Archive for the 'China' Category

China aids terrorism groups worldwide

With insatiable appetite for espionage, Chinese web hackers are so busy in their attempts to steal western companies confidential documents that MI5 resources are being diverted from fighting terrorism to fighting the Chinese attacks.
Much spam that is posted to your email box originates from, or implicates, domains registered in China. The billions of email spam [...]

China Lunar Probe blasts off on redundant voyage

Chinese press agency Xinhua gleefully announced the successful launch of Chang’e-1, the little lunar ship currently ploughing its way through space to do what? Do what the US achieved forty years (nearly half a century ago)?
Then what next, a manned flight to the moon, maybe this will be achieved in twenty years as long as 1) [...]

Were the neo-cons right all along?

At face value, the right wing Bush adminstration neo-cons have egg all over their faces for the disasters caused by the US led invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan.
But take another look at their big idea. If they could have succeeded in bringing democratic government to the Middle East countries, the outlook for world peace would [...]

3 gorges dam a disaster for China

The $20bn showpiece of Chinese engineering, involving huge amounts of earth moving around the infamous Yangtze river area, and costing thousands of people their homes could be a disaster, warns official Communist news agency Xinhua.
At first all went well, however massive landslips and ecological devastation is following the construction project like an albatross. New measures [...]

China flexes industrial muscle

Mattel, the giant US toy vendor, has been forced by the Chinese government to take back its criticisms of production standards in China so that reciprocal action is not taken against them in the form of higher taxes or regulations. Recently there have been large recalls of Mattel toy products made in China due to [...]

China unhappy with US arms sales to Taiwan

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu again attacked the US for selling P-3C antisubmarine aircraft and other advanced weapons to Taiwan. Perhaps if China stops supplying weaponry to North Korea and other unstable regimes they would be taken more seriously.
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