Την ίδια ώρα, στην Κίνα...
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The Biggest Political Story in China? Έτσι φαίνεται (The Daily Beast)
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Λόγω της μονοσύλλαβης δομής τους και των πάμπολλων ομωνύμων, τα κινέζικα πρέπει να είναι η γλώσσα με τη μεγαλύτερη δυνατότητα για λογοπαίγνια. Ιδού μερικά κολπάκια για μπασκετόφιλους, με αφορμή τον Jeremy Lin:
Creative 'Linguistics' behind the latest NBA phenomenon (The China Post)
Creative 'Linguistics' behind the latest NBA phenomenon (The China Post)
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Άρθρο του Βήματος για την αθηναϊκή Τσάιναταουν: Η Chinatown της Αθήνας... ετοιμάζει βαλίτσες
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Η ιστοσελίδα του αρχιτέκτονα Wang Shu, που κέρδισε το φετινό βραβείο Pritzker. (chinese-architects)
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Σε αγγλική μετάφραση, μια αντιπρόταση για μεταρρυθμίσεις που διαμορφώθηκε διαδικτυακά σε αριστερούς ιστότοπους της Λαϊκής Κίνας. "Αντι"πρόταση στις νεοφιλελεύθερες προτάσεις που διατυπώθηκαν πρόσφατα σε κύριο άρθρο της κομματικής Ημερησίας του Λαού και ζητούν περαιτέρω ιδιωτικοποιήσεις κλπ. [Καμιά ρητή αναφορά σε σοσιαλισμό, και επίσης καμιά αναφορά (ρητή ή υπονοούμενη) σε πολυκομματικό σύστημα.]
A SIXTEEN-POINT PROPOSAL ON CHINA’S REFORM
1. That the personal and family wealth of all officials be publicized and their source clarified, and all "naked bureaucrats" be expelled from the Party and the government. (“Naked bureaucrats” refer to those officials whose family lives in developed countries and whose assets have been transferred abroad, leaving nothing but him/herself in China.)
2. That the National Congress concretely exercises its legislative and monitory function, comprehensively review the economic policies implemented by the state council, and defend our national economic security.
3. That the existing pension plans be consolidated and retirees be treated equally regardless of sector and rank.
4. That elementary and secondary education be provided free of charge throughout the country; compensation for rural teachers be substantially raised and educational resources be allocated on equal terms across urban and rural areas; and the state assume the responsibility of raising and educating vagrant youth.
5. That the charges of higher education be lowered, and public higher education gradually become fully public-funded and free of charge.
6. That the proportion of state expenditure on education be increased to and beyond international average level.
7. That the price and charge of basic and critical medicines and medical services be managed by the state in an open and planned manner; the price of all medical services and medicines should be determined and enforced by the state in view of social demand and actual cost of production.
8. That heavy progressive real estate taxes be levied on owners of two or more residential housings, so as to alleviate severe financial inequality and improve housing availability.
9. That a nation-wide anti-corruption online platform be established, where all PRC citizens may file report or grievance on corruption or abuse instances; the state should investigate in openly accountable manner and promptly publicized the result.
10. That the state of national resources and environmental security be comprehensively assessed, exports of rare, strategic minerals be immediately cut down and soon stopped, and reserve of various strategic materials be established.
11. That we pursue a self-reliant approach to economic development; any policy that serves foreign capitalists at the cost of the interest of Chinese working class should be abolished.
12. That labor laws be concretely implemented, sweatshops be thoroughly investigated; enterprises with arrears of wage, illegal use of labor, or detrimental working condition should be closed down if they fail to meet legal requirements even after lawfully limited term for self-correction.
13. That the coal industry be nationalized across the board, all coal mine workers receive the same level of compensation as state-owned enterprise mine workers do, and enjoy paid vacation and state-funded medical service.
14. That the personal and family wealth of managerial personnel in state-owned enterprises be publicized; the compensation of such personnel should be determined by the corresponding level of people's congress.
15. That all governmental overhead expenses be restricted; purchase of automobile with state fund be restricted; all unnecessary traveling in the name of "research abroad" be suspended.
16. That the losses of public assets during the "reforms" be thoroughly traced, responsible personnel be investigated, and those guilty of stealing public properties be apprehended and openly tried.
A SIXTEEN-POINT PROPOSAL ON CHINA’S REFORM
1. That the personal and family wealth of all officials be publicized and their source clarified, and all "naked bureaucrats" be expelled from the Party and the government. (“Naked bureaucrats” refer to those officials whose family lives in developed countries and whose assets have been transferred abroad, leaving nothing but him/herself in China.)
2. That the National Congress concretely exercises its legislative and monitory function, comprehensively review the economic policies implemented by the state council, and defend our national economic security.
3. That the existing pension plans be consolidated and retirees be treated equally regardless of sector and rank.
4. That elementary and secondary education be provided free of charge throughout the country; compensation for rural teachers be substantially raised and educational resources be allocated on equal terms across urban and rural areas; and the state assume the responsibility of raising and educating vagrant youth.
5. That the charges of higher education be lowered, and public higher education gradually become fully public-funded and free of charge.
6. That the proportion of state expenditure on education be increased to and beyond international average level.
7. That the price and charge of basic and critical medicines and medical services be managed by the state in an open and planned manner; the price of all medical services and medicines should be determined and enforced by the state in view of social demand and actual cost of production.
8. That heavy progressive real estate taxes be levied on owners of two or more residential housings, so as to alleviate severe financial inequality and improve housing availability.
9. That a nation-wide anti-corruption online platform be established, where all PRC citizens may file report or grievance on corruption or abuse instances; the state should investigate in openly accountable manner and promptly publicized the result.
10. That the state of national resources and environmental security be comprehensively assessed, exports of rare, strategic minerals be immediately cut down and soon stopped, and reserve of various strategic materials be established.
11. That we pursue a self-reliant approach to economic development; any policy that serves foreign capitalists at the cost of the interest of Chinese working class should be abolished.
12. That labor laws be concretely implemented, sweatshops be thoroughly investigated; enterprises with arrears of wage, illegal use of labor, or detrimental working condition should be closed down if they fail to meet legal requirements even after lawfully limited term for self-correction.
13. That the coal industry be nationalized across the board, all coal mine workers receive the same level of compensation as state-owned enterprise mine workers do, and enjoy paid vacation and state-funded medical service.
14. That the personal and family wealth of managerial personnel in state-owned enterprises be publicized; the compensation of such personnel should be determined by the corresponding level of people's congress.
15. That all governmental overhead expenses be restricted; purchase of automobile with state fund be restricted; all unnecessary traveling in the name of "research abroad" be suspended.
16. That the losses of public assets during the "reforms" be thoroughly traced, responsible personnel be investigated, and those guilty of stealing public properties be apprehended and openly tried.
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Ο τουαλετοακτιβισμός μάλλον απειλεί την πολιτική σταθερότητα. Απαγόρευση μετακίνησης στην ακτιβίστρια ώσπου να τελειώσουν οι μεγάλοι τις συνόδους τους:
(South China Morning Post)
Li, a 22-year-old public administration student, said officers from the Xinjiekou police station in the capital's central area visited her on Monday and warned her not to leave Beijing for two weeks.
"They told me not try to leave Beijing during the lianghui," Li said. The annual meetings of the Chinese People's Political Conference, beginning today, and the National People's Congress, beginning on Monday, are known as the lianghui (two meetings) on the mainland. Li said she had to cancel a weekend trip to Nanjing for the recording of a television programme about the Occupy Men's Toilet Movement on Jiangsu Satellite TV.
Her travel ban underscores a tightening of security in the capital for the two meetings.
China News Service reported that more than 700,000 security personnel have been mobilised for the two meetings and that vehicles from other cities have needed a special pass to enter Beijing since Wednesday.
The authorities have also banned all promotional and recreational flights within a 200 kilometre radius of Tiananmen Square until March 15.
Και ολίγον...σνούκερ! (The Mirror)
“Journey a nightmare. People are ignorant. Place stinks. Arena’s rubbish, tables poor, food is horrendous. Other than that I love China.” :blink:
(South China Morning Post)
Li, a 22-year-old public administration student, said officers from the Xinjiekou police station in the capital's central area visited her on Monday and warned her not to leave Beijing for two weeks.
"They told me not try to leave Beijing during the lianghui," Li said. The annual meetings of the Chinese People's Political Conference, beginning today, and the National People's Congress, beginning on Monday, are known as the lianghui (two meetings) on the mainland. Li said she had to cancel a weekend trip to Nanjing for the recording of a television programme about the Occupy Men's Toilet Movement on Jiangsu Satellite TV.
Her travel ban underscores a tightening of security in the capital for the two meetings.
China News Service reported that more than 700,000 security personnel have been mobilised for the two meetings and that vehicles from other cities have needed a special pass to enter Beijing since Wednesday.
The authorities have also banned all promotional and recreational flights within a 200 kilometre radius of Tiananmen Square until March 15.
Και ολίγον...σνούκερ! (The Mirror)
“Journey a nightmare. People are ignorant. Place stinks. Arena’s rubbish, tables poor, food is horrendous. Other than that I love China.” :blink:
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Φλιτζανοαλφάδιασμα ενόψει του lianghui (βλ. #271) (The Insider)
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Κινεζική Κρεμλινολογία (Τζονγκ-ναν-χαϊ-λογία) από τους Αμερικανούς του Jamestown Foundation, ενόψει των σημαντικών εξελίξεων και των ντεσού της υπόθεσης Ουάνγκ Λιτζύν (Wang Lijun) [βλ. #262].
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Νέα γαρνιτούρα προστίθεται στην υπόθεση Ουάνγκ Λιτζύν (#262, #273). (ΝΥΤ)
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Όλα τα αντιγράφουν οι Κινέζοι (μακάρι να μπορούσαμε κι εμείς), τα σόου της Victoria's Secret θα άφηναν; Αλλά σε πανεπιστήμιο, παρακαλώ! (China Smack)
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Η πολιτική τάξη της Κίνας όχι μόνο δε φοβάται πια να δείξει τον υλικό της πλούτο αλλά καίγεται να το κάνει. (China Smack)
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Ο Μπο Ξ(Σ)ιλάι, στη συνέντευξη Τύπου που έδωσε:
(ΝΥΤ)
Inside a packed room at the Great Hall of the People, Mr. Bo mounted a risky defense of his anticrime campaign, saying that Chongqing was a city run according to the law and that the crackdown was necessary both to protect citizens and create a better business environment.
"On this issue, shall we pretend to be deaf, or shall we be responsible to the people?" the state-run Xinhua news agency quoted Mr. Bo as saying. "We chose the latter."
He also displayed a bit of the flashy populism that has won the loyalty of many Chongqing citizens but has annoyed other leaders, proclaiming that China¹s Gini coefficient —a yardstick for the gap between the rich and poor— had reached 0.46, a level some social scientists would call alarming. On the Gini scale, zero represents complete equality, while 1 indicates a society in which one person controls all the wealth.
Reducing the wealth disparity is a major task for Chongqing¹s government, he said, adding: "If only a few people are rich, then we are capitalists. We¹ve failed."
(ΝΥΤ)
Inside a packed room at the Great Hall of the People, Mr. Bo mounted a risky defense of his anticrime campaign, saying that Chongqing was a city run according to the law and that the crackdown was necessary both to protect citizens and create a better business environment.
"On this issue, shall we pretend to be deaf, or shall we be responsible to the people?" the state-run Xinhua news agency quoted Mr. Bo as saying. "We chose the latter."
He also displayed a bit of the flashy populism that has won the loyalty of many Chongqing citizens but has annoyed other leaders, proclaiming that China¹s Gini coefficient —a yardstick for the gap between the rich and poor— had reached 0.46, a level some social scientists would call alarming. On the Gini scale, zero represents complete equality, while 1 indicates a society in which one person controls all the wealth.
Reducing the wealth disparity is a major task for Chongqing¹s government, he said, adding: "If only a few people are rich, then we are capitalists. We¹ve failed."
"Tiger Head, Snake Tails", by Jonathan Fenby
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Το άρθρο που λινκάρισες, αγαπητή, κινείται στα πλαίσια των "φιλελεύθερων" προτάσεων, των οποίων η "αριστερή" αντιπρόταση παρατέθηκε στο #267 (#267: "Αντι"πρόταση στις νεοφιλελεύθερες προτάσεις που διατυπώθηκαν πρόσφατα σε κύριο άρθρο της κομματικής Ημερησίας του Λαού και ζητούν περαιτέρω ιδιωτικοποιήσεις κλπ.). Επισημαίνω τούτο,
So long as the fiscal system starves local authorities of the cash needed to meet their obligations, they will resort to land requisitioning with the resulting social discontent. σε συνδυασμό με την monopoly State ownership of land και με το Four provinces or municipalities have been allowed to issue bonds. Local initiatives in trading land leases have been reported,
καθώς οι συνέπειες απασχολούν συνεχώς την επικαιρότητα.
So long as the fiscal system starves local authorities of the cash needed to meet their obligations, they will resort to land requisitioning with the resulting social discontent. σε συνδυασμό με την monopoly State ownership of land και με το Four provinces or municipalities have been allowed to issue bonds. Local initiatives in trading land leases have been reported,
καθώς οι συνέπειες απασχολούν συνεχώς την επικαιρότητα.
Το έβαλα απλά για να υπάρχει, δεν σημαίνει ότι συμφωνώ. Κατά τ' άλλα, να πω ότι είναι ένα νήμα που παρακολουθώ με πολύ ενδιαφέρον. Καλή συνέχεια!