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Xinhua Commentary Series: Spotlight on the U.S. Presidential Election

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

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

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

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Chinese Major General: the U.S. Is the Biggest Threat to China’s Security

Xinhua republished an article from Defense Times, quoting Yang Yi, a Major General at the National Defense University. He stated that the U.S. is the only country in the world that presents a full-scale threat to China. Yang made this statement at the “Chinese Military” conference on April 22, during an exchange with a U.S. official (whose name was not disclosed) on the issues of Taiwan, infractions between the U.S. and Chinese military, and the hacker attacks. Yang expressed great concern over U.S. navy’s exercise in the South China Sea. Yang also stated that the importance of the Taiwan issue is decreasing in the Sino-U.S. relationship. He believes that China and Taiwan are getting closer and closer. The weapons that the U.S. sold to Taiwan will eventually all belong to China after the two sides unite.

Source: Xinhua, June 1, 2010
http://news.xinhuanet.com/mil/2010-06/01/content_13602046.htm

Briefings | | |   US-China Relations

Strategic Studies of International Promotion of the Chinese Language

[Editor’s Note: The Institute for the Promotion of Chinese Language and Culture (IPCLC, http://www.hantui.org) was established in November 2006 under Renmin University of China. It is one of many research centers set up by Hanban, or the Office of the Chinese Language Council International, an inter-governmental agency leading the regime’s international promotion of the Chinese language. The director of IPCLC, Ji Baocheng, is also the President of Renmin University of China. In August 2008, IPCLC issued a “Strategic Research Report on the International Promotion of the Chinese Language,” detailing the strategic considerations behind the promotion of the Chinese language and plans to carry out its goals.[1] Following are excerpts from the release on IPCLC’s website.]

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Reports | | |   Report

CRN: U.S. Has Started an Agricultural Products War against China

China Review News (CRN) recently published an article discussing U.S. agro-based products invading Chinese markets en masse. In fact, China is the largest market for U.S. produce, amounting $10.6 billion for the first half of 2010. China now buys more than half of the total U.S. soybean export volume. U.S. soybean companies control 40% of the Chinese soybean processing capabilities and 90% of the imports. Chinese external dependency on vegetable oil has risen to 60%. After the soybean monopoly, U.S. corn is attacking China too – the Chinese import of U.S. corn has been growing rapidly since last year. The article called for 100% or 101% food self-sufficiency as a “strategic weapon.” The author quoted Henry Kissinger in its conclusion, “If you control oil, then you control all nations; if you control food, then you control everyone.”

Source: China Review News, June 3, 2010
http://gb.chinareviewnews.com/doc/1013/4/1/8/101341854.html?coluid=148&kindid=0&docid=101341854&mdate=0603000947

Briefings | | |   Economy/Resources

China Business Times: Local Debts Rise to 7 Trillion from 4 Trillion

Xinhua republished a report by China Business Times on worries about the rapid increase in local debts. The report referred to government sources on the fact that local debts have risen from RMB 4 trillion to 7 trillion in only a few months. The State Council met on May 26 to arrange regulations on local financing platforms and debts. Experts believe that the actual amount of local debts is very hard to find out. Local governments utilize various platforms to borrow money that are not included in the official budget. The transparency of these loans is typically poor. One of the causes of this situation is the irrational distribution of funds between the central government and local governments. Current Chinese law prohibits local governments from issuing bonds.

Source: Xinhua, June 3, 2010
http://news.xinhuanet.com/2010-06/03/c_12174046_2.htm

Briefings | | |   Economy/Resources

Xinhua: Construction Started for China-Myanmar Oil and Gas Pipeline

Global Times, under Chinese state daily news Renmin, republished a report by Xinhua that China National Petroleum Corporation recently signed an agreement with Myanmar Oil and Gas Company to be the controlling shareholder in a joint venture to construct an Oil and Gas Pipeline. The Gas Pipeline is 793 kilometers long in Myanmar while the Oil Pipeline is 771 kilometers in Myanmar. Both start from Kyaukpyu City of Myanmar and enter China via Ruili City of Yunnan Province. The design capacity of the Oil Pipeline and Gas Pipeline are 22 million tons per year and 12 billion cubic meters per year, respectively. On other fronts, the China-Russia Oil Pipeline will start production by the end of this year, and the China-Kazakhstan Oil and Gas Pipeline has been operational since last year.

Source: Global Times, June 4, 2010
http://china.huanqiu.com/roll/2010-06/843160.html

Briefings | | |   Geo-Strategic Trend

Du Guang: Many Cases of Injustice Caused by “the Superiority of the Party above the Law”

On June 3, 2010, www.21ccom.net reprinted an article from http://www.taosl.net/ called, “Many Cases of Injustice Caused by ‘The Superiority of the Party above the Law’" by Du Guang.

According to the article, torture and forced confessions provided the basis for the wrongful imprisonment of Zhao Zuohai [1], but they are not the major reason of the miscarriage of justice. Guangzhou Daily reported on May 16 that the prosecutor found a lot of suspicious points and was reluctant to prosecute Zhao in 1999. In 2002, the Shangqiu City CPC Central Committee Political and Law Commission decided to "prosecute Zhao within 20 days." The prosecutor did not dare to defy the Party Committee’s decision and had to submit the case to the court, which also found problems and thus only sentenced Zhao to “death with reprieve”.

[1.] Editor Note: Zhao Zuohai was tortured and imprisoned for 11 years for a murder he did not commit. Earlier this year the alleged "victim" turned up alive.

Source: www.21ccom.net, June 3, 2010
http://new.21ccom.net/articles/sxpl/pl/article_2010060310729.html

Briefings | | |   Social Stability

China Review News: 100 million Chinese people are reported as “mental illness patients”

On May 30, 2010, www.ChinaReviewNews.com reported that more than 100 million Chinese people have various forms of mental illnesses, according data provided by China’s Health Center for Disease Prevention and Control; 16 million of them have serious mental diseases (Global Times, May 29).

“From the reports in recent years, we know that some petitioners and some families who refused to move out of their houses when facing the forced evictions, were jailed. Many people are worried that some organizations may use such a big proportion of data on mentally ill patients as an excuse to ‘arrest more people’ more freely.”

Source: www.ChinaReviewNews.com, May 25, 2010
http://gb.chinareviewnews.com/doc/1013/3/8/7/101338749.html?coluid=5&kindid=24&docid=101338749&mdate=0530160358

Briefings | | |   Social Stability

21ccom.net: Chinese Suicide vs. Chinese Model

On May 25, 2010, www.21ccom.net published an article titled “Chinese Suicide vs. Chinese Model “ by Lu Nanluojia, one of the chief editors of 21ccom.net. Lu Nanluojia pointed out that the repeated Foxconn Group’s employee suicides reflect the cruelty and the social costs of “Made in China.” Among large countries, China has become a country with high suicide rates.

"While some scholars boost the superiority of the ‘Chinese Model,’ have they ever thought that suicides also exist as the other ‘Chinese Model?’ Have they realized the negative effects of the ‘Chinese Model’ on social morality and the human heart?”

“The suicide problems in China may symbolize a broken and defeated society. The solution is to reform so as to improve the degree of integration into the social structure, in addition to precautions at the individual psychological level.”

Source: www.21ccom.net, May 25, 2010
http://new.21ccom.net/articles/ztyj/hot/spec_2010052510146.html

Briefings | | |   Social Stability