The Chinese are long since the aggressors where India is concerned. For some time now, China has been eyeing the North-East border state of Arunachal Pradesh and not even issuing visas to Indian tourists from that state of India to its country as it considers the residents of Arunachal Pradesh to be Chinese! India, it seems, is still to wake up from the all too real threat! Even after 146 incursions in 2006! Isnt that strange!
Do we ever stop and wonder how China makes goods so cheaply? It cant be cheap labor alone.
As per this report used condoms are being recycled into hair bands in southern China, threatening to spread sexually-transmittable diseases they were originally meant to prevent.People could be infected with AIDS, (genital) warts or other diseases if they hold the rubber bands or strings in their mouths while waving their hair into plaits or buns.
Leave it to the Chinese to recycle stuff!
Pollution could hinder Olympics in Beijing next year. Though China is trying to battle the scourge of pollution, it may not be possible to reduce the already high levels of polluted air in Beijing where the Olympics are scheduled to be held.The perma-haze in Beijing is certain to put a dampner on the Chinese enthusiasm because the Olympic Committee may not allow certain events to take place. According to the Wall Street Journal, some of the games may have to be rescheduled or even postponed.
Why is it that suddenly there is a deluge of news coming out of China about its tainted food?! It cant be an overnight happening. But there it is! The focus of the world is now on China's spurious and shoddy
products and adulterated food.
The latest in the line is Cardboard filled buns sold on the streets of Beijing! Yes, buns as in steamed buns.
The recipe goes like this: Cardboard is soaked in water and an industrial-use caustic soda, a poisonous chemical, is added. The cardboard loses its normal color and becomes fragile under the soda's strong causticity, making it look more like pork. Finally, pork-smell essence and pork fat are stirred into the concoction to make the stuffing more vivid and edible.Good grief! What next?
AGAIN!
And this time its car tires which have less rubber in their innards and hence more prone to getting heated up and bursting at high speeds. ’Made in China’ is now becoming a euphemism for ’Watch Out- Use at your own Risk’.
Watch the Chinese Brilliance BS6 sedan (made in China under the name of Zhonghua)failing the European car crash test,using Euro NCAP guidelines,at just 40m/h(64Km/h) and is aptly named bullshit by the uploader of this video.Predictably, that crappy car failed the test and got just one star rating for its dismal safety standards.
The internet has become a repository of knowledge and information which I think every person has a right to access. Nobody has a right to put any limits on this process.
However, many countries with oppressive regimes or totalitarian governments are trying to shape their cyber culture by controlling the internet through filters that they feel is needed to stem and gag news and opinions which they fear can shape political expression which is not in their interest.
The best known among those countries exercising online censorship is China who is trying to shape public opinion based on communist and socialist ideas.
In Russia, the FSB(formerly known as KGB) has a software in place that requires all ISPs to route their incoming and outgoing data via FSB computers. Even Australia, to some extent, has regulated its internet content.It is estimated that almost 40 countries use censorship and the practice is spreading.
Reporters Without Borders published an interactive map showing the “black holes” of communication – countries which have in one way or another censored the ’net.
And here is the shocker for me. My humble domain is blocked in China.I tested it on GreatFirewallofChina.org and saw the result.I reckon China has no use for my candid thoughts and insights. You can check any site on it and see if its blocked.
As per Amnesty International, nearly 70 crimes are punishable by execution, including non-violent crimes. The exact number of executions is not known because the government treats death penalty statistics as a state secret, in contravention of internationally accepted standards requiring all countries still using the death penalty to publish statistics on its use. Estimates are that the executions could run into thousands each year.
As per Amnesty's published report, the abuses documented include:
Must say that the Chinese have made an art out of imitation. By giving some funny twists to the named brands, they manage to trade in a variety of items.
A mix of the ancient and the modern, the downtrodden and the elite in the glorious People's Republic of China! Tall claims of economic prosperity and more transparency in public affairs is a bit out of touch with the
