August 29, 2008

China still using prison labor to produce exports to U.S.

Despite agreements with the United States, China continues to use forced prison labor to produce products sent to the U.S., a Chinese human rights activist said. Harry Wu, executive director of the Washington-based Laogai Research Foundation, told a congressional commission recently that illegal prison labor practices continue in China, despite two U.S.-China agreements dating from 1992. More than 1,000 forced labor camps operate throughout China, Wu said. (FULL STORY)
Chinese dissident Harry Wu spoke at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. in 2000 on Chinese labor conditions.

Beijing reveals mixed feelings about an increasingly aggressive 'Russian Bear'

On the level of global geopolitics, the administration of President Hu Jintao is sympathetic toward Moscow’s struggle against the preponderance of NATO. . . . On another level, however, the Hu leadership has subtly expressed disquiet about the resurgence of Russian power.        (FULL STORY)
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, left, and Chinese President Hu Jintao, right, in Tajikistan, on Aug. 27, at a meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, a regional security group dominated by China and Russia.  AP/RIA-Novosti
Spy case reveals China's use of students, interest in unmanned aerial vehicles
Chinese military strategist emphasizes 'winning informatized war' by mid-century
   
Document revealed by hacker showed Chinese gymnasts were underage
Russia set to begin rebuilding N. Korea’s port, cross-border railway
Moscow's warming trend toward rogue states continues to Kim Jong-Il
Russian ship eavesdropping on U.S. forces in Japan

The 2008 Beijing Olympics was a business bust / Containing the Yuan flood Down Under / The Qantas marketing dilemma / Tata stalls on the way to the automotive super highway
N. Korea raises eyebrows with appointment of senior official as ambassador to Syria
U.S. warms to Vietnam to counter Beijing's South China Sea buildup
Reports: China upgrading missile bases against India, Japan
Chinese military leaders told to surf the Internet in order to 'get real'

 
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