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htening quality controls on philippine fruit and purposefully slowing down inspection times this action has ended up costing philippine businesses 33 6 million dollars to date at the same time the cpc has greatly discouraged chinese tourism to the islands and has implied that chinese nationals in the country could be attacked despite this the chinese media has been wont to portray china as the one de escalating the confrontation peoples daily stated that china has adopted an attitude of restraint and has created a peaceful atmosphere in the south china sea the same article also claimed that china alone should make rules for the development of the south china sea area and even the whole asia the us navy s 7th east asian fleet there are no prizes for guessing who the cpc thinks the guilty party responsible for all of this trouble is it is of course the united states who is claimed to be provoking their neighbors a people s daily article entitled no storm can shake china s composure stated grandly on the topic of the south china sea that china has won the respect and understanding of most neighboring countries for its ability to control itself this statement is possibly meant to imply that china s lack of military action against the philippines vietnam korea taiwan and japan is to be lauded as that of a very mature actor it is a fallacy china knows it cannot act for fear of us intervention the article went on to state that the chinese nation s restrained calm and constructive attitude has now been taken advantage of by actors encouraged by the us the previously mentioned china daily article from may summarises beijing s sentiment perfectly with the united states as the puppeteer behind the scenes vietnam and the philippines have chosen to rebuff china s friendly intentions in this statement we see the real quarrel china has with the us although they have stated they will not get involved the us navy doesn t need to in order to stifle chinese military activities the us has forced china to take a more convoluted and less sure path to victory in the south china sea it has also allowed the vietnamese taiwanese koreans and philippines and later if they choose to the malays and brunei s as well to contest china regarding their own territorial claims and on a more equal playing field too the same article states it bluntly the philippines has been emboldened to run amuk because it thinks it has the military might of the us behind it the fault is anyone s but the us s however china s behavior has obviously been anything but even handed and their flat out refusal to seek mediation at the un only discredits their undisputable sovereignty over the entire sea further the west is not trying to create conflicts between china and its neighboring countries as people s daily bluntly states the conflicts already existed and the west is trying to moderate them it is china s behavior in south east asia that has opened the door for the us s warm re entry into the region despite its bullish behaviors in the past the us can now play the good guy and will win the battle for hearts and minds filed under issues news media in the prc tagged with anti western chinese bullying chinese navy fishing rights philippines south china sea territorial disputes us china vietnam chinese support of assad duplicitous and obvious may 17 2012 china vetoes the latest condemnation of syria at the un echoing the tone of many opinion pieces in the western media i too was initially confused by china s outspoken support of the violent syrian regime both in the un and through their press the brutal year long crackdown on arab spring protestors in the country has had left the syrian government under ever weightier pressure from the un and in the world media this pressure has not only emanated from the west but also from the rest of the world to the point where barring syria s three active friends iran russia and china and the alba nations of venezuela cuba bolivia ecuador and nicaragua the united nations has come together to push for an official condemnation but nothing has or will come of it the international community s efforts have been time and again vetoed by the small pro assad bloc what is confusing to most is that china s veto against the anti assad measures makes no real sense china has no strong connections to the regime nothing to gain from assad by shielding it and by supporting syria has very publicly isolated itself all of this is especially confusing when it is noted that russia was doing enough to protect the kremlin friendly assad regime on its own china had no tangible reason to get involved looking through recent chinese media discussion on the issue however i m no longer confused by china s behaviour chinese support of assad seems to have been tied neatly into the cpc s diplomatic and ideological policy of opposition to the west most blatantly in papers and news sites across the country chinese newspapers have been wont to quote the syrian state news agency sana at its word while casting aspersions on other voices meanwhile chinese state media has downplayed the government shelling of civilian areas continually referred to the rebel groups as terrorists and cast aspersions on the credibility and ingenuousness of western concerns journalists in china have not blanketed the conflict completely as they did with the opening half of the libyan revolution instead they are speaking out as if in chorus their consensus seems to be that regarding outside actors it is the west and its allies not the russian and chinese led pro assad bloc that is to blame for the lack of a solution citing some nation s propensity toward arming syrian rebels and the us and eu s political actions against assad an article from china daily claimed that their intransigence is only prolonging the bloodshed and making it harder to reach a peaceful solution the article went on to boldly claim that american condemnation of china and russia s pro assad stance was immoral opposing the desires of the syrian people and standing in the way of the nation s stability it comes as little surprise that the article concluded that contrary to the west that china s relationship and attitude towards with the arab world was sincere long established and in the arab people s best interests a similar article released late last year this time about the end of the west s military involvement in libya made the case that western concerns in libya amounted to little more than a smash and grab that was also intended to counter chinese influence in the region the article concluded grandly that the fall of gaddafi is not the triumph of good over evil but a triumph of the former colonial rulers in reshaping the african economic map this bush era conspiracy that western democratic altruism is always a cover for financial greed is still quite trendy in china and has been trundled out time and again to attack the western moral character the strategy has also been utilised in the chinese media to also imply machiavellian moves by the us to reorder the balance of power in the region re syria multiple global times articles released in early 2012 argue for the legitimacy of the assad government by combating calls for un intervention despite the violent human rights abuses perpetrated these articles claim that american behaviour in the middle east is simply explained crumpling up syria would mean cutting off an important arm of iran and that china seeing itself as a marginalised world player now sees the need to confront it the scapegoating and denigration of the us is a time honoured practice for the cpc harking back to the days of the cultural revolution though originally it was implied most often on an east asian scale as china s ambitions grow it is natural that the cpc narrative has the west plotting not just against chinese people but now all non western people s across the world never mind that the actors on the ground most recently in syria and previously in libya had openly stated that peace with each other was and should be unpalatable making intervention necessary to protect civilians forget also that further atrocities have been committed and encouraged while russian and chinese political action protected these authoritarian regimes and that us governmental and corporate assistance was vital in keeping egypt s recent revolution relatively bloodless perhaps there is some truth in chinese allegations of western hypocrisy however the us has supported its fair share of dictators and still does in saudi arabia jordan and other african and middle eastern nations credibility issues crop up with china s world view when they claim that western intervention against dictatorships is wholly calculated though the moral indignation felt in the west against repressive regimes is certainly real it can also be argued that political support for authoritarianism after bush jr has certainly waned in the west as the political realism that marked the cold war is slowly being replaced by the peace of democracies assad and ahmadinejad china meanwhile for all it s talk of supporting the oppressed people of the world has many close relationships with authoritarian regimes and is one itself a fact that prompts china to relentlessly square the circle it sells itself and its authoritarian friends as nice guy alternatives to the west the chinese media has no problem for example implying that iran s political system is less repressive and nicer than america s or in echoing tehran s propaganda that the arab spring protests which the iranians ruthlessly crushed in their own country were inspired by the ayatollah the global times even argued recently that western concerns about the obvious corruption and bullying at the vote this year in the russian elections is a way for the west to bring about splits in russian society and that putin s re election reflected the will of the russian people the prc has a right to oppose the us through diplomatic channels and through other apparatuses of its soft power base but it needs to be honest about itself and its complaints against western hegemony first paranoid conspiracies scapegoating others and obvious acts of duplicity will not win it the morality arm wrestling match it has engaged in with the west publicly supporting murderous and callous despots does not help either filed under news media in the prc tagged with anti western assad chinese support of authoritarianism chinese veto libya and china syria syria and china us china cpc alternatives to censorship february 19 2012 overn the last decade internet use has spiked in china from just over half a million users in the mid to late 90 s to over 500 million now this huge multitude of people online has no doubt caused beijing a great deal of anxiety as a source of public dissent and promulgation of unsanctioned ideas the internet is a real threat to their hegemony because of this china has seen a number of solutions to fix the problem of internet freedom over the years in 1997 the cpc first started to regulate the use of the internet the next year the golden shield great firewall project was conceived and completed in 2006 2008 while in 2009 the green dam programme which called for the mandatory inclusion of surveillance microchips in all new computers almost passed into law these solutions all had their limitations the 1997 regulations only gave china the framework of laws and their prosecution not the methods for action the great firewall can be circumvented by proxy servers subverted ideologically through subtlety and sarcasm and served as a focus point for more criticism meanwhile the green dam project was a disaster it was unwieldy and ineffective in many of its parameters obviously and poorly plagiarised a potentially huge security risk and poorly disguised an anti pornography measure as such it was unpopular and was scrapped during the testing phase the subtleties of the internet seemed to stifle complete control but at some point shortly before green dam beijing stumbled upon the best answer so far and it had nothing to do with new coding or programmes beijing s solution involved the adding of a social element to the equation in 2004 the publicity department of changsa city seemingly of their own volition hired china s first anonymous internet commentators a group whose job was to surreptitiously post positive comments and discredit complaints over the next three years this method proved so effective in stifling online dissent that it grew exponentially organically spreading to different parts of the country and through the different channels of the cpc s body politic from every regional and city council to news sites forums chat rooms and social networking sites cpc commentators are now commonly found on foreign news sites too an internet commentator conference broadcast on chinese television originally paid 0 50 yuan a post the writers are now popularly and derisively known as the 50 cent party and their goal according to the head of guangzhou s city inspectors committee li yangui is to track and analyze public opinion prevent the spread of undesirable information and ultimately provide positive guidance of public opinion highlighting their importance to china s internet policy three years after the germination of the concept in 2007 premier hu jintao called for the proliferation of this method at a major politburo conference cpc support of this method undoubtedly lies in its ability to effectively direct online opinion towards any narrative end almost anonymously this use of anonymity rather than just deleting or blocking offensive material serves to effectively remove the spectre of cpc heavy handedness and tricks users into thinking the pro party talking points they re reading are the unbiased opinions of regular netizens in a widely circulated leaked communiqué that says much about the scapegoating culture of the cpc the stated true objective of the 50 centers was revealed to undermine the influence of taiwanese democracy as if china s societal problems stemmed from anything taiwan has done included in the supposed missive was also this incredible list of guidelines to the extent possible make america the target of criticism play down the existence of taiwan do not directly confront the idea of democracy rather frame the argument in terms of what kind of system can truly implement democracy to the extent possible choose various examples in western countries of violence and unreasonable circumstances to explain how democracy is not well suited to capitalism use america s and other countries interference in international affairs to explain how western democracy is actually an invasion of other countries and how the west is forcibly pushing on other countries western values use the bloody and tear stained history of a once weak people i e china to stir up pro party and patriotic emotions increase the exposure that 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