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Posted at 8:27am on Jun. 17, 2008 The MSM and Michigan Dems suddenly OK with China? Since when?

By RightMichigan.com

Cross-posted on Right Michigan at www.RightMichigan.com.

Now why couldn't that have been the Ivory Tower's take back during the fall of 2006?  Tom Walsh has a column in the FREEP this morning hot on the heels of yesterday's Michigan appearances by Senator Barack Obama.  He rakes him over the coals pretty good for his unhealthy disconnect on the whole "economy" thing and defends business people who are successfully selling their products overseas.  

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Posted at 6:53am on Jun. 4, 2008 Today is the Anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre

Remember the fallen who sought only freedom

By blackhedd

Please observe a moment of silence in your heart today to remember the thousands of young people murdered with tanks and soldiers by the Chinese government on June 4, 1989.

This is the same government that in two months will put on the biggest show in the world, the Beijing Olympic Games, in an attempt to convince you and everyone else that they are all grown-up now and deserve a place in the front rank of the world’s nations.

Craving legitimacy and a permanent hold on power, and fearful above all of freedom of speech and of thought, the Chinese regime turned after the Tiananmen Massacre to delivering economic prosperity instead.

They have done that.

And yet I call on you, Dear Reader: DO NOT EVER FORGET the brutality of a Communist regime that, out of fear and insecurity, was unable to tolerate the peaceful gathering of unarmed students who wanted nothing more than freedom, a blessing that you enjoy every single day.

Perhaps you even take your freedom for granted.

-Francis Cianfrocca (“blackhedd”)

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Posted at 8:40am on May 17, 2008 China Backs Up the Burmese Leadership

Intransigence

By blackhedd

China backs up the Burma leadership’s refusals to allow foreign aid workers to enter the country. The Burmese generals want our food and our equipment, but not our people. Obviously, because they don’t want their own people to have any contact with the outside world. Might lead to calls for a leadership change, you see. Can’t have that.

China’s position is a standard one they have taken for decades: no nation (especially not those do-gooding Americans) has the right to “interfere in the internal affairs of another.” Obviously, because the Chinese leadership is awfully sensitive about when foreigners (read, us) try to infect their own people with crazy notions about freedom and democracy.

(Of course, China has never hesitated to interfere in the internal affairs of other states when it serves their interests. But let’s not be pointing fingers here.)

The noteworthy thing about this is that China is no longer hesitant to raise their voice and speak up about this, in international forums like the UN, and elsewhere. Obviously, they’re trying to increase the size of their footprint in global affairs.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but this is ground on which we need to be competing against the Chinese, and not only because their position is morally wrong. The rest of the world is constantly watching for signs of who the heavyweight champ of soft-power really is.

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Posted at 9:54am on May 12, 2008 China Overheats

No End In Sight

By blackhedd

Several worrisome trends in the Chinese economy that have been in place for nearly a year and a half are charging ahead with no end in sight. Here’s a news story about it.

In a word: inflation. China simply has too much money, and not enough economy. That’s putting tremendous strain on the government, which controls the economy tightly. And it’s opening up big questions about whether the country can continue its historically-unprecedented rate of change.

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Posted at 8:46am on Apr. 25, 2008 Funny, I didn't realize there was a Toledo anywhere in China

By RightMichigan.com

Cross-posted on Right Michigan at www.RightMichigan.com.

"I can't compete with China. I personally can't compete with Mexico."

That was the word, according to the Associated Press, from Steve Conner, an American Axle employee for the past fourteen years.  And that just about says everything you need to know about Big Labor's talking points and their hold over many rank and file members striking the struggling auto-parts supplier.

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Posted at 10:01pm on Apr. 20, 2008 Here's a story that won't get much attention

By Neil Stevens

Shanghai stocks collapse, common people bear brunt *ahead* of Olympics, despite analysts believing the government would prop things up to keep everything stable until after all the goose stepping and celebrating of the Han race's superiority was done.

I guess it's still true that when the United States sneezes, the whole world gets a cold.

Posted at 12:16pm on Apr. 10, 2008 The Obama Kowtow -- is he actually throwing the country under the bus to benefit Chicago?

By Erick

Hmmmm . . . .

I posted earlier today about Obama kowtowing to the Chinese. He doesn't want to say anything mean to the Chinese because, in his words, "It's very hard to tell your banker that he's wrong."

But in 2006, Obama took the Chinese to task over all their faulty products -- the lead paint in toys, the poisoned drugs and food, etc.

Why the change?

Moe Lane offers a clue.

The junior Senator from Illinois has a particularly tricky balancing act when it comes to the subject of the Olympics: Chicago is vying to host the 2016 games and one of Obama's top campaign advisors and close friends, Valerie Jarrett, is the vice chair of Chicago's bid committee.

If he's willing to throw his grandmother and staffers under the bus so easily, I guess he's also willing to throw the country under the bus when it's convenient.

How delightful.

The problem, of course, is that he's already signaled to our enemies in the Middle East that his policy as President will be to tuck tail and run home from fights. He exacerbates it by doing the same to China. I await his capitulation to Hugh Chavez next.

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Posted at 9:17am on Apr. 10, 2008 Barack Obama Kowtows to Chinese: Not fit to lead the land of the free and the home of the brave.

By Erick

Barack Obama's spine is apparently made of jello. No wonder the guy's wife has never been proud of America and thinks people are really mean. Heck, her husband is ready to hand the keys to the nation over to China and welcome them as our communist overlords.

While Clinton is out urging the President to boycott China, Obama refuses to do so. Why? Because he doesn't want to offend our banker.

"It's very hard to tell your banker that he's wrong," Obama said, after talking about the need to restore America's stance in the world, "And if we are running huge deficits and big national debts and we're borrowing money constantly from China, that gives us less leverage. It give us less leverage to talk about human rights, it also is giving us less leverage to talk about the uneven trading relationship that we have with China."

Here's the deal Barack: as one of the other contributors here said the other day, when you owe the bank $1 million, the bank owns you. When you owe the bank $1 trillion, you own the bank.

If Hillary were smart, she'd play this up huge in North Carolina and Pennsylvania.

If Barack Obama will not stand up to the Chinese for their persecution of Christians, Tibetans, Falun Gong, and their persecution of people in general who speak out against their government, he is not fit to lead the land of the free and home of the brave.

Why? Because if Barack Obama is too intimidated by a bunch of communist Chinese, he is a wuss.

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Posted at 10:49am on Apr. 8, 2008 The President of the United States Should Not Go To the Olympics

To Do So Would Be A Propaganda Victory For the Chicoms

By Erick

We find ourselves in the nearly unique position of agreeing with Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi. Like stopped clocks, we think they can be right twice in a day and their minute has come. President Bush should not go to Peking for the Olympics.

Unfortunately, there will be a visceral reaction by some on the right because Nancy Pelosi and Hillary Clinton are calling for the same thing. There should not be. In fact, the right, which has spent the better part of the last hundred years fighting for freedom around the world, should own this issue. The Chinese autocrats are ruthless dictators seeking international legitimacy despite the terror they pour into Tibet and the human rights abuses they encourage in their own country.

Read on . . .

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Posted at 10:14am on Apr. 4, 2008 Colbert has the "word" on the Beijing Olympics

By Feddie

Posted at 2:35am on Mar. 25, 2008 Please Continue To Pray Peacefully As We Round You Up For Slaughter

By Ben Domenech

Now when Daniel learned that the decree had been published, he went home to his upstairs room where the windows opened toward Jerusalem. Three times a day he got down on his knees and prayed, giving thanks to his God, just as he had done before. (NAS)

I was asked by a friend once about the two bumper stickers I had on my first car when I was a teenager. One was a Catholic pro-life sticker written in Spanish - the other, a small flag of Tibet. He asked me if I was trying to get my car keyed by everyone at once, or if they would just take turns.

For me, the question still is: Why aren't conservatives leading the way for Tibetan freedom?

While it may inspire very different demographics, I still believe that these two battles speak to the very soul of American conservatism. If conservatism means anything, it means this: that we are all born with an equal claim to certain rights given to all mankind, and that these include the right to live, and live freely, regardless of whether your life is inconvenient, or another claimed to own it, and the power to determine its fate ... and the right to worship, regardless of whether the deity you serve is unpopular with the ruling authorities of your nation. The claim to the first principle gave rise to the abolitionist movement and the Republican Party; the claim to the second gave rise to the Pilgrims and the birth of America itself.

And that principle is at the heart of the conflict in Tibet today.

It doesn't matter whether or not you believe the Dalai Lama's message about the nature or theology of the divine - that is irrelevant. What matters, in the case of the recent "unrest" in Tibet - such an adorable, innocent little word these foreign beat reporters use, as if China was turning restlessly in its sleep - is that the freedom to worship in this case has not just been torn from an entire people. It is their right to exist, to direct their own paths in any meaningful way.

Read on . . .

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Posted at 5:16am on Mar. 16, 2008 Killing People. Again.

The Chinese Regime Uses a special policy tool

By blackhedd

Every now and then, governments in every country (including ours) find themselves having to reach for the ultimate social policy tool: armed repression of their own people. That's happening in Tibet this week.

To be precise, the Chinese are not repressing their own, because the bloodshed in Lhasa is directed against a people whose land was taken by force early in the Mao years, and whose ancient and beautiful culture is being systematically exterminated.

But it's an odd case, because somehow there is someone from the West there to see it, and it's a bit mysterious how and why the Chinese allowed that to happen.

Update: The Dalai Lama weighs in, alleging 80 deaths in Lhasa already, and demanding an international investigation.

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Posted at 10:16am on Mar. 4, 2008 China To Raise 2008 Military Budget By Record 19.4%

By California Yankee

Does anyone believe that a record 19.4% increase in Chinese defense spending "will not pose a threat to other countries?"

Maybe it costs a lot more to protect the Olympics these days.

Posted at 6:16am on Jan. 31, 2008 Let it Snow: China's Leadership Sounds Like Hillary Clinton

By blackhedd

You've probably heard that it's been snowing in China. Actually, it's been snowing a lot in China. All part of global warming, of course.

So far, the official news agency has fessed up to 55 deaths from the severe winter weather, which is the worst in half a century. (Global warming is clearly getting worse.)

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