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...eight days of festivities marking the 60th anniversary of China's communist revolution on Oct. 1 include tanks, soldiers on parade, fireworks and a display of 40 million potted plants. But some things aren't happening: pigeons have been grounded in the capital out of fear they'd endanger jet flyovers, one city has banned divorces, and China Mobile customers aren't keeping their ring-back tones--the government-run carrier has switched them to a patriotic song...
...created French and Spanish channels, and this year it added Russian and Arabic. The official China Daily newspaper began publishing a U.S. edition, and the Global Times, a nationalist tabloid run by the People's Daily, launched an English-language version. In January, Liu Yunshan, the head of the Communist Party's Propaganda Department, laid out the global media strategy in Qiu Shi, a CCP magazine. "It has become an urgent strategic task for us to make our communication capability match our international status," he wrote. "Nowadays, nations which have more advanced skills and better capability in communications will...
...telecast, Libi predicted China's fall, likening it to the similarly atheist and communist USSR. Some of the impoverished former Soviet states that border China's Xinjiang region - where the majority of Uighurs live - are a potential powder keg for insurgency. Suspected Uighur terrorists operating along China's borderlands allegedly have ties to Al Qaeda-affiliated groups in Central Asia, who, according to observers, are consolidating in remote parts of Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan after setbacks in Pakistan reportedly saw many foreign jihadis return to their homelands...
...promoted as a party with roots in a broad-based political movement and not just in the spoils of war - thus further boosting its authority. Taiwan figures too. Mao tries to persuade Li Jishen, an influential southern China figure aligned with the KMT, to join the communist government. Li confesses to Mao that he is responsible for the deaths of many communist cadres. Mao's reply: Let's forget the past and begin a new future. That's directed at Taipei - part of Beijing's ongoing charm offensive toward Taiwan, once relentlessly denounced as a renegade province...
...discovered that three Labour Members of Parliament under Wilson were considered Soviet agents. Did that come as a shock to you? It did come as a bit of a surprise. What surprised me most, however, was the degree to which getting too excited by the threat of communist subversion was not usually done by MI5 but rather by government. Labour leadership sent MI5 a list of names of 16 Labour MPs who they thought were more communist than Labour. MI5 refused to get involved because it saw this as party politics. However, the man at the top of that list...