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Wang Shenjun: Continue the Judicial Reforms Based on China’s Situations

A symposium on Judicial Reforms vs. China’s Situation was held in Beijing on December 29, 2009, according to Xinhua. Wang Shenjun, the chief justice of the Supreme Court attended the symposium and delivered a speech.
 
Wang stressed that building a socialist judicial system must be based on China’s situation. It is necessary to correctly handle the relationship between China’s situation and the judicial reforms. 

Source: Xinhua, December 29, 2009
http://news.xinhuanet.com/legal/2009-12/29/content_12725463.htm

Briefings | | |   Government/Politics

Meng Jianzhu Addresses Armed Police

At a meeting of Party officials of the armed police force, Minister of Public Security Meng Jianzhu gave a speech emphasizing the force’s absolute loyalty to the Party, the continuous buildup work of Party organizations, and the improved capacity of handling emergent social unrest. 

Source: Ministry of Public Security, January 8, 2009
http://www.mps.gov.cn/n16/n1237/n1342/n803680/2271940.html
Briefings | | |   Government/Politics

Xi Jinping Texting One Million Party Cadres

“On behalf of the Central Committee of the Party, I am extending my cordial greetings to the nationwide grass-roots Party secretaries and college graduate village officials.” On January 5, 2010, Xi Jinping, China’s Vice President and a member of Politburo Standing Committee, sent the above text message to cell phones of one million local-level Chinese Communist Party (CCP) cadres. 

The message marks the launch of the mobile phone information system for national grass-roots Party development work. The system, with a collection of one million cell phone numbers belonging to CCP officials at the province, city, township, and village levels, has been initiated to build up Party organizations through the use of modern technologies. 
Source: china.com.cn, January 6, 2010 
http://www.china.com.cn/news/txt/2010-01/06/content_19190206.htm
Briefings | | |   Government/Politics

Zhou Yongkang in Sichuan, Nipping Social Conflicts ‘In the Bud’

Zhou Yongkang, member of the Politburo Standing Committee and Chair of the Chinese Communist Party’s Political and Legal Affairs Committee, was recently in Sichuan Province. While there, he emphasized three key tasks that had been highlighted in the December 18 National Video Teleconference on Political and Legislative Affairs: resolving social conflicts, innovations in social management, and ‘fair and honest law enforcement.’ 

At a town in Beichuan County, the center of the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake, Zhou requested the establishment of mediation agencies “wherever there are people and wherever there are conflicts,” so as to eliminate the conflicts “in the bud.”  
Source: China News Service, January 7, 2010 
http://www.chinanews.com.cn/gn/news/2010/01-07/2058123.shtml
Briefings | | |   Social Stability

Military Official: China May Retaliate over American Arms Sales to Taiwan

Rear Admiral Yang Yi of the National Defense University’s Institute for Strategic Studies warns that China may retaliate in response to recent American arms sales to Taiwan. "Why can’t we be on the offensive against these trouble makers? In addition to lodging a protest with the U.S. government and taking the necessary measures, why can’t we impose sanctions on these ‘perpetrators?’ We want to inflict ‘heavy’ damage to the interests in China of those businesses and groups who offend the Chinese people. Let them suffer more economic losses here than gains from selling arms to Taiwan, so that the arms sales will not worth it." “Through our constant efforts, we can mold the policy choices of the United States; now is the time for us to set the rules for the United States.”

Source: China News Net, January 7, 2010
http://www.chinanews.com.cn/gn/news/2010/01-07/2058142.shtml

Briefings | | |   US-China Relations

Military Expert on Globalization of Chinese Military

In an article in Global Times, Chinese military expert Song Xiaojun discussed three major changes in the Chinese military in the last ten years. First, anti-China forces and separatist forces are rampant, e.g. the U.S. bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Yugoslavia in 1999, the U.S. and China aircraft collision in 2001, and the "China threat theory" that has swept the world. Second, ordinary Chinese people, especially young people and Internet users, are concerned about military defense. Third, the rapid modernization of China’s weapons has attracted the world’s attention, e.g. China sent a warship to escort ships near Somalia. Song Xiaojun believes that the biggest problem with China’s military development is that it lags behind economic development, and that the Chinese military must become a global force in order to ensure China’s economic interests are not undermined.

Source: Global Times, December 30, 2009.
http://china.huanqiu.com/roll/2009-12/675329.html

Briefings | | |   Defense/Military

China Military Implements Training for the New Year

The General Staff Department (GSD) of the People’s Liberation Army has issued directives on seven aspects of the 2010 military training. They include deepening the research and exploration of training in the conditions of an information environment; promoting system wide joint training and innovation in the conditions of an information environment; and focusing on training the core military capabilities.

Source: Xinhua, January 6, 2010
http://news.xinhuanet.com/mil/2010-01/06/content_12767287.htm

Briefings | | |   Defense/Military

Chinese Researcher: Three Incidents That Could Cause the Real Estate Bubble to Burst

Beijing Youth published an article by Ni Jinjie, a visiting researcher at the People’s Insurance Company of China, studying when China’s real estate bubble would burst. Ni identified what might cause the bubble to burst, for example, local governments hiking up land prices, speculators pumping hot money into the real estate market, and strong demand. Ni put forward three conditions for China’s real estate market to burst:

1. When the central government initiates the financial system reform and begins to restrict local government’s land income;
2. When the government’s monetary policy moves into a retraction cycle.
3. When there is no buyer for Real Estate properties.

The first two conditions are a function of the government. Ni noted that despite the central government’s determination to control real estate prices, the current land policy and monetary supply policy are still stimulating the bubble.

Source: Beijing Youth, December 30, 2009
http://dycj.ynet.com/article.jsp?oid=62017714

Briefings | | |   Defense/Military