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People’s Daily: Use Modern Media to Enhance Our National Image

[Editor’s Note: This is one of many articles that have appeared on official media in recent years talking about how to use the new media and modern communication as a means to boost China’s image and compete with the West in attracting an audience. The article warns, “It should be noted however, that currently a number of Western developed countries are hastening their efforts to Westernize and divide our country; they are using every possible resource to compete for dominance in international discourse.” The entire article is translated below.] [1]

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Globe: Chinese Banking Giants Intense Global Expansion

[Editor’s Note: An article from Globe, a bi-weekly publication of Xinhua News Agency, gives an account of how the expansion of Chinese banks overseas has been accelerating since the financial crisis. “Some people in the industry believe that, during the crisis, certain countries made it easier for foreign banks to set up shop in their countries in order to help their own financial industries. The relatively low cost of entering foreign markets provided a rare window of opportunity for Chinese banks.” Excerpts from the article are translated below.] [1]

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Challenges for China’s Sustainable Urbanization

[Editor’s Notes: The Red Flag Manuscript, a political and theoretical semi-monthly publication under Qiushi Journal, published an article by Bao Zonghao, Director of the Huaxia Social Development Research Center. Bao discusses eight challenges that China faces as it continues urban development. ] [1]

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Mission in Libya: The U.S.’s Low Profile Leadership

A recent China Review News article analyzed the style the U.S. has demonstrated in the Libyan mission, calling its new strategy “low profile leadership.” Although the U.S. did not decide the timing, lead the attacks, articulate the goal of the mission, or ask for an increase in its military budget, the article disagreed with the opinion that this shows a decline in U.S. power. Instead the author believed this was just a change in leadership style, with the goal of improving the U.S. image, lowering “the cost of managing the world,” and leaving more room for diplomacy.
Source: China Review News, March 25, 2011
http://gb.chinareviewnews.com/doc/1016/3/9/4/101639494.html?coluid=5&kindid=24&docid=101639494&mdate=0325142517
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People’s Daily: U.S. Funding of BBC Widely Questioned

People’s Daily recently published an article saying that the U.S. government plans to give funding to the BBC for the “fight against Internet censorship in Iran and China” and “spreading the value of freedom and democracy.” The funding, estimated to be hundreds of thousands of dollars, is supposed to be used for exploring anti-censorship technology, developing software, and “educating local Internet users on circumventing Internet and television censorship.” The article suggested that this is not the first time for the U.S. government to give funding to the BBC. The plan reportedly triggered “anger” from media sponsored by the U.S. government, such as Voice of America and Radio Free Asia. The U.S. State Department responded that the decision hadn’t been made yet. The article also mentioned that British media has widely criticized the BBC for overpaying its employees with taxpayer money.
Source: People’s Daily, March 24, 2011 
http://finance.people.com.cn/GB/14226532.html
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A Beijing Resident Privately Measured Nuclear Radiation in His Community

Although the Chinese government announced that the Japanese nuclear leak has had no impact on China, some people were still concerned. Weeks after the nuclear crisis occurred following the tsunami in Japan, a Beijing local resident, Mr. Chen Jin, spent 1,400 yuan (US$213) on a pocket sized portable device to measure the level of nuclear radiation in his community. He also borrowed larger U.S. made equipment for better accuracy. Chen posted his results online for his community to see. The equipment he used has consistently shown a normal radiation level. The Beijing News report also mentioned that a government expert suggested that Chen’s activities were unnecessary and might be unprofessional.
Source: Beijing News, March 23, 2011
http://epaper.bjnews.com.cn/html/2011-03/23/content_213370.htm?div=-1
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Outlook Weekly’s Special Interview with the Deputy Director of CCCMPS

[Editor’s Note: The Central Committee for the Comprehensive Management of Public Security (CCCMPS) is an agency in charge of social order. It is under the dual leadership of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party and the State Council. The CCCMPS is a national system, with the Central Committee at the top of the hierarchy, and provincial and local level Committees penetrating to every level of the Chinese government. Zhou Yongkang, the CCP’s security czar and a member of Politburo standing committee, heads the national CCCMPS, while local Party secretaries or deputy secretaries head committees at the local level. Officials or Party cadres from Party agencies and government agencies in police, judiciary, state security, culture, and other fields staff the committees. Since the late 1990s, when social conflict in China started to increase, the CCCMPS has been playing a more and more prominent role in cracking down on or preventing social unrest and in exerting tight social control. The following is a translation of an interview with a senior official of the national CCCMPS regarding its most current practices.] [1]

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