Chinese Cops Taught How to Beat People: Don't Leave Blood on the Face

More encouraging news from the world's rising superpower.

A training textbook telling urban law enforcers how to use violence has drawn outrage in China, after extracts were published on the web.

The advice includes avoiding witnesses and not worrying whether they will harm the person they are trying to subdue. The most controversial section reads: "In dealing with the subject, take care to leave no blood on the face, no wounds on the body, and no people in the vicinity."

The chengguan are employed to deal with low-level crime and disorder but their reputation for brutality has made them widely reviled and they have been involved in several deaths.

Last year four enforcers beat a man to death after he had used his mobile phone to film a violent confrontation between villagers and officials. In another case, three officers were jailed for stabbing a noodle seller to death in a row over his stall.

Here is a photo of Chinese cops training in riot control.

China Declares War on the United States!!!

They sure as hell have. Let's look at what we've learned about the Chinese in the last week. The Chinese have penetrated our electric grid, with the ability to shut it down when they wish. The Chinese have put chips in our military aircraft. When it’s done intentionally, it’s done to degrade systems, or to have the ability to do so at a time of one’s choosing. And now this...

Thousands of confidential files on the U.S. military's most technologically advanced fighter aircraft have been compromised by unknown computer hackers over the past two years, according to senior defense officials.

The Internet intruders were able to gain access to data related to the design and electronics systems of the Joint Strike Fighter through computers of Pentagon contractors in charge of designing and building the aircraft, according to the officials, who did not want to be identified because of the sensitivity of the issue.

In addition to files relating to the aircraft, hackers gained entry into the Air Force's air traffic control systems, according to the officials. Once they got in, the Internet hackers were able to see such information as the locations of U.S. military aircraft in flight.

Most of the files broken into focused on the design and performance statistics of the fighter, as well as its electronic systems, officials said. The information could be used to make the plane easier to fight or defend against.

I've been sounding the alarm against China for years. I used to be accused of being a tin-foil hat conspiracy freak. So, you know, I told you so.

But I see the new administration is on top of things. They've managed to target as domestic extremists the very demographic of Americans who would stand and fight the Chinese. Conservatives. Of course, I could be underestimating the ferocity in battle of Pelosi's Posse. Perhaps we're in good hands.

Report: Chinese Spies Put Chips in U.S. Military Aircraft

I wonder if the current administration realizes what a threat China has become? Just last week it was reported that the Chinese had penetrated America's electric grid with the intent of someday shutting it down and causing chaos. Now this:

The Chinese cyber spies have penetrated so deep into the US system — ranging from its secure defence network, banking system, electricity grid to putting spy chips into its defence planes — that it can cause serious damage to the US any time, a top US official on counter-intelligence has said.

“Chinese penetrations of unclassified DoD networks have also been widely reported. Those are more sophisticated, though hardly state of the art,” said National Counterintelligence Executive, Joel Brenner, at the Austin University Texas last week, according to a transcript made available on Wednesday.

Listing out some of the examples of Chinese cyber spy penetration, he said: “We’re also seeing counterfeit routers and chips, and some of those chips have made their way into US military fighter aircraft.. You don’t sneak counterfeit chips into another nation’s aircraft to steal data. When it’s done intentionally, it’s done to degrade systems, or to have the ability to do so at a time of one’s choosing.”

Referring to the Chinese networks penetrating the cyber grids, he said: “Do I worry about those grids, and about air traffic control systems, water supply systems, and so on? You bet I do. America’s networks are being mapped. There has also been experience of both Chinese and criminal network operations in the networks of some of the banks”.

This is an act of war. Whether we want to admit it or not.

World...Meet Your New Superpower

File this one in the "careful what you wish for" category. Over the past 8 years, we have watched so many nations adopt as their hobby the bashing of America and all things American. As if a world without America would somehow be some sort of magical place. Well...world...You will own your ignorance. And you will own it hard. From the Guardian:

An enormous electronic espionage programme run from servers in China has been used to spy on computers in more than 100 countries, according to two reports published at the weekend.

The reports, published by the universities of Cambridge and Toronto, detail a "murky realm" where cyber spooks infiltrate email, take over humble desktop computers and use them to spy on organisations, individuals and governments.

The reports name the system GhostNet, and claim that it has been used to attack governments in south and south-east Asia as well as the offices of the Dalai Lama. In two years, the reports suggest, the operation infiltrated 1,295 computers in 103 countries.

While one of the reports remains mute on the identity of the perpetrators, the other has no such qualms, warning that the Chinese government ran a series of cyber attacks on Tibetan exile groups. The Chinese foreign ministry could not be reached for comment.

"What Chinese spooks did in 2008, Russian crooks will do in 2010 and even low-budget criminals from less developed countries will follow in due course," conclude the Cambridge authors of The Snooping Dragon: Social Malware Surveillance of the Tibetan Movement.

The attacks were simple and direct. Infected emails bearing attachments or links to websites were sent to organisations including the private office of the Dalai Lama. Once opened, the virus allowed hackers to operate the host computer, including moving files and sending and receiving data. Their potential control was such that they could turn on an infected computer's camera and microphone, creating a surveillance bug.

Damn Chinese!

You Haven't Arrived on the Political Scene Until Someone Throws a Shoe at Your Head

On 2 February 2009, a protestor threw a shoe at Wen Jiabao, Premier of the People's Republic of China, during his speech at Cambridge University.

Less than a Week in Office and Obama is Already Poking China in the Eye

Obama refused to cut the corporate tax rate and now wants to start a trade war with China. This is a check his scrawny butt can't cash.

Barack Obama's choice as the next treasury secretary has fired the first shot in what could be a new protectionist battle between America and China.

Tim Geithner told US senators that Obama believes that China has been manipulating its currency, the yuan - an accusation that is likely to hurt relations between the two countries.

In written testimony at a confirmation hearing, Geithner said that "President Obama - backed by the conclusions of a broad range of economists - believes that China is manipulating its currency."

The former head of the Federal Bank of New York went on to tell the Senate finance committee that Obama will use "all the diplomatic avenues open to him" to push for changes in China's currency practices.

While it is an open secret that Beijing does take steps to manage the value of its currency, analysts warned that Geitner's comments risk disrupting the delicate balance between the two countries.

America is a hugely important market for China's factories, which have already suffered from the US economic slump. The flow of goods from east to west has meant China built up huge reserves of dollars and holds more US government debt, in the form of Treasury notes, than any other country.

The prospect that China might respond by selling some these assets off triggered a drop in the value of long-term US treasuries yesterday.

Do You Trust the Chinese with Your Erection?

You shouldn't.

THREE people are in hospital after taking a potentially fatal Chinese erection pill.
The Northern Territory News reports the patients, two men and a woman, were all admitted to Royal Darwin Hospital in the past two months after taking Nangen Zengzhangsu, a Chinese medication which claimed to enhance sexual function.

The Health Department has re-issued a warning that these pills could cause a diabetic coma, permanent brain injury or death.

At least one of the patients is believed to have been in a serious condition after ingesting the pills.

The medication - also known as Nangen - is believed to have been brought in from Asia or sourced from the internet. One UK website sells the drug for $10 a pill.

It is marketed on websites as 100 per cent herbal, but contains ingredients such as donkey kidney and deer antler. It is also claimed to be a natural alternative to Viagra with no side effects.

But the pills could also contain Glibenclamide, a prescription medication used to treat diabetes.

Chief Health Officer Barbara Paterson said the three patients suffered from shaking, confusion, dizziness and low blood sugar.

China Now Making the Best Off Road Military Vehicle in the World

There's only one catch. It's a blatant rip off of America's Humvee.

The "Mengshi (Warriors)" off-road military vehicle produced by Chinese automaker Dongfeng Motor surpasses U.S. Humvee in 12 out of 15 major battlefield performance indices, chief designer Huang Song has said.

Use by the Chinese military force has proven that "Mengshi" overtakes Humvee in 12 indices, including the loading capacity and oil consumption, and are well-matched with Humvee in three other indices, Huang was quoted as saying by Monday's Economic Information Daily, a Xinhua publication.

It took Dongfeng six years to develop the vehicle, which had undergone more than 200,000 hours of factory tests and more than 1.6 million kilometers of road tests before mass production.

The vehicle was formally equipped to the People's Liberation Army in 2007.

Here's a picture of the "Mengshi".



And here's a picture of the Humvee.

Hamas Rockets Made in China

The Chinese have their hands in just about everything now.

The Israel-based Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center reports that the rockets fired by the Hamas are contraband from mainland China. Hamas is a terrorist organization that took control on the Gaza strip by force in 2007.

"It was revealed that the rockets were contraband from China. The experts who liquidated the rockets saw that it was made in China," said Hagai Huberman, an Israeli Military Correspondent to the Makor Rishon newspaper, to New Tang Dynasty Television.

Chinese communist authorities have been accused of selling weapons to Hamas before. In 2006 a Paris-based intelligence newsletter reported that Chinese Ministry of State Security official, Gong Xiaosheng, worked with Hamas militants.

In a separate case in August this year, a group of Israeli terror victims alleged that the Bank of China assisted terrorist attacks by allowing the transfer of money to Hamas. According to their lawyer Nitzana Darshan-Leitner, Chinese authorities were informed about it but did nothing to stop it.

Santa's Workshop -- The Reality

Chinese child slave labor.

Low labor costs attract more and more companies to China. Today more than 75% of our toys are made in China. But this industry takes its toll on the workers and on the environment.

Nuke China

Japan's longest-serving prime minister -- a Nobel Peace laureate -- asked the U.S. in 1965 to deploy nuclear weapons against China if war broke out between the Asian rivals, according to newly declassified government files obtained by Kyodo news agency. During his first trip to Washington as the Japanese leader, Eisaku Sato told then-U.S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara that American military forces could launch a nuclear attack on China by sea if needed, Kyodo said Monday. Under its post-World War II constitution, Japan renounces war as a sovereign right and prohibits the use of force in international conflicts. But the new details of Sato's discussions with the U.S. reveal a more complicated picture behind his strong public stance against nuclear weapons as well as his intense distrust of China. His comments came a day after his talks with President Lyndon Johnson on Jan. 12, 1965, during which he sought to reconfirm a U.S. promise to defend Japan under the U.S.-Japan security treaty, according to Kyodo. The documents show that Johnson assured the Japanese leader of Washington's commitment to the pact. China triggered Japanese and U.S. concerns about the country's emergence as a nuclear power after Beijing tested its first atomic bomb on Oct. 16, 1964.

Chinese Sailors Fight Off Pirates with Beer Bottles and Molotov Cocktails

Imagine if they had had guns:

Keeping low to avoid being shot, a sailor lights a Molotov cocktail before throwing it at Somali pirates trying to board his ship.



He and his crewmates were expecting trouble and had prepared dozens of the makeshift grenades to repel an invasion.

Their cargo vessel was attacked in the Gulf of Aden by pirates using speedboats and armed with heavy machine guns and rocket launchers.

The attack occurred a day after Beijing said it was considering sending warships to the area to help battle piracy.

Despite their best efforts the nine pirates clambered aboard after tying up alongside.

Read more here.

Chinese will Fight Pirates

Please start with Johnny Depp. --China has announced it is to send naval ships to fight rampant piracy in the Gulf of Aden off the coast of Somalia.

State media suggested the force could consist of two destroyers and a supply ship, although officials did not confirm the details of the deployment.

Stop Eating Cats Already

A southern Chinese province must stop the "shameful" and "cruel slaughter" of cats for food, a group of more than 40 animal lovers in Beijing said Thursday as they unfurled banners in a tearful protest.--Thousands of cats across the country have been caught in the past week by traders and transported to Guangdong province to be killed for food, said the protesters gathered at the Guangdong government's office in Beijing."We are very angry because the cats are being skinned and then cooked alive. We must make them correct this uncivilized behavior," said Wang Hongyao, who represented the group in submitting a letter to the Guangdong office.--The protesters urged the provincial government to crack down on cat traders and restaurants that serve cat meat, although no law says it is illegal to eat cats. It has long been common for cats and dogs to be eaten in some parts of China and in some other Asian countries.

Chinese Ready to Invade the United States

Here they come. The laundryman's revenge.

Chinese bargain hunters are preparing to descend on American cities such as Los Angeles and San Francisco, where homeowners have suffered some of the steepest price falls in the US.

SouFun, the biggest real estate website in China, is organising a trip next month to look at properties in California and possibly Nevada. Liu Jian, the company’s chief operating officer, said about 300 people had expressed interest in the idea in the three days since it was advertised, though the company would take only a small group on the first trip.

“Given the problems in the Chinese market now, many people have been asking us about taking a look at overseas markets, especially the US,” he said.

The trip would focus on California, particularly San Francisco and Los Angeles, where big Chinese populations might make his clients more comfortable, but might also include Nevada.

6 Million Chinese Graduates Can't Find Jobs

This development is going to place tremendous pressure on the Chinese government.

See a video report here.

I You Were Hoping for a Nerf Football for Christmas, You May Have a Problem

There's been a slight glitch on the production line.

It started as a pay dispute at a southern Chinese toy factory. But it quickly turned into a riot as laid-off workers tapped into a network of friends and unemployed laborers who flipped over a police car, stormed into the plant and smashed office computers.

The latest violent protest to rock China's export machine was still simmering Wednesday at the massive plant, which makes Nerf toys for the U.S. company Hasbro Inc. The volatility underscored the urgency of China's efforts to keep stoking an economy weakened by the global financial crisis.

Tempers began flaring Tuesday when the plant's Hong Kong owner, Kader Holdings Company Ltd., prepared to lay off 216 migrant workers at the factory that employs 6,500. About 80 senior workers claimed they were getting shortchanged on their severance pay, and they mobilized a mob of 500 — mostly other unemployed workers and friends, Guo said.

The workers battled security guards, turned over a police car, smashed the headlights of police motorcycles and forced their way through the factory's front gate, Guo said. They went on a rampage in the plant's offices, damaging 10 computers, the company said.

China Cop Killer Has Widespread Support from the People

China has some problems:

Yang Jia, who was executed by lethal injection this week, was an unlikely hero. On July 1, the 28-year-old stabbed six police officers to death. Nobody has suggested he didn't commit the crime. Yang Jia himself said it was an act of revenge. He and the police agree that last year he was detained for riding an unlicensed bicycle. Yang Jia said he was beaten; the police denied this. Yang Jia demanded compensation, and when it was refused, he committed mass murder.

What followed – the harassment of his lawyer and family, questions over the legal process, the death sentence – were not unexpected. What has been shocking to many observers, however, has been the widespread support for Yang Jia. This support has been expressed on the internet, and in gatherings outside the courthouse, and by prominent critics of the Chinese government.

Most obviously, this support for Yang Jia exposes widespread contempt for the police, and an instinctive belief in Yang Jia's allegation that he was beaten in police custody. Many people have said they do not think they have been allowed to hear Yang Jia's side of the story.

I think the support for him also speaks to something deeper. He is not the first murderer to elicit public sympathy in China. Nearly thirty years ago, in 1979, a young woman surnamed Jiang Aizhen serving in the army became the target of rumours that she was having an affair. When she complained to senior officers, they sided with her tormentor. Driven to desperation by her inability to clear her name, she shot dead three officers. When she was sentenced to death, the case was reported in the People's Daily. What followed was extraordinary in China – a vast outpouring of sympathy for a convicted criminal. Like Yang Jia, there was no doubt that she was guilty of the crime, but thousands of people wrote letters sympathising with her plight, arguing that if the state did not provide access for vulnerable people to right wrongs, then the state must bear partial responsibility when those who were wronged took things into their own hands. The authorities came under such pressure, and were made so nervous by public opinion, that the court changed its verdict to 15 years in prison. It was almost an acknowledgement by the courts that allowances must be made for people who were driven mad by the system.

I think the support for Yang Jia stems simply from a widespread understanding that the system here exposes some people to intolerable pressure, and that they cannot be held accountable for breaking under that pressure. It is an understanding born of empathy – so many people have bashed their heads against the brick wall of injustice. In many cases, the answer to that intolerable pressure is suicide. In most case, people simply continue as well as they can with their lives. There is little likelihood that a grievance can be independently assessed, or that you can take to court someone more powerful than yourself. The petition office in Beijing is where people come from all over the country to beg for the justice which has eluded them in their home towns. They plead for redress, but they are as likely to be sent home or put in jail as to be helped. And so the grievances fester.

Forget It America -- The Chinese Have Mastered the Death Touch

They touch you with their finger, and you go limp. And die. And all I know is the full nelson which, while good for making smaller men admit that they're a monkey's uncle, doesn't really help me on my quest for global domination.

Communism on Our Border Gets a Big Shot in the Arm -- Raul Castro Sings in Chinese

China's president signed more than a dozen trade deals with communist ally Cuba. Raul Castro sang parts of a song about China and Mao Zedong, he learned while traveling the world in 1953.