Salem-News.com News Feed for articles tagged with china www.salem-news.com 2010 Washington has pressured the Philippines, whose government it owns, into conducting joint military exercises in the South China Sea. Washington’s excuse is that China has territorial disputes with the Philippines, Indonesia and other countries concerning island and sea rights in the South China Sea. http://salem-news.com/articles/may042012/china-conflict-pcr.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may042012/china-conflict-pcr.php Fri, 04 May 2012 20:50:00 PDT We were told that the vast amounts of stimulus monies that had been set aside and earmarked were to be dedicated to bringing our economy back from the brink. Why are these funds being spent to help Chinese industries and to provide jobs to Chinese workers when U.S. industries are hurting so badly and U.S. workers are losing their homes? http://salem-news.com/articles/may032012/chinese-workers-bc.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may032012/chinese-workers-bc.php Thu, 03 May 2012 11:30:00 PDT News of blind legal activist Chen Guangcheng has been censored for months. International news reports of his escape last week from incarceration in his home in Linyi, Shandong--apparently to U.S. protection--has only intensified that censorship. http://salem-news.com/articles/may022012/chen-guancheng-me.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may022012/chen-guancheng-me.php Wed, 02 May 2012 04:02:00 PDT We are pleased to announce the appointment of our writer William Gomes, to the position of Salem-News.com Human Rights Ambassador. In this rapidly changing world, we believe this newly-created position and program, are large steps in raising our effectiveness as a news agency. http://salem-news.com/articles/april162012/gomes-nomination-tk.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april162012/gomes-nomination-tk.php Mon, 16 Apr 2012 23:38:00 PDT Chinese officials in Beijing are warning against any joint military patrols or exercises between Vietnam and the Philippines in the disputed South China Sea. Vietnam and Philippines military officials have discussed conducting joint exercises in the disputed region in meetings earlier this month. http://salem-news.com/articles/april012012/china-sea-disputes-voa.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april012012/china-sea-disputes-voa.php Sun, 01 Apr 2012 20:28:00 PDT These are terrible times. They say someone at the Central Bank mucked up the economy. There is a balance of payments crisis. Investment hasn’t taken off. We are heavily indebted. If the rupee sinks any lower, God, we will have to ask the Chinese to do something about it. http://salem-news.com/articles/march302012/us-lanka-wimal-nw.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march302012/us-lanka-wimal-nw.php Fri, 30 Mar 2012 03:18:00 PDT India has made it clear to Sri Lanka that its vote on the US-backed resolution was aimed at s peeding up the reconciliation process in the island nation. However the move has sparked speculation whether it was a strategic misstep that could drive Colombo closer to Beijing http://salem-news.com/articles/march242012/lanka-china-mc.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march242012/lanka-china-mc.php Sat, 24 Mar 2012 18:01:00 PDT Gross National Happiness, rather than Gross National Product (GNP), is the national goal of the small Himalayan country of Bhutan. Occupy Salem member Laurie Dougherty recently visited Bhutan and will present what she learned about this remarkable concept in an exclusive presentation on March 7 at 7 p.m. in the Oregon PeaceWorks office. http://salem-news.com/articles/february292012/occupy-salem.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february292012/occupy-salem.php Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:38:00 PST As President Obama signs an executive order creating an Interagency Trade Enforcement Unit, U.S. Senator Ron Wyden – chairman of the U.S. Senate Finance Committee’s Subcommittee on International Trade, Customs and Global Competitiveness – issued a report illustrating why trade enforcement matters. The report, entitled “Losing the Environmental Goods Economy to China” is the latest in a series of reports... http://salem-news.com/articles/february282012/wyden-china.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february282012/wyden-china.php Tue, 28 Feb 2012 23:44:00 PST Moses Bak's* childhood friend faces imminent execution, but change.org says that with your help, he can save her. She and two dozen North Korean refugees in China are in a terrifying limbo -- the Chinese government wants to deport them back to North Korea, where the new "Supreme Leader" Kim Jong-Un is cracking down by shooting defectors on sight and vowing to kill "three generations" of their families. http://salem-news.com/articles/february232012/nkorea-china.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february232012/nkorea-china.php Thu, 23 Feb 2012 17:35:00 PST Public frustration in China over the government’s denial of basic rights and freedoms, magnified by a lack of rule of law.... Our goal with Eye on the World is to illustrate and highlight politically oriented problems and tragedies that traditional media channels don't have time or interest in covering. http://salem-news.com/articles/february192012/china-rights-wg.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february192012/china-rights-wg.php Sun, 19 Feb 2012 15:53:00 PST I believe there should be a new police investigation into the kung fu martial artist Bruce Lee’s mysterious and inexplicable sudden death at the young age of only thirty two. Echoing an immortal line from Bruce Lee’s film Fist of Fury, "How could a Fit Man Die?" Why would the Fittest Man in the World, take to carrying a gun about with him in his last few months on Earth? http://salem-news.com/articles/february082012/bruce-lee.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february082012/bruce-lee.php Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:56:00 PST The United Nations Security Council has just voted on a draft resolution concerning the ongoing violence in Syria. Russia and China were the only voting members to oppose the draft. And as permanent members of the UNSC, they had the option to use veto power to block the draft’s passage. http://salem-news.com/articles/february042012/syria-veto.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february042012/syria-veto.php Sat, 04 Feb 2012 15:22:00 PST China Knowledge reported that China Merchants Holdings Co Ltd, the country second largest port operator plans to increase its stakes by 30% in a container port in Colombo, Sri Lankan for USD 5.5 million. Upon completion of the acquisition, the Hong Kong-listed buyer will hold an 85% stake in the container port operator Colombo International Container Terminals Ltd or CICT from Sri Lankan conglomerate Aitken Spence PLC. http://salem-news.com/articles/january312012/china-lanka.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january312012/china-lanka.php Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:27:00 PST Only the blind do not see that the US government is preparing to attack Iran. According to Professor Michel Chossudovsky, “Active war preparations directed against Iran (with the involvement of Israel and NATO) were initiated in May 2003.” Washington has deployed missiles directed at Iran in its oil emirate puppet states, Oman and the UAE, and little doubt in the other US puppet states in the Middle East. http://salem-news.com/articles/january142012/washington-agenda-pcr.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january142012/washington-agenda-pcr.php Sat, 14 Jan 2012 17:33:00 PST Americans are slow at the draw, really painfully slow, and our inability to remember is a central theme when politicians decide which move to make next; especially when determining which country and people will be the next to "deserve" one of America's mighty military attacks. There was a time when people were a little less fat and sassy; they used to have a better fix on the impact of what it means to be poor, sick, and for God's sake to wage war on another country... http://salem-news.com/articles/january102012/iran-attack-tk.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january102012/iran-attack-tk.php Tue, 10 Jan 2012 11:52:00 PST An agony that many Tibetan and Tibet supporters continue to suffer, following the recent spate of self-immolations in Tibet, has now come to the fore of international media. http://salem-news.com/articles/december092011/tibetan-immolation.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december092011/tibetan-immolation.php Fri, 09 Dec 2011 15:27:00 PST Russia’s President Medvedev sent a sharp warning this week to Western powers over the planned NATO missile shield in Europe. He said if the plans go ahead without guarantees of Russia's safety, Moscow would deploy missiles of its own. Years of negotiations over the proposed shield, which America wants to place in Turkey and in former Warsaw Pact countries on Russia’s western border, have been deadlocked over the US refusal to agree to Russian participation in the project. http://salem-news.com/articles/november292011/gagnon-arms-rt.php http://salem-news.com/articles/november292011/gagnon-arms-rt.php Tue, 29 Nov 2011 19:42:00 PST The U.S. State Department has expressed concern over the detention of award-winning Chinese-American engineer Dr. Zhicheng Hu in China after more than 40,000 people from around the world joined a popular campaign on Change.org calling for his release. “We are concerned about the continued exit control on Dr. Hu, a U.S. citizen in China,” said a State Department official. http://salem-news.com/articles/november012011/zhicheng-hu.php http://salem-news.com/articles/november012011/zhicheng-hu.php Tue, 01 Nov 2011 16:22:00 PDT The Oregon Wine Industry has reported doubling wine revenues during this recession and exports look very good as Red Wine sales in Hong Kong has doubled just this past year, as the fast-increasing affluent Chinese are demanding quality imported wines. Capitalist Hong Kong now has more than 100,000 millionaires - a 33% increase since 2008. http://salem-news.com/articles/september282011/gorge-wheat-wine.php http://salem-news.com/articles/september282011/gorge-wheat-wine.php Wed, 28 Sep 2011 00:48:00 PDT China today assured its support to Sri Lanka to safeguard its sovereignty as the country gears up to face pressure at the forthcoming UN Human Rights Council meeting for a credible international probe into charges of humanitarian crimes during the war against LTTE. The assurance was given by top Chinese leader Wu Bangguo during his meeting with visiting Lankan Prime Minister D M Jayaratne, on the sidelines of the 15th China International Fair for Investment and Trade (CIFIT) at Chinese city of Xiamen. http://salem-news.com/articles/september082011/china-covers-lanka.php http://salem-news.com/articles/september082011/china-covers-lanka.php Thu, 08 Sep 2011 17:56:00 PDT A Wikileaks cable reveals that India viewed Western criticism of Sri Lanka's human rights record with concern as it felt shunning the island nation would drive it towards China. It might prove to be a political embarrassment for Congress in Tamil Nadu. http://salem-news.com/articles/september052011/india-west-concern.php http://salem-news.com/articles/september052011/india-west-concern.php Mon, 05 Sep 2011 00:54:00 PDT When it comes to political promises, Sri Lankans are born suckers. From S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike’s “Sinhala Only“ Utopia to his wife Sirimavo’s ˜“Rice from the Moon” to J.R. Jayewardene’s “Dharmishta Society” to Chandrika Kumaratunga’s “Eradication of Dooshanaya and Beeshanaya” to maestro Mahinda Rajapaksa’s “Miracle of Asia,” Sri Lankans from all walks of life – rich and the poor, educated and the uneducated, have all fallen for what has almost always been, crap. http://salem-news.com/articles/august052011/sri-lanka.php http://salem-news.com/articles/august052011/sri-lanka.php Fri, 05 Aug 2011 20:00:00 PDT Mahatma Gandhi acutely observed that “the greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.” To seek to reduce the suffering of those who are completely under one's domination, and unable to fight back, is truly a mark of a civilized society. http://salem-news.com/articles/july192011/animal-morals-ps.php http://salem-news.com/articles/july192011/animal-morals-ps.php Tue, 19 Jul 2011 03:43:00 PDT Just as Jesus and Christians suffered from the hands of oppressors, so do Falun Dafa practitioners nowadays face the most evil of persecutions the worlds' history ever witnessed. Falun Dafa (or Falun Gong) is a cultivation system in the Buddha School based on the principles of the Universe. http://salem-news.com/articles/june282011/falun-gong.php http://salem-news.com/articles/june282011/falun-gong.php Tue, 28 Jun 2011 21:37:00 PDT The corporate-financier funded NGOs that fomented the “Arab Spring” are now cultivating a united Baluchi front ahead of a proposed US-funded Baluchistan insurrection. As early as 2006, Baluchistan province has been viewed as a potential point of leverage against Islamabad and an opportunity to assert foreign intervention. http://salem-news.com/articles/may142011/baluchistan-insurrection-tc.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may142011/baluchistan-insurrection-tc.php Sat, 14 May 2011 16:36:00 PDT Ai Weiwei is the most famous artist in China, best known for his iconic "Bird's Nest" stadium that was the focal point of the Beijing Olympics. Ai has always pushed the envelope, both with his internationally-acclaimed art and with his outspoken criticism of the Chinese government, but these past weeks have brought Beijing's harshest crackdown on dissidents in more than a decade. And in early April government agents arrested Ai at the Beijing airport. http://salem-news.com/articles/april122011/ai-weiwei.php http://salem-news.com/articles/april122011/ai-weiwei.php Tue, 12 Apr 2011 07:00:00 PDT Born in 1945 in Philadelphia PA, Dr. Lawrence Davidson is professor of history at West Chester University in West Chester PA. His academic work is focused on the history of American foreign relations with the Middle East. He also teaches courses in the history of science and modern European intellectual history. http://salem-news.com/articles/march202011/lawrence-davidson-kz.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march202011/lawrence-davidson-kz.php Sun, 20 Mar 2011 20:04:00 PDT This is how the infant mortality clock functions: 19 children of 5 years or less die each minute; 1,140 each hour; 27,360 each day; 10 million each year. It is estimated that 99 percent out these 10 million deaths take place in developing countries. According to Save the Children Foundation, it is possible to reduce 60 percent of these deaths by carrying out simple and inexpensive measures. Such measures range from vaccines, oral rehydration, mosquito nets, to access to health care. http://salem-news.com/articles/march072011/child-death-cf.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march072011/child-death-cf.php Mon, 07 Mar 2011 20:11:00 PST A rare meteorological event occurring over the Chinese skies has left scientists scratching their heads. Two brilliant suns suddenly appeared in the sky. One sun, the normal, bright cheerful one that warms the Earth and lights the countryside continued to slide towards the horizon as dusk approached. The other "sun" suddenly flared to life. http://salem-news.com/articles/march072011/chinese-sun-ta.php http://salem-news.com/articles/march072011/chinese-sun-ta.php Mon, 07 Mar 2011 19:50:00 PST