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| China Private Equity Execs Worried About People Exodus Posted: 23 Oct 2012 08:25 PM PDT Private equity in China is unlikely to take a hiatus despite imminent political change as the country's Communist Party readies itself for a leadership handover in around two weeks. There is another concern, however. |
| Taiwan consumer authority wants more information from airlines Posted: 24 Oct 2012 04:18 AM PDT The Taiwan cabinet's Consumer Protection Department will demand greater protection for the public from international airlines who promote cheap tickets, our sister newspaper Commercial Times reported ... |
| How Jiang Zemin Encouraged Bo Xilai’s Atrocities, Part III Posted: 23 Oct 2012 07:34 PM PDT  Former Communist Party head Jiang Zemin pictured in the Great Hall of the People on Oct. 21, 2007. As the Party leadership struggles over how to handle Bo Xilai, in the background is Jiang Zemin, who is ultimately responsible for the atrocities Bo carried out. (Goh Chai Hin/Getty Images) This is Part IIl of the three-part series. Read Part l and Part ll. News AnalysisBo Xilai, who not long ago aspired to paramount rule, now sits in Qincheng Prison in Beijing while his former comrades debate how best to make use of him. After Bo's former police chief Wang Lijun was turned over by U.S. Consular officials to deputy ministers sent to take Wang back to Beijing, Wang disclosed the coup Jiang Zemin, Zhou Yongkang, Bo Xilai and others had plotted. The Jiang faction had understood clearly that great crimes had been committed, and a debt was waiting to be paid. Tens of thousands of innocent Chinese had their organs torn from them while they were alive. They died anonymously and, on the basis of the meager witness testimony to have come out of China so far, in pain. Their bodies were cremated or sold to be turned into museum objects. Only the rule of the CCP and with it the control of all the Party's means of coercion and propaganda could ensure the faction's safety. Bo Xilai was chosen to lead the usurpation. By exposing this plot Wang defeated it. He gave CCP head Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao the weapon they needed to strip power from Jiang's faction, which Hu and Wen have done relentlessly one step at a time over the past 8 months.
This September a consensus was reached within the Party: the Maoism Bo had championed was a past that would not be reborn. The Party united in turning in an uncertain, but new direction that repudiated the politics of Jiang and Bo. But that new consensus did not settle the debt that still waits to be paid. The debate over how to try Bo is ultimately about whether or how to pay that debt. Gauging SentimentAccording to a trusted source, at a meeting involving organ harvesting in the Party leadership compound Zhongnanhai, Premier Wen Jiabao said, "This [organ harvesting] has happened for many years. And we are about to retire and it has not been solved." "Now the news with Wang Lijun, the entire world has known about this," Wen said. "The issue regarding Falun Gong should be solved together with Bo Xilai. The pieces of doing so are there." But so far, Wen's views have not carried the day. Some Party leaders may favor using the trial of Bo Xilai as the first effort to clean up organ harvesting in China, but they don't know if the Party can withstand what would follow. Who would then be tried next, and how many former top leaders would need to follow Bo into the docket? Some Party leaders are trying to gauge sentiment among the people and the cadres, in order to figure out what information about organ harvesting to disclose and how to disclose it. This hesitation has left Jiang's faction free to find ways to duck and shuffle.  Disclosure and Coverup On Aug. 28, Xinhua announced that Public Security had busted 28 gangs involved in trafficking in kidneys. On Sept. 9, the Beijing-based business magazine Caijin carried a story about the trial of a gangster who had organized a network for buying kidneys and selling them to surgeons for transplantation. The Caijin story was franker and more detailed than anything published before about organ harvesting in China. While it did not discuss the forced, live organ harvesting that Bo Xilai had used against Falun Gong practitioners, its discussion of the gangster's kidney harvesting ring introduced the subject of organ harvesting to the Chinese people. On the one hand, the Caijin story and the news about the 28 organ trafficking rings seemed to provide a kind of cover story for Jiang's faction: the organs used in transplantation in China were provided by criminal gangs. At the same time, the cover story that the gangs did it could only serve as a pretext. It could never satisfy even momentary scrutiny by someone knowledgeable about the issue. On the other hand, the Caijin story showed how the gangster on trial had merely fit into a previously existing system that involved Public Security, the courts, military hospitals, and surgeons. It gave the Chinese people a hint as to the giant, state-sponsored organ network that was feeding China's transplantation industry. On Sept. 17, the deputy minister of Ministry of Health of the People's Republic of China, Huang Jiefu, tried another approach to confuse the issue. Huang gave Caijin an exclusive interview in which he said that 35 percent of organ transplantations use organs sourced from living bodies, meaning voluntary donors. Since, for cultural reasons, China's voluntary organ donation program is almost non-existent, Huang's statement is obviously false. He perhaps felt the need to give it due to an event the week before in D.C. and an event scheduled to happen the next day in Geneva. On Sept. 12, a hearing was held in the U.S. Congress on organ harvesting. On Sept. 18, Annette Jun Guo, the editor-in-chief of The Epoch Times, addressed the 16th Plenary Meeting of the U.N. Human Rights Council, calling for an investigation into organ harvesting in China. This growing international attention restricts the ability of the CCP to simply deny that forced, live organ harvesting has taken place. Chinese outside of China hear about it, and then those inside of China become informed also. More was revealed a few days after Xinhua announced on Sept. 28 that Bo Xilai was expelled from the Party and would be tried in a criminal court. The microblog Weibo removed the keyword ban on the word for "live organ harvesting." Lifting such a ban is a kind of tease. People in China can see the search results but can't read the articles. The timing of the relaxation of this censorship was a reminder to those within the regime that Bo Xilai could still be tried for crimes other than "corruption," while at the same time once more feeding the Chinese public another teaspoon of information about the mass atrocities. Next … Scapegoat |
| CNPC building its own oil tanker fleet Posted: 24 Oct 2012 04:06 AM PDT In September, the National Development and Reform Commission, China's economic planner, approved the building of ultra large oil tankers by a joint-venture shipbuilding firm established by China Natio... |
| Two graves in Guangdong bringing down a shoe market Posted: 24 Oct 2012 03:46 AM PDT Various traffic accidents have occurred near the Daling Shoe Materials Market in Huizhou in southern China's Guangdong province, and shopkeepers believe the presence of two adjacent graves is to blame... |
| China's top planning body stresses railway investment Posted: 24 Oct 2012 03:34 AM PDT China's National Development and Reform Commission, the country's top economic planning body, has called for increased efforts to reach this year's railway investment target. Xu Xianping, vice mini... |
| Top China Stories from WSJ: Army Shake-Up, U.S. Debate Reaction Posted: 23 Oct 2012 06:58 PM PDT China began a sweeping shuffle of its military top brass; China's online community watched Monday night's foreign policy debate between U.S. presidential candidates with a mix of fascination and bemusement. |
| Nobel literature judge Malmqvist defends choice of Mo Yan Posted: 24 Oct 2012 02:22 AM PDT Goran Malmqvist, a member of the Swedish Academy and a prominent sinologist, has hit back at criticism over the academy's selection of Chinese novelist Mo Yan as the winner of this year's Nobel prize ... |
| Chinese businessman arrested in Spain in major smuggling bust Posted: 24 Oct 2012 02:22 AM PDT Police in Spain on Sunday arrested Gao Ping, a local Chinese businessman and a member of the Zhejiang province political consultative conference, on 13 charges including smuggling goods from China, mo... |
| Chinese tourists begin returning to Japan Posted: 24 Oct 2012 02:18 AM PDT A Chinese tour group of 1,500 Shanghai residents arrived at Yatsushiro in Japan's Kumamoto prefecture aboard the Italian cruise ship Costa Victoria on Oct. 20, reports Hong Kong's Ming Pao newspaper. ... |
| China's high-end manufacturing booms on the fast track Posted: 24 Oct 2012 02:06 AM PDT Those traveling by train would once have had to spend almost an entire day or night in a crammed compartment to get from Beijing to Shanghai, a distance equivalent to traveling from New York to Atlant... |
| Microblog helps Chinese 12 yr old recover RMB1.1m Posted: 24 Oct 2012 02:06 AM PDT After a debtor paid most of what was owed to her family, 12-year-old Lin Haoru finally felt relieved. The young girl's family may never have received the money, 1.1 million yuan (US$176,000), if it... |
| China News Broadcast, October 23, 2012: Reshuffle of PLA Positions Posted: 23 Oct 2012 01:58 PM PDT The Chinese regime announces a reshuffling of senior military leaders. The Chinese regime hints it may reduce the influence of the ideologies of Mao Zedong, ahead of its 18th Party Congress. |
| Seniors in Taiwan not getting the care they need: hospital Posted: 24 Oct 2012 01:54 AM PDT Only about 4% of senior citizens in Taiwan who need long-term care get the necessary care at medical institutions or nursing homes, a hospital official said Monday. The number of senior citizens n... |
| HTC responds to complaint it axed jobs without notice Posted: 24 Oct 2012 01:50 AM PDT Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC on Monday responded to a complaint that it has been axing jobs of contract workers without informing them in advance by saying that it always complies with labor laws. ... |
| Guangzhou to give priority to child safety in natural disasters Posted: 24 Oct 2012 01:50 AM PDT Guangzhou intends to introduce a new law which requires parents and guardians to make the safety of minors a priority during fires and natural disasters, reports the city's Southern Metropolis Daily. ... |
| 3 more Tibetans died after self-immolation in Northwest China Posted: 23 Oct 2012 05:05 PM PDT Gansu, China – Three cases of self-immolation occurred in the last four days in Xiahe County, a southern region in China's northwestern Gansu Province since October 20. On October 23, a 57-year-old Tibetan set himself on fire in front of a local Armed Force Department of Chinese Communist Party, according to Voice of Tibet. A clash between local Tibetans and police started when the police tried to take away the body. The victim was later identified as Dorje Rinchen, was married with two children at home. Another Tibetan man set himself on fire and died at a prominent monastery on October 22. The victim, identified as Dhondup, 63, set fire to himself near the prayer hall at the remote Labrang Monastery. A 27-year-old young man set himself on fire outside Xiahe's Bora monastery and died minutes later on October 20. According to statistics, to protesting against the strict policies on Tibet from Beijing, there were 60 Tibetans died in self-immolation in China over the past two years. FMN |
| China: Communist Party to Amend Constitution Posted: 22 Oct 2012 10:00 PM PDT China's Politburo decided on Monday that the Communist Party's Constitution should be amended. |
| China: Residents Protest Building of Coal Power Plant Posted: 22 Oct 2012 10:00 PM PDT Residents of a town in southern China said Monday that demonstrators protesting the building of a coal-fired power plant had sparred with police. |
| China: A Tibetan Protester Sets Himself on Fire Posted: 22 Oct 2012 10:00 PM PDT A Tibetan man, Dhondup, is believed to have died after he set himself on fire on Monday to protest Chinese rule. |
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