I just returned from a trip to China, so I'm sorry I have not been able to post. Anyway, I'm back for few months before I travel again.
China will go to any lengths to take back Taiwan, even send covert operatives into the U.S., penetrate sensitive defense contractors, and steal U.S. technology. The trial of Chi Mak begins and for the first time we get to see the inside of Mak's CCP intelligence operation.
SANTA ANA, Calif. — The career of a Chinese-born electrical engineer, Chi Mak, over four decades is a textbook example of how China's spy services encourage their agents to burrow into American society in order to steal America's defense secrets, federal prosecutors said yesterday.
The naval technologies Mr. Mak worked on for a defense contractor, Power Paragon, were of interest to China because of its ambition to gain control over a democratically governed island off the mainland, Taiwan. "Their no. 1 goal is to support the retaking of Taiwan, if it comes to that," the prosecutor said. He said the main obstacle to the Chinese effort is the presence in the area of the American 7th Fleet. "The Chinese Navy has determined that it cannot fight the 7th Fleet face to face, but the way to attack the 7th.
Mr. Staples said the high-grade encryption was the hallmark of an espionage operation. "It's not an encryption program that you can go to Fry's or Office Depot and buy. It was a custom-made encryption program and its author was a Chinese man," the prosecutor said. He alleged that American investigators would have been unable to break the encryption if a search of the home of Mr. Mak's brother hadn't turned up a key to the code.
Friday, March 30, 2007
Sunday, March 18, 2007
China Says It's Creating Its Own Democracy
China claims to be creating it's own form of democracy, one not like the U.S. One has to wonder what this will be... I think I know where the Chinese are going with this one. Here's what I mean.
Webster's on-line definition of a democracy:
A system of government in which there is free and equal participation by the people in the political decision-making process.
And Webster's definition of communism:
A totalitarian system of government in which a single authoritarian party controls state-owned means of production with the professed aim of establishing a classless society.
Now, it's pretty clear the distinction here. China definitely fits into the communism definition, which makes sense because that's what they are. But, rather than create a new form of democracy, what the Chinese are doing is their normal propaganda... they are changing the definition of democracy not their way of governance. Below is how the Chinese will define democracy:
China's Definition of their new democracy:
A totalitarian system of government in which a single authoritarian party controls state-owned means of production with the professed aim of establishing a classless society.
Sound familiar? Let me ask this question. Do you think China will ever allow free speech, freedom of expression, freedom to assemble etc. etc.? That will be the true test as to a "new China". As long as they continue to cut out the organs of Falun Gong, Kill those practicing a different religion, and run tanks over protester's... they will continue to be simple COMMUNISTS!!!
Webster's on-line definition of a democracy:
A system of government in which there is free and equal participation by the people in the political decision-making process.
And Webster's definition of communism:
A totalitarian system of government in which a single authoritarian party controls state-owned means of production with the professed aim of establishing a classless society.
Now, it's pretty clear the distinction here. China definitely fits into the communism definition, which makes sense because that's what they are. But, rather than create a new form of democracy, what the Chinese are doing is their normal propaganda... they are changing the definition of democracy not their way of governance. Below is how the Chinese will define democracy:
China's Definition of their new democracy:
A totalitarian system of government in which a single authoritarian party controls state-owned means of production with the professed aim of establishing a classless society.
Sound familiar? Let me ask this question. Do you think China will ever allow free speech, freedom of expression, freedom to assemble etc. etc.? That will be the true test as to a "new China". As long as they continue to cut out the organs of Falun Gong, Kill those practicing a different religion, and run tanks over protester's... they will continue to be simple COMMUNISTS!!!
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
Social Unrest In China Grows as Does the Need For Basic Democracy
Democracy is almost nearly a matter of being human, and as the people of China are slowly finding out, a good part of the world are free to protest, practice religion, and speak out. As Chinese citizen begin to gather momentum, we see the growing democracy of the counties underground in subtle ways, i.e. Social Unrest.
Image
Witness: 1 Killed in China Protest
BEIJING -- A student was killed and at least 60 people were injured in central China when villagers armed with bricks and rocks clashed with baton-wielding police.
The crowd swelled to about 20,000 by Monday and the demonstration turned violent when local authorities dispatched police, who started attacking people, said Zhang, who rushed to the scene after a resident telephoned him.
The protesters in Zhushan were "very, very angry and were shouting 'Beat the government dogs to death,'" Zhang, 22, said in a phone interview. They were throwing rocks and bricks at the officers and set fire to five police cars, he said.
At least 1,500 paramilitary police and riot police wearing helmets and carrying batons yelled back "Beat them to death," Zhang said.
Monday, March 12, 2007
China's Spying On The U.S.: SPOTLIGHT
An Air force report highlights Chinese Spying against the U.S.
The National Counterintelligence Executive says a record 108 nations were involved in trying to steal sensitive US technologies in 2005, the last year for which full data are available.
That Chi Mak may have been spying for China is suggestive of another trend: Experts say China is far and away the most aggressive and resourceful state sponsor of technological spying. (See “The China Problem,” August 1999, p. 70.)
The FBI estimates that there are more than 3,000 Chinese “front companies” operating in the US with the express purpose of gathering intelligence and technology. Much of this is “dual use,” with both civil and military uses.
The FBI has stated publicly that the number of Chinese counterintelligence cases in Silicon Valley alone is increasing by 20 to 30 percent each year.
By nearly all accounts, however, the top two “threat nations” are in a class by themselves. Thus, US intelligence officers and investigators spend much of their counterintelligence energies looking particularly into the activities of China and Russia.
Too “Remarkable”In a report, the House of Representatives listed 16 “remarkable” Chinese technological breakthroughs that suggest industrial espionage, from supercomputers and advanced communications systems to satellites and nanotechnology.
The 863 Program also helps explain how China was able to rapidly field leap-ahead weapons systems that seemed to clone the Tomahawk cruise missile and the Aegis seaborne radar system.
“I think you see [signs of Chinese industrial espionage] in cases where something that would normally take 10 years to develop takes them two or three,” said David W. Szady, then chief of FBI counterintelligence operations, in 2005 to the Calgary Herald.
The National Counterintelligence Executive says a record 108 nations were involved in trying to steal sensitive US technologies in 2005, the last year for which full data are available.
That Chi Mak may have been spying for China is suggestive of another trend: Experts say China is far and away the most aggressive and resourceful state sponsor of technological spying. (See “The China Problem,” August 1999, p. 70.)
The FBI estimates that there are more than 3,000 Chinese “front companies” operating in the US with the express purpose of gathering intelligence and technology. Much of this is “dual use,” with both civil and military uses.
The FBI has stated publicly that the number of Chinese counterintelligence cases in Silicon Valley alone is increasing by 20 to 30 percent each year.
By nearly all accounts, however, the top two “threat nations” are in a class by themselves. Thus, US intelligence officers and investigators spend much of their counterintelligence energies looking particularly into the activities of China and Russia.
Too “Remarkable”In a report, the House of Representatives listed 16 “remarkable” Chinese technological breakthroughs that suggest industrial espionage, from supercomputers and advanced communications systems to satellites and nanotechnology.
The 863 Program also helps explain how China was able to rapidly field leap-ahead weapons systems that seemed to clone the Tomahawk cruise missile and the Aegis seaborne radar system.
“I think you see [signs of Chinese industrial espionage] in cases where something that would normally take 10 years to develop takes them two or three,” said David W. Szady, then chief of FBI counterintelligence operations, in 2005 to the Calgary Herald.
Chinese Hackers Break In U.S. Military and Government Systems: Is This War?
China's action on U.S. soil can be construed as warfare....not the kind we think of from the movies. Rather, China is practicing a new kind of warfare, and soft, covert, and unrestricted warfare. While America sleeps to news of drug ridden supermodels, Chinese Black Operations are rendering the U.S. Defenseless. When will the U.S. Respond?
News Factor
The fact that hackers are directly breaking into military and government computers spotlights the soft underbelly in U.S. cybersecurity. The attacks also underline the need for the federal government to develop policies that define responsibilities between the public and private sectors to fend off hackers and terrorists, say military officials.
Chinese hackers were most likely behind an intrusion in November that disabled the Naval War College's network, forcing it to disconnect from the Internet for several weeks, says Lt. Cmdr. Doug Gabos, a spokesman for the Navy Cyber Defense Operations Command in Norfolk, Va.
Forensic analysis indicates the hackers may have sought information on war games in development at the naval college, he said. The college was vulnerable because it did not have the latest security protections, Gabos said.
The November attack was part of an ongoing campaign by Chinese hackers to penetrate government computers.
News Factor
The fact that hackers are directly breaking into military and government computers spotlights the soft underbelly in U.S. cybersecurity. The attacks also underline the need for the federal government to develop policies that define responsibilities between the public and private sectors to fend off hackers and terrorists, say military officials.
Chinese hackers were most likely behind an intrusion in November that disabled the Naval War College's network, forcing it to disconnect from the Internet for several weeks, says Lt. Cmdr. Doug Gabos, a spokesman for the Navy Cyber Defense Operations Command in Norfolk, Va.
Forensic analysis indicates the hackers may have sought information on war games in development at the naval college, he said. The college was vulnerable because it did not have the latest security protections, Gabos said.
The November attack was part of an ongoing campaign by Chinese hackers to penetrate government computers.
A Story of Torture
Google Falun Gong, Torture, and China... you'll find a literal library of anecdotal horror. Yet another story of why the U.S. should steer clear of the CCP. Tell me how they can claim the U.S. has bad human rights!
Gauntlet
Winston Liu is a University of Calgary mechanical engineering PhD student who was arrested and detained several times in China for practicing Falun Gong. In 2001, both Liu and his wife, Yao Yue, were arrested for downloading and disseminating material about the Falun Gong. They were sentenced to three and 12 years in jail, respectively. During his time in jail, Liu said he was interrogated until fatigued and suffered various forms of torture, including sleep deprivation and physical abuse with an electric baton. He was also forced to sign documents recanting his faith.
According to the United Nations Falun Gong Human Rights Working Group, part of the Chinese government's disinformation campaign includes telling the public that Falun Gong causes people to die or go insane
Despite continued persecution, practitioners of Falun Gong, both within and outside China, risk apprehension in their quest to reveal the brutal realities facing fellow practitioners.
Gauntlet
Winston Liu is a University of Calgary mechanical engineering PhD student who was arrested and detained several times in China for practicing Falun Gong. In 2001, both Liu and his wife, Yao Yue, were arrested for downloading and disseminating material about the Falun Gong. They were sentenced to three and 12 years in jail, respectively. During his time in jail, Liu said he was interrogated until fatigued and suffered various forms of torture, including sleep deprivation and physical abuse with an electric baton. He was also forced to sign documents recanting his faith.
According to the United Nations Falun Gong Human Rights Working Group, part of the Chinese government's disinformation campaign includes telling the public that Falun Gong causes people to die or go insane
Despite continued persecution, practitioners of Falun Gong, both within and outside China, risk apprehension in their quest to reveal the brutal realities facing fellow practitioners.
The CCP Believe CIA is Behind the Falun Gong
In the never ending drama of the CCP, they now surmise the CIA is the funding source behind the Falun Gong.
Falun Gong owes its existence largely to the spiritual vacuum created by the communists in the early 1990s. With the launch of the economic reforms, the party stopped caring for the masses, subjecting them instead to the short sharp shock of turbo-capitalism. That was too much for many Chinese, who yearned for spiritual stability, which they found by rediscovering their own cultural roots and traditions. Many Chinese began frequenting parks again in the mornings, meditating and performing ancient exercises that the state had long prohibited.
....the party has branded Li as a serious threat to its rule, claiming that the CIA is financing his organization in a bid to topple the Chinese government.
The party's initial hostility to the group has sparked a bizarre religious war. A special secret service unit created in 2004 (Department 610) persecutes Falun Gong members in China and even targets Chinese nationals living abroad.
Check out Spiegal's great photo series of the Falun Gong.
Falun Gong owes its existence largely to the spiritual vacuum created by the communists in the early 1990s. With the launch of the economic reforms, the party stopped caring for the masses, subjecting them instead to the short sharp shock of turbo-capitalism. That was too much for many Chinese, who yearned for spiritual stability, which they found by rediscovering their own cultural roots and traditions. Many Chinese began frequenting parks again in the mornings, meditating and performing ancient exercises that the state had long prohibited.
....the party has branded Li as a serious threat to its rule, claiming that the CIA is financing his organization in a bid to topple the Chinese government.
The party's initial hostility to the group has sparked a bizarre religious war. A special secret service unit created in 2004 (Department 610) persecutes Falun Gong members in China and even targets Chinese nationals living abroad.
Check out Spiegal's great photo series of the Falun Gong.
Friday, March 9, 2007
You're Kidding Me: China Lectures The U.S. On Human Rights
Are you serious? Just goes to show you how active the Chinese propaganda machine is, and what lengths they will go to. The average American will find this article FUNNY! CFA responds in Blue
"Injustice of the judiciary is quite shocking," the Chinese report states. "In some cases, defendants were sent to jail without a guilty plea or a trial, or tossed from their homes without a proper proceeding.
Yes, well anyone deemed a threat by a grand jury (like someone suspected of child rape) will await trail in jail. But, China should keep in mind a Jury put them there and that while in jail they can rest assured they will be able to keep their organs.
"Abuses in U.S. prisons are also common. The United States is the only country in the world that allows the use of police dogs to terrify prisoners," it added.
Yes, dogs help keep prisoners in line and are used as protection if a riot were to break out. But somehow this does not compare the serious torture and cutting out of organs. And oh yes, these prisoners have also had a fair trial and were sentenced to prison by a jury of their peers, not by a blood and organ thirsty government, like is done in China.
"We urge the U.S. government to acknowledge its own human rights problems and stop interfering in other countries' internal affairs under the pretext of human rights," said the lengthy report.
Ya, CFA urges China to stop cutting open people who practice a religion or who are Falun Gong practitioners. When you end up in a U.S. prison it's because you've raped, murdered, and injured. Free speech is not a crime here. Perhaps China ought to be pointing the finger toward themselves.
You know, their lash out against the U.S. speaks volumes as to the pressure they must be feeling.
"Injustice of the judiciary is quite shocking," the Chinese report states. "In some cases, defendants were sent to jail without a guilty plea or a trial, or tossed from their homes without a proper proceeding.
Yes, well anyone deemed a threat by a grand jury (like someone suspected of child rape) will await trail in jail. But, China should keep in mind a Jury put them there and that while in jail they can rest assured they will be able to keep their organs.
"Abuses in U.S. prisons are also common. The United States is the only country in the world that allows the use of police dogs to terrify prisoners," it added.
Yes, dogs help keep prisoners in line and are used as protection if a riot were to break out. But somehow this does not compare the serious torture and cutting out of organs. And oh yes, these prisoners have also had a fair trial and were sentenced to prison by a jury of their peers, not by a blood and organ thirsty government, like is done in China.
"We urge the U.S. government to acknowledge its own human rights problems and stop interfering in other countries' internal affairs under the pretext of human rights," said the lengthy report.
Ya, CFA urges China to stop cutting open people who practice a religion or who are Falun Gong practitioners. When you end up in a U.S. prison it's because you've raped, murdered, and injured. Free speech is not a crime here. Perhaps China ought to be pointing the finger toward themselves.
You know, their lash out against the U.S. speaks volumes as to the pressure they must be feeling.
Falun Gong Sue Jiang Zemin
I sure wish these law suites had some teeth, I'm afraid they don't but at the very least they help illustrate the growing body of knowledge of how miserable the CCP is to it's citizens. CFA Thanks Jana for sharing the article.
A civil lawsuit against former leader of the Chinese Communist Party Jiang Zemin, may see the Australian courts set a precedent on the extent diplomatic immunity can protect foreign members of state.
Ms Zhang was detained in 2000 and tortured for eight months after appealing in Beijing for an end to the persecution of the spiritual practice, Falun Gong. She is suing Jiang Zemin for wrongful arrest, torture and false imprisonment.
Red China, more than most, would fall into the category of a foreign state that has little respect for the law or human rights.
Late last year, an Amnesty International report highlighted China's deteriorating human rights record across a range of areas, including freedom of speech and spiritual practice. Worse still a recently updated report compiled by former Canadian secretary of State, David Kilgour, and internationally respected human rights lawyer, David Matas has concluded that thousands of Falun Gong practitioners have been incarcerated without trial and slaughtered to service China's lucrative organ transplant business.
A civil lawsuit against former leader of the Chinese Communist Party Jiang Zemin, may see the Australian courts set a precedent on the extent diplomatic immunity can protect foreign members of state.
Ms Zhang was detained in 2000 and tortured for eight months after appealing in Beijing for an end to the persecution of the spiritual practice, Falun Gong. She is suing Jiang Zemin for wrongful arrest, torture and false imprisonment.
Red China, more than most, would fall into the category of a foreign state that has little respect for the law or human rights.
Late last year, an Amnesty International report highlighted China's deteriorating human rights record across a range of areas, including freedom of speech and spiritual practice. Worse still a recently updated report compiled by former Canadian secretary of State, David Kilgour, and internationally respected human rights lawyer, David Matas has concluded that thousands of Falun Gong practitioners have been incarcerated without trial and slaughtered to service China's lucrative organ transplant business.
Thursday, March 8, 2007
China's Spring Harvest: Organs
Photo From UCLA Asian Studies
Former Canadian cabinet member David Kilgour decried "organ tourism", whereby rich foreigners go and pay for a transplant which, Kilgour said, may have cost a Chinese citizen his life.
Kilgour and lawyer David Matas presented a report they say leads to the inescapable conclusion that Falun Gong dissidents and other prisoners in China are killed for their organs.
"Once a customer arrives into China, somebody's killed for the organ, whether it's a prisoner sentenced to death or a Falun Gong practitioner, and they just have this huge supply of people in jail waiting to be killed for organ donations," Matas told reporters.
Chinese Vice-Health Minister Huang Jiefu called last November for a network to register all organ donations in what would be a step toward regulating the transplant market.
Jiefu said that most organs came from executed prisoners rather than from traffic fatalities.
Another Chinese Killer; 2006: 4,746 Worker Killed
Another mine blows, killing the workers of her caverns. Last year we read story after story about the deplorable conditions of mines in China... one reporter attempted to bring the story to the public eye, he was later beaten to death for the report. It's true that if you're in China you cannot read this blog, but it's also true that I can report this news to readers of CFA free of worry that I'll have my head bashed in tomorrow... I HOPE! Some of the Falun Gong who have been beaten in the U.S. have argue otherwise, perhaps I should double lock my door at night.
By late on Wednesday, rescuers had found the remains of 15 dead miners. Seventeen miners survived, Xinhua reported. They were mostly local farmers.
China has the world's deadliest major coal industry, and while mine deaths have been falling after a safety crackdown, accidents like the latest explosion remain commonplace.
Last year, 4,746 workers were killed in mine blasts, floods and collapses as collieries pushed production beyond safety limits amid buoyant demand.
By late on Wednesday, rescuers had found the remains of 15 dead miners. Seventeen miners survived, Xinhua reported. They were mostly local farmers.
China has the world's deadliest major coal industry, and while mine deaths have been falling after a safety crackdown, accidents like the latest explosion remain commonplace.
Last year, 4,746 workers were killed in mine blasts, floods and collapses as collieries pushed production beyond safety limits amid buoyant demand.
Hu's Beating Down Petitioners, Cutting Open The Falun Gong
Chinese Policy: If you are Falun Gong, we cut you open. If you have an issue, we beat you senseless, jail you, and torture you. WE ARE CHINA.
Tiananmen Square is almost empty. Rows of policemen standing under Chinese flags stop anyone from getting close.
In the past few days, China has rounded up and jailed those most desperate to be heard, petitioners who need the state's help.
In a country without elections, it is often the only way anyone get can noticed.
But now that the parliament is in session, China wants to make sure that petitioners do not get in the way.
But now that the parliament is in session, China wants to make sure that petitioners do not get in the way.
Rei Jiancai has spent a decade campaigning against local corruption. He holds up his petition as he speaks.
"I've been tortured three times," he says. "My wife is being held in a labour camp. But I can't give up."
The petitioners point to the bed of another petitioner, he was dragged out at three in the morning.
He did not even have time to collect his belongings, which are left in two plastic bags hanging on the wall.
Wednesday, March 7, 2007
Bloggers Hacked at the Knees While the Falun Gong Fight to Keep Their Organs
While news of CCP and PLA harvesting Falun Gong organs breaks world wide, average Chinese citizens are clueless. Why? Not only are sensitive media articles black listed, but China is also blocking entire blog sites like this one: Blogspot..... as well as, Typepad. The citizens of China are living in a artificial world, while their government kills their neighbor for in order to get top dollar on a liver.
Confirmed: All Typepad blogs blocked in China
Asiapundit first sounded the alarm. Now it's confirmed. All Typepad blogs, including this one, cannot be seen in China. (Note that Blogger has been blocked in China for some time.) I asked some people in China to attempt accessing this blog and a long list of other random Typepad blogs (including ones that never discuss China), without using a proxy. None could be accessed. Now all Typepad blogs wanting to be seen in China will have to migrate to another blog hosting service or onto an independent server
Confirmed: All Typepad blogs blocked in China
Asiapundit first sounded the alarm. Now it's confirmed. All Typepad blogs, including this one, cannot be seen in China. (Note that Blogger has been blocked in China for some time.) I asked some people in China to attempt accessing this blog and a long list of other random Typepad blogs (including ones that never discuss China), without using a proxy. None could be accessed. Now all Typepad blogs wanting to be seen in China will have to migrate to another blog hosting service or onto an independent server
A New Great Wall
The U.S. provides a safe place for the Falun Gong to raise up... now we should join the movment to help people in China rise up and ride themselves of the communist party.
Los Angeles
Falun Gong practitioners built what was described as "The Great Wall of Courage" with continuous banners on both sides of the boulevard to disseminate the message of Falun Gong's persecution in China as well as to celebrate 19 million withdrawals from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its affiliated organizations.
John Li is the Falun Gong organizer for "The Great Wall of Courage" in this parade. He said that Falun Gong practitioners have made great efforts to let the Los Angeles Mayor know about the persecution of Falun Gong in China, especially the atrocity of harvesting organs from living Falun Gong prisoners.
Los Angeles
Falun Gong practitioners built what was described as "The Great Wall of Courage" with continuous banners on both sides of the boulevard to disseminate the message of Falun Gong's persecution in China as well as to celebrate 19 million withdrawals from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its affiliated organizations.
John Li is the Falun Gong organizer for "The Great Wall of Courage" in this parade. He said that Falun Gong practitioners have made great efforts to let the Los Angeles Mayor know about the persecution of Falun Gong in China, especially the atrocity of harvesting organs from living Falun Gong prisoners.
Blogger's Wife Sues China
Does anyone trust Yahoo anymore?
AFR
The wife of a Chinese dissident jailed for publishing articles on the Internet says she plans to sue U.S.-based Internet company Yahoo for allegedly helping to put her husband in jail in China.
Paris-based Reporters Without Borders says China has imprisoned at least 50 individuals, including Wang Xiaoning, for their activities on the Internet.
AFR
The wife of a Chinese dissident jailed for publishing articles on the Internet says she plans to sue U.S.-based Internet company Yahoo for allegedly helping to put her husband in jail in China.
Paris-based Reporters Without Borders says China has imprisoned at least 50 individuals, including Wang Xiaoning, for their activities on the Internet.
Tuesday, March 6, 2007
Chinese spies ‘very aggressive’ threat to US
Chinese spies ‘very aggressive’ threat to US
China’s intelligence agencies are among the most aggressive at spying on the United States, followed by Cuban, Russian and Iranian spy agencies, The Washington Times quoted the US government’s top counterintelligence coordinator as saying.
Ya, not only do they just spy, but they break into homes and assault U.S. citizens.
China’s intelligence agencies are among the most aggressive at spying on the United States, followed by Cuban, Russian and Iranian spy agencies, The Washington Times quoted the US government’s top counterintelligence coordinator as saying.
Ya, not only do they just spy, but they break into homes and assault U.S. citizens.
Monday, March 5, 2007
THE PRC IS BLOCKING BLOGS AGAIN: SHAME ON HU!!
The Chinese government began blocking access to the popular blogging site LiveJournal on Friday, cutting off its citizens from the roughly 1.8 million blogs the service hosts.
The timing of the block coincides with the National People's Congress meeting in Beijing, says Xiao Qiang, a Chinese dissident and founder of the China Digital Times.
(BLOGGERS COMMENT: China Digital Times is an excellent site, CFA readers are encouraged to visit it... at the link above).
While China has reached an accord with some blog hosting companies, including Microsoft's MSN Spaces, it has a history of blocking others, including Google's Blogger.com.
So COVER FOR ACTION is blocked, how can we get our message into China?
"For whatever reason (if) you've been blocked, it's almost impossible to get open again," says Xiao. "It could be one of the blogs in Livejournal has the content they want to block. They are very bluntly over-blocking sites."
The timing of the block coincides with the National People's Congress meeting in Beijing, says Xiao Qiang, a Chinese dissident and founder of the China Digital Times.
(BLOGGERS COMMENT: China Digital Times is an excellent site, CFA readers are encouraged to visit it... at the link above).
While China has reached an accord with some blog hosting companies, including Microsoft's MSN Spaces, it has a history of blocking others, including Google's Blogger.com.
So COVER FOR ACTION is blocked, how can we get our message into China?
"For whatever reason (if) you've been blocked, it's almost impossible to get open again," says Xiao. "It could be one of the blogs in Livejournal has the content they want to block. They are very bluntly over-blocking sites."
The PRC is Jamming TV Again!!!!!
The document, translated at the bottom of this article, orders that the NTDTV New Year Show should be destroyed by "any and all means", and if not possible, to "contain them and minimize their impact."
The Chicago affiliate of NBC (the U.S. National Broadcast Company), WMAQ Channel 5, reported Feb. 6 on the interference with the Spectacular in Chicago,"Someone in China has been tying up their phone lines, and the consulate has been calling the event's sponsors, including NBC 5 T.V."
HOW WILL CHINA RESPOND
What's in store for advocates of those pro Taiwanese Independence? A break-in? A beat-down? or...how about a good ole organ harvest. Read between the lines, Taiwan is smack in the middle of the PLA cross-hairs. Budget up, unification a step closer, and with a few more years of development the PRC is ready to blind/kill US technology to make Taiwan another PRC Provence.
China fury after call for independence
Jane Macartney in Beijing
March 06, 2007
THE simmering feud between China and Taiwan burst into the open today when Beijing criticised the President of Taiwan for making strident calls for independence.
Li Zhaoxing, the Chinese Foreign Minister, speaking at the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference in Beijing, said: “Don’t listen to local leaders. Whoever wants to split away will become a criminal in history.” His anger, which came a day after the announcement of an 18 per cent increase in Chinese military spending, was triggered by remarks at the weekend by Chen Shui-bian, the President of the self-ruled island that lies within striking distance of the southern coast of China.
Beijing has regarded Taiwan as a renegade province since the Nationalist armies fled there after losing the civil war in 1949. The Taiwanese President, who has accelerated his drive to edge the island towards formal independence from China, told a pro-independence group at the weekend: “Taiwan should be independent.” He added: “Taiwan is a country whose sovereignty lies outside the People’s Republic of China.”
China fury after call for independence
Jane Macartney in Beijing
March 06, 2007
THE simmering feud between China and Taiwan burst into the open today when Beijing criticised the President of Taiwan for making strident calls for independence.
Li Zhaoxing, the Chinese Foreign Minister, speaking at the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference in Beijing, said: “Don’t listen to local leaders. Whoever wants to split away will become a criminal in history.” His anger, which came a day after the announcement of an 18 per cent increase in Chinese military spending, was triggered by remarks at the weekend by Chen Shui-bian, the President of the self-ruled island that lies within striking distance of the southern coast of China.
Beijing has regarded Taiwan as a renegade province since the Nationalist armies fled there after losing the civil war in 1949. The Taiwanese President, who has accelerated his drive to edge the island towards formal independence from China, told a pro-independence group at the weekend: “Taiwan should be independent.” He added: “Taiwan is a country whose sovereignty lies outside the People’s Republic of China.”
Thursday, March 1, 2007
Chinese Military Is Hacking Up the Falun Gong
Yet again, someone else reports the Chinese Military is taking a slice out of the Falun Gong. Will anyone ever do anything about this?
China accused of organ harvesting
A US human rights lawyer has today accused the Chinese military of harvesting the organs of imprisoned Falun Gong members to sell to foreign customers.
The report claims that Falun Gong prisoners, jailed for membership of the outlawed spiritual group, are singled out for the transplants during which many of them die.
It says Falun Gong prisoners are given systematic blood tests and medical tests, while some hospitals have admitted they have Falun Gong organs for sale.
The report, co-written by former Canadian secretary of state for the Asia Pacific region David Kilgour, accuses China of state sponsorship of the practice.
China accused of organ harvesting
A US human rights lawyer has today accused the Chinese military of harvesting the organs of imprisoned Falun Gong members to sell to foreign customers.
The report claims that Falun Gong prisoners, jailed for membership of the outlawed spiritual group, are singled out for the transplants during which many of them die.
It says Falun Gong prisoners are given systematic blood tests and medical tests, while some hospitals have admitted they have Falun Gong organs for sale.
The report, co-written by former Canadian secretary of state for the Asia Pacific region David Kilgour, accuses China of state sponsorship of the practice.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)