Wang’s parent’s family home in Qingdao has had faeces thrown at their gate. The corridors around their home have been plastered with horrific slogans and their windows smashed. Due to this unbearable treatment, Wang’s parents have had no option but to leave their family home.

At the same time, there are a number of web users who wrote “It’s because we have Chinese people with conscience such as Wang Qianyuan that shows China has hope, and we show our respect to Wang and his family.” However these voices appear drowned out amidst the sense of nationalism fanned by Chinese official media.

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The student has also posted his own piece on the BBS, writing that “Some one said that the Tibetan issue is a result of weak tactics of the central government, and that the situation would be a lot better had the central government taken a more aggressive stance. Another person says that: you can only treat ignorant and barbaric people with force. A third person said that: the construction of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway and the Sichuan-Tibet railway is good because the government can send troops in. Another fellow student from Nanjing University posted by proxy that Tibetan people are unfriendly towards ethnic Chinese with nonsense like “the critical issue is that we have given them too much religious freedom.” Another person from Xingjian even wrote that “the way to treat minority groups is to assimilate with military force” with replies to this posting saying “Kill, kill and kill again.”

This student wrote in his posting that “reading posting after posting with comments like military mobilisation and killing…it was unimaginable that scholars from the highest education institution from a friendly country when faced with the current situation would only think of forceful methods, military oppression, assimilation and even killing”

Some commentators have said that this is a result of the long term mind control and enslaving under the dictator rule and lies of the Chinese Communist Party. These types of comments are a result of the autocratic education of the Chinese Communist Party and so it’s not strange at all.

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The protest was the first similar event in Beijing since the eruption of demonstrations against the Chinese communist regime in Tibet last week. At the same time, the Chinese communist regime continues its blockade of Lhasa, the capital of Tibet. The streets of Lhasa are lined with military police and armoured vehicles with officials searching private residents amidst the solemn atmosphere. The Tibetan demonstrations have meanwhile spread from Tibet to Sichuan, Qinghai and Gansu provinces and remote Tibetan regions. Many universities in western China have held peaceful demonstrations to express support for the Tibetans who are fighting the violent rule of the Chinese communist regime.

In Huilan region in Gansu province, over 500 ethnic Tibetan students staged a silent protest on March 16 at the Xibei Cultural University, posting materials around the university campus explaining the situation in Lhasa and actively supporting their fellow Tibetans.

At the same time, Tibetan students in Ganan Cooperation Teachers College have also staged protests, which turned into serious clashes with the Party Committee of the school. Currently, The Xinang Cultural University is under heavy surveillance by military police who fear that Tibetan students might begin to act.

According to sources, the Chinese communist regime has hugely increased the number of military in the western part of China, including parachute troops who are entering Tibet from the sky.

There has been news that the Chengdu Military Region is on first alert and they are dispatching troops to Tibet. Expert analysis points out that the arms outfit appearing on the streets of Lhasa indicates that the Chinese communist regime has already mobilised elite troops in this latest crackdown.

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After his release Guo said in an interview that the police came to question him at 3am and he asked them to come back during the daytime hours as his family was still in bed. He said that they then began to try to knock his door down but failed to achieve this. He then voluntarily opened the door at 5 o clock and went with them to be questioned.

Since being fired by the Nanjing Formal University for his humanitarian activities, he has become the deputy president of the New People’s Party composed of human rights campaigners.

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Li Chengrui, former Direct General for the National Bureau of Statistics and Gong Xiantian, Law Professor of Beijing University drafted the proposal and indicated that the phenomena of corruption has become more and more severe in the past 20 years. At present, the “trading of power and money” and unscrupulous merchants and officers corruption collectively exist in a large number.

The proposal also claimed that the regulation on declaration of income in 1995 were only on personal income, not on family properties; only on labour income, not on non-labour income; and only reported in the internal report, not announced to the public. Another regulation about reporting on family properties for provincial and ministerial level officials issued in 2001 did not provide information open to public.

Officials themselves and their family members including married children’s families were also embraced for the declaration in the proposal.

Li Chengrui, the founder of the proposal evaluating the authorities’ act on anti-corruption says that there is more fighting and the more corruption these days.

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Professor Shang said that China’s economic reforms have basically reached their desired goal, however political reform is yet to begin. This has resulted in Chinese society becoming one of two extremes, which has resulted in the growth and emergence of a plethora of corrupt practices and crimes. The professor then spoke of the unlawful evictions of people from their land. In some places, government officials stray far from the CCP’s disciplinary guidelines and do as they please, killing and cruelly injuring the common people.

The open letter also said that freedom of religion should be respected, the rights of the Family Church should be acknowledged in Chinese law. More churches and less prisons should be built he suggested. He also stated that all those who have been imprisoned for political reasons and speaking out, for example: Gao Zhisheng, Guo Feixiong, Hu Jia, Chen Guangcheng and others should be released immediately.

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This case code-named “Jupiter Action” mainly investigated the case where a large number of “Tiger Ester Artesunate Tablets” that are counterfeit produces of “Gui Medicine” trademark were found in southern China. Tiger esters containing artesunate is the antimalarial drug manufactured by China Guilin Pharmaceuticals Co. Ltd. The fake medicine collected by the investigating officers is difficult to differentiate from the genuine ones in appearance. After laboratory tests, scientists found the fake GUI drug does not contain tiger ester artesunate with some of them even containing toxic ingredients.

According to China’s Internet news, the related operation extended to Guangxi, Guangdong, Yunnan, Shandong, and other provinces as well as the China-Burma border areas. Chinese police cut off a major underground channel of the sale of fake tiger ester artesunate tablets from Southwest China to the Greater Mekong River sub-region. It is known that the arrested suspects have already sold 240,000 packets of the counterfeit tablets.

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According to Guo, since the 14th of November 2007, when he published eight open letters to President Hu Jintao and other Chinese Communist leaders, branches of Google and Yahoo in China placed censorship on his name. Guo indicated he has appointed his friend in America Zheng Cuizhu in the lawsuit against the two internet giants.

Google and Yahoo have signed agreements with the Chinese Communist regime, to censor and filter, “all information which threatens national security and social stability.”

Guo Quan expressed the ideologies to bring an end to Communism and promote the rights of people to select their own government, does not align with “information which threatens national security and social stability.” He has requested the two companies provide legal evidence in order to justify their actions.

Guo Quan owns a fashion company in his name. He said the censorship of his name has violated his financial and business rights. He feels the lawsuit will go ahead not only for his sole benefit, but to call for international support toward human rights in China.

To be continued

A college student from Hunan who had quit the CCP-affiliated Youth and Pioneer League expressed that the Communist Party is not elected by the people, without supervision, the Party officials abuse their power oppressing people. So he responded to the campaign and calls on more people to quit the Party (recording): ” The Communist Party controls all of the Mainland media. Whoever opposes to them will be jailed. The ordinary people have neither power nor influence, so it dares to suppress them. And nobody is in a position to supervise the Communist Party that gained its power through violence.”

Another Mainland student said, the Communist Party is too corrupt, the purpose of controlling the media is that CCP fears exposure of the crimes it commits (recording): “The government is gravely corrupt. The corruption has been so bad, for the television and broadcasting entities are run by the state and under the control of the Communist Party that would not publicize its own crimes.”

The students added that many sober-headed people, like our teacher in the past, had told them never to join the Communist Party (recording): “You know that many Chinese people have been awakened. When I took my college entrance exams, I asked my teacher what would be an ideal career for my future, our teacher said to me that whatever you do is fine, as long as you do not join the Communist Party.”

According to statistics made by the Epoch Times, more than 31 million people have quit the CCP and all of its affiliated organizations.

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As an exchange English teacher I worked only in that role in China, but always had an extra body in my classes watching and reporting on me. (It was a little disrespectful of them sitting at the back reading a newspaper as I taught the English teachers.)
Is it because of their devious nature expecting their exchange teachers to spy and so they thought I, too, was up to no good?

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Academics urge caution over Chinese collaboration

Anthea Lipsett

Thursday December 6, 2007

EducationGuardian.co.uk

British universities must stop courting China and start seeing the country as a threat, the former head of Nottingham University’s Chinese campus warned today.

In a report from the higher education thinktank Agora, the founding provost of Nottingham-Ningbo, Prof Ian Gow, claimed China wants to profit from the UK’s strengths in science and technology by absorbing the talent and intellectual property of its partners.

When it comes to higher education, China may be more of a threat than an opportunity, Gow said.

“British institutions must stop viewing this aggressively ambitious country through rose-tinted spectacles. Make no mistake, China wants to be the leading power in higher education, and it will extract what it can from the UK.”

Now pro-vice-chancellor at the University of West of England, having left Ningbo a year ago, the professor called British institutions “incredibly naïve” for handing over their research in key disciplines to get a foothold in China.

He predicts that institutions negotiating entry to China would gain it only on Chinese terms, with the country staying very much in control.

“The Chinese no longer have to persuade, they seem to have everyone eating out of their hands. The pull factor is being replaced by a push from the foreign institutions. But we are not thinking sufficiently about how to engineer a win-win situation. We are simply rushing to establish any sort of partnership to get out there,” he said.

“Unless emerging Sino-UK strategic alliances are better thought through, British higher education could be sorry.”

Universities bank on sending academics to spend one semester in China for two or three years, but Chinese students want to see more western faces in return for higher fees, he said.

“And the Chinese government want us to send our top research staff – and especially core research staff in the sciences – to work full-time for three years or longer.”

The report, British universities in China: The reality beyond the rhetoric, outlines the views of six key academics with personal experience of higher education partnerships in China and other countries.

They include the Institute of Education’s Prof Michael Shattock, Dr David Pilsbury, chief executive of the Worldwide Universities Network and Andrew Halper, partner and head of China business group Eversheds.

The report criticises the rush to set up campuses in China, warning that these ambitious ventures are “a leap in the dark”.

Agora’s director, Anna Fazackerley, said Chinese partners could prove “unknown quantities”, operating within a legal and cultural system institutions may not fully understand.

Institutions’ calculations about how many students and staff they would be able to attract could prove “alarmingly optimistic”, she added.

Pilsbury said: “There is a lot of excitement about overseas campuses, but I do not think people should underestimate how difficult it is to make these ventures a success.”

Only Nottingham and Liverpool universities have set up campuses in China so far. The University of Nottingham Ningbo is sponsored by the city of Ningbo and run by Nottingham with cooperation from Zhejiang Wanli University. While the Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU) is a partnership between both universities.

Both ventures are the first Sino-foreign universities in China to have the Chinese ministry of education’s approval.

City and Westminster universities in London were negotiating to establish campuses in China, but both are believed to have now pulled out. Imperial, King’s and University College London are all also thought to be looking at the possibility of setting up outposts in the country.

Several UK universities have established links and joint degrees with the 5,000 institutions in China.