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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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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: […]