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14/06/2014

‘Fake’ government toppled by Chinese police – Telegraph

It will go down as one of the most audacious attempts at Chinese fakery yet: a bid to forge an entire government.

Police in central China say they have brought down a 'counterfeit government'

That is what police claim happened in Dengzhou, a city 480 miles northwest of Shanghai, in Henan province, with more than 1.5 million inhabitants.

Three of the city’s farmers were this week facing charges of forging official documents after allegedly trying to build a parallel and entirely fictitious government for reasons that remain obscure, the local Dahe News Online website reported.

The “counterfeit government” began operating last September when Zhang Haixin, Ma Xianglan and Wang Liangshuang, three villagers, proclaimed themselves the leaders of the self-styled Dengzhou People’s Government.

The trio reportedly accused the incumbent Communist Party administration of “dereliction of duty” and opened their own headquarters just around the corner from those of the city’s real governors.

via ‘Fake’ government toppled by Chinese police – Telegraph.

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Tags: China, chinese police, Communists, Dengzhou, Dengzhou People's Government, Government, Henan, Henan province, Ma Xianglan, politics, Shanghai, Zhang Haixin

12/06/2014

China’s plans to control South China Sea; Philippines and Vietnam are just the beginning

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Tags: Beijing, China, economy, politics, South China Sea, transportation

08/05/2014

The Reluctant Prince of India’s Political Dynasty and His Anticampaign – Businessweek

Whither the House of Gandhi?

Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi at the district collector's office on April 12 in Amethi, India

The Nehru-Gandhi family has dominated Indian politics since the nation’s independence in 1947, but it now faces a walloping at the polls, possibly its worst ever. While voting in national elections won’t be finished until next month, every indication is the Congress Party—for which a Gandhi presides as president and vice president—will lose the prime minister’s seat and watch its share of parliament thin considerably.

The face of that probable political calamity is Rahul Gandhi, a 43-year-old, good-looking Cambridge man who speaks of the need for a more inclusive political process. And as I’ve heard more than one liberal, middle-class Indian acknowledge with regret in their voices, he’s not much of a public politician.

via The Reluctant Prince of India’s Political Dynasty and His Anticampaign – Businessweek.

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Tags: Cambridge, Gandhi, independence in 1947, India, Indian National Congress, Indian politics, Narendra Modi, national elections, Nehru–Gandhi family, political dynasty, politics, rahul gandhi

29/03/2014

This is why Germany doesn’t want China anywhere near Berlin’s holocaust memorial

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Tags: China, communist party of china, politics

03/03/2014

China’s bloody train station attack shows how terrorism is spreading out of Xinjiang

The map does seem to show that terrorism is moving well outside of Xinjiang into major urban areas.

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Tags: China, politics, Xinjiang

09/02/2014

The party and the media: Learning to spin | The Economist

T WAS not a typical government press conference. A journalist had asked a mayor some pointed questions about the safety of a paraxylene chemical factory planned for her city—the same type of plant that has prompted environmental protests around China. The mayor dodged the question in standard government-speak when the reporter, a portly man in a checked shirt and blue jeans, rudely interrupted her: “Please answer my question directly.” The room erupted with laughter.

This was, it turns out, a class at the China Executive Leadership Academy Pudong (CELAP) in Shanghai—one of five national schools for training Communist Party members. The “mayor” and the “journalist” were both low-level officials from Zhengzhou, an inland city, simulating a real-life situation in a class teaching functionaries how to cope with today’s media.

The party still exerts firm control when it comes to anything sensitive. But outside politics the media landscape has changed completely. Consumer programmes, investigative reporters and a noisy mix of microbloggers and middle-class NIMBYs are holding the party more to account. The classes at CELAP demonstrate that the leadership has understood what is at stake, even if it is still learning how to deal with it. Some of the party’s biggest recent problems have come from mishandling the newly probing media.

The message of the classes is clear: officials must be more responsive to the press and the public even as they toe the party line. Environmental protests, angry villagers talking to global media and spokesmen stumbling in news conferences have become teaching opportunities.

via The party and the media: Learning to spin | The Economist.

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Tags: CELAP, China, China Executive Leadership Academy in Pudong, China Executive Leadership Academy Pudong, pointed questions, politics, Shanghai, typical government press conference, Zhengzhou

05/01/2014

* China says its massive navy buildup is world’s biggest

China is no 2 to US in economic terms. Soon (if not already) it will be no 2 in military terms as well.

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Tags: Business, China, Chinese language, Japan, Media of China, Military, navy, People's Liberation Army Navy, politics, Senkaku Islands

04/01/2014

AAP to contest Lok Sabha polls – The Hindu

The Aam Aadmi Party (Common Man Party) announced on Saturday that it will contest most seats in the upcoming Lok Sabha election.

Delhi Chief Minister and AAP convenor Arvind Kejriwal leaves after attending the National Executive meeting of the party in New Delhi on Saturday. Photo: Shanker Chakravarty

AAP leader Prashant Bhushan said the decision was taken at the start of a two-day national executive meeting following the popular response across the country after the AAP took power in Delhi.

“AAP will fight the Lok Sabha election, contest in the maximum number of states, and in as many seats as possible,” he told the media in New Delhi.

He said the AAP will field candidates wherever “we have a reasonable (party) structure and we get good candidates”.

Another AAP leader, Sanjay Singh, added that the decision to enter the Lok Sabha battle had nothing to do with other political parties.

“We have made it clear that we have no alliance with the Congress in Delhi.

“We are not fighting elections to harm or benefit anyone,” he said, adding it made no difference whether the AAP decision harmed or benefited BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi or Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi.

via AAP to contest Lok Sabha polls – The Hindu.

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Tags: Aam Aadmi Party, contest, India, Lok Sabha, lok sabha elections, politics, Prashant Bhushan

04/01/2014

Gandhi Rises in India Ruling Party as Singh Says He’ll Step Down – Businessweek

Rahul Gandhi is poised to lead India if the ruling Congress party wins the next election after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh signaled his support for the next member of the country’s famed political dynasty.

India's Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi

Singh, who yesterday announced he would step down after a general election that must be held before May, said Gandhi has “outstanding credentials” to run the world’s largest democracy. His immediate task is reviving a party that has seen its popularity fall under Singh on corruption scandals, Asia’s fastest inflation and an economy struggling to expand.

“If they had gone into the election with Singh as the prime minister, the party would have been dead on arrival,” said Brahma Chellaney, a professor at the Centre for Policy Research in New Delhi who worked on an economic task force led by Singh. “Removing the dead wood was essential if there’s any hope of winning some degree of credibility with the voters.”

via Gandhi Rises in India Ruling Party as Singh Says He’ll Step Down – Businessweek.

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Tags: congress party, India, national congress, political dynasty, politics, prime minister manmohan singh, rahul gandhi

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