According to Public Security Bureau, for the first time in history, 400 Secretaries of the Discipline Inspection Commission from the district Public Security Bureaus will take the centralized training class at the People’s Public Security University in Beijing.
Source: China Huanqui June 28, 2009
http://china.huanqiu.com/roll/2009-06/499357.html
Reports yet to be released by the Academy of Social Sciences suggest that 40 percent of small to mid size businesses were hit by the financial crisis and went bankrupt, while 40 percent of the remainins businesses are struggling for survival. Most of them lack the assets to secure business loans.
Small to Mid size businesses account for 99 percent of the total businesses in China, contributing 60 percent of the GDP and 50 percent of the national tax income. They provide over 75 percent of the job opportunities for local regions.
Source: Huan Qiu, June 28, 2009
http://china.huanqiu.com/roll/2009-06/499644.html
A number of rights lawyers in Beijing have been denied renewed law licenses during the annual license review conducted by the Beijing Lawyers Association. The rights lawyers stated that the charter of the Beijing Lawyers Association only provides for regular reviews, not annual reviews, and that if the Beijing Lawyers Association continues acting outside its charter, the rights lawyers will move for removal of its leadership. Staff from the Beijing Lawyers Association stated that the Beijing Bureau of Justice had authorized them to conduct annual reviews.
Source: Voice of America, June 17, 2009
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/w2009-06-17-voa42.cfm
Beijing News reported on June 17 that Beijing is taking several Internet control measures. All Web site owners, editors, and bloggers need to provide their real names when registering. By the end of this year, Beijing will establish a ten-thousand volunteer Internet patrol team to monitor websites. All websites with permits for publication of audio-visual programs through the Internet or other information networks will go through information review, publication management, recording, and retaining processes. The Beijing Public Security Department will develop Internet filtering software for computers at Internet Cafes, schools, and in the home.
Source: Beijing News, June 17, 2009
http://www.thebeijingnews.com/news/beijing/2009/06-17/008@021703.htm
Nanfang Weekends published several articles arguing that China should change its strategy of using nuclear weapons. It reported that China is surrounded by “Nuclear Superpowers” and “Nuclear Small Powers.” These countries have encircled China with a total of 22,500 nuclear war heads. China’s military strategic experts have a consensus on war tactics once a nuclear war starts, but there have been many debates over China’s overall nuclear weapons strategy. China’s current position, as stated in the 2008 China Defense White Book, is “limited retaliation.” But as other nuclear superpowers keep adjusting their nuclear war strategy, for example, both the U.S. and Russia’s strategies are “attack first” now, China should reassess its strategy.
Source: Nanfang Weekends, June 17, 2009
http://www.infzm.com/content/30216
http://www.infzm.com/content/30218
The International Herald, a newspaper under the Xinhua News Agency, published an article on June 22 stating that U.S. didn’t have much hope for a “Green Revolution” in Iran in the first place. “Was the U.S. tired of the games of changing ‘colors’ for other countries? Of course not. The U.S. has other reasons for not starting a ‘Green Revolution’ in Iran.”
First, “Washington has been fully retreating from the Middle East.” “Under the strategy of avoiding conflict and seeking peace, the U.S. would not rashly test the waters in Iran.” “Second, even if Obama wanted to change the color in Iran, he couldn’t make it happen” because “U.S. has no agents in Iran” and “of course, the empty wallet is another reason.” “Third, there is no reason for the U.S. to have confidence in Mousavi and his ‘reformists.’” “The last reason is a conspiracy theory. Actually the U.S. needs Ahmadinejad more than Mousavi … because the U.S. needs an enemy in the Middle East. Where can it find a ‘better’ enemy than Ahmadinejad?”
Source: International Herald, June 22, 2009
http://news.xinhuanet.com/herald/2009-06/22/content_11580320.htm
China will increase its classified information system’s security measures, said Xia Yong, head of the National Administration for the Protection of State Secrets (NAPSS), in order to deal with “the grim situation.” The classified information system will provide technical protection to information according to the level of confidentiality of top secret, secret and confidential. The system has set forth tight security rules that must be enforced in the classified information system.
Source: Xinhua, June 22, 2009
http://news.xinhuanet.com/politics/2009-06/22/content_11582833.htm
Over three thousands representatives of the national security forces met in Beijing on June 23, marking the launch of the security work for the 60th anniversary of China’s National Day on October 1, 2009. "Beijing Public Security is the main security force and has heavy responsibilities," said Wang Anshun, Director of Beijing Public Security Bureau. “We shall take security as our most important number 1 political task, the priority overrides everything else. We will do our utmost to prevent major political incidents, violent and terrorist incidents, and major mass incidents during the National Day period to ensure the absolute security of the National Day celebrations.”
June 23, 2009 was the 100-day countdown to the 60th anniversary of the the Communist regime’s takeover of China.
Source: China News, June 23, 2009 http://www.chinanews.com.cn/gn/news/2009/06-23/1746182.shtml