Chinascope – Page 1136

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 | | August 3, 2010 | 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 | | August 3, 2010 | 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 | | August 2, 2010 | 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 | | August 2, 2010 | 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 | | August 2, 2010 | US-China Relations

Social Management in Shandong Province

[Editor’s Note: In an article appearing in Qiushi journal, the core publication of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, the Head of the Public Security Division of Shangdong provincial government discussed the practices used in exercising social control. The following is a translation of excerpts from the article.] [1]

Continue reading →

Reports | | July 31, 2010 | Report

SARFT: Not Allowed to Have a Radio, Film, or Television Festival without a Permit

On July 26, the State Administration of Radio Film and Television re-issued a directive that any institution that does not have a Radio and TV Program Production License should not participate in any radio, film, or television festival.

The notice demanded that all organizers of radio, film, or television festivals rigorously review the qualifications of the participants and bar any unqualified ones from participating.

Source: Xinhua, July 26, 2010

http://news.xinhuanet.com/2010-07/26/c_12374931.htm

Briefings | | July 30, 2010 | Information/Technology

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 | | July 30, 2010 | Information/Technology

Wu Guoguang: Xi Jinping’s Reversal of the Course, Will China’s Transition be Peaceful or Marked with Bloodshed?

Cheng Xiaonong: U.S.-China Strategic Relations Have Crystallized

Xinhua Commentaries: “Exposing the Three Major Political Deficits of the U.S.”

The CCP’s Performing Arts Troupes in the U.S.