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Beijing Strip Clubs: Friend: Police note blind activist’s escape legal
BEIJING — A friend of blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng says police have acknowledged to him that Chen did not break any laws by escaping from house arrest and apparently entering the U.S. Embassy.
Beijing activist Hu Jia said Tuesday that two police officers who questioned him for 24 hours over the weekend noted that Chen, as well as two friends who helped him flee his guarded farmhouse in eastern China more than a week ago, did not act illegally.
Hu cites police as saying the three individuals are free citizens who are not facing any legal trouble for Chen’s escape.
The police acknowledgment is an indication that Chen’s troubles with the authorities have primarily been about revenge by local leaders who were angered by his exposing of forced abortions.
See the full article from “WRAL.com”
Beijing Strip Clubs: KEYC – Mankato News, Weather, Sports -Trade, public anger sharpening Beijing …
Trade, public anger sharpening Beijing-Manila spat
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Beijing is suspending some tourism to the Philippines and stiffening inspections on Philippine fruit such as bananas, of which China is the single largest buyer. That follows Beijing’s summoning of Manila’s charge d’affairs three times, while retired and serving military officers have called for a limited military operation to shore up China’s credibility on the matter – a potentially explosive move that could trigger the 1951 U.S.-Philippine Mutual Defense Treaty.
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The latest confrontation began April 10 when the Philippine navy accused Chinese boats of fishing illegally around Scarborough Shoal, which Manila claims as part of its exclusive economic zone, but which Beijing insists has been Chinese for centuries.
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Beijing’s moves on tourism and fruit imports are a variation of unacknowledged economic pressure employed in past international disputes.
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Beijing Strip Clubs: Invisible man dominates US-China talks
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The blind Chinese lawyer at the center of a diplomatic storm between Washington and Beijing is a mostly taboo topic in each capital. Neither side wants the biggest human-rights issue between the two since Tiananmen Square to disrupt high-level strategic and economic talks set to begin on Thursday.
The two governments have signaled that the global economy, North Korea, Iran and Sudan — issues in which millions of lives are at stake — have become far more important in U.S.-Chinese relations. Thus, both refuse to admit anything is amiss as a high-profile dissident, Chen Guangcheng (chen gwahng-chung), is believed to be sheltering with U.S. diplomats in China.
Despite the silence, the handling of his case will have profound ramifications on both sides of the Pacific.
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Beijing Strip Clubs: Romney says Chinese activist should be protected
WASHINGTON — Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney says the U.S. should do everything it can to protect a Chinese activist who escaped house arrest and was reported to be hiding in the U.S. embassy in Beijing.
In a statement released Sunday, Romney said the incident involving Chen Guangcheng points toward the broader issue of human rights and that the U.S. should help to reform the communist regime. Chen exposed forced abortions and sterilizations as a result of China’s one-child policy.
“Any serious U.S. policy toward China,” said Romney, “must confront the facts of the Chinese government’s denial of political liberties, its one-child policy and other violations of human rights.”
President Barack Obama has not spoken publicly on the incident, which comes on the eve of diplomatic talks with Beijing.
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Beijing Strip Clubs: Senior Republican urges US-China investment treaty
WASHINGTON (AP) – A top Republican lawmaker is calling on the Obama administration to pursue an investment treaty with China and press Beijing on its currency policy at talks next week.
Rep. Dave Camp, chair of a congressional panel that oversees revenue and trade policy, said Thursday that China needs to open up its markets more to the U.S. and end trade-distorting policies. He voiced concern that countries such as Brazil, India and Argentina were emulating some of China’s trade practices.
Camp notes encouraging signs as China looks to rebalance its economy away from export-led growth. But he said the U.S. should continue to press Beijing to let market forces determine its currency value.
He said next week’s U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue in Beijing provides an opportunity to do that.
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Beijing Strip Clubs: Sum of China’s economic parts exceeds the whole in 2012 forecast
BEIJING: Global investors worried about a cut to China’s official economic growth forecast to 7.5 percent this year would do well to remember the maxim of asset strippers everywhere: the sum of the parts is worth more than the whole.
In China, it’s about 4.6 trillion yuan ($730 billion) more. That’s the difference between the 51.77 trillion yuan in gross domestic product (GDP) reported in aggregate by China’s 31 provinces in 2011 and the official 47.16 trillion yuan captured in the methodology used by the National Bureau of Statistics, a quirk of calculation roughly equivalent to the GDP of Turkey.
See the full article from “Economic Times”
Beijing Strip Clubs: Beijing struggling to rein in growth, transform economy
BEIJING: Global investors worried about a cut to China’s official economic growth forecast to 7.5 percent this year would do well to remember the maxim of asset strippers everywhere: the sum of the parts is worth more than the whole.
In China, it’s about 4.6 trillion yuan ($730 billion) more. That’s the difference between the 51.77 trillion yuan in gross domestic product (GDP) reported in aggregate by China’s 31 provinces in 2011 and the official 47.16 trillion yuan captured in the methodology used by the National Bureau of Statistics, a quirk of calculation roughly equivalent to the GDP of Turkey. Run the corporate raider’s slide rule over forecasts for growth in 2012 and yet another disparity emerges: the weighted average of the individual provinces comes to 10.3 percent. Even a more pedestrian model subtracting the 4 percent inflation target from the money supply growth forecast at 14 percent still implies economic expansion of 10 percent. For reform-minded Premier Wen Jiabao, it brings a second maxim into play: you …
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Beijing Strip Clubs: Man arrested for hiring wedding strippers
BEIJING – Chinese police have arrested a man who hired two strippers to perform at his son’s wedding after the performance was mobbed by villagers, a newspaper reported on Wednesday.
Zhang Cheng, from Xuzhou in eastern Jiangsu province, had originally wanted a band to play at the nuptials, but was then advised he could get performers whose show would have “special features”, the Global Times said.
“After watching the show, Zhang decided it would be appropriate for his son’s wedding and requested two strippers for the event,” it added. “…Barely five minutes had passed before hundreds of villagers in the conservative community were swarming to the venue, trying to catch a glimpse.”
Zhang was arrested the next day, the newspaper reported, though it did not say on what charge.
See the full article from “China Daily”
Beijing Strip Clubs: Follow From the Wires
Ai Weiwei walks to a room to discuss legal issues with his lawyers at his studio in Beijing, China, Monday, Nov. 14, 2011. Dissident Chinese artist Ai said Monday that supporters have sent him nearly $1.4 million to help him fight a huge tax bill that he says is government harassment. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan) (Credit: AP)
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Beijing tax bureau officials told Ai’s wife Lu Qing, the company’s legal representative, that they wanted the bond paid into one of the tax bureau’s bank accounts and that if the company missed the Wednesday deadline to do so, the case would be sent to police, Ai said. “They were of course issuing a threat to us, but the threat is real.”
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His company’s lawyers say the tax bureau’s demand is illegal. Repeated phone calls to the Beijing Local Taxation Bureau’s propaganda department rang unanswered Tuesday.
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Beijing Strip Clubs: China Cracks Down on Ideas. And Music. And Advertising.
The government of China finally confirmed that it has detained the artist Ai Weiwei. Meanwhile, Evan Osnos writes from Beijing for the New Yorker about China’s “Big Chill”:
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Way back in 1979, David Ramsay Steele, author of From Marx to Mises: Post-Capitalist Society and the Challenge of Economic Calculation, wrote about the changes beginning in China. He quoted authors in the official Beijing Review who were explaining that China would adopt the good aspects of the West–technology, innovation, entrepreneurship–without adopting its liberal values. ”We should do better than the Japanese,” the authors wrote. “They have learnt from the United States not only computer science but also strip-tease. For us it is a matter of acquiring the best of the developed capitalist countries while rejecting their philosophy.” But, Steele replied, countries like China have a choice. “You play the game of catallaxy, or you do not play it. If you do not play it, you remain wretched. But if you play it, you must play it. You want computer science? Then you have to put up with strip-tease.”
See the full article from “Cato @ Liberty”