they also cover the Chinese war against their Islamic minority, a story that has been pretty well ignored in the western press.
even the Muslim nations are keeping quiet about it. Hmm...
follow the money?
they go on to describe how the Chinese use internet tools to spy on their population.
Nearly a million of these Moslems have been sent to reeducation camps and that has become an international issue, but not with Moslem nations who are usually quick to complain about any real or imagined slight by Western nations. The silence of Moslem critics was not because China has restricted journalist (Chinese and foreign) access to Xinjiang because that has not completely kept news of what is going on there from getting out. Thus when it became known that at least 50,000 Kyrgyz Chinese Moslems were also in the reeducation camps there was outrage in some Central Asian nations that had people they could identify with those in the camps. But even these Central Asian nations were not officially critical of the Chinese. The lack of criticism from Moslem nations is mainly about money and the realization that China is able and willing to maintain or withdraw investments depending on how recipient countries behave towards China.
lower down in the essay they discuss China's bribery attempt via promising investments to the Philippines: Not something popular with folks here, who hate the Chinese...
and in a previous post I mentioned my escape plans if China tries to take over Luzon (tongue in cheek), but the article notes:
The current effort with the Philippines is all about how much China has to pay to get the Filipinos to fold. China is well aware of that American link and as is their custom the Chinese are avoiding any direct confrontations that risk leading to violence. This is a potentially dangerous game but so far the Chinese have been successful at it. Until the Americans agree that the Chinese aggression has triggered the mutual defense treaty the Philippines has no option other than trying to be friendly with China while documenting the growing acts of Chinese aggression in the South China Sea. The current American government has demonstrated a degree of resolve and aggressiveness that China is not used to. Fortunately, the Americans hold presidential elections every four years and China is looking forward to possibly getting a more compliant American leader in 2020. If not then there is always 2024.
the article also mentions how China's one child policy and the abortion of millions of girls has resulted in kidnapping/buying of women from nearby countries... and that now includes buying wives in Pakistan.
The Chinese development aid to poor countries is not just money but includes thousands of Chinese workers (so much for helping the local unemployed).
The DOLE here is checking out such business investments here that import Chinese labor, instead of hiring locals who are qualified for these jobs, something that is required by local law
In the online gaming industry alone, of the 138,000 foreigners employed by Philippine offshore gaming operators, 83,760 workers were issued SWPs by the Bureau of Immigration, while the rest were AEP holders. Read more: https://business.inquirer.net/270022/dole-to-check-on-chinese-only-establishments#ixzz5nHE47Nbn
includes this comment:
Noticeable were subcontractors of Huawei and other chinese telecom contractors who usually deploys their CHINESE WORKERS at NIGHT SHIFT to AVOID BEING NOTICED!!! It seems this was the advice of BI officers who allowed them entry into our country for employment purposes...
finally, right in time for senatorial elections next week, the videos claiming Duterte took oodles of millions of dollars of bribes surfaced.
Well, there have long been rumors about some in his family, but the amount of money mentioned seems a bit exaggerated to say the least, and of course, the timing is a bit suspicious.
Ah but the NBI investigated and caught the ones behind the story: this sarcastic editorial in the Inquirer tells the story.
Let it not be said, given that impressive performance, that government agencies are inept, indifferent slowpokes. The government machinery can move quickly—if that is what the bosses want. Within hours of the arrest of one Rodel Jayme, for instance, the NBI appeared to have bonded with him so swimmingly that Jayme was already singing a familiar song, leading investigators and the curious public toward the direction of the opposition Liberal Party as supposedly the culprit behind the mysterious videos. ...
...Jayme was described as a 27-year-old blogger who created a website, metrobalita.net, that the NBI said was subsequently used to upload the Bikoy videos. Still, Jayme was a catch, if only for his eagerness to tell a tale so tantalizing to the administration and its supporters. While denying any hand in producing or uploading the videos, Jayme clearly remembered being a volunteer of Liberal Party presidential candidate Mar Roxas in 2015.
Read more: https://opinion.inquirer.net/121200/the-real-issue#ixzz5nHGAJ21J Follow us: @inquirerdotnet on Twitter | inquirerdotnet on FacebookUnlike the USA, where libel against politicians is almost impossible to prosecute, libel here is taken seriously.
but as the sarcasm of the editorial implies, no one is taking the accusations seriously for some reason (hint hint), and the public just shrugs and figures the politician are all crooks, so what's the big deal.
the election next week is the big story: And in our area, elections are often associated with hits on rival politicians by shooters hired by unknown people (/s).
I haven't been out for a few days, but usually this means we see lots of cops and soldiers on the street to protect folks, and in the past we had outside poll watchers from international NGO's here (they were eating at a local restaurant that specializes in local food... I was tempted to warn them that this restaurant, now closed, tends to keep the lunch food warm for hours, so if you ate in the evening often you got diarrhea).
GMA report about this:
An estimated 800,000 personnel from the Armed Forces of the Philippines, Philippine National Police, Commission on Elections and Department of Education will be deployed for the midterm elections.
Of these, 98,000 are soldiers and 143,000 are policemen...
Aside from 800,000 from the government, some 350,000 officials and volunteers from the Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting (PPCRV) and other institutions and organizations will also play role in the elections.keeping our fingers crossed, since our nephew was killed in the crossfire of a political hit ten years ago, and another hit was on a politician on the way home from another cousin's funeral a few years later... so our family could be peripheral damage if things get rough.
But another big story here in the news is that Duterte said if Canada doesn't take back their garbage he will declare war.
The garbage was dumped here years ago, so what's the big deal? Maybe because Baby Trudeau claims to be pro ecology: so stop dumping your stuff on us. Or maybe because he didn't sweeten the hands of local officials enough. Or maybe because Baby Trudeau is seen as the only world leader weak enough to back down when threatened.
I mean, China's not going to get upset when pro ecology types here complain about their destruction of the seabeds in our fishing areas, are they?
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update: AmericanThinker has a report that the US gov't is forcing China to sell their interest in the port of Long Beach.
and notes this:
I am trying to find out if China's control of the Panama canal could block traffic, but most of the articles are from right wing sites. But this one at the UKGuardian is about China's interest there, and there are vague news stories about how China moving into Latin American and is helping to prop up Venezuela and plans to take over their oil industry.
China operates six of the world's ten busiest container ports. The Chinese government has also funded the construction and operations of 43 ports in 35 countries under its "One Belt and One Road" (OBOR) initiative launched five years ago, according to China's Ministry of Transport. As part of its efforts to gain asset dominance, China has directed its state-owned companies to exclusively buy products and services from other Chinese state-owned enterprises. As a result, China International Marine Containers Group has become the world's largest maker of shipping containers and Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industries has gained a 70 percent international market share for port cranes, and now exports to 300 ports in 100 countries.
But China's artificial islands in the West Philippine sea could block trade to Japan and Korea, and their expansion into Southern Pakistan and east Africa could make them able to strangle shipment of goods.
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