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A Teachable Moment on Communist China
When I first heard it, I didn’t believe it. Alas, it’s true. Last week, New York City’s Empire State Building was aglow in red and yellow. Why? To commemorate the 60th anniversary of the victorious revolution of the People’s Republic of China—i.e., the establishment of Mao’s Red China. (Click here for photo.) I’m not kidding. This... »
Do Not Believe The Pundits On China’s Century
China has created a massive middle class in a single generation, but it has yet to empower it. China will not soon be supplanting Americans, or Europeans, in the mall line-ups yearning for China-made-American-invented-branded-and-engineered products. American consumers are unconsciously pushing back the clock on that empowerment of the Chinese middle class through their dramatic... »
China’s Weak Gambit On A Currency Shift
China is calling for a move toward an obscure international currency known as SDRs (Special Drawing Rights) used by the IMF, to replace the U.S. dollar. The proposal on first blush suggests China is concerned with looming inflation in the U.S. and the devaluation of the debt it holds. While a reasonable concern, why... »
Shoe thrown at Chinese PM during speech at Cambridge University in the UK
An unnamed 27-year-old man has been arrested and charged with “public order offenses” after he threw a shoe at the Chinese prime minister, Wen Jiabao while he was giving a speech at Cambridge University in the United Kingdom on Monday February 2. The speech was related to China’s and the world economy titled See... »
Geithner: “China is manipulating its currency”
Timothy F. Geithner, Barack Obama’s nominee for Secretary of the Treasury, had his confirmation hearing on Thursday in the United States Senate. If confirmed he will succeed Henry Paulson in this position, which is analogous to the finance minister in other nations. During Geithner’s testimony in the Senate, he said that the Obama administration believes... »
Imperial College London geology students fined in China for “illegal map-making”
Three British geology students of Imperial College London have been fined in China for “illegal survey and map-making activities”, according to local media. In addition to making maps, the students were researching fault lines and earthquake activity in Xinjiang, which is a tense Muslim province to the west of the country, where anger against... »
Physicist Pleads Guilty to Espionage for People’s Republic of China
A physicist in Newport News, Va., has pleaded guilty today to charges that he illegally exported space launch technical data and defense services to the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and offered bribes to Chinese government officials. The guilty plea was announced today by Dana Boente, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia;... »
Strong 6.5 earthquake strikes China
According to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), an earthquake with magnitude of 6.5 has struck China. Xinhua, one of China’s main news agencies, reports the quake at a magnitude of 6.3. According to the USGS, the quake was centered 55 kilometers (35 miles) East, Southeast of Da Qaidam, Qinghai province and was reported at... »
Olympics Watchers Assisting Chinese Torture
-By Warner Todd Huston Do you like your silly little Olympic games? Well, I hope you are really, really enjoying it because your support, your watching of this garbage makes you a direct, unequivocal party to the torture, imprisonment and oppression of the Chinese people. So, you, Mr. Olympics watcher, get a gold medal in... »
NBC Questions Kobe Bryant’s Pride of Being on Team USA
-By Warner Todd Huston In a recent interview with USA Olympics basketball team member Kobe Bryant, NBC Sports reporter Chris Collinsworth seemed to question Kobe’s patriotism when the player said that he was proud to wear the team USA uniform. Wondering if it was “cool” to be proud of being on Team USA, Collinsworth seemed... »
Training the Trainers in Anti-Terrorism
Immediately following President George W. Bush’s Iraq strategy speech, Beltway insiders knew exactly where to go for analysis of the proposed “surge” of troops in Iraq. People who wish to know the facts about defense issues would be hardpressed to find an organization more trustworthy and informative than the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. It’s... »
Defense Department Official Imprisoned for Espionage
Jim Kouri, CPP Gregg William Bergersen, age 51, of Alexandria, Virginia, was sentenced in the Eastern District of Virginia to 57 months in prison and three years of supervised release for conspiracy to disclose national defense information to persons not entitled to receive it, according to a report obtained by the National Association of Chiefs... »
Water level rising in Chinese rivers, further flooding expected
Further rain has continued to fall across southern China after the country was devastated by floods earlier this week. 176 people have been confirmed to have died as a result of the flooding, and around 50 more are officially missing. Xinhua, the state news agency in China, has reported that the flooding in the Pearl... »
University Professor and Tennessee Tech Firm Indicted For Arms Exports
A federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Tennessee returned an 18-count indictment yesterday charging J. Reece Roth, a Professor Emeritus at The University of Tennessee, and Atmospheric Glow Technologies Inc. (AGT), a Knoxville-based technology company, with conspiring to defraud the U.S. Air Force and disclose restricted U.S. military data about Unmanned Aerial... »
Ma Ying-jeou becomes President of Taiwan
Today, Ma Ying-jeou was sworn in as the President of the Republic of China, also known as Taiwan, and delivered his inauguration speech, entitled “Taiwan’s Renaissance”. In his speech, he discussed four issues. He called for people to “establish mutual trust and Seek common ground while ignoring differences, setting aside disputes, and creating a win-win... »
Chinese quake death toll nears 32,500, as a major aftershock occurs and mourning begins
The government of China announced it would begin three days of mourning on Monday, as the death toll from the 7.9 magnitude earthquake centered in the Sinchaun province has been raised to nearly 32,500, with 220,000 injured. At 2:28 p.m local time, flags will be moved to half mast for three days, there will... »
Child virus outbreak reaches Beijing
Over 40 children have died in an outbreak of hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) in China, and the country’s capital of Beijing reported its first death due to the disease on Wednesday. According to Xinhua News Agency, Beijing Health Bureau spokeswoman Deng Xiaohong said that the 13-month-old boy died Sunday while en route... »
Chinese earthquake: Death toll reaches almost 15,000 as ‘dangerous’ cracks found in dam near city
Officials say the death toll in the recent earthquake in China has reached almost 15,000. The news comes as 2,000 of the nation’s troops were dispatched to the Zipingku Dam to repair “extremely dangerous” cracks in the structure, which is upriver from Dujiangyan City, already severely hit by the disaster. It is feared the toll... »
Massive earthquake strikes central China, at least 8500 feared dead
According to the United States Geological Survey (USGS) a magnitude 7.8 earthquake has struck eastern Sichuan Province in China. The USGS recorded the quake at 6:28:00 UTC. Officials say that at least 8,500 may have been killed and local reports indicate over 10,000 injured. At least 107 people, some of them school children, were killed... »
Primitive Love: Jayne Mansfield in something completely different
Primitive Love: Jayne Mansfield in something completely different In Primitive Love, Jayne Mansfield, sex bomb, plays Jayne Mansfield the noted cultural anthropologist. Yep. If you think the premise is odd, you’re right, and the movie made from it is a genuine curiosity. Looking her usual glamorous self, Jayne Mansfield checks into a hotel where she is... »
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