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Yes! We can see the newest tanks in action! No pity on the traitors.
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Wow. What a language. Looks like slums and malnutrition in India do not deserve any popular action. The article blows the issue out of context as there is no such threat or anything.
Meanwhile...
PRC more confident, reform-minded on 65th founding anniversary
By Meng Na
On the 65th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China (PRC), thecountry and its ruling party have reasons to be more confident and reform-minded.
Looking back at the past 65 years, China has made great progress in raising social productivity and overall national strength. China now is the world's second-largest economy and the world's largest goods-trading nation.
The Chinese people have experienced a historic leap forward from poverty to having adequate food and clothing and a life of moderate prosperity.
More importantly, China has blazed and broadened the path of socialism with Chinese characteristics, translating socialism into a successful path and institutional system.
China, with a 5,000-year-old civilization and the world's largest population, should not andhas not rigidly copied other countries' model of development.
China has to seek its own road of development, and the achievements made over the past 65 years testify that the country has sought a correct and suitable path for development under the leadership of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and in pursuit of sustainable development, peaceful development and further reform and opening-up.
On the 65th anniversary of the founding of the PRC, the country also faces challenges andarduous tasks.
The world's largest developing country will remain in the primary stage of socialism forquite a long time. China's development is still unbalanced and uncoordinated with asignificant urban-rural gap and income gap.
To tackle those problems, the country and the ruling party need to continue to pushforward reform and opening-up.
Since the 18th CPC National Congress, which was convened in November 2012, thecountry has been vigorous in transforming its development mode and adjusting itseconomic structure, as well as in advancing reform in the financial sector, college entranceexams, the household registration system and the medical care system, among others.
The ruling CPC has vowed to take down both "flies and tigers" -- junior and high-rankingofficials who take bribes, steal assets and illicitly enrich themselves and their families.
The CPC announced in July an investigation into Zhou Yongkang, a former StandingCommittee member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, the latest andhighest ranking "tiger" in the anti-corruption campaign's crosshairs.
On Sept. 30, the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee released a statement announcing that the fourth plenary session of the CPC 18th Central Committee, which is set to discuss rule of law, will be held from Oct. 20 to 23.
This will be the first time a plenary session of the CPC Central Committee has taken rule oflaw as its central theme. And rule of law is a must if the country wants to build aprosperous society and comprehensively deepen reform.
All in all, the 65th anniversary of the PRC's founding seems a new start for further reformand exploration of socialism with Chinese characteristics.
Meanwhile...
PRC more confident, reform-minded on 65th founding anniversary
By Meng Na
On the 65th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China (PRC), thecountry and its ruling party have reasons to be more confident and reform-minded.
Looking back at the past 65 years, China has made great progress in raising social productivity and overall national strength. China now is the world's second-largest economy and the world's largest goods-trading nation.
The Chinese people have experienced a historic leap forward from poverty to having adequate food and clothing and a life of moderate prosperity.
More importantly, China has blazed and broadened the path of socialism with Chinese characteristics, translating socialism into a successful path and institutional system.
China, with a 5,000-year-old civilization and the world's largest population, should not andhas not rigidly copied other countries' model of development.
China has to seek its own road of development, and the achievements made over the past 65 years testify that the country has sought a correct and suitable path for development under the leadership of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and in pursuit of sustainable development, peaceful development and further reform and opening-up.
On the 65th anniversary of the founding of the PRC, the country also faces challenges andarduous tasks.
The world's largest developing country will remain in the primary stage of socialism forquite a long time. China's development is still unbalanced and uncoordinated with asignificant urban-rural gap and income gap.
To tackle those problems, the country and the ruling party need to continue to pushforward reform and opening-up.
Since the 18th CPC National Congress, which was convened in November 2012, thecountry has been vigorous in transforming its development mode and adjusting itseconomic structure, as well as in advancing reform in the financial sector, college entranceexams, the household registration system and the medical care system, among others.
The ruling CPC has vowed to take down both "flies and tigers" -- junior and high-rankingofficials who take bribes, steal assets and illicitly enrich themselves and their families.
The CPC announced in July an investigation into Zhou Yongkang, a former StandingCommittee member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, the latest andhighest ranking "tiger" in the anti-corruption campaign's crosshairs.
On Sept. 30, the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee released a statement announcing that the fourth plenary session of the CPC 18th Central Committee, which is set to discuss rule of law, will be held from Oct. 20 to 23.
This will be the first time a plenary session of the CPC Central Committee has taken rule oflaw as its central theme. And rule of law is a must if the country wants to build aprosperous society and comprehensively deepen reform.
All in all, the 65th anniversary of the PRC's founding seems a new start for further reformand exploration of socialism with Chinese characteristics.
wouldn't it be wiser to sabotage it instead of open confrontation ?
had i been in charge, i would have sabotaged it in a way that the protesters would have become hostile to usa. you just got to be notoriously innovative and cunning to deal with protests, for me its just a kid's play
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From here, which is not China, both are available. Check with your government.
And "not a good sign" for what?
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as always you are full of sh!t
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What will you do from Shanghai when the tanks roll in HK ? Overthrow CCP from Mainland ?
Explain to the democracy protestors how life is beautiful under CCP in Mainland. They seem to disagree !
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not from germany
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By the way, this is the article the Indian above talked about:
China Voice: Cherish HK's development, maintain long-term prosperity
BEIJING, Oct. 2 (Xinhua) -- The illegal gatherings of the Occupy Central movement instigated by some people in Hong Kong do not promote democratic and constitutional development in the special administrative region. Instead, they are ruining it.
Occupy Central has triggered protests in Hong Kong's busiest areas for days since Sept. 28, leading to serious traffic disruption, temporary closures of schools and banks, and a slump in the benchmark Hang Seng Index, impacting the region's economic development and international reputation.
The illegal activities have undermined rule of law, which is Hong Kong's core value and one of its foundations.
The Aug. 31 decision made by the National People's Congress (NPC) Standing Committee on Hong Kong's electoral system is in line with the Basic Law and has heeded opinions from all walks of life in Hong Kong, thus carrying unshakable legal status and force.
The decision granted universal suffrage in the selection of the HKSAR's chief executive on the basis of nomination by a "broadly representative" committee.
A commentary carried by Thursday's People's Daily, the flagship newspaper of the Communist Party of China (CPC), said Occupy Central has put the political appeals of a handful of people above the law and hijacked the public opinion of Hong Kong for private ends.
It is understandable that different people may have different ideas about a desirable reform package. The government respects the people's rights to express their views.
The public is encouraged to express its aspirations peacefully, rationally and lawfully, and to respect and accommodate different views in society.
Occupy Central, however, is not a form of communication, but confrontation.
It will not force the central government to back down.
The movement shakes the core values of Hong Kong and its spirit of rule of law, disrupts social order, and hinders the realization of the prospective chief executive election through "one person, one vote" in 2017.
When meeting with a Hong Kong delegation late last month, Chinese President Xi Jinping said the central government's basic principle and policy toward Hong Kong has not changed and will not change.
The central government will unswervingly implement the policy of "One Country, Two Systems" and the Basic Law, and support the steady development of democracy in Hong Kong, Xi said.
As the "constitutional foundation" for implementing universal suffrage in the chief executive election, the NPC decision complies with Hong Kong's realities and is conducive to safeguarding national sovereignty, security and development and the region's long-term stability and prosperity.
People from all circles in Hong Kong should value the region's steady development and work to support the regional government's efforts to maintain social stability and ensure sound constitutional development.
China Voice: Cherish HK's development, maintain long-term prosperity
BEIJING, Oct. 2 (Xinhua) -- The illegal gatherings of the Occupy Central movement instigated by some people in Hong Kong do not promote democratic and constitutional development in the special administrative region. Instead, they are ruining it.
Occupy Central has triggered protests in Hong Kong's busiest areas for days since Sept. 28, leading to serious traffic disruption, temporary closures of schools and banks, and a slump in the benchmark Hang Seng Index, impacting the region's economic development and international reputation.
The illegal activities have undermined rule of law, which is Hong Kong's core value and one of its foundations.
The Aug. 31 decision made by the National People's Congress (NPC) Standing Committee on Hong Kong's electoral system is in line with the Basic Law and has heeded opinions from all walks of life in Hong Kong, thus carrying unshakable legal status and force.
The decision granted universal suffrage in the selection of the HKSAR's chief executive on the basis of nomination by a "broadly representative" committee.
A commentary carried by Thursday's People's Daily, the flagship newspaper of the Communist Party of China (CPC), said Occupy Central has put the political appeals of a handful of people above the law and hijacked the public opinion of Hong Kong for private ends.
It is understandable that different people may have different ideas about a desirable reform package. The government respects the people's rights to express their views.
The public is encouraged to express its aspirations peacefully, rationally and lawfully, and to respect and accommodate different views in society.
Occupy Central, however, is not a form of communication, but confrontation.
It will not force the central government to back down.
The movement shakes the core values of Hong Kong and its spirit of rule of law, disrupts social order, and hinders the realization of the prospective chief executive election through "one person, one vote" in 2017.
When meeting with a Hong Kong delegation late last month, Chinese President Xi Jinping said the central government's basic principle and policy toward Hong Kong has not changed and will not change.
The central government will unswervingly implement the policy of "One Country, Two Systems" and the Basic Law, and support the steady development of democracy in Hong Kong, Xi said.
As the "constitutional foundation" for implementing universal suffrage in the chief executive election, the NPC decision complies with Hong Kong's realities and is conducive to safeguarding national sovereignty, security and development and the region's long-term stability and prosperity.
People from all circles in Hong Kong should value the region's steady development and work to support the regional government's efforts to maintain social stability and ensure sound constitutional development.
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well, western media speculate the PLA garnison in HK and armed police stationed in Guangdong could rush in and restore the order. Beijing believes the HK police seems to be unwilling to "do" the job.
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Meet 17-year-old Joshua Wong: Central figure in Hong Kong protests
Chris Buckley & Alan Wong,NYT News Service | Oct 2, 2014, 05.02 AM IST
HONG KONG: The slight teenager with heavy rectangular glasses and a bowl cut stood above the ocean of protesters who had engulfed downtown Hong Kong. His deep voice was drowned out by cheers, but the crowd did not mind: They knew him and his message. It was Joshua Wong, a 17-year-old student activist who has been at the center of the democracy movement that has rattled the Chinese government's hold on this city.
"When I heard the national anthem starting to play, I certainly did not feel moved so much as angry," Wong said a few hours later, after a protest at a flag-raising ceremony on Wednesday morning to mark the Chinese National Day holiday. "When it tells you, 'Arise! All those who refuse to be slaves!' — why is our treatment today any different from the slaves?"
Wong emerged as a figure in Hong Kong's activist circles two years ago, when he rallied students against a government plan to introduce "patriotic education" in schools, attacking it as a means of Chinese Communist Party indoctrination. He played a pivotal role in setting off the demonstrations of the past week, leading a surprise charge on a government building that resulted in his arrest and prompted thousands to take to the streets ahead of schedule. Local newspapers with close ties to Beijing have sought to smear him as a tool of the United States.
In reality, Wong is troubling confirmation for the authorities that the first generation in Hong Kong to grow up under Chinese rule is by many measures also the one most alienated from Beijing's influence. He was born less than nine months before this former British colony's handover to China in 1997, and raised here at a time when the party has tried mightily to win over people here and shape them into patriotic Chinese citizens.
Joshua Wong addresses a rally in Hong Kong on September 26, 2014. (File photo)
His prominence in the protest movement also embodies a shift in politics here — youth anger amplified over the Internet, beyond the orbit of traditional political parties — that has confounded the local government and infuriated its Communist supervisors in the mainland.
That shift has made something of a political star of Wong, who comes across as a hybrid of a solemn politician and a bashful teenage sensation. These days, if he is not surrounded by admiring supporters, he is usually mobbed by television cameras and reporters. Even before the most recent round of protests, strangers would sometimes approach him to shake hands or offer a pat on his shoulders and ask about his exam scores and schoolwork.
Wong is keenly aware of the influence that he and his classmates wield. As early as July, well before Beijing proposed the election rules that are the target of the current demonstrations, Wong told The New York Times in an interview, "Electoral reform is a generational war."
Chen Yun-chung, an associate professor of cultural studies at Lingnan University in Hong Kong, said Wong and his generation of high school activists, combining idealism and organizational skills, had outflanked both the government and the older, more cautious generations of democrats in Hong Kong.
"Their mentality is very different from the older generation, so I call them mutants, in a good sense, like the X-Men," he said. "There is always a danger of an even harsher crackdown that will scare the hell out of Hong Kong people. But at the same time, I don't think these mutant leaders are just daydreamers. They know that they might not get what they want, but most of them are prepared to fight on."
Wong represents a "culture of resistance that is idealistic and very persistent among the high school students," he added.
But few expected Wong to have such a critical impact on events this past week. The democracy movement had appeared to be flagging, and students who had been boycotting classes were planning to mark the end of their campaign quietly on Friday night with a showing of video messages of support from Taiwanese activists.
As the video ended, Wong, speaking on the stage beside the screen, took many in the audience by surprise by urging them to seize "Civic Square," the name that activists use for a forecourt to the Hong Kong government headquarters. Moments later, about 200 protesters eluded guards and took the square to loud cheers. Wong, however, was arrested before he made it and was dragged away in handcuffs.
News and images of Wong's arrest spread quickly on social media, and the occupation of the forecourt became the nucleus of a protest that attracted tens of thousands of supporters. The police attempted to break up the demonstration on Sunday with arrests, pepper spray and tear gas, provoking more public anger and bringing even larger crowds onto the streets, which have been occupied since.
The authorities held Wong for two nights before a judge granted a habeas corpus petition for his release.
Lee Cheuk-yan, the 57-year-old chairman of the pro-democracy Labor Party, said he was both stunned and heartened by the outpouring of youthful protest in the streets in the following days.
"You look at the faces here, and they are very young," Lee said as he stood on a platform where he had been speaking to a vast crowd on Tuesday night. "The old men will die, but the young will live on. They will beat them."
He then resumed speaking to the young crowd through a loud speaker, and repeated his comment to a roar of approval.
Wong, who is just shy of his 18th birthday, when he will gain the right to drink alcohol, is a veteran of theatrical protest politics. While in high school, at age 14, he and a classmate formed a youth group, Scholarism, to fight the "patriotic education" plan proposed by Beijing's handpicked leader in Hong Kong, Leung Chun-ying.
At first, their Internet-based movement was seen by many residents as quaintly naive, but as more students joined, it became a potent force in the campaign against the curriculum changes. After big street protests in 2012, the Hong Kong government shelved the plan. Since then, Scholarism has been a major force in promoting demands for democratic elections that would allow voters to nominate candidates for the city leader, and it promoted a student boycott of classes last week.
"If you told people five years ago that high school students would get involved in politics, they wouldn't have believed you," he told The Times in July. "For students, what we have is persistence in our principles and stubbornness in our ideals," he said, adding, "If students don't stand in the front line, who will?"
A protester
Hong Kong's news media has treated him with some of the intensity that it usually devotes to film and pop idols. In July, interest was so high in Wong's university entrance exam score that he held a news conference. (Wong's score turned out to be middling by Hong Kong's rigorous standards, and he has enrolled in a local university that specializes in distance learning.)
Wong has said that he acquired his passion for politics from his parents, Grace and Roger Wong, Protestants who kindled a concern for social injustice and have said they are proud of their son but otherwise stay out of the spotlight.
Wong and the wave of youthful protest he has helped inspire are much less open to compromise than the traditional democracy camp in Hong Kong — a rift that may widen if the Chinese government offers only mild concessions and the protests continue. He did not respond to repeated calls and messages seeking an interview.
In an interview earlier this year with a Hong Kong online publication, Wong argued that "compromising before you even begin fighting is illogical."
"I have no problems with negotiating," he added. "But before doing that, you better have some bargaining chips. If you don't have that, how do you fight a war?"
Meet 17-year-old Joshua Wong: Central figure in Hong Kong protests - The Times of India
Chris Buckley & Alan Wong,NYT News Service | Oct 2, 2014, 05.02 AM IST
HONG KONG: The slight teenager with heavy rectangular glasses and a bowl cut stood above the ocean of protesters who had engulfed downtown Hong Kong. His deep voice was drowned out by cheers, but the crowd did not mind: They knew him and his message. It was Joshua Wong, a 17-year-old student activist who has been at the center of the democracy movement that has rattled the Chinese government's hold on this city.
"When I heard the national anthem starting to play, I certainly did not feel moved so much as angry," Wong said a few hours later, after a protest at a flag-raising ceremony on Wednesday morning to mark the Chinese National Day holiday. "When it tells you, 'Arise! All those who refuse to be slaves!' — why is our treatment today any different from the slaves?"
Wong emerged as a figure in Hong Kong's activist circles two years ago, when he rallied students against a government plan to introduce "patriotic education" in schools, attacking it as a means of Chinese Communist Party indoctrination. He played a pivotal role in setting off the demonstrations of the past week, leading a surprise charge on a government building that resulted in his arrest and prompted thousands to take to the streets ahead of schedule. Local newspapers with close ties to Beijing have sought to smear him as a tool of the United States.
In reality, Wong is troubling confirmation for the authorities that the first generation in Hong Kong to grow up under Chinese rule is by many measures also the one most alienated from Beijing's influence. He was born less than nine months before this former British colony's handover to China in 1997, and raised here at a time when the party has tried mightily to win over people here and shape them into patriotic Chinese citizens.
Joshua Wong addresses a rally in Hong Kong on September 26, 2014. (File photo)
His prominence in the protest movement also embodies a shift in politics here — youth anger amplified over the Internet, beyond the orbit of traditional political parties — that has confounded the local government and infuriated its Communist supervisors in the mainland.
That shift has made something of a political star of Wong, who comes across as a hybrid of a solemn politician and a bashful teenage sensation. These days, if he is not surrounded by admiring supporters, he is usually mobbed by television cameras and reporters. Even before the most recent round of protests, strangers would sometimes approach him to shake hands or offer a pat on his shoulders and ask about his exam scores and schoolwork.
Wong is keenly aware of the influence that he and his classmates wield. As early as July, well before Beijing proposed the election rules that are the target of the current demonstrations, Wong told The New York Times in an interview, "Electoral reform is a generational war."
Chen Yun-chung, an associate professor of cultural studies at Lingnan University in Hong Kong, said Wong and his generation of high school activists, combining idealism and organizational skills, had outflanked both the government and the older, more cautious generations of democrats in Hong Kong.
"Their mentality is very different from the older generation, so I call them mutants, in a good sense, like the X-Men," he said. "There is always a danger of an even harsher crackdown that will scare the hell out of Hong Kong people. But at the same time, I don't think these mutant leaders are just daydreamers. They know that they might not get what they want, but most of them are prepared to fight on."
Wong represents a "culture of resistance that is idealistic and very persistent among the high school students," he added.
But few expected Wong to have such a critical impact on events this past week. The democracy movement had appeared to be flagging, and students who had been boycotting classes were planning to mark the end of their campaign quietly on Friday night with a showing of video messages of support from Taiwanese activists.
As the video ended, Wong, speaking on the stage beside the screen, took many in the audience by surprise by urging them to seize "Civic Square," the name that activists use for a forecourt to the Hong Kong government headquarters. Moments later, about 200 protesters eluded guards and took the square to loud cheers. Wong, however, was arrested before he made it and was dragged away in handcuffs.
News and images of Wong's arrest spread quickly on social media, and the occupation of the forecourt became the nucleus of a protest that attracted tens of thousands of supporters. The police attempted to break up the demonstration on Sunday with arrests, pepper spray and tear gas, provoking more public anger and bringing even larger crowds onto the streets, which have been occupied since.
The authorities held Wong for two nights before a judge granted a habeas corpus petition for his release.
Lee Cheuk-yan, the 57-year-old chairman of the pro-democracy Labor Party, said he was both stunned and heartened by the outpouring of youthful protest in the streets in the following days.
"You look at the faces here, and they are very young," Lee said as he stood on a platform where he had been speaking to a vast crowd on Tuesday night. "The old men will die, but the young will live on. They will beat them."
He then resumed speaking to the young crowd through a loud speaker, and repeated his comment to a roar of approval.
Wong, who is just shy of his 18th birthday, when he will gain the right to drink alcohol, is a veteran of theatrical protest politics. While in high school, at age 14, he and a classmate formed a youth group, Scholarism, to fight the "patriotic education" plan proposed by Beijing's handpicked leader in Hong Kong, Leung Chun-ying.
At first, their Internet-based movement was seen by many residents as quaintly naive, but as more students joined, it became a potent force in the campaign against the curriculum changes. After big street protests in 2012, the Hong Kong government shelved the plan. Since then, Scholarism has been a major force in promoting demands for democratic elections that would allow voters to nominate candidates for the city leader, and it promoted a student boycott of classes last week.
"If you told people five years ago that high school students would get involved in politics, they wouldn't have believed you," he told The Times in July. "For students, what we have is persistence in our principles and stubbornness in our ideals," he said, adding, "If students don't stand in the front line, who will?"
A protester
Hong Kong's news media has treated him with some of the intensity that it usually devotes to film and pop idols. In July, interest was so high in Wong's university entrance exam score that he held a news conference. (Wong's score turned out to be middling by Hong Kong's rigorous standards, and he has enrolled in a local university that specializes in distance learning.)
Wong has said that he acquired his passion for politics from his parents, Grace and Roger Wong, Protestants who kindled a concern for social injustice and have said they are proud of their son but otherwise stay out of the spotlight.
Wong and the wave of youthful protest he has helped inspire are much less open to compromise than the traditional democracy camp in Hong Kong — a rift that may widen if the Chinese government offers only mild concessions and the protests continue. He did not respond to repeated calls and messages seeking an interview.
In an interview earlier this year with a Hong Kong online publication, Wong argued that "compromising before you even begin fighting is illogical."
"I have no problems with negotiating," he added. "But before doing that, you better have some bargaining chips. If you don't have that, how do you fight a war?"
Meet 17-year-old Joshua Wong: Central figure in Hong Kong protests - The Times of India
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WP article:
Spin baby spin. After all, sheeple will chew and digest it with little critical thinking.
As it happens, "the unimaginable consequences" within the context of the entirety of article published in various Chinese newspaper, relates to the troubled economic situation due to the problems the protests creates for the normal activity of business there.
This has been voiced by China from the very beginning.
Spin baby spin. After all, sheeple will chew and digest it with little critical thinking.
As it happens, "the unimaginable consequences" within the context of the entirety of article published in various Chinese newspaper, relates to the troubled economic situation due to the problems the protests creates for the normal activity of business there.
This has been voiced by China from the very beginning.
what will happen now? deadline gone
TASS: World - Deadline set by Hong Kong protesters to Chinese authorities expires
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i was talking about xinhua not being accessible moron in reply to your post #6
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