The Chinese Minitrue on the recent Google events (Click the link for more)
Google has officially announced its withdrawal from the China market. This is a high-impact incident. It has triggered netizens’ discussions which are not limited to a commercial level. Therefore please pay strict attention to the following content requirements during this period:
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B. Forums, blogs and other interactive media sections:1. It is not permitted to hold discussions or investigations on the Google topic
2. Interactive sections do not recommend this topic, do not place this topic and related comments at the top
3. All websites please clean up text, images and sound and videos which attack the Party, State, government agencies, Internet policies with the excuse of this event.
4. All websites please clean up text, images and sound and videos which support Google, dedicate flowers to Google, ask Google to stay, cheer for Google and others have a different tune from government policy
5. On topics related to Google, carefully manage the information in exchanges, comments and other interactive sessions
6. Chief managers in different regions please assign specific manpower to monitor Google-related information; if there is information about mass incidents, please report it in a timely manner..
The Chinese Minitrue instructions to the media during the National People’s Congress (Click the link for more)
A portion was posted on the Internet, and independently confirmed and translated by the Beijing bureau of The New York Times. Annotations by The Times are in brackets.
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7. Delete news related to the youtan poluo flower. [Buddhist lore says this rare and auspicious flower blooms once every 3,000 years. Reports that a nun at a temple in southern China found a cluster of the tiny flowers under her washing machine set off a recent stir in the press. Chinese officials are concerned about the spread of superstition.]
8. For the “poisonous cowpea incident” in Hainan, only use news articles from the Xinhua News Agency, People’s Daily and the official Hainan media. [Cowpeas from Hainan Province were found to be contaminated with a toxic pesticide, setting off criticism about why the cowpeas were sold to other provinces.]
9. Do not feature news reports on major incidents in Beijing during the two meetings, including “staffer at Xidan Books Building hacks manager to death” or “accident at Shunyi car showroom, one man dies.” Do not highlight the timing of these events.
@Bobbo
“Our current ECONOMIC CONTEST with China most likely will have huff and bluff about it but most likely no bombs and outright physical blows.”
This is China, a product of a thousand years of cultural “superiority” and of the brute intimidation mindset.
There will be outright physical blows.
China is a brute and tyrant. Too calculating to engage in an open war (it would lose for a variety of reasons which they understand) but hardly afraid of acts of aggression or intimidation.
Remember: one of Bush’s early test was China colliding a fighter jet against a US surveillance plane forcing its crew to land.
Obama *WILL* be tested at some point.