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China-Japan-Koreas
US deeply concerned over rising China detentions
2011-04-05
WASHINGTON -- The United States said Monday it is "deeply concerned" about the rising trend of disappearances and arrests of human rights activists in China after one of the country's most famous artists was detained.
We're deeply concerned. The Chinese jug the activists anyway. This is what happens when your opponents don't respect you.
Ai Weiwei, 53, an avant-garde artist who helped design the futuristic Bird's Nest stadium at the Beijing Olympics, has been missing since he was stopped Sunday while preparing to fly to Hong Kong. Police also raided his Beijing studio.
The Olympics are over, so he's not needed any more.
Dozens of Chinese lawyers and activists have vanished, been detained or held under house arrest since February when online calls for protests similar to the pro-democracy uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa started cropping up. At least three people have been indicted for subversion. No major public protests have taken place in China.

In Washington, State Department spokesman Mark Toner called for the immediate release of Ai, an outspoken government critic who has been keeping an informal tally of the detentions on Twitter, where he has more than 70,000 followers.

"We obviously continue to be deeply concerned by the trend of forced disappearances, extralegal detentions, arrests and convictions of human rights activists for exercising their internationally recognized human right for freedom of expression," Toner told a news conference.

"Our relationship with China is very broad and complex but it's an issue where we disagree and we continue to make clear those concerns," he said.
We dare not interrupt the flow of goods from China to the U.S., and dollars from the U.S. to China, and the trade for those dollars for U.S. Treasuries. That's what he just said, right?
During a January state visit to Washington, Chinese President Hu Jintao said that his country needed to "do more" on human rights. The White House played up the significance of that admission and said it would be watching to see the Chinese government acted on those words.

Detentions of rights activists have since increased.
Get the message, Mr. President?
Posted by:Steve White

#5  LOL, gromky.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2011-04-05 02:48  

#4  UK TO SELL HMS "ARK ROYAL"

I hear Argentina is looking for some extra naval capacity.
Posted by: SteveS   2011-04-05 02:18  

#3  DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > UK TO SELL HMS "ARK ROYAL" + THREE "TYPE 42" DESTROYERS IN MEGA-GARAGE SALE.

A number of China MilBloggers are calling for Beijing to buy + renovate the ARK ROYAL as Training Carrier for PLA amphibious assault forces.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2011-04-05 01:14  

#2  Chin = Russia = fears the Islamist MilTerr conventional + nuclear threat, even iff Beijing doesn't want to admit it.

ION PEOPLE'S DAILY FORUM > LEE KWAN YEW: CHINA WILL TAKE MORE THAN TEN YEARS [20 Years] TO BE THE [World's]GREATEST POWER.

ARTIC > YEW =
> State-led Capitalism is typically inferior to Private Capitalism [regardless of the merits?].
> IIUC, TO BE THE WORLD'S GREATEST POWER, CHINA MUST UNILATERALLY DEV + "PERFECT" INDIGENOUS STEALTH TECHNOLOGY, + DITTO BE ABLE TO SAFELY EFICIENTLY SEND A MAN TO THE MOON [Outer Space] + BACK AGAIN.

IOW, it must be able to do on its own + BETTER what the US + other Major Powers are able to do.

* CHINA-DEFENSE-MASHUP > US [futurist]AIR-SEA BATTLE CONCEPT IS FOCUSED ON CHINA.

* SAME > {2011 Guam Governor-elect EDDIE] CALVO: CHINESE MISSLE THREAT SERIOUS, as per agz Guam.

* SAME > ARMING TAIWAN IS IN US INTEREST: ANALYST [Rick = Richard? Fisher], whom believes that Beijing = Rising China will soon negotiate for a Taiwan treaty expressly formalizing lateral desires + intentions as per [Re]UNIFICATION OF TAIWAN WID THE CHIN MAINLAND.

* WAFF [old]> CELESTIAL DRAGON [China] WILL BE ABLE TO DESTROY GUAM IN TIME OF WAR!

POSTER > argued that US econ woes is such that the needs to close down most of its overseas Milbases anyway, + rely on Regional Allies for its Security.

[PRE-WW2 MUNICH CONFERENCE = PARTITION OF POLAND, SUDETENLAND, ALSACE-LORRAINE, MANCHUKO + MINGCHUKO, here].

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OTHER REGIONAL

* PEOPLE'S DAILY FORUM > JAPAN TO DUMP 11,500 TONNES OF RADIOACTIVE WATER INTO SEA.

* SAME > FUKUSHIMA MARKS A "NUCLEAR ICE AGE".
"Nuclear Rennaisance" is over - any new post-Fukushima major nuclear accidents from now on will be a "WORLD/GLOBAL ACCIDENT" BEYOND THAT OF STATE OR REGIONAL???

ARTIC = SOUTH KOREA = running low on domestic space to store spent nuclear fuel.

Ditto PRE-03/11, POST-FUKUSHIMA JAPAN?

* WAFF > [Video]HAARP: PERSIAN GULF WITNESS. Dead Fishies + mammalian Dolphins allegedly showing signs of being mysteriously "burned" while underwater???

* WAFF > [2007 docs]UN: HAARP CAN SIMULATE THE DETONATION OF A HEAVY-TYPE NUCLEAR DEVICE, which has mil utility for purposes of ...

> BMD.
> ANTI-AIRCRAFT DEFENSE = AAD.
> Interception + Disruption of various WEATHER, SUBMARINE = UNDERWATER, + SUBTERRANEAN COMMUNICATIONS.
> Related sub-applications.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2011-04-05 00:54  

#1  Progressives are just jealous that they can't treat right-wingers this way in America.
Posted by: gromky   2011-04-05 00:34  

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