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China Review News recently republished an article by an expert from the China Institute of Contemporary International Relations, Center for Strategic Studies. The article pointed out that the typical and wide use of the concept “The West,” which includes the United States, is a mistake. Taking the West as a strategic unity does not reflect the reality of the world’s structure. The author believes that, after the Cold War, the common enemy that the U.S. and Europe shared disappeared, and the U.S. pushed a new round of expansion. The recent EU debt crisis is also proof of the obvious U.S. intention of attacking the Euro. Even the recent U.S. military base conflict between the U.S. and Japan showed the deviation from the Japanese. The article suggested that the situation seems to offer a good opportunity for China to weaken U.S. power by taking advantage of any discord within “The West.”

Source: China Review News, July 2, 2010
http://gb.chinareviewnews.com/doc/1013/6/9/6/101369692.html?coluid=148&kindid=0&docid=101369692&mdate=0702000656

At the press briefing of the CCP’s Central Committee, the spokesperson from the International Liaison Department, one of the 11 spokespersons from 11 agencies under the party’s Central Committee, showed up to talk to journalists, and confirmed that the CCP has been in contact and cooperation with more than 570 political parties or organizations in 160 countries around the world.

“The communication mechanism between us and political parties among the big powers such as Japan, Russia, India, Vietnam, and Brazil is set. We also signed certain inter-party dialog agreements with the UK, Germany, and France. With Russia, we have Dialogue Mechanism between the Ruling Parties of China and Russia. Not long ago, we invited political parties in Europe to a China-Europe High-Level Political Party Forum. We also held a High-Level Dialog with both parties in the U.S.”

Source: www.china.com.cn, June 30, 2010
http://www.china.com.cn/news/2010-06/30/content_20389220.htm

A forum on expanding the Party’s propaganda in other countries was held jointly by the Party’s Propaganda Department and the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council.

At the forum, staff from several State owned companies spoke about their achievements and lessons learned when spreading propaganda overseas while doing business.

Staff from the China Ocean Shipping (Group) Corporation, China State Construction Engineering Corporation, China Nonferrous Metal Mining Group Co., Ltd., and Hisense Group Co., Ltd. shared their experiences.

Liu Yunshan, Politburo member and Minister of the Party’s Propaganda Department delivered a speech at the forum.

Source: Xinhua, June 23, 2010
http://big5.xinhuanet.com/gate/big5/news.xinhuanet.com/politics/2010-06/23/c_12253762.htm

Germany’s Federal Prosecutor’s office is investigating two high-ranking Chinese officials on allegations of espionage targeting Falun Gong practitioners, German news magazine Der Spiegel reported on June 26. One of the accused is said to hold the position of a Chinese vice-minister and serves as head of the “610 Office,” an extra-judicial arm of the Chinese Communist Party, which executes the Communist Party’s directive to fight the Falun Gong meditation movement worldwide. The Spiegel report mentioned the investigation could make Chancellor Angela Merkel’s upcoming China visit more difficult.

In December 2009, a diplomat of the Chinese Consulate in Munich was ordered to leave Germany after being found to have spied on the German Uighur community.

Source: The Central News Agency, June 27, 2010
http://www.cna.com.tw/SearchNews/doDetail.aspx?id=201006270171

Global Times, under Chinese state daily news Renmin, published an article calling for the establishment of a Security Alliance with surrounding countries. The author is a Japanese who is currently the deputy director of JCC New Japan Research Institute. The article claimed that the Nonalignment Movement was the result of the Cold War era, when smaller countries did not want to align with either the Soviet Union or the United States. Today, the author believes, the situation has changed significantly and the concept should change too. It was suggested in the article that China should introduce various types of “alignments” depending on the degree China wants to cooperate with different countries. It should be considered as an innovation in foreign policy.

Source: Global Times, June 8, 2010
http://mil.huanqiu.com/Exclusive/2010-06/850508.html

Global Times reported that, by June 10, more than 100,000 Chinese netizens had jointly attacked South Korean web sites and dozens of them were hacked. Meanwhile many QQ (China’s most popular instant messaging platform) groups and Baidu forums about South Korean pop stars were overloaded. The movement is called the “6-9 Jihad,” which was caused by the recent chaos that happened in Shanghai regarding a show by South Korean pop star group named Super Junior. Chinese hackers demonstrated their capabilities in this event. However, many netizens remained neutral and called for a rational attitude towards social events.

Source: Global Times, June 10, 2010
http://world.huanqiu.com/roll/2010-06/850947.html