http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/china/ en-us Mon, 6 Jul 2009 12:18:50 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286398/posts                                                                                                                                   Boxun http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286398/posts#comment Mon, 6 Jul 2009 12:18:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286352/posts BEIJING — The Chinese state news agency reported Monday that at least 140 people were killed and 816 injured when rioters clashed with the police in a regional capital in western China after days of rising tensions between Muslim Uighurs and Han Chinese. Related Times Topics: Uighurs The casualty toll, if confirmed, would make this the deadliest outbreak of violence in China in many years. The rioting broke out Sunday afternoon in a large market area of Urumqi, the capital of the vast, restive desert region of Xinjiang, and lasted for several hours before riot police officers and paramilitary or... NYT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286352/posts#comment Mon, 6 Jul 2009 08:54:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286337/posts 140 slain as Chinese riot police, Muslims clash in northwestern city Eight hundred people are injured and hundreds are reported arrested in Urumqi. The Uighur demonstrators were protesting against racial discrimination. By Barbara Demick July 6, 2009 Firefighters are seen dousing a bus in Urumqi, the main city in Xinjiang, where China's ethnic Uighur minority is concentrated. Eight hundred people were injured and hundreds held as demonstrations against racial discrimination erupted into street violence. (Shen Qiao / New China News Agency / July 5, 2009) Reporting from Beijing - China's worst ethnic violence in years broke out Sunday in the... Chicago Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286337/posts#comment Mon, 6 Jul 2009 07:04:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286331/posts More than 100 people have been killed and 800 injured in a riot which broke out in the ethnically sensitive far-Western Chinese province of Xinjiang. The death-toll, which stands at 129, marks a major escalation in the casualty figures from the disturbance which broke out on Sunday night after police tried to disperse a demonstration by members of the Uighur Muslim minority in the provincial capital, Urumqi. Initial reports said that just three people had been killed in running battles with police that left burned-out cars and buses and several smashed shop-fronts. Xinhua, the state-operated news service, did not provide... Telegraph UK http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286331/posts#comment Mon, 6 Jul 2009 06:48:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2286319/posts Here is the latest update on the "Muslims Rioting in China" article. China state media says 129 killed in riots in west BEIJING – Chinese state media says that 129 people have been killed and more than 800 hurt in violence in the country's western Xinjiang region. Islam in Action http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2286319/posts#comment Mon, 6 Jul 2009 05:43:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2286274/posts Just like Muslims have rioted in the past in Greece, Sweden, Norway, the UK, Brussels, Denmark, and France, they are now rioting in China. As usual they want their own Islamic state within a non-Islamic country. In the past China has severely cracked down on them. I guess that they did not learn their lesson. Islam in Action http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2286274/posts#comment Mon, 6 Jul 2009 04:03:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286225/posts BEIJING, July 6 (AP) - (Kyodo)—"A number of civilians and one armed police officer" died in violence in Urumqi, the capital of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, on Sunday, the state-run Xinhua News Agency reported Monday. Some ordinary people and armed police officers were also injured, and many motor vehicles and shops were smashed and burned, Xinhua quoted sources with the regional government as saying. Kyoto via Breitbart http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286225/posts#comment Mon, 6 Jul 2009 01:42:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286152/posts Video 1.Muslisms protest http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWjRPRf-qbM crack-down by Chinese government, you can hear gun shots in the background. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kk3X3iXqJnI youtube http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286152/posts#comment Sun, 5 Jul 2009 23:09:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2285972/posts Rioters in China's far west Xinjiang region burned vehicles and blocked traffic in the regional capital Urumqi, and police rushed to the scene to impose order, the state news agency reported on Sunday. Restive Xinjiang is divided between the largely Muslim Uighur people and Han Chinese... Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2285972/posts#comment Sun, 5 Jul 2009 16:22:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2285419/posts Chinese baby girls sold for adoption Published: July 2, 2009 at 11:55 PM As many as 80 newborn baby girls from China's southwest Guizhou Province were sold for adoption by foreign parents since 2001, a newspaper probe found. China Daily, quoting the Southern Metropolis News, said the babies were removed from their families by local officials in the province's Zhenyuan county. Most of them were handed over to foreign adoptive parents as orphans at a price of $3,000 each. The report said one poor farming couple, who are among the affected 80 families, had to hand over their fifth baby,... UPI http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2285419/posts#comment Sat, 4 Jul 2009 14:26:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2285186/posts China is scouring the world for oil as its expanding economy needs more crude to fuel its transportation and infrastructure needs. The world’s most populous nation is close to a deal to loan Brazil oil giant Petrobras $10 billion for off-shore drilling. The deal would help China lock up more than 100,000 barrels of crude a day. China has been an aggressive bidder for rights to Iraqi oil fields although it is too early to say how that will work out. Sinopec (SNP) has bid $7.2 billion for oil company Addax Petroleum. The latest move by China to get access... Wall St 24/7 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2285186/posts#comment Sat, 4 Jul 2009 00:39:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2285146/posts Beijing on Friday joined a growing clamour of complaint about US plans for a carbon tax on imports from countries without their own emission caps, warning it could set off a global trade war. The warning follows the passage of a cap-and-trade bill in the US House of Representatives last weekend, which contained tough provisions to impose carbon tariffs to ensure that American companies would not lose competitive advantage. A recent report by the World Trade Organisation and the UN said such taxes could in theory be crafted to be compatible with WTO law, but it would be hard to... Financial Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2285146/posts#comment Fri, 3 Jul 2009 23:39:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2284846/posts Senior military officials of China and Nigeria pledged here on Thursday to further enhance military cooperation. The years after diplomatic ties forged between China and Nigeria has witnessed frequent high-level visits and expanding exchanges and cooperation in various fields, said Chinese Defense Minister Liang Guanglie in a meeting with visiting Nigerian Defense Minister Shettima Mustapha. Liang said peoples of China and Nigeria share a long history of friendship and the strategic partnership has been established between the two countries. He said China appreciated Nigeria's adherence to the one-China policy and its support to China on the human rights issue. China... en http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2284846/posts#comment Fri, 3 Jul 2009 14:39:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2284683/posts Note: The following text is a quote: Retired University Professor Sentenced to Four Years in Prison for Arms Export Violations Involving Citizen of China John Reece Roth, 72, of Knoxville, Tenn., was sentenced to 48 months in prison for violating the Arms Export Control Act by conspiring to illegally export, and actually exporting, technical information relating to a U.S. Air Force (USAF) research and development contract. The sentencing took place in U.S. District Court in Knoxville before Judge Thomas Varlan, Jr. A former University of Tennessee professor, Roth will serve a term of two years supervised release after completing his... US DOJ.GOV/opa -Press Release http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2284683/posts#comment Fri, 3 Jul 2009 07:27:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2284512/posts Who won the Cold War? That’s a no-brainer. The United States prevailed while the Soviet Union collapsed, and the People’s Republic of China dumped Marxism; capitalism (free markets and private property) triumphed over socialism (centrally planned markets and state-owned property); an ethos of individual rights proved to be more resilient and healthy than collectivist ideology; relatively small, democratic government clearly was demonstrated to help a society prosper far more effectively than elitist Big Government. How ironic, then, that voices in Russia and China are mocking our current Big Government policies. Those whose countries took the tragic, impoverishing detour through Big... Frontpage Magazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2284512/posts#comment Fri, 3 Jul 2009 00:24:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2284353/posts There are few places in the world Robert D. Kaplan has not visited and written about in his books and magazine articles. He travels to countries hardly anyone else even considers – to Turkmenistan, for instance, during the time of the lunatic "Turkmenbashi" who transformed his post-Soviet republic into the North Korea of Central Asia. He has an uncanny ability to see conflicts looming on the horizon well in advance and – reversing the standard relationship between journalists and officials – U.S. defense policy professionals often ask him for briefings about what he has seen.His regular dispatches in the... michaeltotten.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2284353/posts#comment Thu, 2 Jul 2009 19:57:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2284154/posts The Baltic Dry Index, which measures the freight rates for dry cargo traveling by ship, hit an all time high of 11,793 on May 5, 2008. Then it plunged to 663 on December 5, a decline of 94.4 percent. It was as if trade was coming to a standstill. However, freight rates soon started to recover Â… Since its December low, the index is up to approximately 4,000 for a whopping gain of some 500 percent! And the “green shoot” crowd is pointing to this surge as proof of the revival in world trade, even though the index is still... Money and Markets http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2284154/posts#comment Thu, 2 Jul 2009 15:48:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2283953/posts So, if China would lose out the most if North Korea developed nuclear weapons and China is not doing too well as the more North Korea backtracks the more China’s lack of power shows (i.e. failure of six party talks, continual and unending foreign aid from Beijing), then does China really have the power to do anything in North Korea? Breaking Down Borders: Korea http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2283953/posts#comment Thu, 2 Jul 2009 10:42:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2283896/posts SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- A small software firm in the tony enclave of Santa Barbara may have helped personal computer makers fend off demands by the Chinese government for mandatory Web-filtering software on all PCs sold in China.When the Chinese government delayed the requirement for Green Dam software, it did not give a new timetable on when the software had to be installed. No reasons were given, but some speculate that fear of being party to political censorship wasn't the only reason. See full story. Last month, researchers at the University of Michigan found two big problems with Green Dam,... MarketWatch http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2283896/posts#comment Thu, 2 Jul 2009 06:46:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2283837/posts China has asked to debate proposals for a new global reserve currency at next week's Group of Eight summit in Italy and the issue could be referred to briefly in the summit statement, G8 sources said on Wednesday. One G8 source who was involved in the negotiations said China made the request during preparatory talks about a joint statement to be issued on the second day of the summit in L'Aquila by the G8 plus the G5 (Brazil, India, China, Mexico and South Africa) and also Egypt. This forum, the so-called "G14", meets on July 9 to discuss the financial... Newsmax http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2283837/posts#comment Thu, 2 Jul 2009 03:47:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2283710/posts Regulation: Ignoring the first rule of holes, a bankrupt state passing out IOUs welcomes an EPA waiver allowing it to further kill its economy. Too bad the state can't stop the air pollution imported from a growing China. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday granted California its long-standing request — denied by the Bush administration — for a waiver to allow it to impose even more stringent air pollution rules than currently required by the federal government.The way is now clear for implementation of a 2002 state law requiring new cars to increase their fuel economy 40% by 2016.... IBD Editorials http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2283710/posts#comment Thu, 2 Jul 2009 00:16:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2283377/posts China's Green Dam Youth Escort plans have been shelvedIn June news broke of an ambitious new campaign in China to filter it citizen's computers.  Titled the Green Dam Youth Escort, it required all new computers to come with filtering software.  While China claimed the move was to protect against pornography, many citizens feared further government monitoring and computer manufacturers didn't enjoy being forced to include the new software. Now China's government-run Xinhua news agency has announced that the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology would "delay the mandatory installation of the controversial 'Green Dam-Youth Escort' filtering software on new computers." Wen... Daily Tech http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2283377/posts#comment Wed, 1 Jul 2009 17:04:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2283178/posts NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India will not sign up to targets to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions but will instead focus on fighting poverty and boosting economic growth, the environment minister said Tuesday. India is one of the world's biggest emitters alongside China, the U.S. and Russia, and the second most populous nation. But India's per capita emissions lag far behind rich countries and it feels the developed world should take the lead on tackling climate change. "India cannot and will not take emission reduction targets because poverty eradication and social and economic development are first and over-riding priorities," a... Reuters India http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2283178/posts#comment Wed, 1 Jul 2009 12:48:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2283116/posts Ex-Chinese leader may be on train involved in collision - HK rights centre 399 ¦r 2009 ¦~ 6 ¤ë 29 ¤é 16:07 BBC Monitoring Newsfile BBCMNF ­^¤å (c) 2009 The British Broadcasting Corporation. All Rights Reserved. No material may be reproduced except with the express permission of The British Broadcasting Corporation. Text of report by Hong Kong Information Centre for Human Rights and Democracy on 29 June [Report: "Train Collision in Hunan's Chenzhou; Jiang Zemin May Be on Board"] As this centre has learned, at 0240 this morning [1840 gmt 28 June], train number K9017 going from Changsha to Shenzhen... Hong Kong Information Centre for Human Rights and Democracy http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2283116/posts#comment Wed, 1 Jul 2009 10:16:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2283019/posts — Zimbabwe’s prime minister, Morgan Tsvangirai, said Tuesday that an official he had appointed had secured lines of credit worth $950 million from China, President Robert Mugabe’s longtime ally. nyt http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2283019/posts#comment Wed, 1 Jul 2009 04:02:34 GMT