Chinese Coup

Harold Weiss

"If Beijing is worried about unfettered populism and polarisation, switching to a parliamentary system would provide a better and safer model," Stanford University's Professor Larry Diamond, who has advised the World Bank and the US State Department on governance, told the South China Morning Post.

Diamond said international standards of universal suffrage required guaranteeing the free expression of the will of all electors, not just a "special group", like the nominating committee empowered by the Basic Law to choose chief executive hopefuls.

"Eventually China will become a democracy … but the real issue is this: Hong Kong is ready for democracy now, and it has been for a long time," the founding co-editor of the Journal of Democracy said.

Leading democracy scholar Larry Diamond suggests forming parliament in Hong Kong

Hong Kong is 'ready for democracy', says top US scholar

Larry Diamond is the man behind Kony 2012 style viral video "I am Ukrainian" which featured an attractive woman calling on the world to support the country's struggle for freedom.

No doubt, I would wholeheartedly support and welcome true freedom for Ukrainians but a man like Larry Diamond doesn't care about Ukrainians.

He's currently a member of Council on Foreign Relations and has worked closely with NED and USAID which are responsible for instigating protests in various regions of the world under the guise of promoting democracy.


Why East Asia—Including China—Will Turn Democratic Within a Generation

Why is There No Arab Democracy?: Democracy Seminar with Larry Diamond, Hoover Institution

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2SiN9Tbol4

Given his comments, I wouldn't be surprised if we see massive protests taking place in China over the next few years, if not sooner. For those pondering, is it necessarily a bad thing that Chinese people would have more "freedom" than they have now? No, but what makes you think CFR give a **** about Chinese people? I mean...CFR are not exactly Samaritans.

Torakx

Out of the frying pan and into the fire.

Harold Weiss

China Sends Arms Trainers to Xinjiang After Series of Attacks

After going through a string of terror attacks in the last few months, China has sent a group of arms trainers to the Xinjiang Uyghur region to train the grassroots police in using arms and handling public security.

The Chinese government sent a team composed of 30 trainers hailing from different parts of the country to conduct a three-month program that will train local policemen in handling arms, according to a Xinhua news report.

Uyghur people are discussed in Corbett Report China's War On Terror

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53gcgadX1gU

Uyghur disenfranchisement is played upon to foment Islamic radicalism and political separatist sentiment.

The East Turkestan Islamic movement seeking to wrest Xinjiang from China’s control offers a number of parallels to the shadowy “Al Qaeda” terror organization, including a mysterious leader living in a secret mountain base in Pakistan’s lawless border region and, as FBI whistleblower and BoilingFrogsPost founder Sibel Edmonds revealed in last year’s series on Gladio B, direct support from NATO-associated Gladio operatives seeking to destabilize a geostrategic region in an ongoing, under-the-radar war for control of Central Asia.

In the end, as with so many of these contrived geopolitical conflicts, the only people who clearly lose are the Uyghur people themselves, whose economic and political marginalization seems set to increase from here.

In the great irony of global geopolitics, this will itself create a greater pool of disenfranchised youth to draw upon for future terror attacks, thus perpetuating a descending cycle of chaos and violence.

And, sadly, the only plausible way out of this, a plan for bringing about greater opportunities for the Uyghur people to engage in China’s ongoing economic miracle, is so far off the political radar that it can’t be found on anyone’s map.

Harold Weiss

Forgot about this story..

Terrorist attack kills 31, injures 94 at Urumqi market

Happened day after $400 bln gas deal between Russia/China

URUMQI, May 22 (Xinhua) -- An attack on a market in Urumqi that left at least 31 dead and 94 injured on Thursday morning was an act of terror, according to authorities.

It is the worst event in five years in the far western region after riots on July 5, 2009 in the regional capital claimed 197 lives and injured more than 1,700.

Two vehicles, without license plates, broke through roadside fences and plowed into people at an open-air market in Gongyuanbei Street near Renmin Park at 7:50 a.m. and explosive devices were detonated, said a statement by the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region's publicity department.

Torakx

Interesting target for a terrorist....
Only reason to target citizens, is to cause fear in citizens.

Harold Weiss

I missed a big story about MH370 ....

China executes eight involved in Xinjiang 'terror attacks'

Exiled Uighur groups and human rights activists say cultural oppression and intrusive security measures imposed by the Chinese government have caused unrest in the region, along with immigration by China's Han ethnic majority.

I don't dispute the oppression of Uyghur people in that region by China but I was curious to know how they might be funded as all groups need money to operate.

NED are well known for sponsoring uprisings in various parts of the world which is an NGO front for CIA covert operations.

They openly admit funding what it calls are human rights groups.

NED’s strategy has long included support for minority rights advocacy and efforts to press for democratic solutions to ethnic concerns, as the following passages from NED’s 1984 “Statement of Principles and Objectives” illustrate:

NED support for Uyghur Human Rights and Prodemocracy Groups in Exile

Here's something interesting, related to MH370..

In an op-ed piece by Rajeev Sharma, he claims it may have been Uyghur people responsible for missing flight MH370.

Obviously Brennan couldn’t have been unaware of claim of responsibility for the plane’s disappearance by the Chinese Martyrs’ Brigade – unheard of before now.

This outfit had released a statement through an impossible-to-trace encrypted Hushmail anonymous service on March 9 saying: "You kill one of our clan, we will kill 100 of you as payback."

According to the statement it was a response to the Chinese government for its persecution of the Uyghur ethnic minority.

KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 20 — Malaysia and Interpol are investigating an alleged attempt by hackers to siphon off classified information from the Flight MH370 probe to an IP (Internet Protocol) address in China.

MH370 probe hacked and sent to China; Malaysia-Interpol investigating

Chinese group claims responsibility for missing jet

cdoherty86

From Sep 1st 2014, South China Morning Post

“This is a sad day for Hong Kong, and for democracy,” Professor Larry Diamond, senior fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, said in an email interview. “This seems to be about the worst outcome imaginable. No progress toward democracy, not even a timetable toward democracy, and frankly, not even an effort to gesture toward democracy.”

“It is difficult to see how, under this Iranian-style rigged system, pro-democracy forces will have any chance of nominating a candidate of their own,” said Diamond, founding co-editor of the Journal of Democracy.

At least 26 injured as police, protesters clash during Hong Kong protests

edition.cnn.com/2014/09/28/world/asia/china-hong-kong-students/

cdoherty86

I have great news about the uprising in Hong Kong.

Forget about the Opium wars against those bad guys, China.

We're taking back what's rightfully ours using US dollars and whatever righteous stuff you wanna add in there...

As you might know...Libya is currently Shangri La right now, as is Egypt and Iraq, Syria..etc.

So, we thought about spreading some love to China too because the oppressed workers there need our help.

You know when you buy those latest trainers or shoes for hiking in the hills?
American center for labor solidarity is busy ensuring the workers get basic human rights because we don't want you to feel guilty about buying the products you want.

We operate in Bangladesh, Cambodia, Indonesia, Kenya, Egypt, Peru, Morocco, Guatemala where most of your wares come from.

What we're doing right now is ensuring that Hong Kong workers receive fair salary for their work there in China.

So we've sent approx. $1 million to Hong Kong Human Rights Monitor, National Democratic Institute For International Affairs and American center for labor solidarity to ensure those fine good people in Hong Kong get the full human rights they deserve.

And just a final reminder, folks.. you needn't feel guilty about buying slave products because whatever makes you happy buddy, that's what counts.