Beijing Defends Tibet Policies as Tibetans Mark Anniversary of Uprising Protesters gathered around the world on Tibetan Uprising Day to commemorate the twin anniversaries of the failed March 10, 1959 Tibetan uprising—which resulted in the Dalai Lama fleeing China—and unrest which culminated in v[...]
Posts Tagged ‘China’
March 9th, 2019 - 5:34 pm § in Misc.
Greater China
Why China will “reclaim” Siberia Expanded China-Siberia map showing possible claims China might make China has made no secret that it will one day enforce its claims on much of Eastern Russia, which it sees as rightfully belonging to China. With Russia fast becoming the weaker partner[...]
The state of academic free speech in China
Zhang Qianfan on Academic Censorship (Translation from China Digital Times): At the start of January, the office of the National Teaching Material Committee issued the “Notice Concerning the Launch of Comprehensive Fact-finding Work on University Constitutional Law Teaching Materials.” The notic[...]
HYPOCRISY: Screw Taiwan, Saudi Arabia firmly adheres to the one-China policy.
Referring to the imprisonment of a million Chinese muslims, Mohammed offered Saudi respect and support for China’s right to to safeguard its national security. The Crown Prince and murderer of Adnan Khashoggi said “We stand ready to strengthen cooperation with China. Xi asked Mohammed [...]
February 12th, 2019 - 12:26 pm § in Misc.
VOILA!: China is screwing with my VPN
Apparently China is monitoring how my ISP connects and is blocking my VPN. I use a VPN when I want anonymity. Usually my VPN is invisible until ….. last two days I could not connect to the Chinese web site, XINHUA. On a guess I turned the VP off. Now XINHUA is working! I can […][...]
BREAKING NEWS: CHINA FINDS DOOMSDAY ASTEROID, NASA IS REASSURING
(TA News, Beijing 8 Feb. 2019) 中国航天局 (The Chinese Space Agency) has released a frightening image taken from the other side of the moon. The ‘potentially hazardous’ asteroid, bigger than this year’s Super Bowl Stadium is hurtling towards Earth but the NASA Director is reas[...]
January 16th, 2019 - 11:46 pm § in America
Can the US Dollar Go Off the Oil Standard?
Not so far back in history, the dollar was denominated in gold. That worked until capitalism told us that the real value of a currency had to be the capital, the productive wealth of a country. Gold was just a raw material, worth less than the factories and farms that made America the first real[...]
January 10th, 2019 - 11:26 am § in Donald Trump, Foreign Affairs
IS Cuba Still Communist?
Can Cuba Emerge Under the Pax Sinica? Fidel Castro was a classical Leninist. He violates Marxism by believing that one can create a communist society without first developing a strong middle class. The result of that, wherever Leninism has been tried, is the creation of a totalitarian bureaucratic [...]
January 10th, 2019 - 3:28 am § in Foreign Affairs, Hypocrisy
Is China The New British Empire?
A think tank founded in the name of Henry Jackson sees China as replacing the UK as a world power: “China poses the single biggest threat to Britain’s position as one of the great super-powers …” The Henry Jackson Society ranked the top 20 world powers based on economic growth and naval i[...]
January 7th, 2019 - 10:27 am § in Misc.
WEBWARS 2.0: GOOGLE DECLARES WAR ON CELL NETWORKS:
The future is the Net The money will be in the cloud and the access. Where is China? Remember WEBWARS I? That was the war over browsers … Microsoft tried to unseat Netscape, Google and other combatants created Firefox, Chrome and .. within the closed world of Apple’ SaFari. Google won, C[...]