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Beidaihe Retreat for Overseas Chinese Talent

Beidaihe, best known as China’s Camp David, is a retreat commonly used by the Party’s highest leadership each July to slip away from the summer heat of Beijing and to plan important strategies in the privacy that Beidaihe offers. 
In July, the Chinese Communist Party invited 70 some overseas Chinese experts to Beidaihe for a vacation. They are part of the “1000 Elite Program,” a government initiative to attract the world’s top overseas Chinese scholars, scientists, and corporate executives back to work for China. The Beidaihe retreat program started as early as 2001.
According to the Xinhua report, the experts said that while abroad they never experienced such courtesy, and that the Party and the government gave such great attention to overseas talent. It quoted one as saying, “We must use our knowledge and technology to make more contributions to national development, and to use practical action to show gratitude to the Party and the people.”
Source: Xinhua, July 28, 2010
http://news.xinhuanet.com/2010-07/28/c_12384730.htm
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Beijing Justifies Internet Control by Referring to Western Practices

In a lengthy article published by its official Xinhua news agency, China enumerates many examples of how Western governments control cyberspace, with a view to defending China’s own control of the Internet.
The article starts by pointing out, “Many Western countries advocate freedom of speech. At first glance, they seem to exert no control over the Internet.” The article goes on to give examples of government regulations in the U.S., Germany, Australia, Korea, and Japan. They include U.S. intelligence agencies’ strikes on Internet hackers, the German’s Information and Communication Service Act, Japan’s Adolescent Internet Environment Readiness Act, and Korea’s enforced real name online registration.
An analysis of the examples, however, reveals that they do not, in actuality, greatly restrict citizen’s freedom of speech.
Source: Xinhua, July 23, 2010
http://news.xinhuanet.com/world/2010-07/23/c_12365092.htm
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SARFT: Not Allowed to Have a Radio, Film, or Television Festival without a Permit

On July 26, the State Administration of Radio Film and Television re-issued a directive that any institution that does not have a Radio and TV Program Production License should not participate in any radio, film, or television festival.
The notice demanded that all organizers of radio, film, or television festivals rigorously review the qualifications of the participants and bar any unqualified ones from participating.
Source: Xinhua, July 26, 2010
http://news.xinhuanet.com/2010-07/26/c_12374931.htm
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Beijing Think Tank: U.S. Has the Most Powerful and Advanced Internet Attack Capabilities

[Editor’s Note: An article published on Qiushi, the official publication of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, states, “The U.S. has the most powerful and advanced Internet attack capabilities.” The author, Jiang Yong, is director of the Center for Economic Security Studies under the official think tank, the Institute of Contemporary International Relations. Jiang is also a scholar under the Ministry of State Security. The following are excerpts of Jiang’s article titled “The Internet: the New Invisible Front.”] [1]

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On the C-Shaped Encirclement by the U.S. – Huang Yingxu, China Academy of Military Science

[Editor’s Note: The following report is translated from a Study Times article by Huang Yingxu, a research fellow at the China Academy of Military Science. The author believes that the U.S. has formed a C-shaped encirclement around China. But he also believes that China’s peaceful rise may not necessarily cause a war with the United States.

While acknowledging that the U.S. has “technological and military superiority that China does not match,” the author criticizes the war hawks’ “China and the U.S. cannot avoid a war” mentality as “alarmist talk.” He stresses that China will never give up its socialism with Chinese characteristics, and will never let the U.S. manipulate its politics. “(China) should not be blindly optimistic about the Sino-U.S. relationship; it should not be unnecessarily pessimistic either.”

Study Times is the official newspaper of the Communist Central Party School. According to its official website, the papers’ readers “are mainly Party and governmental cadres and intellectuals. … The Party’s Central Propaganda Ministry designates it as a key newspaper of reference.”] [1]

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Jia Qinglin Asks Overseas Young Chinese to Oppose Taiwan Independence

On July 19, Jia Qinglin, a member of the Politburo standing committee met with the 10th Delegation of Outstanding Overseas Young Chinese, an annual program of Beijing, to engage with talented Chinese emigrants.
In his speech, Jia told the delegation to “actively contribute wisdom and strength for the renaissance of the nation of China wherever you may live.” Jia also said that “(You should) strengthen the close connection with local people, especially the young population, actively carry out various forms of anti-Taiwan independence activities to promote the peaceful development of cross-strait relations, and promote the peaceful reunification of China.”
Source: website of United Front Work Department of Chinese Communist Party
http://www.zytzb.cn/09/newscenter/benwang/201007/t20100720_671293.html
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Chinese Communist Party, Leader of Asia’s Poverty Alleviation

On July 17, the International Liaison Department of the Chinese Communist Party hosted a Poverty Alleviation Conference at the International Conference of Asian Political Parties (ICAPP) in Kunming, the capital city of southwest China’s Yunnan Province. In a message to the meeting, Chinese president Hu Jintao said that he “hopes to work with all Asian political parties to promote poverty alleviation.”
In his speech, Hui Liangyu, a Politburo member and Vice Premier, said the “guidance of the Party and the government” is one of the keys to the China experience.
Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-Moon sent a video message to the meeting. 
More than 120 people representing 57 political parties in 30 countries attended the conference. 
Source: website of International Liaison Department of Chinese Communist Party, July 17, 2010
http://www.idcpc.org.cn/dongtai/100717.htm
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Taiwan’s Wu Supports Blacklisting Rebiya Kadeer

Wu Den-yih, President of the Executive Yuan — or, as he is more commonly known, the Premier of Taiwan — said that he supported a decision by the Ministry of the Interior (MOI) to deny Rebiya Kadeer’s September 2009 request for entry into Taiwan.
Wu said that the MOI’s decision was out of consideration for national security.
Source: Central News Agency, July 18, 2010
http://www.cna.com.tw/ShowNews/Detail.aspx?pNewsID=201007180077&pType0=aALL&pTypeSel=0
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