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- Prepare to fight China, Qaeda figure tells Uighurs [Washington Post] "A prominent al Qaeda militant urged Uighurs in Xianjiang to make serious preparations for a holy war against "oppressive" China and called on fellow Muslims to offer support. Abu Yahya al-Libi, in a video posted on an Islamist website on Wednesday, warned China of a fate similar to that of former communist superpower, the Soviet Union, which disintegrated some two decades ago."
- Inside the Ring [Washington Times] "China's most senior military intelligence official, a veteran of spy operations in Europe and cyberspace, recently made a secret visit to the United States and complained to the Pentagon about the press leak on the Chinese submarine that secretly shadowed the USS Kitty Hawk aircraft carrier in 2006. Maj. Gen. Yang Hui said senior Chinese leaders suspected the Pentagon deliberately disclosed the encounter as part of a U.S. effort to send a political message of displeasure to China's military."
- A Beautiful Life: Mean Streets and Meaner People [NYTimes] "It takes nerve to award Bai Ling a singing role in a serious drama, but nerve may be the one thing “A Beautiful Life” does not lack. Set among the mean streets and meaner people of downtown Los Angeles, this laughably clichéd dive into sexual masochism and hardscrabble survival replaces story with outline and characters with place holders. No wonder Ms. Ling’s breasts are the most animated objects on screen."
- Where China leads, the US follows [Guardian.co.uk] "Reaching the parts other countries cannot reach, China did the Obama administration a noteworthy favour this week, persuading North Korea's eccentric godfather, Kim Jong-il, to cool it after months of name-calling, missile firings and a nuclear test. The price of the Dear Leader's compliance? The chance to talk directly to the Americans. "Hostile relations [with] the US should be converted into peaceful ties through bilateral talks without fail," Kim said."
- Did China invent every sport? [Urbanatomy] "It is a common misconception that, while the British invented every sport, they are crap at all of them. Don’t get me wrong, the second bit is 100 percent accurate, but scratch the surface and you’ll soon discover that it was in fact the Chinese who invented every sport. That’s right, all of them. Ever."
- China torn over Internet freedoms [Asia Times Online] "With access to the Internet, Chinese people nowadays enjoy unprecedented freedom of speech, though they often still need to exercise this right under pseudonyms. To a certain extent, such online freedom of speech is now being encouraged by the central leadership of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) as it is of great help for them to have first-hand understanding of public sentiment and to supervise the behavior of local officials. At the same time, the CCP imposes tough censorship on any content on the Internet that is deemed a threat to its continued rule."
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"Holy war against China"? Dont forget to dip syringers into HIV blood before attack.
al qaeda is gay.
It's about time. China is certainly gay, AQ can have some fun packing PLA fudge.
If China invented every sport why is it the foreign devils had to teach them how to play?
The Chinese men's soccer team doesn't even belong on the field and the Asians who dominate golf seem to be named Kim more often than not.
And hockey? All white people all of the time.
Also, "inner" Mongolia is and forever will be Mongolian no matter how long the Han-jobbers occupy the place.
Re: Sports
Yes, it is really obnoxious the way that any obscure historical "evidence" is exploited to stake maximum claims that "China invented" so-and-so. The theories are spurious at best, based and weak evidence and false arguments and exist solely to further Chinese ethnic nationalism.
The sports story is just dumb. First of all, the article seems to equate past games with the present. "Man uses stick to hit ball into hole" does not equal "golf", for example. How many cultures have had a game where a person uses a stick to hit a ball into a hole, or uses a stick to hit a ball that someone throws at them, etc.? Probably most of them.
Secondly, the article recreates a common Chinese mistake of taking past cultures/nationalities and incorporating them into "China". For example, Mongolians are not Chinese. The fact that the Mongolian people in question lived in a place that is in the boundaries of modern China is beside the point. The commenter also commits this error. Altay is part of Xinjiang which, for most of the history of Xinjiang, has not been a part of China. Likewise, there was no such thing as China 2,800 years ago. There goes another claim of the blog.
China invented ALL sports, including Formula 1, Snowboarding, America's (soon to be renamed China's) Cup yachting, etc.
They just never bothered to implement rules on how to play and good sportsmanship...