Chinese Ninja/Windowasher/Death Wish

I think that doing this in China would qualify for all three.

Downtown Beijing

China’s Peaceful Rise

This channel is always showing military hardware and such, think of it like “Soldier of Fortune” for your TV. I am unsure what they are talking about, but it does not look like the producers of the show have cozied up to the idea of China’s peaceful rise…

Tons of Chinese at the Subway

Don’t Prowl The Streets in China

Here is a piece on the Chinese government’s presence in the streets of Beijing. After passing along Wangfujing today, I would agree whole-heartedly with their sentiments. excerpt from here: “BEIJING – Whoever is sending out the mysterious tweets calling for regular Sunday afternoon “strolls” around China has come up with a highly effective psychological operation against the government, sending a paranoid security apparatus chasing at shadows. The possibility that somebody might heed the coy calls to protest led Chinese security to virtually shut down some of the most heavily trafficked locations in the country – a McDonald’s on the popular Wangfujing pedestrian mall in downtown Beijing and Shanghai’s People’s Park. Last Sunday, Wangfujing had the feel of a Cold War spy novel, with shifty-eyed plain-clothed agents scanning the crowd and dozens of foreign reporters doing their best to appear incognito in fading sweatshirts and wool hats.”

Chinese Traffic Photo

Beijing has the worst traffic, here is an example.

Big Brother and Deleting News in China

This is funny, I was googling news about China and found this piece below, but when I clicked on it, it said, “News Deleted”. I guess this may be deemed as damaging to the state, but yet it came from Xinhua, a governmental mouthpiece… Xinhua – Mu Xuequan – ‎17 hours ago‎ BEIJING, March 5 (Xinhua) — Lawmakers and political advisors attending the ongoing parliamentary session in Beijing are demanding some foreign reporters not to sidetrack in reporting China, blaming them for being too eager to cover the so called “mass

China Detains More Foreign Journalists

Here is a story about 15 foreign journalists detained in China. excerpt from here: “Beijing – Police in Shanghai detained at least 15 foreign journalists who were trying to report a weekly anti-government ‘strolling’ protest on Sunday, two of the journalists said. Two journalists said police detained them mid-afternoon outside Shanghai’s Peace Cinema where anonymous online organizers called for weekly ‘Jasmine’ protests each Sunday from February 20.

China Upping her Military Budget

Here are published statistics on how much China will spend on surveilance and her military from reuters here: ” * To spend $95 bln on public security, $92 bln on military * Security spend includes police, jails, state security * China to remain vigilant against calls for protest (Adds budget details, paragraph 9) By Chris Buckley BEIJING, March 5 (Reuters) - China's spending on police and domestic surveillance will hit new heights this year, with "public security" outlays unveiled on Saturday outstripping the defence budget for the first time as Beijing cracks down on protest calls. China's ruling Communist Party also issued its loudest warning yet against recent Internet-spread calls for "Jasmine Revolution" protest gatherings inspired by popular uprisings in North Africa and the Middle East. The 13.8 percent jump in China's planned budget for police, state security, armed civil militia, courts and jails was unveiled at the start of the annual parliamentary session, and brought planned spending on law and order items to 624.4 billion yuan ($95.0 billion). By contrast, China's People's Liberation Army budget is set to rise 12.7 percent to 601.1 billion yuan ($91.5 billion). "This would be the first time that the openly announced domestic security budget has surpassed military spending", said Xie Yue, a political scientist at Tongji University in Shanghai. He called the figure a gauge of China's spending on what officials call "stability protection."

Too Many Chinese