The League of Authoritarian Gentlemen - By Alexander Cooley | Foreign Policy
Showing posts with label China. Show all posts
Showing posts with label China. Show all posts
Monday, February 4, 2013
THUGS OF THE WORLD UNITE: The League of Authoritarian Gentlemen - By Alexander Cooley | Foreign Policy
BAD NEWS FOR DEMOCRACY, HUMAN RIGHTS, CIVIL RIGHTS
The League of Authoritarian Gentlemen - By Alexander Cooley | Foreign Policy
The League of Authoritarian Gentlemen - By Alexander Cooley | Foreign Policy
Sunday, April 29, 2012
China: Protect Chen Guangcheng From Extrajudicial Violence | Human Rights Watch
New York) – The Chinese government should immediately guarantee blind human rights defender Chen Guangcheng’s safety, end its persecution of him and his family, and ensure that he is not returned to any form of detention or subject to any restrictions on his rights, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch has been calling for Chen’s release since 2006.
Chen, a blind legal activist, is reported to have escaped from his home village of Dongshigu in Shandong province on April 22, 2012, after 19 months of unlawful detention. According to activists, Chen is reportedly in a “100% safe location” in Beijing. Chen described his escape in a video circulated on the Chinese-language website Boxun earlier today. In the video, Chen appeals to Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao to “personally intervene” by opening an investigation on Chen and his family’s confinement and “those who ordered county-level police and officials to break into my house, beat and hurt me, refused me medical attention – without any legal foundation or officers wearing uniforms.”
“The central government has for years condoned, abetted, and possibly directed the human rights abuses visited upon Chen and his family,” said Sophie Richardson, China director at Human Rights Watch. “We’re well past the time when the government should focus on the conduct of officials in Shandong, and cease persecution of someone whose activism is wholly legal.”
In June 2005, Chen filed a class action lawsuit accusing officials in Linyi, Shandong Province, of seeking to enforce strict population control laws by subjecting thousands of people to forced abortions and sterilization.
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Blinded by Beijing
Blinded by Beijing
Congressional report highlights U.S. intelligence failures regarding China military buildup
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U.S. government and private analysts missed the emergence of significant military developments by China that caught intelligence agencies by surprise, according to a congressional commission report.
New Chinese military developments that caught the United States off guard included new attack submarines, an anti-satellite missile system, aircraft carrier-killing missiles, and a new stealth jet.
“A decade on, it is now clear that much of the conventional wisdom about China dating from the turn of the century has proven to be dramatically wrong,” says the staff report by the U.S. China Economic and Security Review Commission, a congressional group.
“These predictive errors carry with them serious geopolitical consequences,” said the report, made public April 5. “To avoid being similarly caught off-guard in 2022, U.S. analysts should carefully reexamine many of their widely-held assumptions about the Chinese government and its policy goals.”
Sunday, February 5, 2012
International condemnation of Russia-China veto on Syrian crisis
International condemnation of Russia-China veto on Syrian crisis
Sunday, 05 February 2012
Russia’s U.N. ambassador Vitaly Churkin has justified his country’s veto of a U.N. resolution on Syria by saying it “sent an unbalanced signal to the Syrian parties.” (Reuters)
Western and Arab powers Saturday reacted angrily to Russia and China’s veto of a Security Council resolution on the Syria crisis, but Moscow and Beijing insisted the text needed more work.
Russia, a long-time Syrian ally, and China had earlier vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution condemning the Syrian government’s deadly crackdown despite reports by Syrian activists that troops overnight had killed 230 civilians in the city of Homs.
Russia’s U.N. ambassador Vitaly Churkin justified the veto by saying the proposed resolution “sent an unbalanced signal to the Syrian parties.”
Russia, a long-time Syrian ally, and China had earlier vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution condemning the Syrian government’s deadly crackdown despite reports by Syrian activists that troops overnight had killed 230 civilians in the city of Homs.
Russia’s U.N. ambassador Vitaly Churkin justified the veto by saying the proposed resolution “sent an unbalanced signal to the Syrian parties.”
Russia had complained that the draft resolution was an improper and biased attempt at “regime change” in Syria, which is Moscow's sole major Middle East ally, an important buyer of Russian arms exports and host to a Russian naval base.
Saturday, February 4, 2012
West deplores veto on Syria at UN
West deplores Syria draft UN veto by Russia and China
Paul Wood, and cameraman Fred Scott, were smuggled into Homs
Western nations have deplored the vetoing by Russia and China of a UN resolution condemning the crackdown in Syria on anti-government protests.
Russia and China said the proposed draft was "unbalanced".
The document was rejected just hours after activists accused Syrian troops of killing at least 55 people in Homs.
A BBC correspondent who entered the Syrian city with rebels after the vote says gun and shell fire can be heard there.
'Disgusted'
The US ambassador to the UN, Susan Rice, described the veto on Saturday as "shameful".
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Friday, December 2, 2011
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