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| FreedomLover
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5/12/2008 6:12 AM
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Why is our government trying to make us hate them? Many of the Chinese are very nice people. |
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| erimia
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5/12/2008 6:24 AM | | Re: Why is government using propaganda to make us hate Chinese | Quote |
Why is our government trying to make us hate them? Many of the Chinese are very nice people. Quoting: FreedomLover 431730
There is nothing nice about people who torture, murder and then eat dogs and cats - the two animals that have been the most faithful and loving companions of humankind throughout human history. The Chinese are completely soulless. Nobody with a brain and the least knowledge of the world needs 'propaganda' to dislike that vermin. |
| Anonymous Coward
User ID: 422790
5/12/2008 6:27 AM | | Re: Why is government using propaganda to make us hate Chinese | Quote |
Because that's what governments do.
Now you're catching on. |
| Anonymous Coward
User ID: 431730 (OP)
5/12/2008 6:27 AM | | Re: Why is government using propaganda to make us hate Chinese | Quote |
Why is our government trying to make us hate them? Many of the Chinese are very nice people.
There is nothing nice about people who torture, murder and then eat dogs and cats - the two animals that have been the most faithful and loving companions of humankind throughout human history. The Chinese are completely soulless. Nobody with a brain and the least knowledge of the world needs 'propaganda' to dislike that vermin. Quoting: erimia 20537
Not all are like that. There were protests against eating dogs and cats.
Not all believe in killing people especially. |
| Anonymous Coward
User ID: 431730 (OP)
5/12/2008 6:31 AM | | Re: Why is government using propaganda to make us hate Chinese | Quote |
Because that's what governments do.
Now you're catching on. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 422790
Yes why all of a sudden they're poisoning our animals,toys,food etc? |
| Anonymous Coward
User ID: 431730 (OP)
5/12/2008 6:32 AM | | Re: Why is government using propaganda to make us hate Chinese | Quote |
Because that's what governments do.
Now you're catching on.
Yes why all of a sudden they're poisoning our animals,toys,food etc? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 431730
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| Anonymous Coward
User ID: 422790
5/12/2008 6:36 AM | | Re: Why is government using propaganda to make us hate Chinese | Quote |
And you think the central commitee of the PRC isn't doing the same thing with the Americans? |
| Anonymous Coward
User ID: 424966
5/12/2008 6:37 AM | | Re: Why is government using propaganda to make us hate Chinese | Quote |
Make no mistake. I know from direct experience. They are not to be trusted. Period. |
| Anonymous Coward
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5/12/2008 6:43 AM | | Re: Why is government using propaganda to make us hate Chinese | Quote |
Probably because they are getting ready to call in our loans. They are going to want either (A) money or (b) assets. We don't have "A" so they will come for "b".
They need the sheeple to fight back if the Chinese decide to walk in and forclose on us. |
| Anonymous Coward
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5/12/2008 7:39 AM | | Re: Why is government using propaganda to make us hate Chinese | Quote |
The Chinese have a very xenophobic, materialist, authoritarian culture - their level of altruism towards other cultures, animals and the environment is somewhat limited - causing them to act in ways that Westerners find offensive.
That this finds it's way into news stories is only natural - what is unnatural is that you prefer to engage in anti-gov conspiracy beliefs when the preponderance of facts and commonsense contradict your preconcieved and local opinions about the world. |
| Anonymous Coward
User ID: 431753
5/12/2008 7:47 AM | | Re: Why is government using propaganda to make us hate Chinese | Quote |
Why is our government trying to make us hate them? Many of the Chinese are very nice people. Quoting: FreedomLover 431730
So that when Strategic Missile Command lets a few Hot Birds off the chain Beijing bound you will feel all warm and fuzzy inside. |
| Anonymous Coward
User ID: 423818
5/12/2008 8:01 AM | | Re: Why is government using propaganda to make us hate Chinese | Quote |
THE GOVERNMENT
WILL ALWAYS TRY TO DIVIDE
THE PEOPLE.
GOVERNMENT VS. PEOPLE
GOVERNMENT OF CHINA
GOVERNMENT OF USA
TALKING TO EACH OTHER.
GOVERNMENT OF CHINA
GOVERNMENT OF USA
ATTACKING ITS OWN PEOPLES.
GOVERNEMENT OF CHINA
ATTACKING PEOPLE OF TIBET.
GOVERNMENT OF USA
ATTACKING PEOPLE OF IRAQ
GOVERNMEMT VS. PEOPLE.
CHINESE PEOPLE
USA PEOPLE
TIBET PEOPLE
AFGHAN PEOPLE
IRAQI PEOPLE
ARE THE SAME PEOPLE.
CHINESE GOVERNMENT
USA GOVERNMENT
TIBET GOVERNMENT
AFGHAN GOVERNMENT
IRAQI GOVERNMENT
ARE THE SAME GOVERNMENT.
DO YOU GET IT, YET? |
| LouisWinthorpeIII 
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5/12/2008 8:06 AM
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Yeah it's funny they taint our food supply, steal our blue collar jobs, and plan to kill us all....
Funny how that makes people hate them.
"I don't know which was scarier...the speech...or the Congress cheering it. He evoked Lincoln. Whenever a President is going to get us into serious trouble...they always use Lincoln."
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| Divinity
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5/12/2008 8:19 AM
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Thank you, and it's about time someone asked that question. If the world's people cannot unify, it will never happen. We have to be ever-aware of our governments' agendas to divide, separate and rule.
Everyone is important, no matter what race, colour, creed. Do not allow yourself to become brainwashed by lies about others. Seek truth, seek unity, be kind.
Love Divinity
"We are the ones we've been waiting for"
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PHI is the direct result and first Ratio produced by this arrangement as it Cycles." Junglelord, www.thunderbolts.info
"Thought being a given is the first assertion of self-awareness; the remaining truth is simply "I am, therefore there is". Self and other, subject and object." Eyeam, GLP |
| Anonymous Coward
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5/12/2008 8:31 AM | | Re: Why is government using propaganda to make us hate Chinese | Quote |
Thank you, and it's about time someone asked that question. If the world's people cannot unify, it will never happen. We have to be ever-aware of our governments' agendas to divide, separate and rule.
Everyone is important, no matter what race, colour, creed. Do not allow yourself to become brainwashed by lies about others. Seek truth, seek unity, be kind.
Love Divinity
:miscemcolo:
"We are the ones we've been waiting for" Quoting: Divinity
The love you withhold is the pain you carry. |
| Anonymous Coward
User ID: 431730 (OP)
5/12/2008 8:43 AM | | Re: Why is government using propaganda to make us hate Chinese | Quote |
Thank you, and it's about time someone asked that question. If the world's people cannot unify, it will never happen. We have to be ever-aware of our governments' agendas to divide, separate and rule.
Everyone is important, no matter what race, colour, creed. Do not allow yourself to become brainwashed by lies about others. Seek truth, seek unity, be kind.
Love Divinity
:miscemcolo:
"We are the ones we've been waiting for" Quoting: Divinity
Our government are the ones who hate us truly.
They hated Kennedy enough to kill him, Kennedy Jr. too.
Our futures lie in federal reserve hands.
So are we the U.S.A.
Or the F.R.U.S.A. |
| Anonymous Coward
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5/12/2008 9:19 AM | | Re: Why is government using propaganda to make us hate Chinese | Quote |
The Chinese have a very xenophobic, materialist, authoritarian culture - their level of altruism towards other cultures, animals and the environment is somewhat limited - causing them to act in ways that Westerners find offensive. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 426149
Let's replace the word "Chinese" with "Americans" in that first sentence. Many people around the world are beginning to see you Yanks in the same way! |
| Anonymous Coward
User ID: 422346
5/12/2008 9:37 AM | | Re: Why is government using propaganda to make us hate Chinese | Quote |
it's almost chinese time to rule...america's time is coming to an end... |
| Anonymous Coward
User ID: 430448
5/12/2008 9:39 AM | | Re: Why is government using propaganda to make us hate Chinese | Quote |
Why is our government trying to make us hate them? Many of the Chinese are very nice people.
There is nothing nice about people who torture, murder and then eat dogs and cats - the two animals that have been the most faithful and loving companions of humankind throughout human history. The Chinese are completely soulless. Nobody with a brain and the least knowledge of the world needs 'propaganda' to dislike that vermin. Quoting: erimia 20537
dont forget forced abortions,slave labor,harvesting organs from prisoners... |
| Anonymous Coward
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5/12/2008 9:42 AM | | Re: Why is government using propaganda to make us hate Chinese | Quote |
Yeah it's funny they taint our food supply, steal our blue collar jobs, and plan to kill us all....
Funny how that makes people hate them. Quoting: LouisWinthorpeIII
The Chinese didn't steal them, your government, who did, wants you to to blame the Chinese.
But they're far away so, you can take it out on your own poor. |
| Anonymous Coward
User ID: 422041
5/12/2008 9:48 AM | | Re: Why is government using propaganda to make us hate Chinese | Quote |
I do not see the US Govt using propaganda to create hatred towards Chinese People.
What IS happening is that the "independent press" around the world (NOT just in the US) continues to report on the actual doings of the Chinese Govt wrt it's contining and never ending suppression of those who internally speak out against it.
The Western Peoples (US/Europe/Aus/NZ) have this love/hate affair with the free press, but overall believe that people should be allowed to speak their minds ... and that is reflected in the Western Press continuing to report on the continuing suppression of freedom of expression in China (which has gone to even open murder of regime opponents ... ie: Tienemen Sq massacure).
All in all I would have to say the US Govt is VERY protective of China and only tries to be mostly positive via the levers it controls ... BUT in the US (and the other Western Countries) the Governments, UNLIKE IN CHINA, do NOT control the Free Press!!
From the tone of your question my best guess is that you are Chinese yourself and strongly believe that a Government SHOULD CONTROL the press and all that it writes. That is of course the basic underlying problem wrt China internally. Dissent is NOT allowed and the Government should control all news. Since your tone seems to support that philosophy the least little criticism BY ANYBODY about ANY aspect of China you will dislike and be confused about.
Take a look at what is in the press daily within the US. Attacks or questioning of our Government, of our Government leaders, of certain groups within the US ... DAILY attacks or questioning about things that are internal to the US. THAT is what freedom of expression is all about.
Time to be a bit less sensitive and look at how YOU view freedom of expression. THAT is one very basic key philosophical difference between the West and China at the present time. Until China ALSO accepts that philosophy anybody who believes the opposite will probably interpret news reporting anywher in the US as anti-Chinese whereas in reality it really isn't. The Press is not saying anyting about China that they do not also say about goings ons in their own country in similar circumstances.
Old Trader |
| Anonymous Coward
User ID: 431825
5/12/2008 9:55 AM | | Re: Why is government using propaganda to make us hate Chinese | Quote |
What do you guys say to Fulford?
I don't believe he is making this up.....
Mostly I find the local Chinese I deal with weekly to be authentic and pleasant, more so than many whites.
BF: I mean, what are the Chinese doing with their money? They’re going to Africa and they’re building roads and hospitals and schools. They’re doing it in South America and they’re doing it in Bangladesh. They’re doing it all over the world.
Bill: And they’re creating markets for themselves.
BF: They’re creating markets, they’re making people rich, and they’re making friends. And they’re not trying to say: You must be like us. You know?
Why do civilizations have to clash? I mean, why can’t they be friends? [laughs] You know? That’s the point. The Chinese don’t want to have some ultimate war and they don’t want to conquer you. They just want to be your friend. That’s it. It’s that simple. Make friends. Make love, not war. [laughs again] I mean, that’s what it’s all about.
from The Ultimatum : Benjamin Fulford - Part 3
Tokyo, Japan, February 2008 Quoting: Benjamin Fulford |
| Anonymous Coward
User ID: 412873
5/12/2008 10:44 AM | | Re: Why is government using propaganda to make us hate Chinese | Quote |
Date: 2 May 2008
From: "Ariel Ky"
Subject: Envisioning a Peaceful Olympics This Summer in Beijing
I just watched the movie Wimbledon last night. Wow! The world of sports is a strange one. It's totally amazing the resources and media coverage given to competitive sports, which I have had very little interest in all my life. You will have to forgive my socialist soul its cringe at the blatant excess shown in the long shots of stadiums and tennis playing fields at Wimbledon.
I found it interesting to observe that the ubiquitous cell phone emerged as a player in this movie when the cell phone of the agent sitting in the audience went off just as someone was focusing to serve the ball. The love story in this movie seemed rather implausible in such a highly competitive environment, but that's what made this movie interesting, that it showed how love can surface just about anywhere and always changes what happens.
... which leads me into the Olympics this summer in Beijing and a call that I would like to make to people all over the world. Please send your love to the athletes in Beijing this summer and hold everyone in a higher field of love consciousness so that the games can go forward peaceably. The Chinese are remarkably committed to maintaining stability as they rush headlong onto the world stage. However, the Western world is becoming increasingly unstable. The power lords would bring chaos onto everyone if they thought it could gain them greater control, and we know this summer's Olympics may very well be a target for agitators (no doubt on the CIA payroll).
Already I've seen a blog post urging a one world currency. At one time I also naively believed that this was the answer to our problems. Now I KNOW that one world anything is being engineered by the ruling elite to consolidate power and control in the world, at the expense of freedom and well-being of everyone else.
I solidly place all of my resources behind the Chinese to thwart these plans. I ground the energy for the Chinese to maintain stability in the world today. What is special about the Chinese and what makes China the fulcrum for what is happening in the world today, is that they are different, and their development has taken place largely in isolation from the influence of the practices of the Western world, and that it has been a communist country dedicated to the ideal of the well-being of all the people, not just the favored few. That commitment to the common people remains a factor in decision-making by communist leaders who remain committed to the commonweal. It's what makes the Chinese inscrutable to the Western mind, especially to capitalists who consider the emerging market economy in China to be a heedless rush into capitalism.
Perhaps I'm just being overly idealistic and projecting my hopes onto something that exists only in my own mind, preferring to stake my bets behind the Chinese instead of extraterrestrials to bring about a different future than that of perpetual war that the West has brought us.
Now I am aware that all large centralized governments become corrupt, and that it also exists in China today. Nevertheless, the rise of the business class here parallels the rise of the bourgeois in Europe that led to the overthrow of the aristocracy in the French Revolution, and has been a tremendous factor in everything that happens in China today, providing a rough system of checks and balances that is more effective than the almost totally corrupted judicial and legislative systems in the U.S. What is happening today with China entering the world stage, with the unmistakeable weight of an elephant, is unprecedented.
I believe the business class that is prospering in China today is bringing about a newfound freedom for its children, who are often being sent to study at universities in other countries, exposing the Chinese to every idea people have elsewhere. The Chinese are opening to new ideas as well as to new markets. My hope is that they will use discernment in assessing these ideas and how they impact the lives of people before adopting them wholesale.
Ultimately, I trust the keen intelligence that so many Chinese I've encountered possess. As a language teacher, I truly believe that learning another language opens our minds to new connections and expands our thinking ability. The Chinese have been studying English and other languages on a large scale and it's having an impact on the development of this country.
It was interesting to see the role of cell phones in the recent demonstrations in front of the Carrefour in Beijing. Almost everyone was holding up their cell phone, taking photos of the police arresting demonstrators. In the age of the Internet and digital cameras, there is a process of immediate reporting and witnessing that is changing the dynamics of social unrest.
Will the Chinese be the first to see the dangers of cell phones and how the pulsed microwaves they operate on are destroying the bees and balance of the natural world? Will the Chinese see the dangers of basing an economy on petrochemicals before it's too late and everyone owns a car? Will the Chinese lead the world in creating an industry of renewable energy resources? I can see all of the above happening because I think the Chinese are becoming leaders in the world today, stepping into the vacuum created by leaders who don't care about the common people in their countries, or the collective future of the world.
ARIEL KY
We give thanks and honor to our mother, the Earth, whose beauty and love glorifies our lives as the sun rises and sets and sparkles on the sea, as the wind blows in the trees and carries the seeds, as our existence depends on the bees. |
| Anonymous Coward
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5/12/2008 10:45 AM | | Re: Why is government using propaganda to make us hate Chinese | Quote |
China's 'rational' nationalism
[link to news.yahoo.com]
Next week, China's majority ethnic group, the Han, will celebrate the Olympic torch's arrival on Mt. Everest. It will be a pinnacle experience, literally, for a people who see the Beijing Games as their ascendency to restored world glory. One problem, though: Everest's peak is in Tibet. China's bursts of Han nationalism – often resulting in violent indignation – have been marked by such contradictions. Popular calls to boycott Western imports over the recent pro-Tibet actions against the torch, for instance, have been squashed by officials – to prevent boycotts of Chinese exports.A more worrisome conundrum for China's leaders is that their own past attempts to incite domestic anger at other countries – mainly Japan and the US – have now opened the door to grass-roots protests that can quickly escalate with private mobilization over the Internet. The Communist Party, which has intensified "patriotic" indoctrination since 1994, has lately insisted on what they term "rational" nationalism. Two weeks ago, for instance, Internet-driven protests almost got out of hand in several Chinese cities against French-owned Carrefour supermarkets. People were upset at actions in Paris against the torch relay and a famous Chinese athlete. A follow-up protest against Carrefour May 1 was contained by officials who banned online searches for the word Carrefour. The real rub for the party: Unfettered nationalism might cause people to turn against it. Officials are busy enough suppressing hundreds of local protests a year by farmers and workers increasingly venting anger at misrule, inflation, land grabs, or graft. And during the Tibet crisis of the past few weeks, China has seen zealous protesters turn on fellow Chinese who don't take a hard line. One Chinese student at Duke University who tried to mediate between pro-Tibet and pro-China activists on campus was called a traitor back home, and her family there was threatened.The party's difficulty lies in defining a "rational" identity for a country that suppresses non-Han minorities (about 8 percent of the population) and floods the Muslim west and Tibet with Han Chinese (thus the anti-Han riots in March). Near-xenophobic nationalism is a useful tool to unify a land of 1.3 billion people. It provides cover for official mistakes and jailing of dissidents. But aggressive action against foreigners only portrays China as a bully, hurting its "peaceful rise" to power – especially just before the Olympics. A recent poll showed that Europeans now see China as the world's biggest threat to world stability.Foreign talk of boycotting the Olympics, and thus marring China's "coming out" party as an economic giant, only fuels nationalist anger and revives memories of past humiliations by foreign powers. Beijing might become less cooperative on trade, nuclear proliferation, and other issues, and not be a "stakeholder" in global affairs. China's potential to implode under its nationalism is, ironically, a result of the party's insecure grip on power and thus its need to command authority by lighting a patriotic torch. But love of country should not mean hatred of others. When the Olympic torch finally reaches Beijing Aug. 8, will the Chinese see it as the world's? Or as their own?
Why China's Burning Mad
[link to www.time.com]
(...) The anti-French protesters are not simply a noisy, hysterical minority; many Chinese are deeply angry about what they see as a global conspiracy to blacken their nation's good name and ruin the Olympics. That makes for a perilous moment for a country that hoped to display its best side to the world this summer, and is now displaying something uglier. Chinese are immensely proud of what their country has achieved in the past two or three decades and of the prestige conferred by the Olympics. But many are still insecure about the permanence of China's new position in the world and haunted by memories of past humiliations by foreigners that have been drummed into them since childhood by a government increasingly dependent on nationalism for its legitimacy.It's testament to the fever pitch of nationalism that even iconic figures can suddenly find themselves under attack. The Paralympic fencer Jin Jing became a national hero (dubbed "the wheelchair angel" by the Chinese media) for her attempts to protect the Olympic torch from pro-Tibet protesters in Paris. But after she questioned the wisdom of a call by some nationalists on the Internet to boycott the French retail giant Carrefour, Jin found herself the subject of Internet attacks branding her "unpatriotic" and a "traitor."So, what explains the furor? The ferocity with which the protesters turn on anybody who disagrees with them reminds some older Chinese of the dark days of Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution, which convulsed China from 1966 to '76. Today's protesters have one thing in common with Mao's revolutionaries: years of indoctrination in a highly nationalistic--some would say xenophobic--credo that imagines a hostile and perfidious world determined to undermine China. "Maybe kids today know more about computers, about the Internet," says Dai Qing, an environmental activist who was imprisoned after the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, "but when it comes to history, the education they get is the same." CLIP
China has secret nuclear submarine base (May 2, 2008)
[link to news.yahoo.com]
LONDON (AFP) - China is building a major underground nuclear submarine base on the southern tip of Hainan Island, defence group Jane's said Friday. Jane's Intelligence Review, a respected defence periodical, said satellite images of the base from imagery provider DigitalGlobe were the first confirmation of its existence. Although Beijing is displaying no overt aggression, the base could mean an increase in its strategic capability in the South China Sea and considerably further afield, Jane's analysis said."Jane's can confirm that the satellite pictures show that China is constructing a major underground nuclear submarine base near Sanya, on Hainan Island off its southern coast," the group said.The Daily Telegraph, which reported the satellite images, called the base a "vast, James Bond-style edifice capable of concealing up to 20 nuclear-powered submarines, which will enable China to project its power across the region." (...) The satellite images showed the harbour layout and a Type 094 nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine at the base, said Jane's. Others show three Luyang guided missile destroyers and a Jiangwei 2 guided missile frigate moored on a jetty, it said. There are believed to be 11 tunnel openings at the base, it was reported, with each entrance, carved into the hill-side, stretching to a height of about 60 feet (18 metres). Pictures showed two of the tunnel entrances. (...) Jane's Intelligence Review editor Christian Le Miere said: "China's nuclear and naval build-up at Sanya underlines Beijing's desire to assert tighter control over this region."China's increasing dependence on imported petroleum and mineral resources has contributed to an intensified Chinese concern about defending its access to vital sea lanes, particularly to its south. "It is this concern that in large part is driving China's development of power-projection naval forces such as aircraft carriers and long-range nuclear submarines."
Analysis: China to get SAMs from Russia (May 2, 2008)
[link to www.upi.com]
HONG KONG (UPI) -- Russia will deliver to China four battalions of 200-kilometer-range S-300PMU2 surface-to-air missiles this summer, the last batch in a series ordered by China. The first batch of four battalions of the same missiles was delivered in July 2007.Starting in 1993, China received 12 battalions of S-300 SAMs, four of them S-300PMUs and eight S-300PMU1s. This means there are a total of 20 battalions of S-300 SAMs deployed in China. These missiles are expected to play a major role in China's core air defense system.These missiles now cover the whole of the Chinese coast facing the Taiwan Strait. Positions previously covered by HQ-2 ground-to-air missiles have been upgraded to S-300 launch positions. (...) The layout of the above missile positions reveals to some extent the tactical intentions of the PLA Air Force, that is, to give priority protection to Beijing and the coastal region with its S-300 SAMs. In particular, the air defense network along the coastal region including the Taiwan Strait and Shanghai has been greatly reinforced. A total of 18 S-300 SAM positions have been identified.After receiving the new batch of four sets of S-300PMU2 missiles this year, and with the deployment of the HQ-9s, it deserves close observation whether China will continue to purchase new S-300 serial SAMs from Russia.
China sets up first space station for spacecraft data relay (2008-05-03)
[link to en.ce.cn]
China successfully established a space station for the data relay of its space vehicles on Thursday. This was accomplished by settling its first data relay satellite, "Tianlian I", at E. 77 degrees over the equator at 4:25 p.m.. (...) The launch was the 105th mission of China's Long March series of rockets, and the first mission of the Long March-3C carrier rocket.The 55-meter carrier rocket with two boosters is capable of launching satellites weighing between 2,600 kilograms to 3,800 kg into space. Seven Long March-3C carrier rockets are currently in production and will carry "several domestic and foreign satellites" into space. China has planned 10 space launches this year, including the Shenzhou VII spaceship. It will be launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the northwestern province of Gansu late this year and the astronauts will leave their spacecraft for the first time. China began its manned space program in 1999 and successfully sent its first astronaut, Yang Liwei, into orbit on the Shenzhou V spacecraft in 2003. Two years later, Fei Junlong and Nie Haisheng completed a new Chinese record with a five-day flight on the Shenzhou VI. All returned safely.
Dalai Lama envoys travel to China for talks (May 2, 2008)
[link to news.yahoo.com]
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Senior envoys of the Dalai Lama are traveling to China to meet the government over the crisis in Tibet, the government-in-exile said on Friday, only three months before the Beijing Olympics open. After a crackdown on protests against Chinese rule in Tibet, an international diplomatic chorus earlier this year urged dialogue with the Dalai Lama. Beijing abruptly announced in late April that it intended to meet his aides."During this brief visit, the envoys will take up the urgent issue of the current crisis in the Tibetan areas," the government-in-exile said in a statement on its website. Shen Kaiyun, the deputy director of the official government information department in Tibet, said he supported the Chinese government's move to talk to representatives of the Dalai Lama, but expected the spiritual leader to back his non-separatist words with deeds. (...) The Dalai Lama says he is campaigning for autonomy for the strategic Himalayan border region. But China, which says it sent troops in 1950 to Tibet to liberate the country from feudal serfdom, says he is bent on independence. Some analysts said they may be a chance for some progress with the talks."Both sides know there is nowhere to go apart from talks," said Prof. Mira Sinha Bhattacharjea, emeritus fellow of the Institute of Chinese Studies in New Delhi." And with the Olympic Games coming, China will be a little more anxious for them (the talks) to help." The Olympic torch was run through Hong Kong on Friday, in a festive return to China after protests in other cities across the world. But tensions flared again as patriotic crowds heckled protesters and police briefly detained eight demonstrators.
China struggles to contain viral epidemic (May 2, 2008)
[link to news.yahoo.com]
BEIJING (AFP) - Doctors in China are struggling to contain the spread of an intestinal virus that has infected more than 3,600 children, killing 22 of them so far, state press reported Friday. The latest death occurred in the city of Fuyang in Anhui province, the epicentre of the epidemic with 3,321 children infected there as of Friday, Xinhua news agency reported, citing local health officials. The number of children in Anhui infected with the enterovirus 71, or EV71, has risen by nearly 400 since Thursday, the report said. EV71, which can cause hand, foot and mouth disease, is highly contagious and spread through direct contact with the mucus, saliva or faeces of an infected person. Young children are most susceptible because of lower immune systems. The disease -- which begins with fever, blisters, mouth ulcers and rashes -- has spread in Anhui since early March, amid accusations by the Chinese media of a government-led cover-up of the epidemic. (...) The World Health Organisation (WHO) said Friday it did not intend to issue travel restrictions on China after earlier this week expressing concern over the epidemic, which in serious cases can lead to brain, heart and lung damage.It said in a statement Wednesday that while enteroviruses are found across the world, "the situation (in Anhui) is still of concern especially because of the current high reported case fatality rate compared to previous years."China's health ministry has tried to calm fears, saying early discovery of the disease and better treatment has lowered the mortality rate, but has warned that the disease was likely to spread. CLIP
China warms to emissions goals (May 3, 2008)
[link to search.japantimes.co.jp]
China is expected to express support for Japan's sector-by-sector approach to setting goals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, a senior Foreign Ministry official said Friday. The announcement, to be made in a joint statement on environmental issues Tokyo and Beijing are working on, is likely to follow the bilateral summit Wednesday between Chinese President Hu Jintao and Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda in Tokyo. If the two leaders agree to issue the statement, it will mark a significant policy shift for China in taking a positive stance toward international efforts to reduce global warming emissions, said the official, on condition of anonymity."Developing countries are now showing a cautious stance (toward setting gas reduction goals). If China shows understanding (for Japan's proposal), it will be big progress," the official said. Beijing had maintained "a very tough attitude" on climate change issues, but top Chinese leaders have apparently decided to change policy recently to show more flexibility, the official said. CLIP
More through Full Coverage: China
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| Anonymous Coward
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