"China becomes more open to transparency" by Tini Tran, Associated Press | February 1, 2010
SHENZHEN, China - China did what would once have been unthinkable: It enacted an open-government policy....
When does AmeriKa get one -- at least, one not filled with lies?
It was an eye-opening moment....
Do you ever get sick of the elite insults like me, reader?
An important step toward transparency for a country struggling to combat corruption and meet the needs of a rising middle class and an economy that will soon be the world’s second biggest, after America.
Yup, we don't have transparency, corruption is rampant, and this government here doesn't care for its people.
How come China cares more about its people than AmeriKa does?
“Clearly, nationwide, Chinese have become increasingly aware that they have legal rights, and they are becoming more confident in using them,’’ said Katherine Wilhelm, senior fellow at Yale University’s China Law Center.
Recent years have seen greater openness (public hearings on utility rates, for example), but the new disclosure policy could be the most significant in delivering government accountability....
Although the change applies to all levels of government, its limitations are clear. Exempt from release are official state secrets, a category so broadly defined that virtually anything - maps, GPS coordinates, economic statistics - can be withheld.
Oh, like THAT DOESN'T HAPPEN here!
As for those OTHER THINGS, well, OUR GOVERNMENT LIES TO US!!!!!
In theory, the rule can be used to try to pry any information out of any government agency. But ordinary Chinese know to stay away from subjects that would directly threaten the Communist Party’s monopoly on power.
We have 9/11 TRUTH here! MSM goes NOWHERE NEAR IT and endlessly repeats that DAMNABLE LIE of a cover story!
And officials can still easily put information beyond the reach of citizens by declaring it a state secret.
What we call CLASSIFIED around here in "free" AmeriKa!
Implementation has been slow and uneven. One survey of 30 provinces found that more than 60 percent had failed the criteria for responsiveness. Still, experts say the new measure could be far-reaching, because it helps establish a foundation for broader legal reforms.
The very idea that citizens are entitled to obtain information from their government was electrifying to many....
Well, WHO are they SUPPOSED to be SERVING, anyway?
I was ALWAYS TOLD it was ME here in AmeriKa!
Okay, PLEASE REMEMBER the above piece for later.
Related: Activist living at airport might go home
One guy not so lucky?
"A year later, China mum on activist who vanished" by Cara Anna, Associated Press | February 4, 2010
BEIJING - Officials have been teasingly vague....
Like the AmeriKan MSM has a credibilty to criticize anyone.
As is typical in China, state-run media have not mentioned the case....
Media in s*** houses shouldn't throw turds!
China’s surprisingly casual response to a high-profile case raised repeatedly by US officials, the United Nations, and rights groups is a troubling sign of the country’s overall hardening stance on a wide range of issues, observers said.
Yeah, when I SEE that CROWD and its AGENDA-PUSHING MEDIA pick up the cudgel I start tuning out.
And SO MUCH for that OPENNESS PLUG, huh?
They pointed to ever-tightening Internet controls, last month’s execution of a British man with reported mental problems, and the unprecedented threat of sanctions against companies involved in a planned US arms sale to Taiwan.
See: Giving China the Googley Eye
Chinese Ticked Off Over Taiwan Weapons Deal
A US Embassy spokeswoman said yesterday that the government is deeply concerned.... Yeah, anything to produce tensions for a war.
Btw, WHAT ABOUT the INNOCENT GUYS we have LOCKED UP, 'eh, 'murka?
Get OFF YOUR F***ING HIGH HORSE and SMELL the TORTURE, will, ya?
“We have raised our concerns about Mr. Gao’s well-being and whereabouts repeatedly, both in Washington and in Beijing,’’ said Susan Stevenson. She said she could not talk about the details of diplomatic exchanges, including China’s response.
The scattered responses from officials have made Gao’s friends and supporters even more worried about the forceful but charming man who took on extremely sensitive cases involving underground Christians and the banned Falun Gong spiritual group.
Hey, it is NOT like I am for oppression of people; however, MY NATION has NO RIGHT to CRITICIZE ANYONE! We need to CLEAN our OWN HOUSE!
In a written statement made public just before he disappeared last year, Gao described severe beatings from Chinese security forces, electric shocks to his genitals, and cigarettes held to his eyes during a 2007 detention....
Yeah, I heard the Chinese pioneered a bunch of s*** we do.
Btw, where did we come up with the torture tactics, anyway?
OOOOPS!!!
How DARE WE CRITICIZE, huh?
Other issues:
"Beijing begins emergency sweep for tainted milk products; Recalled dairy repackaged, back on the market" by Cara Anna, Associated Press | February 3, 2010
I thought the FDA fixed that problem; that was YEARS AGO!!!
BEIJING - The sweep that started Monday is being conducted after milk products tainted with the industrial chemical melamine were pulled from shelves in Shanghai and the provinces of Shaanxi, Shandong, Liaoning, and Hebei, the state-run Xinhua News Agency said. Some were recalled in the previous scandal and repackaged....
Great! And EVERYTHING is "Made in China" these days!
Maybe government should be worried more about this than China's internal affairs, huh, 'murkn?
At least six children died and more than 300,000 fell sick in the 2008 scandal, where melamine, normally used to make plastics and fertilizer, was added to watered-down milk to fool inspectors testing for protein and increase profits.
So the FORMAL GOVERNMENT NAMES don't really matter, huh?
They are ALL the SAME!
At the time, China promised sweeping changes for the country’s food safety. In November, it executed a dairy farmer and a milk salesman to show how serious it took the scandal.
And if that doesn't get them to stop.....
But health concerns peaked again this year after authorities in Shanghai said they secretly investigated a dairy for nearly a year before announcing it had been producing tainted milk products.
The case was especially troubling because Shanghai Panda Dairy Co. was one of the 22 dairies China’s product safety authority named in the 2008 scandal, with its products having among the highest levels of melamine.
Translation: Business as usual
Or repackaged.
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And if you really want to tick off China, meet with a CIA asset:
"China warns US against meeting with Dalai Lama" by Edward Wong, New York Times | February 3, 2010
BEIJING - A senior Chinese official strongly warned President Obama yesterday against meeting with the Dalai Lama, the exiled spiritual leader of the Tibetans, saying it would damage relations between China and the United States.
The official, Zhu Weiqun, said any country would suffer consequences if its leaders met with the Dalai Lama, whom China considers to be a dangerous separatist. Zhu did not elaborate on what actions China could take.
But a White House spokesman said the president’s plans were unchanged....
Both Obama and the Dalai Lama are Nobel Peace Prize laureates....
Now I view neither as deserving.
Then again, none of them ever have been.
Globalists awarding globalists their own awards. Who cares?
Despite Obama’s earlier overtures to Beijing, tensions between the United States and China have been on the rise.
Just the way we want 'em!
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton recently chastised China in a speech she gave in which she decried Web censorship. Last Friday, the United States announced sales of $6.4 billion of arms to Taiwan, the self-governing, democratic island that China says is a rebel province.
In response, China said it would break off military-to-military ties with the United States and bring sanctions against the American companies that make the arms....
As long as there is NO SHOOTING, I'm fine!!!
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