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• China Milk Scandal Firm Asked For Cover-up Help

  

  From Reuters, via the Washington Post:

  China’s latest food safety problem, involving the addition of the industrial chemical melamine to milk to cheat in quality tests, has caused public outrage and put the spotlight back on deficiencies in industry oversight and weak regulatory bodies.

  China has already said the city government in Shijiazhuang, home to the Sanlu Group whose contaminated milk sparked a recall now spread worldwide, sat on a report from the company about the tainting for more than a month, while Beijing hosted the Olympic Games.

  “Please can the government increase control and coordination of the media, to create a good environment for the recall of the company’s problem products,” the People’s Daily cited the letter from Sanlu as saying.

  “This is to avoid whipping up the issue and creating a negative influence in society,” it added.

  Read also a Los Angeles Times editorial on this issue, and a previous CDT post about the first lawsuit brought against Sanlu by parents of a sick baby.

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  • October 1, 2008 10:03 AM

• Video: Anxious Parents Queue Up To Return Poisoned Infant Milk Powder

  

  From the Shanghaiist blog:

  Anxious parents queue up yesterday afternoon at Sanlu Milk’s main distribution centre in Ruzhou, Henan (河南汝州) to return the infant milk powder they bought from the company. The queues spilt over into the streets and caused massive traffic jams.

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  • September 13, 2008 11:50 PM

• Videos: Inventions of the Great Ancient Chinese Empire

  

  China has been the source of some of the world’s most significant inventions, including the Four Great Inventions of ancient China: paper, the compass, gunpowder, and printing (both woodblock and movable type). The following are AOL videos entitled “Inventions of the Great Ancient Chinese Empire”, via the Youtube:

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  • September 13, 2008 11:37 PM

• Video: China’s Wild West

  

  From Current TV:

  Unlike their Hollywood friendly brethren, the Tibetans, the Uighurs of northwestern China, claim to be an oppressed minority group that no one has ever heard of. That is, unless the Chinese government publicizes an attack by Uighur insurgents, such as the one that killed 16 Chinese police officers on the eve of the Beijing Olympics. In this Vanguard report, Laura Ling travels to the wild-west frontier in China’s Gobi Desert, an area the Chinese named Xinjiang, or New Land, but a place many Uighurs believe should be an independent Uighur nation.

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  • August 27, 2008 2:49 PM

• Video: Would You Like a Fake Rolex With That Olympic T-shirt?

  

  From JapanProb:

  For those that missed their report on fake brand goods that aired before the Beijing Olympics, Fuji TV has aired a new report on fake Olympic t-shirts being sold on the streets the day after the Olympics ended:

  The t-shirts are being sold along with other popular counterfeit brand goods, and the sales are going on in broad daylight in front of the Bird’s Nest stadium that hosted the opening and closing ceremonies of the games. Foreign tourists are being sold the illegal goods in plain sight of police officers, who walk by without taking any action.

  Fuji TV’s staff buys a few of the Olympic staff shirts being sold after the street salesman assures them that it is not a fake. They take the shirts to actual Olympic staff members, who tell them they’ve bought a cheap imitation. Olympic t-shirts purchased on the street also prove to be fake, something that should be obvious given the fact that the shirts are being sold for one fourth the price of official shirts.

  When confronted afterwords about their products being fake, most street vendors declined to be interviewed. However, one vendor went into an angry rant about how just about everything out there in the world is fake, even people (Fuji TV took this as a reference to the lip-syncing scandal).

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  • August 26, 2008 10:10 PM

• ‘One Thing Is Clear: You Cannot Protest Legally In China’ (Videos)

  

  The Chicago Tribune’s Evan Osnos follows one woman’s quest to prove China’s commitment to free speech during Games:

  Shortly before the Olympics, the Chinese government announced the creation of special “protest zones” around Beijing, where people could legally express themselves — and China could showcase its commitment to free speech.

  Manuela Parrino is a 40-year-old Italian who has lived in Beijing for the last 41/2 years with her husband, an Italian television correspondent, and their son, Jacopo. “I was kind of fed up with all the visiting journalists talking negatively about China. I was at the press conference where they announced the new protest areas, and I thought, ‘OK, let’s give this a try.’ ”

  …The next day, she returned to the police station, where she was met by a fancy official black car with a driver. At the environment bureau she was greeted by a team of senior officials who embarked on a detailed presentation about China’s environmental policies and its investment in pollution control.

  “At 4:30, after three hours, I said, ‘This is all great. I appreciate what you are doing. But I have an aiyi who needs to leave at 5 p.m.,” said Parrino, speaking in English during the interview and using the Chinese term for a nanny. The experts implored her to stay, and before long, a more senior official arrived to add his insights.

  “At one point, I said, ‘Everyone has been very nice to me for the last two days. Would it be the same if I was a Chinese citizen?’ They said, ‘Chinese people don’t like to protest. They like to go to institutions and collaborate to find solutions.’ ”

  Indeed, Beijing’s protest zones have proved remarkably lacking in protests. So far, 77 protest applications have been filed, according to the state news service. Most were over labor and health-care disputes or problems with social services. But, of those, 74 were voluntarily withdrawn after their problems “were properly addressed by relevant authorities.” Official efforts to dissuade Parrino, however, were unsuccessful.

  What about those Chinese people who “like to go to institutions and collaborate to find solutions”? Please watch the following video clip:

  More on life of petitioners in Beijing, please click here to watch this Chinese underground documentary - “East Village” 《东庄》.

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  • August 23, 2008 11:10 PM

• Video: “What Does China Think?” - Mark Leonard

  

  From UC Berkeley’s “Conversations With History”:

  Mark Leonard, Executive Director of the European Council on Foreign Relations

  Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Mark Leonard, Executive Director of the European Council on Foreign Relations, for a discussion of the ideas that are influencing the domestic and foreign policy debates in China. Through a careful examination of what Chinese intellectuals have to say on topics such as democracy, economy, and international relations, Leonard finds distinctive Chinese worldviews. The West must understand the contours of these debates to effectively address China’s rise because they offer important insights into how China will use its enormous power to shape world order in the twenty-first century.

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  • August 23, 2008 10:13 PM

• Witness - The Other Olympics (Video)

  

  From Al Jazeera English - AJE:

  If you are Tibetan, the only way you can compete at the Beijing Olympics is by renouncing your Tibetan identity and registering as a Chinese athlete. Many Tibetan athletes in exile have refused to do this and are instead participating in the ‘Tibetan Olympics’ in northern India. Witness follows two participants as they prepare for and then participate in ‘The Other Olympics’.

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  • August 22, 2008 9:20 AM

• Video: Beijing Olympics Uncensored

  

  Reporter Jocelyn Ford has produced a series of videos about various little-seen aspects of life in Beijing during the Olympics. Read more about the series here. In the first segment:

  Wo Weihan was sentenced to death for espionage. His daughter believes he may have confessed under torture, and he had an unfair trial. This is a test case for China’s new system for preventing executions based on inadequate evidence.

  And the second segment:

  During the Olympics Beijing closed down vegetable markets and restaurants, and sent migrant workers back to their village , all to give the nation “Face” in front of foreigners. What is the Chinese concept of face?

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  • August 20, 2008 10:08 PM

• Video News: Olympics Highlights Cultural Divide

  

  From Reuters:

  Tibet protests bring out East-West divisions as tensions surface in Beijing. Political and cultural divisions persist in Beijing behind the scene of a so far relatively smooth summer games. A handful of pro-Tibet protesters have been swiftly detained, while many residents are annoyed at the foreign display in their city.

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  • August 15, 2008 4:46 PM

• Video: The Daily Show Takes on China

  

  On the Daily Show, Jon Stewart is including several special reports from and about China for the Olympics. Yesterday he gave his take on the lip-synching scandal:

  And, on a more serious note, he interviews Philip Pan about his new book Out of Mao’s Shadow:

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  • August 14, 2008 3:54 PM

• Video: Mongol Life Vanishing in China

  

  From National Geographic:

  The last living vestiges of Genghis Khan’s empire in China are disappearing as Mongol herders adopt modern lifestyles and are outnumbered by Han Chinese neighbors.

  To watch the video, please click here.

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  • July 30, 2008 3:46 PM

• Video: Tibet Poet Speaks Out

  

  From AlJazeeraEnglish:

  With Beijing in the world spotlight for the Olympic games, China is leaving no stone unturned to ensure things run smoothly.

  Only days out from the opening of the games, one woman has dared to speak out about what she says is a worsening situation in Tibet.

  David Hawkins reports from Beijing.

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  • July 28, 2008 10:45 AM

• Video: China Downplays Claims of a Jihad

  

  From the Sidney Morning Herald:

  Chinese authorities have downplayed claims by a militant Islamic group that it is responsible for a string of fatal bus bombings and other incidents and is planning a jihad against the Olympic Games.

  China has been warning for months that terrorism, especially from Muslim Uygur separatists in its western Xinjiang province, poses the greatest threat to a successful Games.

  But police and officials have now rejected a claim by the little-known Turkestan Islamic Party that it has already successfully carried out several such attacks, including the twin bus bombings in Yunnan this month that killed two people, and a bus explosion in Shanghai in May that killed three.

  A Chinese security expert in Beijing said the group’s claim of responsibility was probably just an attempt to terrorise the public and upset the Olympics.

  Also from The Time magazine:

  The video seemed to fit the Islamist terror profile. Incantatory music precedes the footage of a white turbaned man, his face shrouded in white cloth, dressed in military fatigues, flanked by two similarly uniformed comrades whose identities are hidden by black commando face masks. In the video, a previously little known group calling itself the Turkestan Islamic Party claims it carried out several fatal bombings in the country in recent months. The group’s self-described military commander, Seyfullah, said it was responsible for incidents in Shanghai in early May and in the southern city of Kunming on July 21 that killed a total of five people. He also said the group had bombed a plastics factory in the province of Guangdong. Most ominously, he threatened to carry out further attacks during the Beijing Olympics, which are scheduled to open on August 8. Indeed, the video begins with Beijing’s Olympic logo in flames and with a grainy image of a sports facility superimposed with an animated bomb blast.

  But was it a serious threat? The three minute video, which was obtained under unspecified circumstances by the Intelcenter, a Washington D.C. company that specializes in collecting counter terrorism information, was greeted with skepticism both in and out of China. Police in Shanghai and Kunming said the blasts weren’t related to opposition to Chinese rule by ethnic Uighur Muslims in the country’s far western province of Xinjiang. Police in Guangdong province also said they had no record of an explosion on the date mentioned in the video.

  Video: Islamic Party Threatens Beijing Olympic Games

  Reuters news video: Shanghai bus explosion.

  Reuters news video: Kunming bus explosion.

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  • July 27, 2008 10:32 AM

• Video: Demolition of Homes in Ji’an City, Jilin Province

  

  Here are two video clips on demolition projects in Ji’an city, Jilin province. The video was recorded on May 29, 2008, and gradually spread through the Chinese cyberspace. Thanks to Boxun for uploading them to YouTube.

  On June 2, 2008, the city government of Ji’an publicized a statement on this event, claiming the process is “legal.”

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  • July 27, 2008 9:48 AM