The Chinese Communist Party’s Disturbing Revival of Maoism – The Jamestown Foundation

Posted by Matt in November 19th, 2009 | no comment

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As the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leadership tries to convince President Barack Obama and other world leaders that China is eagerly integrating itself with the global marketplace, the ultra-conservative norms and worldview of Chairman Mao Zedong are making a big comeback in public life. In provinces and cities that foreign dignitaries are unlikely to visit, [...]

China plague death prompts alert | BBC NEWS

Posted by Matt in August 2nd, 2009 | no comment

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Thousands of people have been placed in quarantine in north-western China after a man died of pneumonic plague.
Chinese authorities say the man who died was a 32-year-old herdsman from a sparsely populated area mostly inhabited by Tibetans.
Most of the other 11 people infected with the disease are relatives of the dead man.
BBC NEWS | [...]

Analysis: Income gaps, corruption fuel China riots – Yahoo! News

Posted by Matt in July 14th, 2009 | no comment

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Widening income gaps, corrupt local administrations and policies that seem to favor the well-connected few over the disadvantaged many are fueling spasms of violence that spring up in cities across China.
In the most recent case, more than 180 people died in ethnic violence that convulsed a Muslim area of western China last week. The spark [...]

The Uighur riots in western China are teaching the government how to spin

Posted by Matt in July 8th, 2009 | no comment

Published in China, Aplomb, China Government, Chinese Communist Party, Crackdown, Global Image, Journalists, Learning Chinese, Learning Curve, Lhasa, Party Officials, Privilege, Public Relations, Riot Torn City, Riots, Risk, Spin Doctors, Time China, Western China

Crisis? What crisis? For perhaps the first time, China is managing the PR with aplomb. It moved just as swiftly to justify its crackdown as it did to deploy the crackdown itself. Party officials know that the riots risk tarnishing China’s global image the way Lhasa did, so they have undertaken a swift program of [...]

China and Russia’s Geographic Divide

Posted by Matt in July 22nd, 2008 | 1 comment

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By Peter Zeihan
Since the Soviet fall, Russian generals, intelligence chiefs and foreign policy personnel have often waxed philosophic about the inevitability of a global alliance to hem in U.S. power — often using the rhetoric of a “multipolar world.” Central in all of these plans has been not only the implied leadership of Russia, but [...]

China: Superpower or Basket Case?

Posted by Matt in May 8th, 2008 | no comment

Published in China, Basket Case, Central Government, China Superpower, Chinese Leadership, Discontent, Income Disparities, Inevitable Collapse, Opposition, Patriotic Feelings, Propaganda, Regime, Tibet, Unhappiness, Western China

China as an “emerging superpower” makes for a compelling story line in the media. It is reinforced by the propaganda image that the current Chinese leadership would like us to accept. But the reality is quite different. Although recent events in Tibet and western China – and the central government’s response – appear to be [...]

Muslim ‘extremists’ attempt uprising in western China: govt

Posted by Matt in April 3rd, 2008 | no comment

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China has accused Muslims in the nation’s northwest of trying to start a rebellion, following what an exile group said Wednesday were peaceful protests against injustices under Chinese rule. The unrest occurred in China’s Muslim-majority Xinjiang region last month, after Chinese authorities warned that “terrorists” based there were planning attacks on the Beijing Olympics and [...]