The fooley is no longer funny.
"Low expectations as China considers legal reforms" by Didi Tang | Associated Press October 20, 2014
BEIJING — The most important meeting of the year for the 205 members of China’s ruling Communist Party’s Central Committee, beginning Monday, will focus on how to rule the country in accordance with law.
I wish mine would.
That has raised hopes the party might move to respect the letter and spirit of the constitution, but some legal and political analysts say the country’s leaders are intent on expanding power, not limiting it.
Are you sure that is the Communist Chinese and not the AmeriKan government?
There may be some efforts at the four-day plenum to discourage rampant corruption in low-level courts, they say, but the key goal will be to build a legal system that protects and strengthens the party’s political dominance.
We call that type of $y$tem AmeriKan Ju$tu$ over here, and corruption is so rampant at all levels it seems to be encouraged as standard operating procedure.
*********
It is not clear whether the meeting will address Hong Kong protests, where prodemocracy students have occupied key streets for weeks....
Some observers say they expect that during the Beijing meeting the party will continue what it has done since President Xi Jinping took power nearly two years ago: Step up efforts to suppress dissent....
Just change the names of the officials and countries and you are talking AmeriKa.
Yet, the party will seek changes to bring some fairness to the local level, where unrest stemming from lack of justice has flared up into violence.
Oh, the Chinese actually care what locals think?
Last week, a land dispute in a southwestern town left two villagers and six construction workers dead after villagers took up farm tools to fight what they saw as unfair seizure of their lands for a government-backed commercial project. The villagers told state media they have no legal venue in which to seek redress.
Related: China villagers burn construction workers to death
In hopes of improving justice at the local level, the meeting is expected to give provincial courts supervisory powers over their county-level peers.
--more--"
You better lower your expectations, readers, because the Globe is not meeting mine.
"Hong Kong officials offer fresh talks with protesters" by Alan Wong | New York Times October 19, 2014
I cringe whenever I see that name.
HONG KONG — The government said on Saturday that it would hold talks with student protest leaders on Tuesday, the start of a formal dialogue that could ease tensions over nearly three weeks of demonstrations that the police have been unable to shut down.
Carrie Lam, Hong Kong’s chief secretary and No. 2 official, announced the meeting on Saturday evening after thousands of protesters recaptured a large swath of the neighborhood of Mong Kok, which they have blockaded since late last month.
On Friday night, police officers, with batons and pepper spray, struggled to control a crowd of thousands that had mushroomed after the police tried to shrink the protest area earlier in the day.
In his first public comment since the start of the Occupy protests, Hong Kong’s police commissioner, Andy Tsang, condemned “radical” protesters for charging the police line, and said they had broken the law by gathering Friday in Mong Kok.
I'm so offended that the agenda-pu$hing bastards have cooped that name and are now using it to destabilize another nation. How insultingly evil. P.S. That's why it's not working, either. That's why this is fizzling despite the push.
“I have a message from the bottom of my heart: These illegal acts are hurting Hong Kong, hurting our society,” he told reporters on Saturday. He did not answer questions.
What they were meant to do.
*******
The scheduling of the talks with the Hong Kong Federation of Students, one of the groups leading the protests, comes a week after the government pulled out of another planned dialogue. That move followed a news conference by the protesters in which they vowed to escalate pressure on the government by blockading government buildings and engaging in other acts of civil disobedience.
The protesters are calling for direct popular election of the city’s leader, the chief executive, who is now chosen by a committee of elites loyal to Beijing.
It's called a nominating process. You know, like primaries and the endless campaign.
It is unclear whether Tuesday’s meeting, expected to last two hours and to be moderated by a university president, will cool the dissent....
China prefers harmony.
--more--"
Here is a good example:
"China, Vietnam patch ties after territory disputes" Associated Press October 19, 2014
BEIJING — China and Vietnam agreed to resume military ties and better manage their maritime disputes in the first signs that tensions over territorial claims could be easing.
My first question when I read this, after feeling elated at peace breaking out, was how is the U.S. going to try and f*** this up?
Despite fraternal ties between their ruling Communist parties, relations between the two countries grew tense this year after China deployed an oil rig near the Paracel Islands, which are also claimed by Hanoi.
Vessels belonging to the two countries rammed each other near the rig, and there were deadly anti-China riots in several industrial parks in Vietnam, leading to an exodus of thousands of Chinese workers.
Then the Vietnamese government realized they had protesters against there own rule in a spontaneous outburst after ginning up controlled-opposition against China. Then they did a 180 on it all.
During a visit to China last week, Vietnam’s defense minister, Phung Quang Thanh, said it was ‘‘extremely necessary’’ to maintain a healthy and stable relationship to settle disputes, the Vietnamese People’s Army newspaper said Saturday.
Thanh said the military forces should practice restraint, closely control activities at sea, and avoid use of force or threats to use force, the newspaper said.
(US war planners and military leaders frown)
In a meeting with Thanh in Beijing on Friday, Vice President Li Yuanchao of China called on the two countries to enhance political trust and manage maritime disputes, China’s official Xinhua News Agency said.
Thanh also met with his Chinese counterpart, Chang Wanquan, and both sides decided to resume military ties and ‘‘play a positive role’’ in handling the disputes, the news agency said.
China’s premier, Li Keqiang, meanwhile, met his Vietnamese counterpart, Nguyen Tan Dung, on Thursday on the sidelines of the Asia-Europe Meeting in Milan, Xinhua said. The two agreed to properly handle maritime differences and keep bilateral ties on the right track, it said.
At the same time, highlighting the complexity of shifting alliances in the region, Vietnam has been reaching out to the United States, which says it has an interest in the maintaince of peace and stability and freedom of navigation and earlier this month announced it was partly lifting a ban on weapons sales on Hanoi.
Oh, look at this! U.S. gotta make some money on the weapons sales, and methinks the Vietnamese were just giving a little lip because they don't want to be bombed again.
I think the Asian nations can work out their problems just fine without the U.S. butting in, thanks.
--more--"
I'm sorry; I just find the outcry over the police brutality a bit much coming from a self-censoring kettle hollering pot.
At least I know where to go to get healed.
NEXT DAY UPDATES: I guess when it comes to hospitals and train cars the Chinese are just fine, and the Globe is already taking the pain away by reducing Hong Kong to a brief (CIA cat is out of the bag).
What a laugher for a lying, distorting, war-promoting pre$$ to be hollering no evidence, 'eh?
And you wonder why I want the self-inflicted pain to stop?
At least with all the bu$ine$$ ties and such one can take the war drumming propaganda in stride. No need for wars when we are friends, right?
"Chinese officials have acknowledged that the transition will require tough choices, such as reducing government loans to inefficient but politically connected companies. But they have been slow to act."
Pot, kettle, propaganda pre$$.
