May 8, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from THE TELEGRAPH The world's tallest tower should have been built by now. Officials said last year that the great edifice with 220 floors would be erected in three months flat in China's inland city of Changsha by March, snatching the crown from Dubai's Burj Khalifa. The deadline has come and gone, yet the ...
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Apr 25, 2013 No Comments ›› spratico
Excerpted from LA Times- In the deadliest ethnic violence in China since 2009, 21 people were killed in confrontations Tuesday between police and Uighur residents of Kashgar, the country’s westernmost city. Among the dead were 15 police and neighborhood security officers and six people that the state media described as “mobsters.’’ Kashgar, which lies close to China's borders ...
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Apr 17, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from FREE BEACON Iran is engaged in an elaborate oil smuggling scheme that enables it to skirt international sanctions as it transmits valuable crude oil to China, according to an investigation released last week by a watchdog group. Iranian ships have been travelling out of the country’s Kharg Island oil export terminal, making their way east ...
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Apr 14, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from NYT HONG KONG — The American film “Django Unchained” was abruptly pulled from theaters in China on Thursday, its opening day, a surprising move that underscored the fragility of Hollywood’s evolving relationship with the Chinese movie industry. No reason was given for the decision to suspend “Django Unchained,” which was written and directed ...
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Apr 7, 2013 No Comments ›› Chuck Biscuits
(Reuters) - China warned against "troublemaking" on its doorstep, in an apparent rebuke to North Korea, and the United States said it was postponing a missile test to help calm high tension on the divided Korean peninsula. China, North Korea's sole financial and diplomatic backer, has shown growing irritation with Pyongyang's warnings of nuclear war. Chinese President ...
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Apr 3, 2013 No Comments ›› Spit Stixx
Excerpted from Washington Free Beacon: China continued moving tanks and armored vehicles and flying flights near North Korea this week as part of a military buildup in the northeastern part of the country that U.S. officials say is related to the crisis with North Korea. The Obama administration, meanwhile, sought to play down the Chinese military ...
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Apr 3, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from FREE BEACON: China continued moving tanks and armored vehicles and flying flights near North Korea this week as part of a military buildup in the northeastern part of the country that U.S. officials say is related to the crisis with North Korea. The Obama administration, meanwhile, sought to play down the Chinese military buildup along ...
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Communist China: America Is ‘Narrow-Minded’ & Intolerant For Not Embracing Heinous Murdering Tyrants
Apr 2, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from CNS NEWS: – The recent furor over a Mao Zedong quote appearing on a U.S. government website for children reflects American insularity and intolerance, a Chinese newspaper opined this week. In a belated response to the controversy, the Communist Party-affiliated Global Times said in an editorial that the episode sends a message about free ...
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Apr 1, 2013 No Comments ›› Toro520
Excerpted from the Washington Free Beacon: China has placed military forces on heightened alert in the northeastern part of the country as tensions mount on the Korean peninsula following recent threats by Pyongyang to attack, U.S. officials said. Reports from the region reveal the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) recently increased its military posture in response to ...
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Apr 1, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Thanks to obama we are powerless in the world! This is what Change & Forward mean Excerpted from ZERO HEDGE: A month ago we pointed out that as a result of Australia's unprecedented reliance on China as a target export market, accounting for nearly 30% of all Australian exports (with the flipside being just as true, as ...
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Mar 29, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from TWITCHY: Obama may think he can control the ocean’s rise, but when push comes to shove, he’s no match for Mother Nature. While delivering a speech on improving American infrastructure, POTUS got severely undercut by a mischievous gust of wind: oops WH covered chinese crane co. ZMPC's logos with US flags but 1 fell down ...
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Mar 26, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from FREE BEACON: China confirmed this week it will sell a new 1,000-megawatt nuclear reactor to Pakistan that the United States says would violate Beijing’s obligations under a nuclear supplier control group. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei was asked Monday about a report in the Free Beacon March 22 that first disclosed the secret agreement ...
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Mar 26, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from FREE BEACON: China’s military is expanding its unmanned aerial vehicle forces with a new Predator-like armed drone and a new unmanned combat aircraft amid growing tensions with neighbors in Asia, according to U.S. intelligence officials. New unarmed drone deployments include the recent stationing of reconnaissance and ocean surveillance drones in Northeast Asia near Japan and ...
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Mar 22, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from THE TELEGRAPH: China is on track to overtake America as the world's biggest economy in 2016 as its growth accelerates, according to a report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. China's economy expanded last year at 7.8pc - its slowest pace in more than a decade - and recent data has ...
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Mar 21, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from WASHINGTON TIMES: China and Pakistan reached a formal agreement last month to construct a third nuclear reactor at Chashma that the Obama administration says will violate Beijing’s promises under an international anti-nuclear weapons accord. According to U.S. intelligence and diplomatic officials, the secret agreement for the Chashma 3 reactor was signed in Beijing during the ...
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Mar 18, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from WASHINGTON EXAMINER: Bo Jiang, the Chinese national scientist employed by a NASA contractor for work at the space agency's Langley Research Center, was arrested Sunday by the FBI at Dulles International Airport as he tried to flee to China, according to Rep. Frank Wolf, R-VA. Wolf said during a Capitol Hill news conference today that ...
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Mar 4, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from FREE BEACON: A Chinese general who once threatened to use nuclear weapons against hundreds of U.S. cities will visit the Pentagon this week as part of a U.S.-China military exchange program. Maj. Gen. Zhu Chenghu, who is head of China’s National Defense University, will take part in a “familiarization exchange,” Maj. Catherine Wilkinson, ...
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Mar 3, 2013 No Comments ›› Toro520
Excerpted from France 24: AFP - A top Chinese banker said Beijing is "fully prepared" for a currency war as he urged the world to abide by a consensus reached by the G20 to avert confrontation, state media reported on Saturday. Yi Gang, deputy governor of China's central bank, issued the call after G20 finance ministers last ...
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Mar 1, 2013 No Comments ›› Toro520
Via The Financial Times: On June 24 last year, the body of a young US electronics engineer, Shane Todd, was found hanging in his Singapore apartment. Police said it was suicide, but the Todd family believe he was murdered. Shane had feared that a project he was working on was compromising US national security. His parents ...
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Feb 20, 2013 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
From Breitbart TV: A CNN crew filming at the building involved in international hacking allegations was chased through city streets by Chinese security officers...
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Feb 19, 2013 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
WASHINGTON (AP) -- As public evidence mounts that the Chinese military is responsible for stealing massive amounts of U.S. government data and corporate trade secrets, the Obama administration is poised to spell out specific trade actions it may take against Beijing or any other country guilty of cyberespionage. According to officials familiar with the plans, the ...
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Feb 19, 2013 No Comments ›› Toro520
Via Reuters: BEIJING/SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 19 (Reuters) - A secretive Chinese military unit is believed to be behind a series of hacking attacks, a U.S. computer security company said, prompting a strong denial by China and accusations that it was in fact the victim of U.S. hacking. The company, Mandiant, identified the People's Liberation Army's Shanghai-based Unit ...
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Jan 29, 2013 No Comments ›› Toro520
Via Forbes: Are the stars finally aligned for a global climate change treaty? After years of frustration, momentum seemed to change in an instant last Monday. President Obama’s second inaugural address made it clear he was going to lead the world on the issue, his words a “clarion call to action” as one observer put it. Obama’s first ...
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