Wednesday, August 06, 2008

Perception of Chinese Around the World


A BBC Survey of the perception of Chinese in varies countries shows Americans and Koreans are most hostile towards Chinese, while Americans tend to blame it on the government. Apparently the British have best luck getting laid in Beijing. Indians are the only group of people envy on the freedom Chinese enjoy in China. In general, BBC concluded, it did not seem people in the rest of the world see Chinese a dominant threat to the world.

Tuesday, August 05, 2008

Separatists Struke

The Eastern Turkestan Islamic Movement launched a sudden strike in Xinjiang days before the summer Olympics games start. Sixteen militarized police soldiers were killed and 16 others were injured. According to eye witnesses' account, one terrorist drove a heavy engineering truck into a group of soldiers who were doing morning exercises on the sidewalk of public road, only 100 yards from their barrack. Another terrorist who had been waiting nearby threw a grenade into the stunned group. Both terrorists were captured alive. The Eastern Turkestan Movement is sponsored by the US government with their headquarter located in Washington D.C., despite China's repeatedly protests.

It's no surprising that the US government sponsor terrorists across the world, as they have always been doing in the past. What puzzled many people outside China is the inability of Chinese military to protest themselves from such terrorists attack. In China, soldiers do not carry weapons most of the time when they are on duty, and when they do, they do not carry ammunitions. The Communism constitution proclaimed that all military forces must be loyal to the Party, rather than to the people, the government or the country. As bizarre as it is, even the Party is not confident on how convincing it sounds. Therefore, the Party does not trust the military and the people to the extend that they do not feel comfortable to have a modernized professional military force. Fighters pilots only receive minimum amount of basic training such as taking off and landing. Navy warships were not to said outside shore-based bombers. Ground troops were not allowed to carry live ammunition most of the time. With this, the Chinese military personnels became a ripe target for terrorists attacks.

Monday, August 04, 2008

Too Hot to Be Hungry

About 30 protesters sponsored who had been conducting a hunger strike relay in Nepal protesting Chinese policy in Tibet called off the show citing bad weather. The hunger strike was sponsored by the Tibetan Youth Congress (TYC), a terrorists organization who had claimed responsibility for many bombs and riots in China and India. According to the group leader Nyima Dolkar, participants felt fatigue and uncomfortable in hot weather. When the relay started two months ago, they vowed to "continue our hunger strike relay until our demands are met". Usually people with an empty stomach felt uncomfortable in cold weather, maybe these group of protesters were inexperienced and consumed too much calorie between two shifts.

Only Women have Spine

When the world bowed to the Communism Beijing to join the party of the summer Olympic games, only women have spine to speak up. The German Chancellor is the only national leader of major western countries who publicly refused to attend the opening ceremony, and the prime minister of New Zealand is the another woman leader who openly taunted China on its human rights record. The US House Speaker, the No. 3 person in the US and highest ranked woman leader, encouraged separatism terrorists to protest the Olympic torch relay in San Francisco. On the contrary, President Bush not only be the first to commit to attending the ceremony, but also bring an entire family that includes the senior Bush, a brother, a sister, a wife and a daughter to Beijing.

There was an ancient Chinese satire 'Shanghaijing (Scripture of Mountain and Sea)' where an female ruled countries was documented. In the Great Culture Revolution time, this was read as an evidence that women could and did lead a county. However, recent study revealed that the story was made up to warm people the catastrophic consequences of female ruling scenario.

Monday, July 28, 2008

There is no Terrorist in China


There could be many interpretations for the exact meaning of the Chinese government's response to the bus bombings in Shanghai and Kunming, but the real logic was that the CCP government dare not face the truth that the top military country in the world is behind those bombings.

The East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM) claimed responsibility of the coordinated bus bombings in Shanghai and Kunming on the eve of the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Their announcement can be found all over the Internet. In YouTube videos made by the separatist organization, it even threatened large scale bombing targeting the Olympics Games to be held in Beijing in a few days. They were also responsible for a ring of bombings of civilian targets in the past two decades. However, the CCP never acknowledge there was a problem of such.

Some of East Turkestan Islamic Movement militias were captures in Afghanistan by the US army while they were fighting along the Al-Qaeda. Despite protest of the Chinese government, the US released them so that they could continue terrorism attacks on China. The ETIM established a government on exile in Washington D.C.

If the Chinese government recognize the bombing of the ETIM, then there's the moral responsibility to protest its citizen against the terrorism attacks sponsored by the US government. For one thing, it will make corrupted officials risk their income and an retirement in the US. That's why the Chinese government when answering reporters question on the ETIM's claim of responsibility of the recent bus bombings claimed that there was no terrorism activities in China.

Friday, July 25, 2008

Who Owns Information

Civil rights activist Mr. Huang Qi was arrested by police on June 10, 2008. Mr. Huang together wish another volunteer was helping the earthquake disaster relief when both were arrested. According to the volunteer who was released a few days later, police questioned him specifically on their investigation of the poor building quality of public schools.

Huang's wife went to the Bureau of Public Safety of Wuhou, Chengdu to inquire the condition of Huang. She was showed a warrant for "Illegal Procession of National Secret". This is about Huang's visiting of victim families connected to collapsed school buildings.

There had been many cases of people arrested for 'Leaking National Secret'. With a broach definition of 'national secret', one could be thrown into jail for mailing a newspaper, or an openly published book. Still, those are about something written or compiled by someone else, even after they were put into public domain. It's often ridiculous to say a newspaper is national secret, but still often, the prosecution will claim that they see it as a national secret. In this case, however, none of such 'published' or 'compiled' materials exists. The said 'national secret' is the numbers and cases Mr. Huang collected from victims' families. There is no leakage either, since Mr. Huang had not had a chance to put this onto his personal website. Therefore, the alleged crime "Illegal Procession" of national secret makes you chill.

Who owns information?

An ancient Chinese saying is "a person lost innocence if he carries a treasure (庶人无罪怀璧其罪)", regardless where does he find the treasure". It's an reflection of a doctrine that everything under the sun belongs to the King. Now, everything in the world, tangible or not, belongs to the CCP.

Buddhism

  亦触减受般亦触减受般亦触减受般亦触减受般亦触减受般亦触减受般亦触减受般亦触减受般
  无法是想若无法是想若无法是若无无法是若无无是若无无至是无无至咒是无无至咒是无无至
  老无故行波老无故行波老无行波老无舌行波老无行波老无无行老无无曰行老无无曰行老无无
  死眼空识罗死眼空识罗死眼识罗死眼身识罗死眼识罗死眼老识死眼老揭识死眼老揭识死眼老
  尽界中亦密尽界中亦密尽中亦密尽尽中密尽尽中密尽尽中密尽尽中密尽尽中密尽尽尽中密尽
  无乃无复多无乃无复多乃无复多故乃无多故乃无多故乃无多故乃无多故乃无多故无乃无多故
  苦至色如心苦至色如心至色如心菩至色如心菩至如心菩至无如菩至无谛如至无谛苦如至无谛
  集无无是经集无无是集无无是集提无无是集提无是集提无老是提无老波是无老波集是无老波
  灭意受是色灭意受色灭意受色灭萨意受灭萨意受灭萨意受灭萨意受灭萨意受灭萨灭意受灭萨
  道识想诸不道识诸不道识诸不道陲识诸道陲识诸道陲识诸道陲识诸道陲识诸道陲道识诸道陲
  无界行法异无界法异无说法异无依说法无依说揭法依说揭无法说揭无谛法说揭无谛法说揭无
  智无识空空智无识空密智识空密般智识密般智谛识般智谛苦识智谛苦波识智谛苦波识智谛苦
  亦无无相空亦无无相空亦无相空若亦无空若亦波无若亦波集无亦波集罗无亦波集罗无亦波集
  无明眼不不无明眼不不无眼不不波无眼不波无眼不波无眼不波无眼不波无眼不波无明眼不波
  得亦耳生异得亦耳生异得耳生异罗得耳异罗得耳异罗得耳异罗得耳异罗得耳异罗得亦耳异罗
  以无鼻不色以无鼻不色以鼻不色蜜以鼻不色蜜以不色蜜挂以不蜜挂以谛不蜜以谛不无蜜以谛
  无无舌灭色无无舌灭色无舌灭色多无舌灭色多舌灭色般多舌灭般多舌菩灭般舌菩灭无般舌菩
  所明身不即所明身不即所身不即故所身不即所身不即若所身不若所身不若所身不若明所身不
  得尽意垢是得尽意垢是得意垢是心得意垢心得意垢大心得意垢心得意娑心得意娑得心得意娑
  故乃无不空故乃无不空故无不空无故不空无故不故空无故不故无故不婆故故阿不婆故故阿不
  菩至色净空菩至色净空菩色净空挂色净空挂色谛净空挂色谛净挂色谛诃净挂色谛诃净挂色谛
  提无声不即提无声不即提声不即碍提不即空碍提不即空碍提不空碍提般不空碍提般不空碍提
  萨老香增是萨老香增是萨老香增是萨老香增是萨老香增是萨老香增是萨老香增是萨老香增是
  陲死味不色陲死味不色陲死味不色陲死味不色陲死味不色陲死味不色陲死味不色陲死味不色