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Liu Yunshan: Cultural System Reform Urgently Needed

On June 8, Liu Yunshan, first Secretary of the Central Secretariat of the Party, visited several cultural renovation bases in Beijing, including the Design Resource Cooperative, which hosts over 30 cultural entities, Zhongguancun Science Park, and the Beijing Gehua CATV Network Company. Liu praised the cultural renovation work that the the municipality of Beijing had accomplished and stressed that a new mission and requirements have been laid out for cultural entities. He also stated that the reform of the cultural system is urgently needed in order to accomplish the goal of the “China Dream” ideology that Xi Jinping raised.

Source: People’s Daily, June 9, 2013
http://politics.people.com.cn/n/2013/0609/c1024-21796196.html

Briefings | | June 10, 2013 | Government/Politics

Qiushi Theory Commentary: MultiûParty System Will Not Fix Corruption Issues

Qiushi Theory recently published a commentary intended to counter the opinions that “China’s one party rule is the root cause of the corruption problem” and that “Only a multi-party system can make clean governance a possibility.” The commentary stated that these opinions lack the support of historical evidence and theory. It listed a number of arguments and examples to support this claim. One was that the role of the party system represents the interests of various political groups and the system itself does not contain the ability to curb corruption. A multi-party system will not prevent corruption and the corruption in that system could be worse at times. Corruption exists in countries that have a multi-party system, while, at the same time, a country with one party rule can also bring clean governance. the commentary held that China’s system of one party rule offers the best advantage to solve the corruption issues.

Source: Qiushi Theory, June 8, 2013
http://www.qstheory.cn/dj/ffcl/201306/t20130608_238501.htm

Briefings | | June 10, 2013 | Government/Politics

The Outcome When Britain, France, and Germany Anger China

[Editor’s Note: The People’s Republic of China (PRC) often chooses economic retribution as a means to control other country’s actions. An article written for a blog published on the website of People’s Daily demonstrates the essence of the Chinese regime’s attitude and tactics. It reveals the PRC’s hard reality more openly than in its mainstream publications. A translation of the article follows.] [1]

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Reports | | June 9, 2013 | Report

Ghana Detains over a Hundred Chinese Citizens for Illegal Gold Mining Operation

Recently, the Government of Ghana carried out a large-scale action against illegal gold mining. As of June 5, Ghana had arrested 124 Chinese citizens suspected of illegal gold mining. Officials from Shanglin County of the Guangxi Autonomous Region said that the vast majority of the 124 people detained in Ghana are from Shanglin.

The people of Shanglin have a history of mining gold. Since 2006, many people from Shanglin have steadily gone to Ghana to engage in gold mining activities. According to incomplete official statistics, so far, the number of people who have gone to Ghana for gold mining is estimated at 12,000. [1]

Why did the Police in Ghana implement such a large scale arrest? Guangxi Shanglin County Propaganda Department chief Li Daoyong said that some clashes among the gold miners in Ghana could have been the trigger. In particular, since April of this year, there have been incidents in which Guangxi gold miners in Ghana killed fellow miners and shot and killed locals, causing discontent among the masses and problems with local security issues.[2]

Sources: China Security Times and People’s Daily, June 6, 2013

[1] http://kuaixun.stcn.com/2013/0606/10526531.shtml

[2] http://world.people.com.cn/n/2013/0606/c157278-21754499.html

Briefings | | June 7, 2013 | Geo-Strategic Trend

Communist Retirees Hired to Monitor Internet Postings

Beijing Daily reported that 50 retired senior Communist Party cadres have been hired to monitor the Internet as part of the Party’s Internet censorship. They are the first group of retired senior cadres to take on this task.

According to the Beijing municipal Party organization department, “Internet information is constantly changing. [Retired] senior comrades have valuable, rich life experience and work experience. These newly hired monitors will be able to use their strengths. After understanding the Internet information environment, they will be able to spot problems promptly, speak up, and publish articles. They will spread positive energy, resist rumors and bad postings, and make contributions that will help purify cyberspace."

“The retired senior cadre monitors can use their own accounts and passwords to join the blogs and chat rooms and may report on bad postings at any time.”

Source: Beijing Daily reprinted by the Chinese Communist Party website, June 6, 2013 http://renshi.people.com.cn/n/2013/0606/c139617-21759335.html

Briefings | | June 7, 2013 | Information/Technology

People’s Daily: China’s Talent Loss Tops the World

After a screening of 1,907 of the world’s top technologically innovative, talented people in six fields, including biological and biochemistry, computers, physics, agriculture, mathematics, and chemistry, the Chinese Academy of Sciences found that China has the leading edge in physics, mathematics and computer science. However, the number of China’s most talented who have been lost tops the world. An average of 87 percent of those in the science and engineering fields have chosen to stay overseas. An official from the Central Talent Work Coordination Group Office pointed to several problems that China has: a shortage of high-level, innovative, creative talent; a lack of innovation capabilities, and a mismatch between the demand for and the supply of talent.

In this current "war for talent," many developed countries are using immigration reform to attract or retain talented people. In recent years, nearly a million overseas Chinese students have chosen to return to China under the "thousands of people plan," including over twenty thousand with high-level talent.

Source: Xinhua, June 6, 2013
http://news.xinhuanet.com/2013-06/06/c_124820431.htm

Briefings | | June 6, 2013 | Economy/Resources

People’s Daily-: The U.S. Forced China to Become a Powerful AWACS Country

People’s Daily reported that pictures of two domestic AWACS (early warning aircraft), the export-oriented ZDK-03 (also known as the "Kunlun Hawk") and a new medium-sized AWACS, were widely exposed on the Internet. The report boasted that China’s AWACS came into being because the U.S. blockage forced China to create it. It will be able to overcome the F-22 stealth fighter jet.

The report said, “The ZDK-03 has been exported to Pakistan, making China the fifth country after the United States, Russia, Israel, and Sweden to export the AWACS system.

“Over the past year, as part of the ‘Liaoning’ aircraft carrier’s supporting projects, the Chinese navy also produced domestic ship-borne early warning helicopters and JZY-1 fixed-wing carrier early warning aircraft. In addition, the air marshals -2000 and -200 flew over Tiananmen Square in the 60th national anniversary military parade, China has developed six AWACS over the last 10 years. Moreover, they are equipped with the world’s most advanced airborne active phased array radar.”

The report stated, “Originally due to the American technology blockade, we were forced to engage in research on the early-warning aircraft on our own. Therefore, [China’s AWACS] are also called China’s contemporary ‘credit-building machine.’"

Source: People’s Daily, June 5, 2013

http://military.people.com.cn/n/2013/0605/c1011-21740027.html

Briefings | | June 6, 2013 | Defense/Military

Qiushi: The “China Dream” and the Open Door Reform

Qiushi published an article written by Li Junru, the former Vice President of the Party School of The Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The article dealt with the relationship between Xi Jinping’s China Dream and the open door reform. “Considering the great cause of China’s open door reform, turning the ‘China Dream’ into a reality is the great objective of deepening that open door reform; the deepening of the open door reform is the powerful driving force to achieve the ‘China Dream.’”

“If we look at the period from the Opium War in 1840 to the year 2050, as we basically achieve modernization, the road to realizing China’s dream is a period of over 200 years.” The first one-hundred year period, according to the article, was to realize the dream of “national independence and the liberation of the people” through the Party leading a people’s revolution. The second one-hundred year period is to realize the dream of “national prosperity, and all people getting rich.” This part depends on the the Party’s leadership of the open door reform.

Source: Qiushi, May 27, 2013
http://www.qstheory.cn/wh/whzl/201305/t20130527_234129.htm

Briefings | | June 6, 2013 | Government/Politics

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.