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April 2004



Britain Speaks

Wednesday, 28 April 2004 12:59 A GMT+09
Well this is a new one, England has found some guts and is sending somebody to have a chat with Beijing about their attitude towards democracy in Hong Kong, it's a pity that it didn't do it much sooner, like in 1996 when Hong Kong was still part of t
Category: News and Politics Sino-British Human rights and personal freedoms Sino-Hong Kong

No to Democracy

Wednesday, 28 April 2004 12:59 A GMT+09
I know that China doesn’t have a great image as a bastion of democracy, but when it gave reassurance under the 1997 handover agreement between England and China , that there would be “one country, two systems” the people of Hong Kong hung onto
Category: News and Politics Human rights and personal freedoms Includes Translations Sino-Hong Kong

Freedom of expression

Tuesday, 27 April 2004 12:59 A GMT+09
Yes freedom of expression is alive and well in America, but it is now dead on this site, at least for Miss or Mrs. Only One Comment, AKA Miss. "look at my genitals" Comment. It appears that the world of Islamic terrorists is'nt against deto
Category: Off Topic
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Something's being rattled and is isn't a Sabre

Monday, 26 April 2004 12:59 A GMT+09
From this article in the Channel Asia News it looks like America is becoming increasingly rattled by China, and contrary to what I said earlier it's not just the prospects of an economically dominant China directing things in Asia.http://www.channeln
Category: News and Politics Sino-American Includes Translations
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SARS returns to China

Saturday, 24 April 2004 12:59 A GMT+09
http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/04/23/china.sars/Courtesy of CNN, The Chinese Health Ministry has said that they have located two new cases of SARS, one in Anhui Province  and the other in Beijing , they are also investigating the possibil
Category: News and Politics Off Topic

U.S. Ready to See Change in China-Taiwan Status Quo (Reuters)

Saturday, 24 April 2004 12:59 A GMT+09
I'm not sure which way to take this headline from Reuters (http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=4902134&section=news), does this mean that the US is okaying the idea of Taiwanese Independence, or that it has decided
Category: News and Politics Sino-American Sino-Taiwanese

SARS

Saturday, 24 April 2004 12:59 A GMT+09
It's official, Beijing is treating two people for suspected cases of SARS. No more news at the moment on whether or not they have the disease how they contracted it. It is safe to safe that China and the World Wide Health Organisation aren't going to
Category: News and Politics

FBI chief warns of terrorist attacks in Asia, China

Thursday, 22 April 2004 12:59 A GMT+09
The Chief of America's Federal investigation agency has come out to warn China, and the rest of Asia about Islamic fundamentalists, FBI chief chief Robert Mueller has now announced that "Asia must be vigilant against terrorist attacks" he a
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It just keeps getting more fascistic by the day

Wednesday, 21 April 2004 12:59 A GMT+09
"Experts say US vice president sees Beijing as major challenge to American interests in Asia"Daily TimesI know that what type of story you get depends on what type of publication you read, but surprisingly enough this article wasn't from a
Category: News and Politics Sino-American

Arms embargo

Wednesday, 21 April 2004 12:59 A GMT+09
While America is still stating daily that there is only one China it is acting as f they are two, it may not surprise you but while America is selling a high technology radar system to Taiwan and has recently been involved in brokering the sale of su
Category: News and Politics Sino-American Sino-British

China flies prototype fighter jet

Thursday, 15 April 2004 12:59 A GMT+09
After my recent article about over flights by Chinese jets of the Chang Jiang river I thought that it might be interesting to add something about China and Pakistan's joint development of a light weight fighter jet designed to compete with the ubiqui
Category: News and Politics Off Topic
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An armed build-up?

Sunday, 11 April 2004 12:59 A GMT+09
Getting information in China is like buying good sushi in England, almost nobody can get it, and if you manage to, it's two days old and costs a bundle.I know from having flown across my province several times that the closest civilian airport is in
Category: Off Topic

More on Hong Kong, unless you read the China daily

Sunday, 11 April 2004 12:59 A GMT+09
My employer here in China thought that it would be a good idea to subscribe to the China daily, and having read several issues, and then compared it to what I am seeing on Chinese state television I can honestly say that the government clearly appear
Category: News and Politics Human rights and personal freedoms Sino-Hong Kong
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Hong Kong says goodbye to dreams of autonomy

Thursday, 8 April 2004 12:59 A GMT+09
Just to prove what I was saying earlier about Beijing getting up to some of its traditional chicanery over Hong Kong, here's what somebody far closer to the political front has to say, and its not a nice picture for people who had pinned hopes of mai
Category: News and Politics Sino-British Human rights and personal freedoms Sino-Hong Kong

A very modern Fairytale

Sunday, 4 April 2004 12:59 A GMT+09
Here’s an interesting fairytale, there one was a nasty mean ogre named Great Britain who went all over the world looking for poor countries with rich fields and weak peasants. The nasty ogre enslaved these poor peasants and made them work hard for
Category: News and Politics Off Topic Human rights and personal freedoms
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One China, two…oh sorry, now its one system as well

Saturday, 3 April 2004 12:59 A GMT+09
So much for Thatcher’s promise to the people of Hong-Kong, so much for Major’s reassurances to Britain’s former colony, and "shove it" to anything that Anthony Blair has to say on the issue of basic freedoms. China has predictably dec
Category: News and Politics Off Topic Sino-British Human rights and personal freedoms Sino-Hong Kong
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Black to the Future

Saturday, 3 April 2004 12:59 A GMT+09
For people looking for information about the “Paint it Black” protest against Government censorship of China blogs you can now visit http://glutter.typepad.com/glutter/2004/03/all_typepad_sit.html where the public front of the campaign is being f
Category: News and Politics Off Topic Human rights and personal freedoms

Block a Blog Day

Saturday, 3 April 2004 12:59 A GMT+09
China is now working hard to turn its blogging community into an endangered species, Typepad, BlogCN and Blogbus are all now firmly on the list of blocked websites, which has not only cut off those seeking political discourse through their blogs, but
Category: News and Politics Off Topic Human rights and personal freedoms
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