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China’s Minister of Public Security Urges the Armed Police to Follow the CCP’s Commands

According to People’s Daily on January 7, 2011, the chief of China’s police, Meng Jianzhu, urged the country’s armed police to “unswervingly uphold the Party’s absolute leadership and ensure that most police officials and policemen will, at critical moments, resolutely follow the commands of the CCP Central Committee, the State Council, the CCP Central Military Commission, and Chairman Hu Jintao.”

Meng Jianzhu, China’s Minister of Public Security and the highest level political commissar in China’s Armed Police Force, made the remark on January 7, 2011, at a plenary meeting of the CCP Committee of the Armed Police Forces. He called on the armed police to “greet the 90th anniversary of the CCP’s birthday with excellent performances in dealing with emergent security incidents. …”

Source: People’s Daily, January 7, 2011
http://politics.people.com.cn/GB/1027/13680011.html

Over the Next Five Years, China Will Replace Stand-Alone Internet CafÚs with Chains of CafÚs

A conference about standardizing the administration of Internet cafés was held in Hefei (in Anhui Province) on January 11, 2011. The Vice Minister of Culture, Ou Yangjian, said that Internet cafes have become an important part of the culture industry. Over the next five years, (China) will strongly promote connecting the Internet cafes into chains and gradually phase out the use of stand-alone Internet cafés. Ou said that, as of the end of 2009, there were 138,000 registered Internet cafes, which had 13,160,000 computer terminals and 135 million Internet users (35 percent of all Internet users).

Source: China News Agency, January 11, 2011
http://www.chinanews.com/it/2011/01-12/2781544.shtml

China’s Should Be the World’s Main Voice on the Issues of Philosophy and Social Science

Qiushi Journal, a publication of the Chinese Communist Party, published an article by Zhang Xiping, Director of the Overseas Chinese Center of Beijing Foreign Language University. Zhang discussed how to have academic studies of China’s humanities and social sciences "go global." Zhang said, “Today the world’s media are still controlled by Westerners. If we do not actively spread our culture, we will never have an opportunity to demonstrate our development, culture, and ideology.” Zhang explained that “language education is the foundation, cultural exchange is the avenue, media communication is the means, and philosophy and social science are the nucleus. This is how the world’s dominant countries have spread their culture and ideology. … Once the results of China’s research in humanities and the social sciences start to influence the world, the level of China’s soft power will elevate, … and it will help China’s strategic development.”

The article also mentions The Dynamic Database for Overseas Dissemination of Chinese Culture, granted by the National Philosophy and Social Science Planning Leading Group and established as a special project of the National Social Science Foundation. It has four components: the study of the strategy of "going global," China’s national image in international media, overseas China studies, and “China as a part of the world’s ideology and culture.”

Source: Qiushi Journal, January 6, 2011
http://www.qsjournal.com.cn/wz/jiangt/201101/t20110106_61366.htm

CASS: China Faces Four Threats on Its Periphery

On January 12, 2011, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) published an Asian Pacific Blue Book. The book pointed out that, with respect to security, in 2010, China’s relations with its neighboring countries deteriorated. China faces the following four big threats. First, the mutual political trust between China and its neighboring countries has weakened due to the United States’ return to Asia. Second, the tension between South and North Korea has increased. Third, conflicts on the sea have intensified. Fourth, water issues have affected China’s non-conventional security. Chinese experts believe that China is unlikely to have the same stable environment for development that it saw in the first decade of this century. In the long period of time over the coming years, the peripheral environment will be in a state of flux.

Source: China Review News, January 13, 2011
http://gb.chinareviewnews.com/doc/1015/6/8/5/101568505.html?coluid=45&kindid=0&docid=101568505&mdate=0113085205

Party Propaganda: Tighten Control of the Media in 2011

Shortly after a national conference of the Party’s propaganda chiefs adjourned, a guideline for news reporting in 2011 was passed down through the chain of command. According to the guideline, news reporting should lead public opinion; among other things, it should “eliminate doubt and confusion, and resolve conflicts.” Only central government level media are allowed to report on major disasters and incidents. Reporters outside the region of the disaster or incident may not file reports. The media cannot challenge the relocation of residents. Nor can the media report on suicides, self-mutilation, or massive social unrest in connection with the relocations. “We must strengthen the control of metropolitan media and make sure that the reports do not direct public attention toward Party committees or the government.”

Source: Baidu, January 12, 2011
http://tieba.baidu.com/f?kz=975372820

Xinjiang Party Leader: Resolutely Suppress Terrorist Activities

Zhang Chunxian, Party Secretary for the Xinjiang Military District, stated that military forces stationed in Xinjiang must resolutely suppress terrorist activities. Zhang made the remark at the end of a two-day conference of the Xinjiang Party Committee. “All Party members and military servicemen must fully understand the complexity of the Xinjiang stability issue and must act in concert with the directives and decisions of the Party. … They must be in total control of safeguarding stability. They must improve emergency response systems. … They must resolutely suppress terrorist activities.”

Source: People’s Daily, January 12, 2011
http://politics.people.com.cn/GB/14562/13714082.html

Hu Jintao Calls for Strict Enforcement of Political Discipline

Communist Party Secretary General Hu Jintao spoke about priorities at a conference of the Chinese Communist Party’s Central Commission for Discipline Inspection. The priorities include strengthening the monitoring and inspection of how the Party’s major decisions are implemented. “We must strictly enforce the Party’s political discipline, resolutely safeguard the Party’s focus on unity, and unswervingly walk the path of socialism with Chinese characteristics.” He also called for re-enforcing mechanisms to penalize and prevent corruption.

Source: Xinhua, January 10, 2011
http://news.xinhuanet.com/2011-01/10/c_12965490.htm

Chinese Government Scholar: The U.S. Is Using Universal Values to Intimidate China

Yu Wanli, an Associate Professor of International Strategy Studies at Beijing University, wrote an article on possible changes in the U.S. policy toward China. As the Chinese government funds China’s universities, Yu’s view reflects the Chinese government position. In his article, Yu discussed how the U.S. is likely to stress universal values to both the Chinese people and the global community in order to intimidate China.                

 

Yu said that the U.S. will not stop its efforts to intimidate China on China’s core interests, including arms sales to Taiwan, the Dalai Lama, and Xinjiang.“ (It will) continue using the issues of democracy, human rights, and freedom of speech to deepen its influence over the Chinese people.” Furthermore, globally, “it is more and more clear that the U.S. is intimidating China through its allies, the multi-party system, and the system of universal values.”


Source: China Review News, January 10, 2011
http://gb.chinareviewnews.com/doc/1015/6/4/8/101564866.html?coluid=148&kindid=0&docid=101564866&mdate=0110005159