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Shaolin Monks Organized to Study Key Messages from the Party Conference

On Shaolin Temple’s web page, there were two pictures posted and subtitled: “Shaolin Monks Study and Exercise the Key Messages from the Party Conference” [1]. In an interview with Xiang Li, television hostess from Hunan Television, Shi Yongxing, headmaster of Shaolin Temple told Li: “After I returned from the National People’s Congress held in Beijing, I have the responsibility to share the updates with the monks so that they are aware of the achievements made by the party in the past 5 years”. Shi denied to be called as a “Political Monk” and claimed that his action is to safeguard the rights of Buddhism and make contribution to the country. “Monks also need to pay attention to politics,” he said, “Shaolin Temple is well known around the world and the credit should go to the government’s open reform policy.

Source:
Jin Bao Net, April 4, 2008
http://www.jinbw.com.cn/jinbw/xwzx/zzsx/20080404294.htm
[1] Pictures of Shaolin Monks studying key messages from the Party Conference
http://2008.chinashaolin.org/show.asp?id=844

Briefings | | |   Government/Politics

Stock Market: Down 50% in Six Months

On Tuesday, both Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges ran landslide slumps. SSE (Shanghai Stock Exchange) Composite dropped 143.55 to near 3300, while the SSE (Shenzhen Stock Exchange) Component Index fall 841.52. More than 600 stocks ended limit-down. According to a report issued by Guotai Junan Securities, the leading security firm in China, it only took six months for the SSE Composite to dive from the peak of 6124 last October to 3308 this week, 50% shrinkage of the market value. The drop is not only historical in China, but very rare around the world. Previously, SSE Composite had a 40% downward swing from 2245 in June 2001 to 1350 in November, another 40% plunge from 1740 to 998 in 2004.

Source: Information Times, April 2, 2008
http://informationtimes.dayoo.com/html/2008-04/02/content_153174.htm

Briefings | | |   Economy/Resources

Senior official Warns Overheating Economy and Comprehensive Inflation

In the most recent issue of Qiushi journal, the core publication of Central Committee of Chinese Communist Party, a senior official authored an article on the risk of an “overheating economy” and “comprehensive inflation.” Xie Fuzhan, the chief of State Statistics Bureau, pointed out that China need to focus on quality and curb the “impulse of expanding investment projects.” The article suggested strengthened macroeconomic control, strict housing regulation, and tight monetary policy. To ease the expectation of price rises, Xie proposed to increase the supply for basic necessities.

Source: Xinhua, April 2, 2008
http://news.xinhuanet.com/fortune/2008-04/02/content_7906294.htm

Briefings | | |   Economy/Resources

Xinhua Claims Tibetans Collaborate via Internet and Voice of America

In a comprehensive report about the March Tibetan protests on April 1, Xinhua stated that Chinese police investigations discovered that the Internet has become a most important communication channel. “In addition, the Dalai Dama Clique collaborated with ‘Tibet independence’ elements inside China via a new channel: they first contact each other through communication tools and Internet, set up a time to tune into the Tibetan language channel of Voice of America for coded instructions from overseas and reports in-China progress and trends.”

Source: Xinhua, April 1, 2008
http://news.xinhuanet.com/newscenter/2008-04/01/content_7900919.htm

Briefings | | |   US-China Relations

Xinhua: the U.S. Delivery of Ballistic Missile to Taiwan is Not Simply an Error

There is a lot more to the U.S. mistaken delivery to Taiwan of electricxla fuses for an intercontinental ballistic missile, Xinhua commented on April 2, 2008. In response to the U.S. Pentagon’s explanations of the error, Xinhua commentary questioned: One, was the shipment old equipment or new nuclear weapon? Two, was the delivery the defensive arms export or nuclear proliferation? Three, was it the result of mismanagement or intentional act? Four, is Taiwan trying to re-activate its nuclear weaponry program?

Source: Xinhua, April 2, 2008
http://news.xinhuanet.com/herald/2008-04/02/content_7903038.htm

Briefings | | |   Defense/Military

Media in China Shall Never Publish Opinions Contrary to the Party

Qiushi, the Communist Party journal, issued an article as part of a series of commentaries regarding Hu Jintao’s speech on Party propaganda. The article states that media must primarily provide positive publicity, shall never publish any opinion contrary to the spirit of the Party’s viewpoints, and shall never provide channels for spreading “noises.”

Source: Qiushi, April 1, 2008
http://www.qsjournal.com.cn/qs/20080401/GB/qs%5E476%5E0%5E10.htm

Briefings | | |   Government/Politics

Tibet: Police Claimed to Have Discovered Weapons in Monasteries

According to the statement released by the Public Security Bureau, police have “discovered” large quantity of weapons in some Tibet monasteries. Among the discovered were 178 rifles, 13,013 ammunition rounds, 259 knives, 3,504 kg dynamite, 19,360 detonators, and 2 grenades. These are “sufficient proofs” that the “riot of 3/14” in Lasha was organized by Dalai Clique, according to the statement. In addition, a few “key suspects” with close ties to the oversea Dalai Clique have also been arrested.

Source: Xinhua April 2, 2008
http://news.xinhuanet.com/newscenter/2008-04/02/content_7900936.htm

Briefings | | |   Government/Politics

Comments from Internet Users in China about the Tibet Incident

On March 18th, when “Xi Zang” (Tibet) was typed in  Google’s search engine, other than  Beijing’s official medias, there were not any other reports about the Tibet Incidence (note: this research was done in China, behind the Internet blocks the communist government has imposed).

However, on an overseas Chinese website – Boxun.com, there was an article titled "Comments from Internet Users in China about the ”Tibet Incidence.”  It was a collection of comments from Chinese forums about the Tibet Incidence before the news blockage occurred. These short sentences posted on the Internet reveals the sentiments of those Chinese users about the Tibetan people. They have been, roughly, grouped into 4 groups: sympathetic (S), neutral (N), indifferent (I), and hatred (H).

It is alarming that most of the Internet postings showed indifference, neutrality or even hatred towards Tibetan protesters. As a result of decades of government propaganda in furtherance of its political agenda, there lacks mutual understanding and sympathy between the Han majority and other minority groups.

Below is a translation to this article: [1]

Comments from Internet users in Mainland China on the Tibet protests (found cached before being blocked).

User:” Look at the recent “attempted bomb attack” that was successfully aborted in Xinjiang, as well as the “gasoline incident” on an airplane. It was reported earlier that the gasoline was not to be lighted until the airplane got close to Beijing.” (N)

User: “The enemies have very little time left and they are getting crazy.” (H)

User: “There have been Tibetan riots in the capital of Tibet these days, which had caused an increasing number of deaths.” (N)

User: “An Australian Reporter reported that the number of deaths are still rising.”(N)

User: “In the past several days there have been several Tibetans rebellious incidences in Tibet’s capital, they are drawing a lot of attention from the outside. The picture below shows a group of Tibetan protesters burning a Chinese national flag.” (N)

Below are historical records (also cached) from an Internet forum in China before they were removed.
{mospagebreak}
2008-03-1602:00:50
”Only 80 people died. Just a minor tragedy, not a big deal.”(H)

2008-03-1622:05:41
”It turned out that Tibetans’ lives are so cheap!” (S)

2008-03-1710:15:06
”Not sure how it is going over there. I’m from Shanxi.” (N)

2008-03-1809:54:35
“If you want to know more details, you can go onto international news pages." (N)

2008-03-1615:58:41
“Kill this trash.” (H)
Comment in reply to: “Only 80 people died. Just a minor tragedy, not a big deal.”

2008-03-1811:52:30
”Non-humans can speak after all.” (S)

2008-03-1811:53:54
”I am really looking forward to the fourth, fifth and sixth atomic bombs on Japan’s territories. It must be really cool." (H)

2008-03-1814:19:50
"For those “people” who want to die, just “rise up." (H)

2008-03-1814:25:40
“Eliminate them.” (H)

2008-03-1814:47:43
"Resolutely wipe out all reactionary forces!” (H)

2008-03-1814:51:48
“What can I say?” (I)

2008-03-1814:54:48
“Everything has a cause.” (S)
{mospagebreak}
2008-03-1814:56:45
“We cannot give up even an inch of the properties our ancestors left us.” (I)
Comment in reply to:” Only 80 people died. Just a little massacre, not a big deal.”

2008-03-1814:56:48
"Human trash, talking like this!!!!” (S)

2008-03-1815:00:14
“Only Chinese say things like this.” (S)
Comment in reply to:” Only 80 people died. Just a little massacre, not a big deal.”

2008-03-1815:11:40
“Who the hell are you? What kind of crap are you saying!!!!!!!” (S)

2008-03-1815:15:36
“How beautiful it would be if there are five or six atomic bombs explode simultaneously right above Japan!!!!” (H)

2008-03-1815:17:46
"Tragedy. Chinese people’s tragedy. Tao brother (referring to the president of China-Hu Jintao), you are leaving us with zero hope. I don’t want to say anything anymore. Brothers and sisters, let’s just focus on working and making money.” (S)

2008-03-1815:21:58
 ‘Even if they become independent, can they survive?” (I)

2008-03-1815:37:09
“Any reactionary forces and violent forces must be punished harshly and we must be determined to destroy them. " (H)

2008-03-1815:40:58
“We should assign someone good to go and kill Dalai. That would resolve all the problems.” (H)

2008-03-1815:41:47
“We should use forces to finish up Dalai as early as possible.” (H)

2008-03-1815:45:24
“Kill. It would give us 50 years of stability.” (H)
{mospagebreak}
2008-03-1815:51:02
"Those who are calling for independence, we must shoot them like birds. Whenever one comes out, kill him first. No matter how crazy they get, there will not be the second Mongolia. Go as crazy as you want, but wherever you are, you are always the ones to be ruled.” (H)

2008-03-1815:58:49
“Carry out proletariat dictatorship over those anti-revolutionaries who commit grave crimes.” (H)

2008-03-1815:59:43
"This incidence has a deep background and profound causes. The Dalai’s group carefully planned and organized it. The important thing to realize is that they have used the shortcomings and underdevelopment of our nation’s political system. From now on we must persistently enhance and improve it, so that others will not take advantage of it.” (H)
Comment in reply to:” Only 80 people died. Just a minor tragedy, not a big deal.”

2008-03-1816:01:
“Are you Chinese or Japanese?” (S)

Below are error messages after clicking the“3.14 Tibet Incidence” search results in several Chinese search engines

Web page of the“3.14 Tibet Incidence”:
Error: The page you are trying to visit probably does not exist or has encountered other problems or errors. Please visit other pages or visit the Spacewomen homepage.

Web page of the“3.14 Tibet Incidence”:
Please do not publish any other articles about Tibet Incidence.

Web page of the“3.14 Tibet Incidence”:
The article you are looking for is from bbs. Kaoyan.com. We will delete it and other relevant ones shortly. We ask for your cooperation. Thanks.

Video Web page of the” Tibet Incidence”: Sina.com Blog – the video has been deleted.

Endnotes:
[1] Boxun News, March 18th, 2008
http://news.boxun.com/news/gb/china/2008/03/200803181955.shtml

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