May 24, 2012 ZGBriefs is a condensation of news items gathered from published sources. ZGBriefs is not responsible for the content of these items nor does it necessarily endorse the perspectives presented. Get daily updates from ZGBriefs on Twitter @ZG_Briefs. To make a contribution to ZGBriefs, please click here and then select Donate Through Paypal. FEATURED ARTICLES Talking with Christians in rural China (May 20, 2012, Seeing Red in China) They monitor our phones and email talking with a provincial church leader (May 21, 2012, Seeing Red in China) Chinese Christians are filling vital roles in their communities (and a rant) (May 23, 2012, Seeing Red in China) GOVERNMENT / POLITICS / FOREIGN AFFAIRS Top China security official named to Party Congress (May 20, 2012, AFP) China’s top security official Zhou Yongkang has been named a delegate to a top Communist Party meeting, despite calls for his removal amid political upheaval ahead of a 10-yearly leadership change. Zhou, one of China’s top nine rulers, was named Saturday as a delegate from western-China’s Xinjiang region to the 18th Communist Party Congress which is slated to meet later this year, the Xinjiang Daily reported. Chinese President Hu Jintao, Premier Wen Jiabao and other top leaders including Zhou are expected to resign from their party posts at the end of the congress, ushering in a new leadership for the world’s most populous nation. Zhou is viewed as a hardliner and has been linked to charismatic leader Bo Xilai, whose downfall earlier this year triggered the nation’s biggest political scandal in decades. Chinese fishermen and boats held in North Korea ‘freed’ (May 21, 2012, BBC News) The 29 Chinese fishermen and three boats seized in the Yellow Sea by unidentified North Koreans have been released back to China, reports say. The North Korean foreign ministry notified the Chinese embassy in Pyongyang on Sunday that the men were free, said Xinhua news agency. They arrived in the northeast port city of Dalian on Monday, it said. The group were seized on 8 May in the Yellow Sea, which lies between China and North Korea. The men were in “sound health condition with sufficient food and healthcare”, Jiang Yaxian, a counsellor at the Chinese embassy in Pyongyang, told Xinhua news agency. The captors had asked for payment in return for the release of the men and boats, Chinese media reported, but Xinhua’s report did not say whether payment had been made. It remains unclear if the boats were seized by North Korean authorities or kidnappers, as some reports have suggested. China says Pentagon hypes Chinese military threat (May 22, 2012, AP) China’s Defense Ministry has accused the Pentagon of hyping Chinese military power and its threat to Taiwan in a depiction that will ultimately undermine ties between the two militaries. The annual Pentagon report to Congress on China’s military always draws strenuous objections from Beijing. This year’s report which outlined a Chinese military modernization effort that is gaining momentum comes as both Washington and Beijing are encouraging their militaries to built trust and improve communications. Chinese Defense Ministry spokesman Geng Yansheng said the Pentagon report exaggerates Chinese defense capabilities, falsely accuses China of launching cyber-attacks and plays up a military edge over rival Taiwan to boost U.S. weapon sales. In remarks posted on the ministry’s website on Monday, Geng said the Pentagon report is at odds with that effort. China sends more ships to disputed shoal (May 23, 2012, AFP) China has deployed more ships to a disputed shoal in the South China Sea amid a tense stand-off with the Philippines, officials and state media said on Wednesday. As of Monday night, there were five Chinese government vesselsup from threeand 16 fishing boats in the area, the Philippine foreign department said. Manila has lodged a fresh protest with the Chinese embassy over the build-up, department spokesman Raul Hernandez said. Using the shoal’s Philippine name, Hernandez added: “The Philippines, therefore, demands that China’s vessels immediately pull out from Bajo de Masinloc and the Philippines’ exclusive economic zone.” China’s official Xinhua news agency said controls have been “strengthened” in the area and quoted a foreign ministry spokesman as saying it had “about 20 fishing boats” near the disputed Scarborough Shoal, “roughly the same number as in previous years”. China: Generals Trip to Japan Is Canceled (May 23, 2012, The New York Times) One of the top generals in China, Guo Boxiong, has canceled a high-level trip to Japan scheduled for this week after a rise in political tensions between the two nations, a report in the official English-language newspaper China Daily said Wednesday. General Guo, who is the vice chairman of the Central Military Commission the chairman is President Hu Jintao, a civilian had been scheduled to fly to Japan on Thursday. His trip was to include a meeting with Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda and a visit to the base of the Japan Self-Defense Forces. Last week, the World Uyghur Congress, an ethnic Uighur exile group that criticizes Beijings rule in the Xinjiang region of western China, held an annual forum in Tokyo. In April, the governor of Tokyo, Shintaro Ishihara, said Tokyo should buy the disputed Senkaku Islands from a private Japanese owner; the islands, known in Chinese as Diaoyu Islands, are under Japanese administration, but Beijing views them as Chinese territory. Chen Guangcheng brother flees captors (May 24, 2012, The Guardian) The brother of the Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng has fled his family’s captors in a second audacious escape from their tiny village in eastern China. Chen Guangfu arrived in Beijing early on Thursday morning after breaking out of Dongshigu, where relatives have been living under tight guard since his brother, who is blind, fled to the US embassy in Beijing last month, according to lawyers in the capital. Ding Xikui said Chen was seeking help for his son Kegui, who has been charged with voluntary manslaughter following a clash with local officials who broke into their home after learning of Chen Guangcheng’s escape. RELIGION Christian missionary honoured (May 21, 2012, ITV News) A Barnsley man, who is credited with taking Christianity to China, is being recognised in the town. A Blue Plaque is being unveiled in James Hudson Taylor’s birthplace. It is going to be mounted outside Boots, which is the site of an apothecary owned by Hudson Taylor’s father. In what is believed to be a first, a second Blue Plaque with a Chinese translation will be placed alongside. “James Hudson Taylor took the Christian message from here in Barnsley to China and the organisation he founded has influenced the lives of well over 100 million people; the Christian message is Barnsley’s biggest export. HEALTH Official targets gender imbalance (May 24, 2012, China Daily) A government official in charge of family planning has pledged to make further efforts to improve the country’s gender imbalance. Authorities will crack down further on illegal prenatal gender tests and selective abortions, which are believed to be the primary causes of the gender imbalance, according to Wang Xia, head of the National Population and Family Planning Commission (NPFPC). Authorities have investigated 15,000 cases and punished 13,000 people for violating family planning laws since the launch of a special campaign by six government departments in 2011, Wang said. The government plans to bring China’s gender ratio below 115 newborn males for every 100 females by 2015. The target will not be easy to reach, as the majority of China’s provinces have a much higher ratio, Wang said. EDUCATION / CULTURE HK wants money back after a school it donated was pulled down (May 21, 2012, Shanghai Daily) The Hong Kong government is going to reclaim millions yuan it donated to a quake-devastated city in southwestern China to rebuild a damaged school after local authorities pulled down that school for a massive real estate project. The Hong Kong government and the Hong Kong Federation of Education Workers donated HK$2 million (US$257,000) each to Mianyang City after the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake, Mak Chai-kwong, an official with the Hong Kong Development Bureau, told journalists. But the Zijing Ethnic Minorities Middle School, which was rebuilt in 2010 for minority students from the Aba Prefecture, has been demolished to make room for a large-scale commercial housing project by a private developer. SOCIETY / LIFE Convicted Chinese businesswoman Wu Ying given reprieve (May 21, 2012, BBC News) A Chinese businesswoman who originally received a death sentence for fraud has now been given a two-year reprieve. This means that she is likely to receive life imprisonment instead of the death penalty. Wu Ying’s death sentence was overturned by China’s supreme court in April and she has now been re-sentenced by her home province of Zhejiang. Her death sentence had sparked thousands of appeals for clemency online. Wu Ying was arrested in 2007 and found guilty of cheating private investors out of 380m yuan ($60m; 38m). In 2009, she was sentenced to death for illegal fundraising. Chinese TV star launches tirade against ‘foreign trash’ (May 21, 2012, The Guardian) A high-profile state television presenter who launched an online tirade against “foreign trash” has sought to temper his words after calls for overseas guests to boycott his show. In the diatribe by Yang Rui, published on the popular Sina Weibo service, the Chinese equivalent of Twitter, he described a recently expelled journalist as a “foreign bitch” and praised police for “clearing out foreign trash”. The attack by the host of the English language programme Dialogue, which says it seeks to promote cross-cultural debate, was initially viewed by some commentators as an attempt at satire. His programme is shown on CCTV-9, the channel regarded as part of China’s soft power drive to present a more humane face to the outside world. Hundreds of women apply for chance to wed wealth (May 22, 2012, Shanghai Daily) More than 300 women took part in a matchmaking competition in the southern city of Guangzhou at the weekend for the chance to marry one of 11 billionaires. The women had been selected from a total of 2,800, aged from 19 to 56, who had applied to take part in the event, the Yangcheng Evening News reported yesterday. But most didn’t qualify as they failed to meet requirements which included being aged from 18 to 28, taller than 160 centimeters, good looking and, as some of the billionaires had required, be virginsThe event stirred a huge wave of controversy across the Internet with many people wondering if it was just a publicity stunt for the matchmaking company. Chinese orchestra sacks Russian cellist in train row (May 22, 2012, BBC News) The Beijing Symphony Orchestra has fired a Russian cellist for insulting a train passenger who asked him to take his feet off a seat. Oleg Vedernikov later apologised, but has now been sacked for damaging the orchestra’s reputation. The incident was filmed by another passenger and posted online, prompting an angry response from the public. It comes during an official campaign to stop foreigners illegally entering, living and working in China. Mr. Vedernikov, 45, was the orchestra’s principal cellist. Beijing sets ‘two flies only’ public toilet guidelines (May 23, 2012, BBC News) Authorities in the Chinese capital have set new standards for public toilets, including a stipulation that they should contain no more than two flies. The new rules, published by the commission of city administration, also set standards on odour and cleaning litter bins. Toilets in places such as tourist spots must comply with the new standards. But it is not clear whether failing washrooms will be punished and if so, how. The new rules also cover cleaning, the use of equipment and training for attendants. Charity to help women in poverty-stricken areas (May 23, 2012, China Daily) The launch ceremony of “Parcels for Mothers”, the latest of a series of charity campaigns by China Woman Development Foundation under the All-China Women’s Federation to help women in poverty-stricken areas, was held on May 22 in Beijing. The project aims to help women by mailing them packages that contain daily necessities. The packages, each worth 100 yuan ($15.8) or 200 yuan, will be delivered in a transparent and “one-to-one” basis. China local government ‘chengguan’ enforcers ‘abusive’ (May 23, 2012, BBC News) China’s local government “chengguan” law enforcers are engaged in “abusive conduct” that fuels public resentment, a Human Rights Watch report says.The report documents abuses including assaults, illegal detention and confiscation of property. The chengguan, or Urban Management Law Enforcement force, support the police in tackling low-level crime in cities. But the force’s ”thuggish” behaviour had led to public anger and undermined stability, said the report. “Chengguan forces have earned a reputation for brutality and impunity,” said Sophie Richardson, China director at Human Rights Watch (HRW). “They are now synonymous for many Chinese citizens with physical violence, illegal detention and theft.” SCIENCE / TECHNOLOGY / ENVIRONMENT 152 million 3G users in China (May 18, 2012, Xinhua) China’s 3G users reached 152 million by the end of March, almost a 10-fold increase from two years ago, according to figures released Thursday by the the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT). Meanwhile, the nation’s mobile online users exceed 370 million, more than 70 percent of the country’s total Internet users, the MIIT vice minister Shang Bing said. High-speed trains may travel faster (May 22, 2012, Xinhua) China’s high-speed trains may operate at faster speeds again as the decision to slow down the speed made after last July’s fatal crash was an “expedient,” the country’s largest train maker said yesterday. “It’s very likely the speeds of the Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway could be raised to 350-380 kilometers per hour,” said Zhao Xiaogang, chairman of CSR Corp. “For our part, we don’t have any problem with regard to technology and safety.” China’s mobile phone users hit 1.03 bln (May 23, 2012, Xinhua) China’s mobile phone users hit a record high of 1.03 billion at the end of April, data released Wednesday by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) showed. During the first four months this year, mobile phone users saw a net increase of nearly 43.8 million from the end of last year, the data showed. 260 Chinese cities build digital geographic systems (May 24, 2012, Xinhua) More than 260 prefecture-level Chinese cities are building digital geographic systems to provide better services to citizens, the National Administration of Surveying, Mapping and Geoinformation (NASMG) said on Wednesday. The NASMG said in a statement that over 100 of those cities have put their systems into full operation, including Taiyuan and Jincheng in Shanxi province, Huizhou and Foshan in Guangdong province, Yantai and Weihai in Shandong province. In the meantime, about 10 lower-level counties have also finished the construction of digital geographic systems. BUSINESS / ECONOMICS / FOREIGN TRADE Exclusive: U.S. lets China bypass Wall Street for Treasury orders (May 21, 2012, Reuters) China can now bypass Wall Street when buying U.S. government debt and go straight to the U.S. Treasury, in what is the Treasury’s first-ever direct relationship with a foreign government, according to documents viewed by Reuters. The relationship means the People’s Bank of China buys U.S. debt using a different method than any other central bank in the world. The other central banks, including the Bank of Japan, which has a large appetite for Treasuries, place orders for U.S. debt with major Wall Street banks designated by the government as primary dealers. Those dealers then bid on their behalf at Treasury auctions. China, which holds $1.17 trillion in U.S. Treasuries, still buys some Treasuries through primary dealers, but since June 2011, that route hasn’t been necessary. AMC Cinema to be bought by China’s Wanda (May 21, 2012, BBC News) Chinese conglomerate Wanda Group has agreed to buy US cinema chain AMC Entertainment for $2.6bn (1.6bn), making it the world’s biggest operator of movie theatres. The deal gives Wanda access to more than 5,000 screens operated by AMC, mainly in the US and Canada. Wanda said it would invest another $500m in the US theatre chain. China fake parts ‘used in US military equipment’ (May 22, 2012, BBC News) Vast numbers of counterfeit Chinese electronic parts are being used in US military equipment, a key Senate committee has reported.A year-long probe found 1,800 cases of fake parts in US military aircraft, the Senate Armed Services Committee said. More than 70% of an estimated one million suspect parts were traced back to China, the report said. It blamed weaknesses in the US supply chain, and China’s failure to curb the counterfeit market. The failure of a key part could pose safety and national security risks and lead to higher costs for the Pentagon, the committee said. Chinese manufacturing activity ‘contracts in May’ (May 23, 2012, BBC News) China’s manufacturing activity contracted in May, a survey has shown, indicating that the rate of growth in the economy is continuing to slow. The HSBC Purchasing Manager’s Index (PMI) fell to 48.7 from 49.3 in April. The data comes amid fears that a global economic slowdown may hurt demand for China’s exports in key markets such as the US and Europe. The PMI is a key indicator of manufacturing activity and a reading below 50 indicates contraction. China in hardest private-sector push in decade (May 23, 2012, Reuters) China signaled on Wednesday it wanted to boost private investment in its energy sector as Beijing makes its most determined push since joining the World Trade Organisation to reduce the role of the state sector in the economy. Many analysts say China must allow more private investment if it is to unlock new sources of economic growth, which the World Bank said would slow in 2012 to its weakest pace in 13 years. “Downward economic pressure is increasing,” Premier Wen Jiabao said at a regular cabinet meeting, where he underscored previous comments that China would increase measures to support growth. His remarks were reported on the government’s website. Beijing intends to fast-track infrastructure investment to combat the slowdown, state media reported this week. China must act to prevent hard landing: World Bank (May 23, 2012, AFP) China’s economic growth will ease further this year, presenting policy makers in Beijing with the challenge of preventing an excessively abrupt slowdown, the World Bank said in a report Wednesday. The bank warned slower expansion in China would ripple across Asia and the Pacific, but said the region remained resilient to Europe’s economic woes, describing it as a “bright light” in a world mired in low growth. “China’s near-term policy challenge is to sustain growth through a soft landing,” the bank said in its half-yearly review of Asia’s developing economies. “While the prospects for a gradual slowdown remain high, there are concerns that growth could slow too quickly. However, sufficient policy space exists to respond to downside risks.” LINKS TO DETAILED ARTICLES AND ANALYSIS Revisiting the Dangers of Cultural Amnesia (May 18, 2012, Caixin Online, by Lei Yi) The collective memory of a nation or a society can be affected by who controls power. Forcing people to forget the Cultural Revolution by imposing rigid regulations that permit only certain “positive” historical recollections has gradually reduced memories of the Cultural Revolution’s national disaster to brief flashbacks of events during which only a few powerful elites were persecuted or tortured, even while society supported a noble, moral and snow-white spirit. Chinese communist leaders denounce U.S. values but send children to U.S. colleges (May 19, 2012, The Washington Post, by Andrew Higgins and Maureen Fan) When scholars gathered at Harvard last month to discuss the political tumult convulsing Chinas ruling Communist Party, a demure female undergraduate with a direct stake in the outcome was listening intently from the top row of the lecture hall. She was the daughter of Xi Jinping, Chinas vice president and heir apparent for the partys top job. Where Chen Fits In A History Of Dissidents (May 20, 2012, NPR) Host Rachel Martin talks with China scholar Perry Link about activist Chen Guangcheng’s arrival in the U.S. Link has followed the lives of Chinese dissidents involved with the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests. In China, Fear at the Top (May 20, 2012, The New York Times, by Roderick MacFarquar) Why has ownership of wealth become so important for the Chinese elite? And why have so many Chinese leaders sent their children abroad for education? One answer surely is that they lack confidence about Chinas future. Leaders Fall in China Put Allies in Peril (May 20, 2012, The New York Times, by Edward Wong) Early this year, as a crisis unfolded in the chambers of power here, three men flew into this fog-wreathed riverside metropolis within a day or two of one another. They were members of the inner court of Bo Xilai, the Communist Party aristocrat who ran the city, and they had come to repair a rupture between the strong-willed Mr. Bo and his equally driven police chief. The Chen affair: How it highlighted blind spots in Beijing (May 21, 2012, Christian Science Monitory, by Peter Ford) Chen Guangcheng arrived in the US Saturday, after fleeing mistreatment by local Chinese officials. The case highlights the central government’s imperfect oversight of the provinces. China and the Lure of the Status Quo (May 21, 2012, Reason, by Steven Chapman) A rising Asian power with an unstoppable export machine, rapidly growing wealth and a sense that our time is past and its time has come: China in 2012? Yesbut also Japan in the 1980s. Is This What a Chinese Internet Censor Job Ad Looks Like? (May 21, 2012, China Real Time Report) Ever wonder if you have the chops to slash content from the Chinese Internet before the government mandates it? Well now you can answer the call. Squeezing cash from China’s billion phone app market (May 21, 2012, BBC News, by John Sudworth) At some point in the past few months, China’s billionth mobile phone customer switched on his or her handset for the first time. Bear in a China Shop (May 22, 2012, Foreign Policy) It’s not the booming economy that’s about to burstit’s bigger than that. Social discontent and, yes, income inequality could rip China apart at the seams. China’s Tiananmen exiles want back in (May 22, 2012, The Guardian, by Cain Nunns) After the brutal suppression of protests in 1989, five exiled student leaders are looking for a way home. The Specter of the Cultural Revolution (May 22, 2012, The New York Times, by Zhang Lijia) The Cultural Revolution began 46 years ago this month with Chairman Maos May 16 Notification and ended 10 years later with at least half a million people dead from torture, execution or suicide. This misguided movement tore apart Chinas social fabric, touching all of us in one way or another. Singapore, Hong Kong unite against ‘locusts’ (May 23, 2012, Asia Times Online, by Augustine Tan) A fatal car smash after a speeding Ferrari jumped a red light in Singapore has brought resentment against mainland Chinese into sharp focus, igniting a tirade of abuse against “locusts” flooding the job and property markets. Inflamed opinion spread with rumors that the “financial investor” dead at the wheel of the limited edition sports car was the brother of a Chongqing mafia boss and had been accused of money laundering in Hong Kong. Kidnapped fishermens case angers Chinese public (May 23, 2012, Washington Post, Keith B. Richburg) The plight of 28 Chinese fishermen who were kidnapped, robbed, stripped and held for 13 days by North Koreans has inflamed Chinese public opinion, with many Internet users taking to microblogging sites to question the Beijing governments close relationship with its reclusive ally in Pyongyang. Jeremy Lin’s Faith, Family Led to Success, Biographer Says (May 23, 2012, Christian Post, by Napp Nazworth) Jeremy Lin went from an unknown bench player to national stardom after leading the New York Knicks on a seven game winning streak early this year. The astonishing circumstances leading to that event were built upon Lin’s family and faith, according to a new biography by Timothy Dalrymple called Jeremy Lin: The Reason for the Linsanity. A love-hate relationship (May 23, 2012, BBC News, by Damian Grammaticas) As China’s economic, political and military influence rises, one important question is – what sort of power China will be? How will it interact with foreigners and foreign nations? Will it be benign – as China’s own officials say when they talk of China’s “peaceful rise” – or will it be an assertive, nationalistic, even xenophobic power? In recent days, we’ve seen two very different Chinas on show when it comes to interacting with foreigners here, inside its borders. The East Is Crimson (May 23, 2012, Slate, by William J. Dobson) Why is Harvard training the next generation of Chinese Communist Party leaders? China Is a Black Box of Misinformation (May 24, 2012, Bloomberg, by Junheng Li) To this day, many Chinese people believe that Mao Zedong didnt know millions of people were starving in the Great Leap Forward. The agricultural production statistics were all rosy, a testament to the success of his new economic policy, while hordes of hungry masses migrated from province to province, chasing false reports of bumper crops. Thirty million or so people starved, in no small part because of the manipulation of economic data. LINKS TO BLOGS Barbarians at the gate, again (May 21, 2012, The Analects) Ever since foreigners arrived in China in large numbers in the 19th century, there has been a tendency either to lionise all that is foreign or to denigrate it, and to treat foreigners themselves either as gods or as barbarians. That dynamic has been very much on display in recent weeks. Soaring to Sinking: How Building Up Is Bringing Shanghai Down (May 21, 2012, Ecocentric) As land-subsidence concerns sweep across more than 50 cities in China, the country’s most populous metropolis remains among the most vulnerable. State TV Host Responds to Controversy Over Foreign Trash Comments (May 22, 2012, China Real Time Report) On Monday, Mr. Yang sent The Wall Street Journal a statement addressing the controversy around his Sina Weibo post. Chen Guangcheng Begins Life in New York (May 22, 2012, China Digital Times) China: too much negative news, or too little? (May 22, 2012, China Media Project) Late last week we wrote about the latest hardline editorial in the Beijing Daily, the official mouthpiece of the city-level Party leadership in Beijing, an ideological attack on the concept of freedom of speech that singled out certain commercial newspapers and magazines in China for exaggerating social and political problems in the country. Kashgar’s old city: the endgame (May 22, 2012, Open Democracy) Time is almost up for the old city of Kashgar. For the last three years, and over the silence of the international community, the din of bulldozers has reverberated across this ancient Silk Road hub. Missing in Action: On the Trail of Confiscated Copies of TIME in China (May 23, 2012, Global Spin) The note arrived in a nearly empty box sent to TIMEs Beijing Bureau. All copies of TIME Magazines May 14, 2012 issue with a cover entitled The Peoples Republic of Scandal had been safeguarded by customs. Apparently, some customs officer had been entrusted with counting each confiscated copy ; there were, the receipt noted, 62 seized magazines. Will Chinese companies ever be international? (May 23, 2012, China Law Blog) This question has frequently been posed to me by two ethnic Chinese friends of mine who work/worked for massive international Chinese companies and one American friend who works/worked at a massive international Chinese company. 1950 Communist Propaganda Comic Predicts China 60 Years Later (May 23, 2012, ChinaSmack) A Weibo user by the name of @ posted a comic strip from 1950 comparing the hardship and the injustice of pre-liberation China to that of the New China under the leadership of the Communist Party. The subsequently deleted Weibo post described the comics portrayal of pre-liberation China that ironically resembled the plight of many Chinese people today more than 60 years after liberation. The Lighter Side of China: Feng Shui (May 23, 2012, The Beijinger) My first brush with feng shui happened 23 years ago when I arrived in Taiwan. As I entered my office, I was directed to a corner that I was told was perfectly located for a person like me. It was recommended that I place the desk on an angle and hang a mirror to the side of the desk. To ward off any evil spirits you cant see, I was told. Soon after that, a fish tank was brought into the office to cover up some rough angles. 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