Today´s Links: Xinjiang info-war, China aims high in renewable energy, reactions to the banning of English-language newspaper´s in Taiwan
Xinjiang Info-War [RConversation] "Exiled Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer mistakenly made prominent use in interviews of a photo that turned out to be from riots in Shishou, Hubei province, in late June. Roland Soong at ESWN has a full account of how the photo came to be misconstrued and misused. Apparently, the source of the error was Reuters, who had sourced the photo from Twitter and put it out on the wire before recalling it."
China's Urumqi tense after police shooting [AFP] "URUMQI - A mosque was closed and many businesses were shuttered near where police shot dead two Muslim Uighurs, as ethnic tensions simmered in China's restive Urumqi city."
Drawing Critics, China Seeks to Dominate in Renewable Energy [NewYorkTimes] "BEIJING - When the United States’ top energy and commerce officials arrive in China on Tuesday, they will land in the middle of a building storm over China’s protectionist tactics to become the world’s leader in renewable energy."
Blown away by a Beijing wind farm [Greenpeace.org] "On a weekend in June, Greenpeace China took two bus loads of supporters to visit Guanting Wind Farm - the closest wind farm to Beijing. Guanting Wind Farm is about 70 km, or a 90-minute drive from the capital and just a stone´s throw away from the Badaling section of the Great Wall. The beauty of wind energy is that it is so clean. It is very common for newly weds to get their portraits snapped, the bride in white, the groom in a tux, embracing in front of a turbine.That's how sexy wind farms are."
TAIWAN: Analysts debate 'China Daily' case [AsiaMedia] "One academic says revoking 'China Daily' newspaper's license had political overtones, while another says allowing China-based publications into Taiwan should be used as a bargaining toll.The government's recent decision to revoke a China-based English-language newspaper's license to publish in Taiwan drew mixed reactions from analysts."
Police bust illegal pyramid selling ring involving 409 people in C China [ChinaView] "CHONGQING, July 13 (Xinhua) - Police in central China's Chongqing Municipality have broken up a pyramid selling ring involving 409 people and detained more than 120, a local police officer said Monday."
China Broadens Steel Inquiry Beyond Rio Tinto [New York Times] "The Chinese authorities have detained or questioned at least seven Chinese steel industry executives in a broadening corruption investigation connected to the detentions last week of four employees of the mining giant Rio Tinto, state-controlled news media reported Monday."
Kadeer knows how many favors she got from China's minority policy in tax, education and birht control. She was even allowed to leave the country when her company still owed CHina Construction Bank 23 million loan and 4.5 million down-payment to department buyers including 30 Uighur middle-class who are still sueing her.
AP has a relative fair report:
---"A week before the Xinjiang riot, the hottest topic on the Internet — the most freewheeling public forum in China — was outrage over a top-scorer in the ultra-competitive college entrance exam.
The 17-year-old Han Chinese student's family falsely listed him as a minority, entitling him to 20 extra points and giving him a boost in landing places in top schools. The subterfuge, discovered by education officials, cut across notions of fairness in a society that for hundreds of years has seen standardized exams as a channel for merit-based advancement.
Fairness is more complicated when different ethnic groups are involved. Han Chinese tend to view ethnic minorities as privileged groups, generally exempt from the disliked one-child family planning limits and helped by reserved spots for government jobs and in universities.
Meanwhile, ethnic minorities see themselves as underprivileged, many of them poorer than the Han Chinese and with lesser education and language skills that make it harder to compete. It's worse for the Tibetans and the Uighurs, who see the Han as elbowing into what they regard as their homelands". http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gU-HMCbpUVLkSLuxgoG_eFtEhlsAD9
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Kadeer knows how many favors she got from China's minority policy in tax, education and birht control. She was even allowed to leave the country when her company still owed CHina Construction Bank 23 million loan and 4.5 million down-payment to department buyers including 30 Uighur middle-class who are still sueing her.
AP has a relative fair report:
---"A week before the Xinjiang riot, the hottest topic on the Internet — the most freewheeling public forum in China — was outrage over a top-scorer in the ultra-competitive college entrance exam.
The 17-year-old Han Chinese student's family falsely listed him as a minority, entitling him to 20 extra points and giving him a boost in landing places in top schools. The subterfuge, discovered by education officials, cut across notions of fairness in a society that for hundreds of years has seen standardized exams as a channel for merit-based advancement.
Fairness is more complicated when different ethnic groups are involved. Han Chinese tend to view ethnic minorities as privileged groups, generally exempt from the disliked one-child family planning limits and helped by reserved spots for government jobs and in universities.
Meanwhile, ethnic minorities see themselves as underprivileged, many of them poorer than the Han Chinese and with lesser education and language skills that make it harder to compete. It's worse for the Tibetans and the Uighurs, who see the Han as elbowing into what they regard as their homelands".
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gU-HMCbpUVLkSLuxgoG_eFtEhlsAD9