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| ChiComs shift 200K troops to internal security as unrest spreads in western areas | ||
| 2006-01-27 | ||
| From East-Asia-Intel, subscription. Beijing is beefing up its internal security forces in the face of growing domestic unrest, which leaders fear is a harbinger of future instability. China had 74,000 protests riots and disturbances in 2004 and the problem is growing. According to U.S. China specialists, the large number of protests is a worrying sign for Beijing, since such protests and unrest have often preceded the fall of the ruling dynasty or government in Chinese history. China’s military is in the process of cutting 200,000 troops from its regular army forces and most are being transferred to the People’s Armed Police, as the security forces are called. Most of the current internal security troops have been deployed to areas in or near Xingjian and Tibet, China’s two western provinces. The Tibetans did not exactly appreciate the manner in which the Chicom hosts came to visit. Two senior Chinese generals said last week that China is stepping up training and equipment for 1 million PAP troops. Wu Shuangzhan, a PAP commander, and Sui Mingtai, a political commissar, wrote a recent article in Qiushi, a publication of the party's governing Central Committee, that the police troops should become “an extremely combat-effective force to deal with sudden incidents.”
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| Posted by:Alaska Paul |
| #10 Oops! Make that "to $35K per year." |
| Posted by: Perfessor 2006-01-27 14:04 |
| #9 ' "Western hostile forces have never abandoned political plots to Westernize and divide our country," the generals said.' Yeah, its all part of a dastardly plot to raise your per capita income of $35K per year. |
| Posted by: Perfessor 2006-01-27 14:03 |
| #8 Ignore the external factors, the Chinese do, and instead look at Chinese history to see how the government is interpreting events. For example, their terrible overreaction to Falun Gong is because the movement reminds them of the "Son of Heaven" and his Tai-Peng Rebellion, perhaps the second bloodiest conflict in human history. Other events remind their leaders of other parts of their history. The Tiananmen Square protests scared the heck out of them, because they imagined them to be the return of the Cultural Revolution's Red Guard, intent on destroying everything and mass slaughter. Chaos erupting throughout the country in protests no doubt also has some horrifically bloody historical precedent. Only a Chinese historian could guess what the Chinese leadership imagine these protests to be. The point is that "nothing is new in Confuscianism", so everything is just some element of the past, replayed with different characters. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2006-01-27 10:09 |
| #7 The two generals also said China is being destabilized by enemy forces from the West. "Western hostile forces have never abandoned political plots to Westernize and divide our country," the generals said. Great Britian, Israel, and the United States to blame again. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2006-01-27 08:54 |
| #6 Now Taiwan needs to seize this beautiful opportunity to give the chicoms some real headaches. With 200,000 of their bad boys tied up with the hicks, there has never been a better time. By the way are we witnessing the "meltdown" in china? I have missed the curve on these things before, and just wonder if it is really starting to happen. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2006-01-27 08:36 |
| #5 Well, if you sleep with dogs (Iran), you get up with fleas. Where the hell do you think all this islamic fascism started and is funded from? Of course the joke is that we buy at Walmart, which buys from China, which then buys its oil from Iran. Guess where our dollars go? BTW, I check the little "Made in ..." markings before I purchase. And yeah, I understand that some cheating on that does happen and will till our government panics [only after being exposed for being AWOL on the job] and gets around to hammering the importers and sellers for fraud. |
| Posted by: Sharong Ebbosing6626 2006-01-27 07:38 |
| #4 I see a healthy contempt for Muslims here. Unfortunately, US wide that attitude is held by less than 30%. Off topic but if any Muslim denies the "72 virgins" shahid incentive, read then this exposition of Muslim "heaven" by Rabbi Finestone (Los Angeles): ... are other delights as well, according to a Hadith in an authoritative collection called Sunan al-Tirmidhi, which would be on the shelves of any Muslim scholar. In my edition, published in Beirut, it can be found in a section called "The Book of Description of the Garden," chapter 23, titled "The least reward for the people of Heaven," Hadith number 2562. The Hadith reads literally as follows: "Sawda (TirmidhiÂ’s grandfather) reported that he heard from Abdullah, who received from Rishdin b. SaÂ’d, who in turn learned from Amr b. al-Harith, from Darraj, from Abul-Haytham, from Abu SaÂ’id al-Khudri, who received it from the Apostle of God [Muhammad]: The least [reward] for the people of Heaven is 80,000 servants and 72 wives, over which stands a dome of pearls, aquamarine and ruby, as [wide as the distance] between al-Jaabiyya and SanÂ’a." That these 72 wives are virgin is confirmed by Quran (55:74) and commentaries on that verse. Al-Jaabiyya was a suburb of Damascus, according to the famous 14th century commentator, IsmaÂ’il Ibn Kathir, so one personal jeweled dome would stretch the distance from Syria to Yemen, some 1,600 miles. |
| Posted by: Flomotch Thaiper2166 2006-01-27 02:14 |
| #3 Displacing and outbreeding Muslims is a good agenda for China. China must remenber to staty in power on must feed the masses and meet their actual aspirations. The oil must flow and workers must have real jobs for that to workout right. |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet O´ Doom 2006-01-27 01:31 |
| #2 Xingjian was mainly muslim and borders AQ countries. In fact AC would like the province. (Was as in the Han are moving there in mass - I will disagree with the State Dept and think that movement is a good thing.) |
| Posted by: 3dc 2006-01-27 01:18 |
| #1 heh heh - tanks in the Olympics? Synchronized uprising crushing as an event? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2006-01-27 00:17 |