Coming as it has in a time when formerly communist Russia has brutally flexed its own... Pajamas Media http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2065932/posts#comment Fri, 22 Aug 2008 01:53:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2065892/posts Too Old and Frail to Re-educate? Not in China By ANDREW JACOBS BEIJING — In the annals of people who have struggled against Communist Party rule, Wu Dianyuan and Wang Xiuying are unlikely to merit even a footnote. The two women, both in their late 70s, have never spoken out against China’s authoritarian government. Both walk with the help of a cane, and Ms. Wang is blind in one eye. Their grievance, receiving insufficient compensation when their homes were seized for redevelopment, is perhaps the most common complaint among Chinese displaced during the country’s long streak of fast economic growth.... NYT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2065892/posts#comment Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:51:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2063297/posts Chinese customs officials confiscated more than 300 Bibles on Sunday from four American Christians who arrived in a southwestern city with plans to distribute them, the group's leader said. --snip-- "I heard that there's freedom of religion in China, so why is there a problem for us to bring Bibles?" Klein said. "We had over 300 copies and customs took all of them from us." Google-AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2063297/posts#comment Sun, 17 Aug 2008 15:52:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2063164/posts Beijing Olympics organisers were forced to lift draconian security arrangements after complaints from sponsors that the millions of pounds they had spent was going to waste in an empty and joyless Olympic park The empty spaces around main Olympic venues, where the majority of sponsors have their "pavilions" to show off their wares to the public, came on top of disappointing build-up to the Games for many companies. Tight security, which the Beijing organisers had decreed was their top priority, meant the zone was virtually closed off to the public. Beijing as a whole has been unusually quiet since the... The Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2063164/posts#comment Sun, 17 Aug 2008 04:17:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2062859/posts Some Olympians Dissatisfied With Religious Center By Ariana Eunjung Cha Washington Post Foreign Service Thursday, August 14, 2008; A13 BEIJING, Aug. 13 -- The Olympic Village's religious center has become the target of a quiet protest by athletes, coaches and other delegates who say its staffing and services fall woefully short of the promises made by Chinese organizers. Previous Olympic hosts welcomed foreign chaplains, but China has banned them from living with the athletes. It has instead pledged that it will provide equivalent services from its pool of state-employed pastors, imams and other clerics. Josh McAdams, 28, an American athlete... WP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2062859/posts#comment Sat, 16 Aug 2008 14:00:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2061564/posts Olympic Persecution: Pastor Re-arrested Sunday, Escapes Pastor Hua Huiqi, who was evicted from his rental apartment in Beijing on July 2, and subsequently forced to leave China’s capital, was arrested Sunday while trying to attend a service at a state-approved church. The service at the Three Self-Patriotic Movement’s Kuanjie Church was attended by U.S. President George W. Bush. According to China Aid Association, Pastor Hua was walking to the state-approved church early Sunday morning when he was detained by the Chinese police. After about six hours, Pastor Hua took an opportunity and fled. He is now at large. Pastor... Voice of the Martyrs http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2061564/posts#comment Thu, 14 Aug 2008 03:25:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2060988/posts Excerpt - Speaking by telephone from the back of the police van as he was driven away, Ray said: "I have been roughed up. They dragged me, pulled me and knocked me to the ground. Now they are filming me." He could then be heard asking the officers with him: "Why are you filming? I am a British journalist. I have all the Olympic accreditation I need." Police officers could then be heard asking: "What's your opinion on Tibet?" Ray replied: "I have no opinion on Tibet. I am a journalist." A police officer could then be heard telling him... The Guardian (UK) (excerpt) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2060988/posts#comment Wed, 13 Aug 2008 05:42:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2060539/posts A member of China's Politburo asked for the last-minute change to match one girl's face with another's voice, the ceremony's chief music director, Chen Qigang, said in an interview with Beijing Radio. "The audience will understand that it's in the national interest," Chen said in a video of the interview posted online Sunday night. FoxNews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2060539/posts#comment Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:26:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2058659/posts WASHINGTON (AFP) - A Taiwan-born American who admitted spying for China was given more than 15 years in prison, the US Justice Department said Friday. Tai Shen Kuo, 58, of New Orleans, Louisiana, was sentenced by federal court in Virginia to 188 months in prison, and required to forfeit 40,000 dollars, after he pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy to deliver US military information to China. Kuo was charged as a part of a small ring that included a Chinese woman, Yu Xin Kang, and former Pentagon analyst Gregg Bergersen, that obtained secret information mainly on US military sales to... AFP on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2058659/posts#comment Fri, 8 Aug 2008 17:24:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2058065/posts China's Secret Intelligence Service, CSIS, has trained more than 1,000 of its most beautiful female agents to launch "honey trap" missions against British and other foreign businessmen and key diplomatic aides accompanying foreign leaders to the Olympic Games, according to a report from Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin. The warning has come in a detailed briefing by Britain's two intelligence chiefs -- Jonathan Evans of MI5 and John Scarlett of MI6 -- to the British team and businessmen. Similar warnings have been issued by the U.S. State Department and European foreign ministries to their teams. Earlier this year a senior aide... WorldNut Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2058065/posts#comment Thu, 7 Aug 2008 16:12:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2057994/posts Why Every American Should Care About China The Emerging Superpower Is Forging Relationships Where the U.S. Isn't   By BOB WOODRUFF, GABRIELLE TENENBAUM, SUSAN SCHAEFER and MEENA HARTENSTEINAug. 6, 2008   When the Olympics begin Friday in Beijing it will be a "coming out" party of sorts for China. Beijing hopes this will be a bright spot in what has otherwise been a tough year -- the country was hit by a devastating earthquake and rocked by scandals over tainted food and medicine and toxic toys. There have been protests, both within China and in other countries, about its... ABC NEWS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2057994/posts#comment Thu, 7 Aug 2008 13:29:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2054047/posts BEIJING: The Chinese government confirmed Wednesday what journalists arriving at the lavishly outfitted media center here had suspected: Contrary to previous assurances by Olympic and government officials, the Internet would be censored during the upcoming games. Since the Olympic Village press center opened Friday, reporters have been unable to access scores of Web pages - politically sensitive ones that discuss Tibetan succession, Taiwanese independence, the violent crackdown of the protests in Tiananmen Square and the sites of Amnesty International, Radio Free Asia and several Hong Kong newspapers known for their freewheeling political discourse. On Wednesday - two weeks after its... International Herald Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2054047/posts#comment Thu, 31 Jul 2008 01:57:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2052549/posts BARACK Obama’s half-brother has been helping to promote cheap Chinese exports in a low-profile business career while the Democratic senator has been winning worldwide fame in his race for the White House. He has gone to extraordinary lengths to avoid public attention and his family links remain unknown to most of his acquaintances in Shenzhen, a border boomtown in southern China where he has lived since 2002. TimesOnLine (UK) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2052549/posts#comment Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:12:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2046784/posts Zimbabwe’s EnablerBy Brett D. Schaefer and John J. Tkacik, Jr.The Heritage Foundation | 7/17/2008 For decades, China has been a stalwart ally of Robert Mugabe. This relationship began in the 1970s, when China armed Mugabe's Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) guerrillas against white rule in Southern Rhodesia.[1] Subsequently, it was no surprise when China and Russia vetoed a July 12 United Nations Security Council resolution to sanction Mugabe and key figures in his government for their role in unleashing a campaign of violence and intimidation that forced opposition presidential candidate Morgan Tsvangarai to withdraw from last month's Zimbabwean run-off... FrontPage Mag http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2046784/posts#comment Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:55:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2043549/posts A high-level Chinese military source secretly disclosed last week that the recent earthquake in Sichuan Province caused a chain-reaction of explosions in the Sichuan mountain areas. The explosions destroyed Chinese army's largest armory, new weapon test bases and part of nuclear facilities including several nuclear warheads. This information is considered China's top military secret. After the earthquake, Chinese authorities had ignored the disaster victim's initial calls for help. Only after the first critical 72 hours had passed did the authorities allow international aid to be delivered to the disaster region. Military analysts believe that this delay occurred because Mianyang City... The Epoch Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2043549/posts#comment Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:28:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2039646/posts The military trainers who came to Guantánamo Bay in December 2002 based an entire interrogation class on a chart showing the effects of "coercive management techniques" for possible use on prisoners, including "sleep deprivation," "prolonged constraint," and "exposure." What the trainers did not say, and may not have known, was that their chart had been copied verbatim from a 1957 Air Force study of Chinese Communist techniques used during the Korean War to obtain confessions, many of them false, from American prisoners. The recycled chart is the latest and most vivid evidence of the way Communist interrogation methods that the... NYT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2039646/posts#comment Wed, 2 Jul 2008 10:53:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2029765/posts Lawmakes are urging everyone on Capitol Hill to have their computers checked for malware after discovering that people working from inside China hacked into multiple congressional machines and accessed locations of Chinese dissidents and other sensitive data. Virginia Representative Frank Wolf said four of his PCs were compromised, beginning in August 2006. New Jersey Representative Chris Smith, said two of his machines were hacked in December 2006 and March 2007. Both congressmen, who are long-time critics of China's record on human rights, said the PCs of other lawmakers had also been breached but declined to give names. Following the attacks... The UK Register http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2029765/posts#comment Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:43:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2022771/posts WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A Chinese woman pleaded guilty Wednesday to helping a spy provide the Chinese government with U.S. military secrets about arms sales to Taiwan. Yu Sin Kang, a Chinese citizen living legally in the United States, admitted serving as an intermediary for the delivery of classified information from agent Tai Shen Kuo to the Chinese government. Kang, 33, faces up to 10 years in prison when she is sentenced August 1 in federal court in Virginia. Don't Miss Kang's plea marks the third and final guilty plea in what the U.S. government has called a "significant" conspiracy to... CNN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2022771/posts#comment Thu, 29 May 2008 02:41:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2016792/posts Commercial satellite imagery has revealed an extensive nuclear missile site in central China with nearly sixty launch pads for medium-range missiles capable of striking Russia or India, a researcher said Thursday."The US government often highlights China's deployment of new mobile missiles as a concern but keeps the details secret, so the discovery of the deployment area provides the first opportunity for the public to better understand how China operates its mobile ballistic missiles," he wrote."From these launch pads DF-21 missiles would be within range of southern Russia and northern India (including New Delhi), but not Japan, Taiwan or Guam," he... spacewar.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2016792/posts#comment Fri, 16 May 2008 12:02:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2008975/posts POLICE in China have shot dead an alleged Tibetan independence "insurgent" in northwestern China, state press reports. It is the first official admission that authorities have killed anyone during recent unrest. A police oficer was also killed in the gunfight between the suspected insurgents and security officials. Xinhua said there had been a riot in Qinghai's Dari County incited by "a handful of people alleged to be insurgents seeking Tibetan independence, following anti-Chinese protests in Lhasa in March. "After a month-long investigation, the police moved on Monday to arrest the suspected leader. The suspect resisted arrest and gunfire broke out,"... Herald Sun http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2008975/posts#comment Wed, 30 Apr 2008 04:06:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2006130/posts THE Canberra leg of the Olympic torch relay has been declared a success, despite skirmishes between police and Chinese guards and clashes between protesters. Olympic swimming legend Ian Thorpe, flanked by dozens of police, took the torch to the finish line in Commonwealth Park and lit the community cauldron, which quickly went out. The Chinese torch attendants moved in to relight the cauldron with the Olympic flame. Thorpe looked slightly sheepish after the cauldron went out so soon after he lit with his torch. "It was very exciting ... it was incredible,'' Thorpe said after completing his first torch relay,... Herald Sun http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2006130/posts#comment Thu, 24 Apr 2008 04:13:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2002054/posts China's national offshore oil corporation declared it is willing to finalize talks with Iran on North Pars gas field. The company said it keeps holding talks with Iran's national gas company on a gas deal worth 16 billion dollars to put it into practice. The two companies signed a memorandum last year to expand gas reserves of the North Pars gas field where as the 16-billion dollar agreement was postponed to be signed through what called international sensitivities. Under the initial agreement on North Pars gas field contract, the Chinese company was to buy 10 million tons of Iran's liquefied... Iranian Students News Agency http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2002054/posts#comment Tue, 15 Apr 2008 21:40:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2001879/posts Bristling at criticism in the run-up to the Summer Olympics, China is lashing back at its foreign critics — by name. Earlier this week, the state Xinhua news agency called House Speaker Nancy Pelosi “disgusting.” And on Tuesday, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu lambasted a CNN commentator, Jack Cafferty, for his “vicious” commentary on China. “We solemnly request that CNN, and Cafferty himself, take back the malicious remarks and apologize to the Chinese people,” Jiang said at a news briefing. McClatchy http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2001879/posts#comment Tue, 15 Apr 2008 15:26:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2001120/posts When the Olympic torch was carried through Paris, the Chinese scored a propaganda coup when a group of Tibetan protesters attacked a young woman in a wheelchair who was, at that time, bearing the torch. One of the protesters got through the French police and actually wrestled the woman for the torch, but she fended him off until he was pulled away by policemen. This photo of the attack by the protester, who sported a Tibetan flag on his head, was widely publicized around the world, especially in China: The pretty young woman, Jin Jing, became an instant heroine: A... Power Line http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2001120/posts#comment Mon, 14 Apr 2008 01:21:14 GMT