October 24, 2008

China exercises in northeast seen as warning to both North Korea and the U.S.

Reports from China indicate that recent large-scale military exercises by Chinese forces in northeast Asia were meant as a warning to North Korea and others that Beijing will intervene militarily in the communist state to prevent instability. The exercises included ground, naval and air forces on both sides of the Liaodong and Shandong peninsulas, which are located close to the Korean Peninsula.     (FULL STORY)
Paramilitary policemen in Qingdao, Shandong province. Reuters

True believers grateful for U.S. meltdown: 'Chinese-style socialism' is the way

The financial tsunami that has hit the U.S. and Europe has given the CCP leadership a God-sent opportunity to lambast the “wanton ways of capitalism” and to sing the praises of “socialism with Chinese characteristics”. Although at least half of senior officials have sent their children and grandchildren to U.S. or European universities — not to mention moving their assets overseas — the cadres can’t resist [some] U.S. bashing.  (FULL STORY)
Liu Yunshan, right, a member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of China's Central Committee, arriving in Pyongyang in 2007.  
Top defector warns China will intervene and not allow North Korea to 'fall into chaos'
Taiwan for the first time fears U.S. abandonment
   
Working intel hypothesis: Rumors that Kim Jong-Il is alive have been greatly exaggerated
Counterfeit Chinese chips safety threat to U.S. warplanes, ships
Jiang warned of possibility China 'will disintegrate' in exit speech

China ponders another 'land reform' revolution: Privatization / Pakistan looking in vain to U.S., China for bailouts / Somalia-based piracy takes shipping toll off Horn of Africa / Still recovering from the 1997 East Asia financial crisis, South Korea bails out its banks
International speculation about Kim's health beginning to penetrate North Korean society
U.S. vow of reinforcements for S. Korea seen as warning to possibly unstable North
China fears fallout from economic crisis, blames U.S. for 'great harm' to world
More odd North Korean media behavior noted by U.S. analysts

 
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