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Xinhua: IEA Number not Believable

Xinhua recently reported on a swift Chinese response to the IEA’s (International Energy Agency) published number regarding Chinese energy consumption in 2009. The Chinese National Energy Administration (NEA) commented that the IEA number is “inaccurate.” IEA believed that China’s energy consumption in 2009 was the equivalent of 2.252 billion tons of oil, which was the highest in the world and was 4% higher than the United States. Chinese NEA official suggested that IEA is a “rich countries’ club,” and its number “cannot be believed.”  According to the number published by the Chinese National Bureau of Statistics, the figure was 2.132 billion.

Source: Xinhua, July 20, 2010
http://news.xinhuanet.com/politics/2010-07/20/c_12354029.htm

Briefings | | |   Economy/Resources

Renmin: Punishing Failures in Guiding Public Opinion

The National Conference on Propaganda Work in the Court System was held on July 27. The Supreme People’s Court required a risk assessment system to be established on the issue of public opinion. The system is to control the initiative taken on guiding public opinion. In the meantime, a corresponding performance evaluation mechanism will be established as well; rewards and penalties will be granted accordingly. For those who are responsible for a major negative impact caused by their failure to control public opinion, punishment will be meted out. The Political Department of the Supreme People’s Court is planning training sessions for spokesmen and propaganda workers across all levels of the court system nationwide.

Source: People Net, July 27, 2010
http://politics.people.com.cn/GB/1026/12267442.html

Briefings | | |   Government/Politics

CRN: Chinese Army Transporting Mechanized Equipment via Highway

China Review News recently reported that, for the first time, the Chinese Army used the highway system to transport mechanized equipment. The Beijing Military Region was the one that managed this mission. Heavy equipment was loaded onto Rubble Wheel Heavy Equipment Transportation Vehicles with design capabilities of 555 kilometers. This latest type of vehicle has a maximum capacity of 50 tons. The equipment transported on this mission ranged from 12.8 tons to 38.5 tons. The mission did no damage the highway’s surface. Traditional Chinese Army land transportation methods are limited to equipment self-mobility, which damages the road, as well as railway transportation, which has a big range limitation of railway system coverage.

Source: China Review News, July 30, 2010
ttp://gb.chinareviewnews.com/doc/1013/9/8/3/101398319.html?coluid=45&kindid=0&docid=101398319&mdate=0730232332

Briefings | | |   Defense/Military

Hu Jintao Stressed Improving the Level of Party Development in the Armed Forces

According to Xinhua, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) held a Forum on Party Development on July 22, 2010. On July 24, Hu Jintao, the CPC Central Committee General Secretary, China’s State Chairman and the Central Military Commission (CMC) Chairman, met with representatives of the participants of the Party Development Forum.

“Hu Jintao stressed that strengthening and improving the Party’s development in the armed forces under the new situation is an important part of the complete project for advancing development of the Party, a new great project. It is an important political task related to the overall building and development of the army.”

Source: Xinhua, July 24, 2010
http://news.xinhuanet.com/politics/2010-07/24/c_12368998.htm

Briefings | | |   Defense/Military

China News Service: China’s Yellow Sea Military Exercise Sent a Strong Signal

On July 20, 2010, China News Service (CNS) (http://www.chinanews.com.cn/), a state-level news agency in China, published an article which cited content from Hong Kong Ta Kung Pao newspaper (www.takungpao.com). The article was about China’s first military exercises from July 17 to July 18 giving emergency support to guarantee wartime marine transportation and weapon delivery in the Yellow Sea.

“It is generally believed that the exercise is a response to the U.S. and South Korea military exercises in the Yellow Sea.”

“China sent a strong and clear signal:  China’s increased national strength cannot be stopped. China must maintain a peaceful radius and no one can approach close to China.”

Source: China News Service (CNS), July 20, 2010
http://www.chinanews.com.cn/hb/2010/07-20/2413602.shtml

Briefings | | |   Defense/Military

Su Hao: The U.S. Is Conducting Investigations and Research on China and the Countries around China

On July 21, 2010, Huanqiu, the Chinese edition of Global Times, published an article by someone called Su Hao, who claimed that he had recently visited the U.S. State Department and talked with Washington D.C. officials, think tanks and some U.S. scholars.

Su Hao said, “The U.S. is ‘taking action quietly,’ enhancing America’s influence in East Asia and especially Southeast Asia. … The U.S. is conducting a lot of investigations and doing research on China and the countries around China.”

According to Su Hao, "The hidden activities that the U.S. is conducting”  are aimed at weakening China’s influence in East Asia, damaging relations between China and its neighboring countries and eventually constructing a U.S. led international order in the Asia-pacific region.

Source: Huanqiu, July 21, 2010　
http://opinion.huanqiu.com/roll/2010-07/945457.html

Briefings | | |   US-China Relations

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
Briefings | | |   Geo-Strategic Trend

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
Briefings | | |   Information/Technology