Tag Archives: China
China collects $2.7B in fines for one child policy violations
Nineteen province-level governments in China collected a total of $2.7 billion in fines last year from parents who had violated family planning laws, which usually limit couples to one child, a lawyer who had requested the data said Thursday. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/27/world/asia/chinese-provinces-collected-billions-in-family-planning-fines-lawyer-says.html?ref=world Last year, some prominent scholars and policy advisers started a major effort to push central […]
Ammonia spill from Chinese factory kills thousands of fish
Thousands of dead fish floating along a 19-mile stretch of a river in Hubei Province in central China were killed by pollutants emitted by a local chemical plant, provincial environmental officials said Wednesday. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/05/world/asia/thousands-of-fish-killed-by-waste-from-chinese-plant.html?ref=world Environmental protection officials said tests on water taken from the Fu River upstream from the metropolis of Wuhan revealed that extremely […]
China asks for evidence in West pretext for war with Syria
China, clinging to a longstanding policy of noninterference, said on Wednesday that it opposed military action against Syria and insisted that the truth about the chemical weapons attack against civilians last week remained unclear. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/29/world/asia/culprit-in-syrian-chemical-attack-is-unclear-china-insists.html?ref=world As momentum built for Western military strikes against Syria, China was unmoved by the conclusions of Western governments that […]
In the East as in the West, perils for tyranny
Several perils were enumerated in a memo, referred to as Document No. 9, that bears the unmistakable imprimatur of Xi Jinping, China’s new top leader. The first was “Western constitutional democracy”; others included promoting “universal values” of human rights, Western-inspired notions of media independence and civic participation, and “nihilist” criticisms of the party’s traumatic past. […]
China vows to stop harvesting prisoners organs in 5 years
For years, China denied that it used organs from executed prisoners, but admitted it a few years ago. China has moved from denying to admitting and now phasing out the macabre practise of harvesting organs from prisoners. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-23722796 Prisoners’ organs were being sold to wealthy foreign patients. China then began admitting it was, after all, […]
$20 billion Hong Kong firm the sweatshop locator for the West
“If globalization is a race to the bottom, where lowest wages win,” said Cathy Feingold, director of international affairs for the A.F.L.-C.I.O., “Li & Fung is the sherpa showing companies the fastest route down that slope.” Li & Fung has long been on the cutting edge of globalization, chasing cheap labor to garment factories first […]
China jails journalist and legal scholar against corruption
A Chinese journalist who had pressed for the release of a prominent human rights activist was detained Friday, one day after the United States completed annual discussions with China on human rights. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/03/world/asia/chinese-journalist-is-detained-in-beijing.html?ref=world The journalist, Chen Min, 51, widely known by his pen name, Xiao Shu, was called to a meeting with security officials in […]
UK arms dealing at odds with human rights stance
The UK government has approved more than 3,000 export licences for military sales to countries which it believes have questionable records on human rights. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-23336914 The House of Commons Committees on Arms Export Controls says the value of the existing export licences to the 27 countries in question exceeds £12bn. This includes significant sales to […]
Drug giant GlaxoSmithKline uses kickbacks, bribes in China
Executives from GlaxoSmithKline, the British drug giant, has admitted to using bribes, kickbacks and other fraudulent means to bolster drug sales in China. The Ministry of Public Security said people working for the drug maker had bribed doctors, hospitals and government officials and funneled illicit payoffs through travel agencies, pharmaceutical industry associations and project financing. […]
China shoots buddhists on Dalai Lama’s birthday
Chinese police officers opened fire on a crowd of unarmed Tibetans who were celebrating the birthday of the Dalai Lama in a volatile area of Sichuan Province, injuring nine people, two of them critically. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/10/world/asia/tension-flares-as-tibetans-celebrate-dalai-lamas-birthday.html?ref=world The shootings took place on Saturday, but government restrictions on communications in the region prevented the news from immediately reaching […]
Chinese dissident given spyware in electronics
Several electronic devices that were given to Chen Guangcheng, a Chinese legal advocate, soon after his arrival in the United States last year were loaded with spyware designed to track his family’s movements and their online activity. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/22/world/asia/chinese-advocates-devices-were-loaded-with-spyware-nyu-says.html?ref=world Two of those devices, an iPhone and an iPad, were given to Mr. Chen by China Aid, […]
China smart growth is template for the West
Rural China is once again the site of radical social engineering. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/16/world/asia/chinas-great-uprooting-moving-250-million-into-cities.html?src=me Over the past decades, the Communist Party has flip-flopped on peasants’ rights to use land: giving small plots to farm during 1950s land reform, collectivizing a few years later, restoring rights at the start of the reform era and now trying to obliterate […]
Hong Kong protesters rally around Snowden
Chanting slogans like “Shame, U.S. government,” demonstrators marched from a downtown park to the United States Consulate nearby to urge that Edward J. Snowden, a former National Security Agency contractor accused of leaking documents about United States surveillance programs, be allowed to remain in Hong Kong and protected from American law enforcement officials. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/16/world/asia/demonstrators-march-for-snowden-in-hong-kong.html?hp Saturday’s […]
The China political experiment suits globalists
Shuanghui is a $7 billion behemoth that is the dominant sausage maker and pork processor in China. The company is now seeking to complete the biggest Chinese acquisition ever of an American company. Behind the bid was a group of savvy investors and global deal makers who hold a substantial stake in the Chinese company: […]
Dirty Babylon 