China

China
Capital city	Beijing
Location	Asia
Leader	President of the People's Republic of China Incumbent: Xi Jinping Since 14 March 2013
Type	nation state
Interest of	Anne-Marie Brady, François Godement, NewColdWar.org
Member of	G-20, Global Counter Terrorism Forum, UN/SC
Subpage	•China/President
The most populous nation state in the world

China is the world's most populous nation state. It is a major supplier of material goods to much of the rest of the world, particularly North America and Europe.

Arms Production

China is the #3 nation worldwide as regards arms export from 2012-2016, after US and Russia.

"War on Terror"

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On March 29, 2017, The Chinese government banned 'abnormal' beards or veils in its heavily Muslim region of Xinjiang, stating that the rules were necessary to necessary to fight "extremism". The Daily Mail also stated that everyone would be forced to watch or listen to state media, and that all cars in the province be fitted with a GPS tracking device.

"Strike Hard Campaign against Violent Terrorism"

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The Strike Hard Campaign is a research project into repressive social control run in Xinjiang. In 2018 the BBC accused China of "locking up hundreds of thousands of Muslims without trial in its western region of Xinjiang", and reported that the Chinese government denies the claims, saying people willingly attend special “vocational schools” which combat “terrorism and religious extremism”.

Persecution of Falun Gong

Full article: Falun Gong

On 20 July, 1999, around 10,000 Falun Gong practitioners gathered near the central government compound in Beijing to request legal recognition and protection by the Chinese government. The government's response was to declare the religion illegal, and carry out a mass arrests of the 'leaders'. A 2008 UN report suggested that tens of thousands of Falun gong members had been the victims of organ harvesting. As of 2019, illegal detention, torture, murder and organ harvesting of Falun Gong adherents was still ongoing. A tribunal chaired by Geoffrey Nice in London suggested a conservative estimate is that 60,000-90,000 transplant operations were conducted each year.

Internet Censorship

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CNN reports that China spends millions of dollars on software to enable internet censorship, and that it began controlling its citizens' Internet access in the mid-1990s. China reportedly has "around two million people policing public opinion online" In 2015, CNN suggested that about 1 to 3% of Chinese Internet users regularly jump the Firewall to browse the open Internet. Microsoft has produced software which censors particular topics such as the Tianenman Square Massacre. Wikipedia is reportedly blocked in some parts of China.

 

A Document by China

Title	Document type	Publication date	Subject(s)	Description
Document:Human Rights Record of the United States in 2013	report	28 February 2014	Human rights	A report on the Human rights record of the USA through 2013. An official publication of the government of the Peoples Republic of China. A response to the hypocricy of the US government in publishing similar reports on 200 countries and excluding itself - Clearly the US considers itself exempt in such matters.

 

Related Quotations

Page	Quote	Author	Date
"Strike Hard Campaign"	“The Strike Hard Campaign has shown complete disregard for the rights of Turkic Muslims to be presumed innocent until proven guilty. In Xinjiang, authorities have created a system that considers individuals suspicious based on broad and dubious criteria, and then generates lists of people to be evaluated by officials for detention. Official documents state that individuals “who ought to be taken, should be taken,” suggesting the goal is to maximize the number of people they find “untrustworthy” in detention. Such people are then subjected to police interrogation without basic procedural protections. They have no right to legal counsel, and some are subjected to torture and mistreatment, for which they have no effective redress, as we have documented in our September 2018 report. The result is Chinese authorities, bolstered by technology, arbitrarily and indefinitely detaining Turkic Muslims in Xinjiang en masse for actions and behavior that are not crimes under Chinese law.”		1 May 2019
Bernard Montgomery	“The next war on land will be very different from the last one, in that we shall have to fight it in a different way. In reaching a decision on that matter, we must first be clear about certain rules of war. Rule 1, on page I of the book of war, is: "Do not march on Moscow". Various people have tried it, Napoleon and Hitler, and it is no good. That is the first rule. I do not know whether your Lordships will know Rule 2 of war. It is: "Do not go fighting with your land armies in China". It is a vast country, with no clearly defined objectives, and an army fighting there would be engulfed by what is known as the Ming Bing, the people's insurgents.”	Bernard Montgomery	30 May 1962
Racism	“Chinese authorities, bolstered by technology, arbitrarily and indefinitely detaining Turkic Muslims in Xinjiang en masse for actions and behavior that are not crimes under Chinese law. And yet Chinese authorities continue to make wildly inaccurate claims that their “sophisticated” systems are keeping Xinjiang safe by “targeting” terrorists “with precision.””		1 May 2019

 

Ambassadors to China

Nation state	Start	Description
Ambassador to China
UK/Ambassador to China	1840
US/Ambassador to China	1844

 

Groups Headquartered Here

A Group Headquartered Here
Beijing Foreign Studies University
COSCO
Huawei
Kuomintang
Renmin University

 

Citizens of China on Wikispooks

Title	Born	Died	Description
Fu Ying	January 1953
Yongtu Long	1943
Minxin Pei
Ng Lap Seng
Meng Wanzhou	1972
Zhou Xiaochuan	29 January 1948		11th governor of the Peoples Bank of China
Mao Zedong	26 December 1893	9 September 1976

 

Related Documents

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:Canada Takes A Hostage: Free Meng Wanzhou	Article	8 December 2018	Christopher Black	Canadians should be angry about these traitors isolating Canada from China, from Russia, from Iran and their great cultures, and condemning Canada to be nothing more than an outpost of the American empire. For traitors they are as they betray the Canadian people by serving the interests of the Americans and their war machine. Free Meng Wanzhou, for so long as she is held hostage, so are we all.
Document:Speech by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on 20 August 2017 to the Syrian Diplomatic Corps	Speech	31 August 2017	Bashar al Assad	The US President is not the maker of policies, but the executor. Therefore, the “Deep State” in the United States does not govern in partnership with the President, but leaves him a small margin.
Document:The New Silk Road Will Go Through Syria	Article	13 July 2017	Pepe Escobar	Beijing is working non-stop for the Iran-Iraq-Syria triumvirate to become a key hub in the New Silk Road (OBOR). Any bets against a future, booming Shanghai-Latakia container route?
Document:US Nuclear Policy Review: The World Is Our Enemy	Article	8 February 2018	Christopher Black	“We (the United States) will keep you guessing as to when and against whom we will use them (nuclear weapons). We will maintain our role as the greatest state terrorist by keeping the nuclear Damocles sword over the heads of the people of the world constantly to ensure that the world acts in our interest.”
File:CNAS CooperationFromStrength Cronin 1.pdf	book extract	9 January 2012	Patrick Cronin Peter A Dutton M Taylor Fravel James R Holmes Robert Kaplan Will Rogers Ian Storey