Tag: China

Chinese Securitate Get REALLY Tough on Google

Heh.

UPDATE:  Wow.  The Chinese Communist Party's fiendishly clever Plan B:  Operation Create Google Substitute.

Which come to think of it, strongly resembles their campaign over at Topix:

Sockpuppet dog wearing a mustache

When the Hokklo Taiwanese came from China 400 years ago they didn't learn the Aboriginal languages!!!  Why??? 

Sockpuppet dog wearing a mustache

When the Hokklo Taiwanese came from China 400 years ago they didn't learn the Aboriginal languages!!!  Why??? 

Sockpuppet dog wearing a mustache

It's the way of the future . . . the future . . . the way of the FU-ture . . .

Sockpuppet dog that's taken off his mustache and holds it under his arm

Whoops, sorry.  **Phew**  Well, that's a good question I asked.  I mean, you — YOU asked!  …Uh, three times.  Anyhoo.  Anyhoo, I'll tell you why.  They didn't learn the aboriginal languages because they're nothing but a bunch of no-good racists!

Sockpuppet dog wearing a curly mustache

No-good racists, you say?  I did not know that, my clean-shaven friend.

Shouldn't Beijing then discipline those wayward, spoiled children?  As they say in the Han race-nation, blood is thicker than water.  So why, oh why, don't the Chinese invade and mass deport all of those Taiwanese racists back to China?

Sockpuppet dog that's taken off his mustache and holds it under his arm

Ethnically-cleanse all 23 million of them?  As punishment for not learning a language 400 years ago?

Hmmm . . .  That's tough, but fair . . .

Sockpuppet dog wearing Groucho glasses, nose, and eyebrows

I second the motion!  A capital idea!  And then, once the People's Liberation Army promptly leaves (as we can surely trust them to do) then we can set up a Naruwan aboriginal Republic under UN auspices!

Sockpuppet dog with sunglasses and banjo

Hee-hee!  With my amazing Moktar Stealth Haze, no one can tell they're all just me!  Do da do da do . . .  Just a wild and crazy anarchist – like that V for Vendetta guy!  (Images from Patterico.com)

Bravo, Topix.com, for a site that's so bad it's actually kind of awesome.

UPDATE 2:  Unrelated, but fun nonetheless.  Feng shui:  Is there anything it CAN'T do?

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Nice Little University Ya Got Here

Be a shame if anything happened to its accreditation…

Three months [after awarding an honorary degree to the Dalai Lama], the University of Calgary [in Canada] was dropped from the Chinese Ministry of Education’s accreditation list of universities for Chinese students desiring to study abroad, the Calgary Herald newspaper reported on Thursday.

The Hotline for Overseas Studies Service Center in Beijing had the following advice for Chinese students: “If you don’t already go to that school, it is better not to go because you will face risks.”

[…]

About 600 students from China and Hong Kong are enrolled at the University of Calgary.  [About 2.5 % of the student body — The Foreigner]. On average, tuition for foreign students is three times higher than for local students.

Which has absolutely nothing to do with Taiwan.  Except for the fact that the Chinese Nationalist Party government has previously stated it wishes to "flood" Taiwanese universities with students from China –rendering Taiwanese higher education prone to similar political domination.  Not over the Dalai Lama — the Communist Party collaborationists within the KMT will make sure THAT one never steps foot in Taiwan again.  More likely over curricula or the presence of China sceptics within the halls of academe.

Set a course for the Borg tractor beam, Number One.

Full speed ahead. 

Barack Gets Rolled

According to the Washington Post, the Chinese were apparently resigned to the American president meeting with the Dalai Lama in October, but in an act of Picardian sensitivity, Obama called the whole thing off.

Money quote from web page 2:

"We've got the classic case of a Western government yet again conceding to Chinese pressure that is imaginary long after that Chinese pressure has ceased to exist," said Robert Barnett, a Tibetan expert at Columbia University. "The Chinese must be falling over themselves with astonishment at what Western diplomats will give them without being asked. I don't know what the poker analogy would be. 'Please, see all my cards and take my money, too?' "

If it's any consolation, Western governments ain't the only ones doin' that . . .

UPDATE (Feb 20, 2010):  The Weekly Standard describes the Dalai Lama's visit when it finally went through:

It takes a special talent to aggravate the Chinese government, the White House press corps, and the followers of the Dalai Lama all in one fell swoop. But the Obama administration managed to pull off that trifecta on Thursday with its poor handling of the Dalai Lama's meeting with the president.