Security Checks on Foreign Staff in Beijing Increasing
China Briefing. Den allerwertesten chinesischen Autoritäten gehen anscheinend wieder die Muffen ...
"Such checks are likely to be ongoing and to intensify in the coming four week period, and may extend to other cities.
We recommend all foreign staff engaged in offices in Beijing have all compliant documentation ready."
Etwas OT:
Tone Language Is Key To Perfect Pitch
Science Daily.
"Deutsch and her colleagues found that students who spoke an East Asian tone language very fluently scored nearly 100 percent on the test, and that students who were only fairly fluent in a tone language scored lower overall. Those students – either Caucasian or East Asian – who were not at all fluent in speaking a tone language scored the worst on average."
China: Developed Countries Must Cut Emissions by 40%
WSJ. Aber, aber ... Mischt sich die VRC da etwa in die inneren Angelegenheiten anderer Länder?
"China has steadfastly resisted any mandatory quotas on carbon emissions – even though it is widely considered to have surpassed the U.S. as the world's top polluter.
But the change in the U.S. position is isolating China, which had argued that the U.S. should take steps before poorer nations, and raises the threat of a possible carbon tax on Chinese imports into the U.S. in order to appease U.S. manufacturers' complaints that Chinese goods could have an unfair advantage if not subjected to costly limits on greenhouse gasses."
China ex-censor claims key Tiananmen memoirs role
Reuters.
"Du has joined a small but bold undercurrent within China openly urging the government to renounce the 1989 crackdown, when hundreds of demonstrators and bystanders died as troops and tanks surged down Beijing streets on the night of June 3-4.
A group of Chinese intellectuals has disclosed it recently met on the capital's outskirts to urge an end to official silence about the bloodshed 20 years ago.
Their speeches are now circulating on some Chinese-language internet sites and through email."
Brazil, China Plan to Trade Without Dollars Is ‘Pure Idle Talk’
Bloomberg.
"Brazilian exporters don’t necessarily import from China and would incur additional costs to convert yuan revenues into dollars, said Franco, who helped craft the real currency plan that tamed hyperinflation in 1994.
The trade proposal also would have “lots of restrictions from market practices and regulations,” Nobrega said. “It is very hard to settle international transactions when a currency is not commonly used.”
Chinese and Brazilian leaders may be discussing the proposal because “in the absence of good ideas, you come up with ideas that are not important,” Franco said. "
Schocktherapie für Online-Junkies
SZ. Anscheinend wird nicht nur in chin. Gefängnissen gefoltert.
"Guo berichtet von den Erlebnissen des 17-jährigen Teng Fei. Seine Eltern lockten ihn unter einem Vorwand in das Krankenhaus in Linyi. Sie wollten ihm helfen. Der Teenager wurde zum "Gesundheitstest" in den Raum 13 geführt.
Dort wurde er dann solange mit schmerzhaften Stromstößen traktiert, bis er auf einem Formular seiner "freiwilligen Einweisung" zustimmte.
Wie der Reporter herausfand, werden die meisten der derzeit rund hundert Patienten gegen ihren Willen in der Klinik festgehalten. Innerhalb von zwei Stunden hätten die meisten in Raum 13 ihren Widerstand aufgegeben und das Formblatt unterschrieben. Teng Fei habe den Schmerz bereits nach einer halben Stunde nicht mehr ertragen, ist zu lesen."
Tiananmen tales from the dark side
Asia Times. Rezension des Buches
Tiananmen Moon von Philip J Cunningham.
"The book is not just a well-wrought story, though; it is a seamless blend of memoir and history; past and present; narrative and reflection; gemlike description and unadorned information. It tracks Cunningham's involvement with the student movement, beginning on May 3,1989, when he joins student demonstrators in a large march on Tiananmen Square."
Auszüge des Buches findet man auf der Webseite:
TIANANMEN MOON
Wer gerade in China ist, braucht dafür einen Proxy, Tor, o.ä.
& dann war da noch:
Wind farm 'kills Taiwanese goats'
BBC.
"A farmer on an outlying island told the BBC he had lost more than 400 animals after eight giant wind turbines were installed close to his grazing land."