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Tianjin 2010- America In the Asian Century
September 14, 2010
America in the Asian Century Its tenuous recovery from the Great Recession as well as uncertainty in Iraq and Afghanistan are among the reasons cited as to why the influence of the United States in Asia is bound to erode in the 21st century. What are the key global, regional and domestic issues that will accelerate or prevent this decline?
Speakers * Cui Liru, President, Chinese Institutes of Contemporary International Relations, People's Republic of China; Regional Agenda Council on China
* Thomas L. Friedman, Columnist, Foreign Affairs, The New York Times, USA
* Taro Kono, Acting Secretary-General, Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), Japan * Moon Chung-In, Professor of Political Science, Yonsei University, Republic of Korea * Charles E. Morrison, President, East-West Centre, USA
* Kurt Tong, Senior Official to Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), US Department of State
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* Steven Clemons, Director, American Strategy Programme, New America Foundation, USA; Global Agenda Council on Geopolitical Risk
The Boxer Rebellion l HISTORY OF CHINA
The Boxer Rebellion was one of China's biggest uprisings against the unwanted European, US-American and Japanese Imperialism. Distrust and tensions marked all contacts with foreigners. Secret societies were formed to propagate against the enemy. The Yihequan, also known as Boxers, quickly rose to one of the biggest organisations in Northern China. Masters of close combat, they mainly targeted converted Chinese Christians and attacks increased wildly in the 1880s. From 1900 Empress Dowager Cixi was less and less opposed to the Rebellion, as she hoped to fight back foreign influence. Shortly after, even the Chinese Army started helping the rebels and foreigners were fought, killed or driven out. Consequently, an alliance of the imperial powers sent in 50.000 soldiers to end the massacre. Tough reprisals and treaties followed. Learn all about the Boxer Rebellion on IT'S HISTORY.
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Thousands from Tianjin, Hengshui Oppose Live Organ Harvesting
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The Chinese Communist repression of Falun Gong practitioners
has been going on for over 15 years, using all kinds of torture
and carrying out live organ harvesting for transplantation
The brutality of the persecution is beyond human imagination.
Since the exposure of the CCP’s crime in organ harvesting
from living Falun Gong practitioners, condemnation has been
heard not just from the international community, but also from
mainlanders.
A petition signed by nearly 6,000 people of Hengshui and Tianjin
of Hebei Province has been collected.
Together, they condemn the CCP's heinous crime of live
organ harvesting.
On Dec. 3 Minghui.org reports that a petition from residents
of Hengshui and Tianjin has been going on since February.
People expressed their support of the petition by signature
or thumbprint after learning the crimes of the CCP of torture
and live organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners.
Many villagers renounced the Communist Party and its
affiliated organizations after learning the facts of the
persecution and signed a petition form that states their
opposition to live organ harvesting.
Mr. Sun, Hebei Province: Of course I will sign. Even if it is a
prisoner on death row, they can’t do live organ harvesting.
These are the practices of Stalin, Hitler and Mao.
Whether or not it is about Falun Gong, it is a killing to silence
them and leaves no evidence or witness.
A township official in his 40s also renounced the party and
signed the petition with his thumbprint to oppose live
organ harvesting.
He said, The CCP’s organ harvesting from living Falun Gong
practitioners is really too cruel, too immoral.
An old farmer indicated, “the Communist is from hell,”
having experienced all the bad deeds of the CCP.
“The CCP has deprived all fortune from the people
and targeted the good people.”
“It is unconscionable to conduct organ trafficking of living Falun
Gong practitioners’ organs.”
He said, “I firmly oppose this. I will sign.”
Current affairs commentator Ren Baiming: “This opposition
to live organ harvesting by giving thumbprints in Tianjin and
Hengshui reflects the exposure of the crimes and the
condemnation of the crimes.
That shows people’s conscience.
Sooner or later, the crimes of the CCP’s persecution
of Falun Gong will unfold.”
Since the downfall of Bo Xilai and Wang Lijun in 2012,
the CCP’s live organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners
has been further exposed in the world.
In May, 2012, more than 100,000 signatures were collected
from Australia demanding the Government legislate
to stop the CCP from conducting live organ harvesting.
In December, 2012, an internationally renowned human rights
lawyer, David Matas, delivered to the United Nations Commission
on Human Rights, a petition demanding an investigation of CCP
organ harvesting from living Falun Gong practitioners signed
by more than 160,000 people from 36 countries.
In June 2013, the US Congress amended the H. Res. 281 which
calls on China (PRC) to end the practice of organ harvesting
from prisoners, and particularly from Falun Gong prisoners
of conscience and members of other religious and ethnic
minority groups.
In July, Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting also
initiated a global petition calling for an immediate end
to Forced Organ Harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners
in China; nearly 1.5 million people signed the petition
by the end of November.
On Dec. 12, the European Parliament passed
an emergency motion calling on the Government of the PRC
to end immediately the practice of harvesting organs
from prisoners of conscience and members of religious and
ethnic minority groups.
It calls also for the immediate release of all prisoners of
conscience in China, including Falun Gong practitioners.
Coincidently, the persistent efforts of Falun Gong practitioners
to expose the persecution have made many more mainland Chinese
realize the evil deeds of the CCP.
The petition to stop the live organ harvesting has been
widely spread in China.
In mid-December last year, the Epoch Times published the first
joint petition against live organ harvesting by 310 mainlanders.
The petitioners also demanded an investigation of
Zhou Yongkang and Bo Xilai on their engaging in the crime
of live organ harvesting.
Late December, another petition by 6,259 mainlanders
was collected.
This March, a total of 11,015 residents of Shijiazhuang City
signed a petition that calls for an end to live organ harvesting
and the investigation of Zhou Yongkang and Bo Xilai for their
crimes in conducting the campaign of live organ harvesting
from Falun Gong practitioners.
《神韵》2014世界巡演新亮点
April 25 Appeal of Ten Thousand, A Dialogue Model for China
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In ancient China, people would traditionally beat a drum
outside the court to lodge a complain against injustice.
Fifteen years ago, 10,000 Falun Gong practitioners
went to Zhongnanhai to appeal.
In order to maintain their rights of belief,
they requested the release of Falun Gong practitioners
illegally detained by Tianjin City authorities.
Observers say that Falun Gong practitioners' rational
and peaceful appeals are pioneering the way to break
the Chinese peoples' submissive habit and to stand up
for their rights without fear of violence.
On April 25, 1999, over ten thousand Falun Gong practitioners
went to the State Council in Beijing to request an end to the
increased harassment by the public security bureau, and
requesting the release of 45 practitioners arrested in Tianjin.
According to Ms. Liu, a university teacher in Beijing, at 6 am
Falun Gong practitioners arrived at the petition office and were
led by police to go from north to south along Fuyou Street.
They encountered another group of Falun Gong practitioners
led by police to go from south to north, and there ended up
being so many people that the two groups merged.
They waited there quietly, and some practitioners even
cleaned up the cigarette butts left by police.
Then-Premier Zhu Rongji showed up calling a meeting
with Falun Gong representatives.
Zhu promised to release the practitioners who
were arrested in Tianjin.
He also promised Falun Gong practitioners'
practice environment would no longer be disturbed.
Later Falun Gong practitioners quietly left the scene.
Hua Po, Beijing current affairs observer:
My home was close to Zhongnanhai.
I rode a bike over there after I heard about the news.
I saw many people.
I was told that they were Falun Gong practitioners.
I could see they were very disciplined and calm, even silent.
They stood along the sidewalk without
disturbing the people passing by.
Hu Jun, founder of Human Rights Campaign in China:
I was amazed by the scene.
So many people appeared at the same time in Zhongnanhai to
request that their rights be honored, I felt China has a hope.
Two days later, there was no official coverage
for the 4.25 incident.
On April 27, Xinhua news agency circulated a notice
issued by the central government, saying that Falun Gong
practitioners gathered around Zhongnanhai.
It also said health practices of any kind
have never been prohibited by any level of government.
Many Western media have reported that Falun Gong
practitioners' petition was the largest appeal since June 4, 1989.
Falun Gong's appeal was the most peaceful and rational appeal
in the Chinese history.
However, former Chinese Communist Party leader Jiang Zemin
was angry about the incident.
He ordered to implement a suppression of Falun Gong,
He accused Zhu Rongji of handling the incident too softly.
Since then, media reports changed tune from previously calling
it a gathering around Zhongnanhai to a siege of Zhongnanhai.
Police in each city began harassing Falun Gong exercise sites.
Falun Gong practitioners who went to appeal would be taken
away and detained by their local police.
Hu Jun: In ancient China, if civilians had been mistreated,
they could stop an official on the road, or beat a drum outside
a court to let their injustice be heard.
There was a drum specially placed outside
the court for civilians to use.
Nowadays, petitioning is completely blocked, furthermore,
the regime established an appeals office for petitioners,
but when petitioners go there they're arrested.
In each of the CCP's past political movements, many talented
people were destroyed and persecuted to death.
Not only was there nobody who dared appeal for mistreatment,
but their relatives had to make a clear stance to denounce them.
In recent years, more and more civilians have stood up
to appeal for their mistreatment.
Huang Qi, founder of human rights website 64tianwang.com,
says that citizens were very shocked
when they saw Falun Gong practitioners appealing at the time.
It takes a very long time to learn the way to peacefully appeal.
Huang Qi: In this century, the mass appeal started from
Falun Gong practitioners' appealing to major organs in Beijing.
Later, the suppression of petitioners lasted a long time,
and it stopped for a while.
In 2003, farmers whose lands were seized and demolished
also went to Beijing to appeal.
After they were beaten and detained many times,
farmers started to appeal in groups.
According to Jiang Zemin's works, 2nd book, On the evening
of April 25, Jiang wrote letters to members of the politburo
standing committee and other CCP leaders.
He gave the order to completely eliminate Falun Gong, and
《神韵》2014世界巡演新亮点
The Hidden Agenda of China's Silent Invasion: Panel Discussion in Sydney
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How are Australian democratic values affected and what grassroots changes are taking place globally to oppose such influence? A Panel Discussion by experts, observers and insiders from the Chinese community will explore in detail what are the obvious and less apparent consequences of the infiltration from Beijing.
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China will now run a campaign to eliminate smog by 2020, which has run for five years for air purity. This information was given by the Chinese Ministry of Environment. According to ministry spokesman Liu Ubin, that the government is going to wage war from March to save the blue sky. This campaign will primarily run on the banks of Beijing-Tianjin-Bebei and Yangzi and Pearl rivers. There are large number of industries engaged in these places, due to which smoke is shadowed in the sky and there is difficulty in breathing. Earlier in China, the campaign against smog was run from 2013 to 2017. Then action was taken against all the smuggling factories. Vehicles were seized and other ineffective measures were taken. During this, the smoke from the factories engaged in 28 cities was asked to reduce the smoke. The cold weather was particularly vigorous so that the smoke coming out of vehicles and factories could not be kept low. Let us tell you that many times schools have to be closed due to smug in Beijing's capital, Beijing, the operation of vehicles has to be restricted.
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Angry Chinese Seek Truth about Qingdao Explosion
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The crude oil pipeline explosion of Sinopec in Qingdao,
Shandong claimed 52 lives.
As of 1pm of the 24th, 11 went missing, there were
136 injuries, of which 10 were serious.
It is reported that 18,000 people were evacuated.
Facing the heavy causalities, media and people ask
for the truth and an investigation.
The following is our report.
While Chinese media outlets are covering the incident,
many have also reported facts about the troubled pipelines.
Qingdao's local media, Bandao News, reported earlier
that the alleged east yellow pipelines had hidden risks.
Pipelines were built in areas formerly considered
to be wilderness and bustling urbanization soon followed.
Many of the pipes are buried under buildings
with less than a five-meter clearance zone.
These east yellow pipelines reportedly leaked 240 tons
of oil in May of 2010 due to pipeline rupture.
Beijing News had several questions such as, was there
a design flaw in these municipal pipelines since problems
already existed two years ago?
How did these pipelines pass regulations since they are
so close to a residential area?
Were nearby residents made aware of the existence
of these lines?
Were there any problems with Qingdao pipelines during
Sinopec's October nationwide safety inspection?
The oil spill happened at around 3:00 am,
whereas the explosion occurred at 10:30 am.
Beijing News also questioned why, within the seven
and a half hours, was there no evacuation?
The regime news agencies such as Xinhua News also
questioned who's being held accountable for the explosion.
Zhu Jianguo, former news director of Hong Kong based
media Ta Kung Pao, indicates that people who were aware
of the risk or were aware of the oil leak would not dare tell
due to the possibility of being charged with spreading rumor.
Zhu Jianguo, political columnist: I think this incident
is related to Internet censorship and repression of public opinion.
There have been a series of incidents with heavy casualties
such as in Beijing, Shanxi, and Xinjiang since the talk of the Third Plenum.
People have expressed their anger and doubts on the Internet.
There are also lawyers suggesting the only way to find out
the truth is to conduct an investigation
into the municipal party secretary and the mayor.
The explosion also shocked the party leadership.
Both Xi Jinping and Li Keqiang delivered
quick rescue instructions.
Xi Jinping also visited the troubled Qingdao
on the 24th.
According to an Energy.china.com report, specialists
indicated, Crude oil is not as easy to combust as gas or diesel.
Especially without the heat of summertime, without
external forces, a fuel-air mixture explosion is very unlikely.
Hong Kong based ifeng.com also questioned why the explosion
took place at a different location than the pipeline rupture site.
Mr. Xiu, former engineer of Sinopec: It is very suspicious.
At the time of anti-corruption, when PetroChina, Sinopec,
and Shengli Oilfield were all being investigated,
this explosion happened.
It is said to be the biggest in Sinopec history.
Four PetroChina executives have been investigated
since late August this year.
Early September, Jiang Jiemin, head of the state security
apparatus was also removed on charges of corruption
during his post as PetroChina executive.
Former deputy director of Sichuan Provincial People's
Congress Guo Yongxiang, who was once a colleague
of Jiang Jiemin at Shengli Oilfield, was alleged
to have committed serious discipline violations last June.
Mr. Xiu was once an employee of Shengli Oilfield.
He believes that the Shengli Oilfield gang has collapsed
following the fall of Jiang Jiemin and Guo Yongxiang.
The former Politburo standing committee Zhou Yongkang
was also once the head of the Shengli Oilfield.
He suspects a relationship between the Shengli Oilfield
investigation and the explosion in Qingdao,
a Shengli Oilfield affiliate.
Recently Hong Kong media also reported that
the anti-corruption campaign led by the secretary
of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection,
Wang Qishan, is pointing at a retired Standing Committee.
It is plausible to suspect that Zhou Yongkang,
with his remaining influence in the political and legal system,
could have carried out this explosion.
《神韵》2013世界巡演新亮点
Tianjin 2010 - Sustaining a Shrinking Planet
Tuesday September 14, 2010
As population and prosperity grow globally, natural resources such as water and land are under mounting pressure, threatening food production and economic growth. How can water and land best be managed to ensure food security, economic growth and environmental sustainability?
Speakers * Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, Chairman of the Board, Nestlé, Switzerland; Member of the Foundation Board of the World Economic Forum; Mentor of the Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2010; Global Agenda Council on Water Security
* Bram Klaeijsen, President and Regional Director for Asia Pacific, Cargill Asia Pacific Holdings, Singapore
* Thomas G. Searle, Group Chief Executive and President, International, CH2M HILL Companies, USA
* B. S. Yeddyurappa, Chief Minister of Karnataka, Karnataka Udyog Mitra (Government of Karnataka Organization), India
Moderated by * Michael J. Elliott, Editor, Time International, and Deputy Managing Editor, Time Magazine, USA
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Explosion in Kosovo damages OSCE vehicles
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1. Wide of car park, site of explosion
2. Damaged OSCE (Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe) cars
3. Close-up of damaged car window
4. Broken glass on the ground
5. Police officials at the site
6. Set-up of regional police spokesperson, Avni Gjevukaj
7. Line of parked OSCE cars
8. SOUNDBITE: (English) Avni Gjevukaj, regional police spokesperson:
At about 3:30 past midnight (0230 GMT) an explosion took place here at OSCE parking place. Police responded to the scene and they saw that it's (an) attack with an explosive device. Explosion took place here in the parking lot. We don't have any people injured, neither the security officer from the OSCE or anybody around. But there were damaged seven (OSCE) vehicles and also two private vehicles that were parked nearby the parking lot.
9. Rear of OSCE car
10. Various of parking lot
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An explosion west of Kosovo's capital damaged several vehicles belonging to an international security organisation early on Monday, police said.
No one was hurt in the attack in Pec, about 80 kilometres (50 miles) west of Pristina.
It shattered windows and slightly damaged seven vehicles of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in the agency's parking lot.
At about 3:30 past midnight (0230 GMT) an explosion took place here at OSCE parking place. Police responded to the scene and they saw that it's (an) attack with an explosive device. Explosion took place here in the parking lot, Avni Gjevukaj the regional police spokesperson said.
Two other vehicles that did not belong to the organisation were also damaged, Gjevukaj said.
The blast may have been caused by a hand grenade, police said.
OSCE spokesman Sven Lindholm said there was no indication so far that the OSCE had been the target of the attack.
He said another unexploded hand grenade was found in the street outside the parking lot.
OSCE is part of the United Nations system that has administered Kosovo since 1999.
A police official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the ongoing investigation, said the force believed the blast related to an incident last week when an explosion targeted a businessman.
Monday's explosion came on the eve of a visit to Serbia and Kosovo by the OSCE's chairman-in-office, Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos.
Tension has been running high in the province amid negotiations between ethnic Albanians and Serbs to settle the dispute over Kosovo's future status.
A UN plan proposes granting Kosovo internationally supervised statehood.
Three United Nations vehicles were bombed in Pristina a week ago, while two people were killed in clashes between police and ethnic Albanians protesting the UN's plan.
Ethnic Albanian leaders, who insist on full independence, and Serbian officials, who demand that the province remain within Serbia's borders, are to meet in Vienna on Tuesday for more talks on the issue.
The province has been a UN protectorate since 1999, when NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) bombing halted a Serb military crackdown on ethnic Albanian separatists.
Nearly 10-thousand ethnic Albanians were killed and almost 1 (m) million fled their homes.
About 1-thousand Serbs were killed in revenge attacks by Kosovo Albanians.
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Life style of Xi Jinping president of China
Xi Jinping (Chinese: 习近平; pinyin: Xí Jìnpíng; Mandarin: [ɕǐ tɕîn.pʰǐŋ]; born 15 June 1953) is a Chinese politician currently serving as General Secretary of the Communist Party of China,[2] President of the People's Republic of China,[3] and Chairman of the Central Military Commission.[4] As Xi holds the top offices of the party and the military, in addition to being the head of state through the office of the president, he is sometimes referred to as China's paramount leader;[5][6] in 2016, the party officially gave him the title of core leader.[7] As General Secretary, Xi holds an ex-officio seat on the Politburo Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China, China's top decision-making body.
Xi Jinping
Xi Jinping in Simplified (top) and Traditional (bottom) Chinese characters
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Xi Jinping is the first General Secretary to have been born after the Second World War. The son of Chinese Communist veteran Xi Zhongxun, Xi rose through the ranks politically in China's coastal provinces. Xi was governor of Fujian from 1999 to 2002, and governor, then party secretary of neighboring Zhejiangprovince from 2002 to 2007. Following the dismissal of Chen Liangyu, Xi was transferred to Shanghai as party secretary for a brief period in 2007. Xi joined the Politburo Standing Committee and central secretariat in October 2007, spending the next five years as Hu Jintao's presumed successor. Xi was vice president from 2008 to 2013 and Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commissionfrom 2010 to 2012.
Since assuming power, Xi has introduced far-ranging measures to enforce party discipline and to ensure internal unity. His signature anti-corruption campaign led to the downfall of prominent incumbent and retired officials.[8] Xi has tightened restrictions over civil society and ideological discourse, advocating internet censorship in China as the concept of internet sovereignty.[9][10] Xi has called for further market economic reforms, for governing according to the law and for strengthening legal institutions, with an emphasis on individual and national aspirations under the slogan Chinese Dream.[11] Xi has also championed a more assertive foreign policy, particularly with regard to China–Japan relations, China's claims in the South China Sea, and its role as a leading advocate of free trade and globalization.[12] He has also sought to expand China's Eurasian influence through the One Belt One Road Initiative.[8]
Considered the central figure of the People's Republic's fifth generation of leadership,[13] Xi has significantly centralized institutional power by taking on a wide range of leadership positions, including chairing the newly formed National Security Commission, as well as new steering committees on economic and social reforms, military restructuring, and the Internet. Xi’s political thoughts have been written into the party constitution.[14] Xi has had a cult of personality constructed around himself[15][16] with books, cartoons, pop songs and even dance routines.[17]
On 15 November 2012, Xi Jinping was elected to the post of General Secretary of the Communist Party and Chairman of the CPC Central Military Commission by the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, making him – informally – the paramount leader and the first one to be born in the People's Republic of China and not a preceding Chinese state. On the following day, Xi led the new line-up of the Politburo Standing Committee onto the stage in their first public appearance.[70] The new Standing Committee decreased its number of seats from nine to seven, with only Xi himself and Li Keqiang retaining their seats from the previous Standing Committee; the remaining members were new.[71][72][73] In a marked departure from the common practice of Chinese leaders, Xi's first speech as general secretary was plainly worded and did not include any political slogans or mention of his predecessors.[74] Xi mentioned the aspirations of the average person, remarking, Our people ... expect better education, more stable jobs, better income, more reliable social security, medical care of a higher standard, more comfortable living conditions, and a more beautiful environment. Xi also vowed to tackle corruption at the highest levels, alluding that it would threaten the Party's survival; he was reticent about far-reaching economic reforms.[75]
In December 2012, Xi visited Guangdong in his first trip outside of Beijing since taking the Party leadership. The overarching theme of the trip was to call for further economic reform and a strengthened military. Xi visited the statue of Deng Xiaoping and his trip.