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- December 27th, 2009
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justrecently has posted a new entry on: Little Press Reviews and Hermit's Scientific History
Teng Biao: Invalid Use of Testimony
Teng Biao (滕彪), a lawyer and one of the founders of the Open Constitution Initiative, has made a statement on a testimony to the Beijing Public Security Bureau which was apparently used as ̶…
- December 25th, 2009
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Excerpts from Hermit’s Memoirs: “My first Chinese American Pizza”
Bremen – As we all know, China was subjected to a century-and-a-half of humiliation and cruelty at the hands of the Western imperialist forces. There are many small stories of Chinese individual…
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Back in Prison – Liu Xiaobo Short Bio
Liu Xiaobo (刘晓波), president of the Chinese Independent Pen Center, once a lecturer at Beijing Normal University, and political commentator, has been sentenced to eleven years in jail for &…
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Xinhua Correspondents Learn from Mark Lynas*)
The following are excerpts from a Xinhua article of December 25 Wen’s whirlwind negotiations that afternoon [Dec 17] involved British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, German Chancellor Angela Merkel…
- December 24th, 2009
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justrecently has posted a new entry on: Little Press Reviews and Hermit's Scientific History
A Glimpse at China’s Social Security Programs
The National People’s Congress Standing Committee reviewed the State Council’s Report on the Promotion of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises, measures for creating employment, and rural so…
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Mark Lynas: “How China wrecked the Copenhagen Deal”
Mark Lynas, correspondent with the Guardian, gives his account on the defining hours of the Copenhagen Accord on December 18th. According to his report, China only agreed to the Accord on the conditio…
- December 23rd, 2009
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Hu Jia: Two Years in Prison
Hu Jia (胡佳) will have served two years of his prison sentence on December 27. When his wife Zeng Jinyan (曾金燕) told a Vietnamese friend some time ago that Hu would probably be released on Jun…
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CRI: Developed Countries’ Copenhagen Positions Inconsistent with Previous Agreements
The Copenhagen Accord is not the end, and the whole world should take responsibilities on a long road to come, writes Chen Tian (陈天), a commenter with China Radio International (CRI). Although all…
- December 22nd, 2009
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Becoming Yourself Again
Somewhere, I read this year that teaching minors in a comprehensive school is as demanding as an air traffic controller’s job. I can’t judge that, because I’ve never been an air traf…
- December 21st, 2009
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Commodities: Chinese Custom Duties
China is going to lower import customs duties on some 600 products next year, as agreed with the WTO, reports Liechtenstein’s Volksblatt, among them naphta and coal. Currently reduced rates on g…
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Searchwords of the Day
pornographic websites navigation This blog is here to help. Posted in blogging, media Tagged: blogging, business, media, ugliness
- December 20th, 2009
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Mr Premier, are you ready?
U.S. president Barack Obama ran into a Chinese Wall of resistance and and delaying tactics, writes Austria’s online service OE24. The president had to get into China’s chief state councill…
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Press Review: Another visit by Chen Yunlin
Shamelessly biased of course, this piece from Taichung, Taiwan offers some useful background information to the agenda of another visit to Taiwan by China’s Association for Relations Across th…
- December 19th, 2009
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Net Nanny: Internet needs Rule
Comrades and Underlings, when children approach their parents, or when the tributaries of the world approach their Middle Kingdom Emperor (or his viceroy overseas), they should ketou, or at least they…
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Winter
Who says there won’t be a white christmas anymore? Snow is falling, has been falling since yesterday morning. It had started on the coast some twenty-four hours earlier, and then started moving…
- December 18th, 2009
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Copenhagen Summit: Make it, or Fuck it Up, but Stop Bitching
The UN Climate summit in Copenhagen isn’t over yet, and it’s too early to call it a failure. Then again, it’s probably also too late to turn it into a real success. That may have to…
- December 17th, 2009
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Concerning Hakan Kivanç
Searchwords for this blog suggest that there is a strong interest in Turkey’s former Consul General in Düsseldorf, Mr Hakan Kivanç. It appears that he is no longer in charge there. The German…
- December 16th, 2009
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A Fair Trial, according to the Relevant Laws
If you are looking for a seasonal piece of prose you can read to your loved ones on one of these comfy winter evenings in the northern hemisphere, why not choosing A Fair Trial. That stuff is of cours…
- December 15th, 2009
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Climate Change Control: Who should Foot the Bill?
The worst thing that can happen to the Copenhagen summit would be a blame game, based on different ideological concepts. I thought I wouldn’t start a discussion about it yet, but I joined one on…
- December 14th, 2009
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Steiff Stuffed Animals: Closer to Home
Steiff GmbH is reportedly phasing out production in China after six years. Back then, the dapper company had created a cheap brand, Cosy Friends. One reason to cease the China engagement was quality.…
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Obituary: Paul Samuelson, 1915 – 2009
He was no friend of Schumpeter’s theory of creative destruction. He advocated the rule of law – capitalism needed rules, he said. In an interview with Der Spiegel a few years ago, he accus…
- December 13th, 2009
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Weekender: What’s Wrong with Overcapacity?
The European Union Chamber of Commerce in China (EUCCC) has warned that Beijing’s stimulus spending had fuelled massive overexpansion in steel and other industries that could force companies to…
- December 12th, 2009
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Just asking
You know… don’t get me wrong, dear Turkish fellow citizens of the world… and no offence meant. But why the fuss about the ban on new minarets in Switzerland, while Abdurrahman Yalcin…
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One ECFA, different Interpretations
Shen Zewei (沈泽玮), in an article for Singapore’s Morning Post, shows concern for the governing KMT’s communication skills. While the opposition is thriving on criticizing ECFA (Econom…
- December 11th, 2009
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London: A Flurry of “Justice”
The British government will reportedly advise retailers and importers to distinguish on labels whether imported goods from the West Bank were made by settlements or by Palestinians. It looks like a go…
- December 10th, 2009
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Liu Xiaobo: Police end “Investigation Phase”
After keeping him under arrest for a year without formal charges, police have now presented a case against Liu Xiaobo (劉曉波), after extending the investigations three times, reports the Taipei T…
- December 9th, 2009
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Kadeer: Addressing Xinjiang Issue Serves Stability
Rebiya Kadeer, chairwoman of the World Uyghur Congress (WUC), is currently in Austria. Die Presse, Vienna, Austria, published an interview with Rebiya Kadeer yesterday. The following are excerpts from…
- December 8th, 2009
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Interpreting Taiwan’s Local Elections
If the numbers of elected or reelected local officials was all that counted, the KMT could claim to have added another victory to their success in the presidential elections of 2008. Seventeen mayor a…
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Charter 08 Seminar held in Shandong Province
Liu Xiaobo (刘晓波) was detained on suspicion of “inciting subversion of state power” on December 8 a year ago. Hours later, Charter 08, a document that Liu helped to draft, was release…
- December 6th, 2009
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China and one of its Biggest Threats team up for Copenhagen and Against even Bigger Threats
China and India are hardly the greatest friends. In June last year, the Asian Development Bank approved a loan for India which included $60 million for a flood management, water supply and sanitation…
- December 1st, 2009
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Swiss Voters are Crapping their Pants…
… and naturally, that stinks. I agree with Taide that the ban on the building of minarets in Switzerland, decided in Sunday’s referendum, is a sample of philistine cowardice. Posted in h…
- November 30th, 2009
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Swiss Ban on Minarets: Philistine Cowardice
So they’ve dunnit. The Swiss have voted in favour of a ban on building further minarets in their country. Four minarets atop mosques had been built until yesterday, reports the Los Angeles Time…
- November 29th, 2009
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Good Ganbu’s Friday Nights
Comrades: I know that you have become somewhat decadent and politically unconscious, and that worries me. Us old Ganbus are old and unflinching revolutionaries who will never forget the bitter past an…
- November 27th, 2009
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justrecently has posted a new entry on: Taide's Weblog
Syria: A Celebrity and a Politician
You can parade your decadent dog in Syria if you are one of the country’s affluent folks (if you aren’t, you can’t, because it’s costly, and besides, your family would never t…
- November 24th, 2009
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Alleged Spies on Uyghur Community house-searched in Munich
Germany’s Federal Criminal Police Office (Bundeskriminalamt, BKA) has searched the flats of four persons in Munich who are believed to work as intelligence agents for the Chinese government. The…
- November 20th, 2009
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Weekender: Expressing Myself
I started blogging more than a year and a half ago, in April last year. I felt the desire to express my views, without publishing my real name on the internet with every post. I don’t think that…
- November 14th, 2009
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Robert Enke, One of the Last Defenders
Once in a while, I’m teasing a friend from Portugal. Portugal is the country where the evening news start with soccer results, and more soccer results, and lots of backgrounders, and comments fr…
- November 13th, 2009
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Russian Orthodox Church stops Cooperation with Germany’s Lutherans
Margot Kässmann (or Käßmann) is a Lutheran bishop here in Germany. Last month, she was elected to lead the Evangelical Church in Germany (Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland, EKD). Now the Russian O…
- November 9th, 2009
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JR takes Historic Break from Blogging
And with that, I’m leaving this blog alone for a while, i. e. for ten days. It takes discipline to keep blogging, but it may also take discipline to stay away from it. As a blogger on China-rela…
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Where Were You on November 9th, 1989?
After tons of devoted readers have asked JR this question, he has decided to answer. JR was asleep. Until a moment ago, he believed that Nov. 9, 1989 was on a Tuesday. But it was in fact on a Thursday…
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Jia Qinglin: Great Rejuvenation
Ten non-governmental organizations (民间团体) arranged a symposium on agriculture, fisheries, and water resources cooperation in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, on Sunday, reports Central Daily News. C…
- November 8th, 2009
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Wen in Arabia: Trusted Brothers
“There is an Arab saying which goes, “Whoever drinks the Nile water is sure to come back again.” Three years ago, right in front of the pyramid by the Nile, I joined people from Egyp…
- November 7th, 2009
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No Exquisite Slides for the General Public
The following is a translation of a notice on the Xinmin Website (Shanghai) - Offense Reporting Center exposes a Batch of Websites with Vulgar Content Xinmin / China Network (中国网), November 6 &#…
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Sovereignty is no mere Legal Issue
Many blogs help us to better understand Taiwan’s legal positions and its situation. They also help to question the CCP narrative (subscribed to at various degrees by the KMT, America, Japan, EU…
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Lee Kuan Yew: America must Strike a Balance
Lee Kuan Yew (李光耀), Singapore’s founding father and minister mentor, warned the US on Thursday that it risked losing global leadership if it did not remain engaged in Asia to balance China…
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The Latest Middle East Peace Initiative…
… comes from Ramallah, and somehow looks like a one-state proposal. Posted in America, blogging, human rights, international, military, propaganda, rule of law Tagged: accountability, America, b…
- November 6th, 2009
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justrecently has posted a new entry on: Taide's Weblog
Palestinian Leaders: Live with us in ONE State (and be very afraid)
A government, or an elected authority, must act in the best interest of its people. It wouldn’t be easy to argue that Fatah always had the Palestinians’ best interests in mind in the past…
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Weekender: General Motors isn’t Papa Bush
In a few days, it will all be remembered again: how the wall came down, how the British and French loved Germany so much that they preferred two Germanies, how Mikhail Gorbachev refused to play the vi…
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Xu Qiliang: A Blue Sky full of Peace and Hope
If General Xu Qiliang (许其亮), formerly Air Force Chief of Staff and now the PLA’s Deputy Chief of Staff, member of the Central Military Commission (CMC), and member of the 17th CPC Central…
