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Party Publication Highlights Internet Control

In an article published on Qiushi, the flagship publication of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, Wang Cheng, Director of the State Council Information Office and deputy chief of the CCCCP’s Department of Propaganda, wrote about “deepened understanding of the importance and urgency of developing Internet culture with Chinese characteristics.”
Wang emphasizes the guiding ideology on the Internet as being Marxism and socialism. The development of Internet culture will “strengthen China’s cultural soft power and create a good international public opinion environment” for the regime. The article also said that “efforts to develop an Internet culture with Chinese characteristics are urgently needed for safeguarding social stability and national cultural information security. At present, China is in a period of prominent social conflicts. Amplified by the Internet, aided by the infiltration and sabotage of forces that do not want to see a stronger China, individual biased remarks are easily expanded to irrational social sentiment, … turning general issues into political issues, affecting social harmony and stability, and endangering national security.”
Source: Qiushi Journal, June 17, 2010
http://www.qstheory.cn/wh/whtzggyfz/201006/t20100617_33299.htm
Briefings | | |   Information/Technology

Chinese Netizens’ Comments on Tension between the Two Koreas

[Editor’s Note: On Thursday May 20, the South Korean government announced that a torpedo attack by North Korea had sunk the warship Cheonan that it had lost in March. While South Korea, Japan, and the United States discuss punitive action, North Korea has threatened "all-out war" if new sanctions are imposed.
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May 29, “although the Chinese government’s response to the incident has been ambiguous, and it has not yet taken a clear stand on the incident,” Chinese netizens have vociferously expressed their attitudes on Internet forums. The following are excerpts from the Chinese netizens comments on the website of Huanqiu, a government newspaper.] [1]

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China’s Rise with a More Hardline Diplomacy?

[Editor’s Note: On December 30, 2009, the International Herald Leader, a Xinhua newspaper, published an article titled, “Diplomatic Strategy: China Can Assume More International Responsibility.” The article advocates, “China should not only seek a greater and independent international voice for its own interests, but undertake more international obligations so that the international community can share the fruits of its ‘rise.'”

After 1989, Deng Xiaoping gave 24 characters as a guideline for the CCP’s handling of international relations: 冷静观察, 站稳脚跟, 沉着应付, 韬光养晦, 善于守拙, 绝不当头, which translate as, “Observe calmly; secure our position; cope with affairs calmly; hide our capacities and bide our time; be good at maintaining a low profile; and never claim leadership.” When Jiang Zemin took power after Deng died, he attached four more characters 有所作为, translated as “do something.”

In China, there are very few independent academic institutions or think tanks. The regime usually approves scholars’ views that are published in high profile official publications such as the International Herald Leader, so they should not be taken as mere individual insights.

The following are excerpts from the article.]

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Ties Deepen between China and Uzbekistan

In a joint statement on Wednesday, after a two-day visit that Chinese president Hu Jintao made to the member of The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), China and Uzbekistan agreed to boost their bilateral relationship in security, natural gas, science & technology, agriculture, trade and investment. 

Uzbekistan reaffirmed its support of the One-China policy by opposing “Taiwan Independence” and Taiwan’s participation of any international or regional organization of sovereign states. China reciprocated with long-term preferential loan projects. The two countries vowed to strike against "East Turkistan terrorist forces" and “extremist religious forces.” 
On Thursday, China’s state company, China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), signed a deal with Uzbekneftegaz, the Uzbekistan state gas and oil company, to buy 10 billion cubic meters of natural gas every year. Both sides will connect Uzbekistan’s natural gas transmission system with the China-Uzbekistan pipeline, which is part of the larger 1,833 km (1,136 mile) long China-Central Asia gas pipeline that opened in December 2009, linking fields in Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan to northwest China’s Xinjiang. 
Source: Xinhua, June 10, 2010 
http://news.xinhuanet.com/politics/2010-06/10/c_12206538.htm
Briefings | | |   Geo-Strategic Trend

Party Buildup in Private Organizations, Nanchong City

Expanding the Communist Party branches or subsidiaries to the non-state sector of Chinese society has become one of the focal efforts of the Party ever since the fourth session of 17th National Congress in 2009. One example is the mid-sized Nanchong City in central China’s Sichuan Province. 

According to the province’s official paper, Sichuan Daily, a separate Party branch has been established in each of 180 large scale private enterprises and 403 mid-to-small size enterprises and social organizations. In 100 other mid-to-small size enterprises and social organizations, industrial or business ties enabled 11 joint Party branches to be set up. The city’s Party committee dispatched 731 cadres into the non-state companies and organizations to provide guidance and to work as liaisons with the high-up Party superiors. 
Source: Sichuan Daily, June 10, 2010
http://www.sichuandaily.com.cn/2010/06/10/20100610657394028338.htm
Briefings | | |   Government/Politics

China’s 2009 Natural Catastrophes

A Chinese Ministry of Civil Affairs report shows that, during 2009 in China, in as many as 479 million times, people were victimized by all sorts of natural catastrophes; 1,528 people died or disappeared; 47.2 million hectares (116.7 million acres) of crops were damaged; and 0.84 million buildings collapsed. The direct economic loss amounted to 252.3 billion yuan (US$36.9 billion). 

Source: People’s Daily, June 10, 2010 
http://politics.people.com.cn/GB/1027/11841364.html
Briefings | | |   Economy/Resources

A Fourth Navigation Satellite Launched, China’s COMPASS

China launched a fourth satellite into space at 23:53 Wednesday June 2, as a part of its satellite navigation and positioning network known as Beidou, or Compass system. The satellite was launched from the Long March 3 carrier rocket. 

China has a three-step plan to build up its own satellite navigation system to break its dependence on the U.S: the first step, already done, from 2000 to 2003, was to launch three satellites to test the system; the second step is, by 2012, to enable the system to navigate, position, and communicate throughout the Asia Pacific region; the third and final step is to build a network eventually consisting of 35 satellites to cover the whole globe. 
Source: China News Service, June 3, 2010 
http://www.chinanews.com.cn/tp/news/2010/06-03/2320012.shtml
Briefings | | |   Defense/Military

Major Chinese Internet Media Embrace Red Culture

In late May 2010, more than 70 CEOs, chief editors, and senior management personnel of 35 major websites including Sina.com, 163.com, Sohu.com, Baidu.com, ifeng.com, and tom.com went on a tour in China’s southwest Chongqing City to pay tribute to the “revolutionary martyrs” who died during the communist’s upheaval from 1921 to 1949 against the then ruling KMT. 

The trip is the regime’s 7th organized event to spread propaganda on the Internet media about the “red culture.” Sites visited include Jinggangshan and Mao Zedong’s residence. [1] Forums were held to discuss the “direction of the Internet.” 
Chen Yizhou, the CEO of China Inter Active Corp., an Internet media group, said after the tour, “We would like to learn from the older generation of proletarian revolutionaries … and firmly put national interests first. In addition to doing a good job with the company, we will also comply with the requirements of Internet culture buildup and more proactively make contributions.” 
Source: Xinhua, Chongqing channel, June 3, 2010 
http://www.cq.xinhuanet.com/2010-06/03/content_19973527.htm
[1] Jinggangshan, a mountain located in Jiangxi Province, is known as the birthplace of the Chinese Red Army (the People’s Liberation Army of China) and the "cradle of the Chinese revolution." After the Kuomintang (KMT) turned against the Communist Party in 1927, the Communists either went underground or fled to the countryside. Following the unsuccessful Autumn Harvest Uprising in Changsha, Mao Zedong led his 1000 remaining men to Jinggangshan, where he set up his first peasant soviet.
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