Western Know-How Sold Out To China ?

Update for March 10, 2013, embedded !
In the frame of another session period of China's People's Congress in Beijing, there is much discussion about the development of PR China's economy. While official sources predict an economic growth of 7.5 %, China is emancipating itself from a nation relying on the import of foreign cars for private use to a powerful manufacturer of fine cars that are meeting global standards.

On German TV it was proclaimed that China's new middle class limousine "Cronos" should compete with products from western manufacturers on the European market. A car like many others in its class but with a rather surprising price below 20.000 €. The German manager who spoke on behalf of the Chinese manufacturer hinted at German engineering competence being involved in the construction of Cronos and that should have made it "impossible for the Chinese to build a bad car". Bad news for BMW and other European competitors who come to note that European know-how, they once brought to China, is now turning against them.
[Source: Tagesschau 24, a German TV news channel on March 5, 2013]

Nevertheless, BWM continues to produce its 3-grade and 5-grade car series in a joint-venture with BMW's Chinese partner Brilliance China Automotive Holdings. Other German manufacturers, as well, are selling high-end luxury cars to the new rich of China.

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Update for March 10, 2013:
The above quoted German news source mentioned and showed a Chinese car named "Cronos". However, I had some difficulties in finding further news about that. Most probably it's a joint-venture product or, in other words, a car of mixed origin.
Here now is what looks like a "genuine" Chinese car that might have been constructed especially for the European market:


China's manufacturer Hua Tai Cars 华泰汽车, already successful in the SUV (sport utility vehicle) segment, is launching a new product on the car market. The Lu Sheng 路盛 E70 is a compact limousine and designed "according to European style". It should be available in three versions: The 2.0 L and 1.5 T versions are using a petrol driven engine while the 1.5 D has a diesel engine. The vehicle's length : width : height ratio is 4.777 mm : 1.794 mm : 1.481 mm, its wheelbase being 2.678 mm. The E70 should be equipped with GPS navigation and a G3 internet connection.

[Source: People's Network on March 09, 2013]

According to the Shenzhen Web for the Great World of Cars 深圳汽车大世界网 (March 11 report), the new product brand Lu Sheng E70 should have been renamed from the old brand name B21 of Hua Tai Cars. Some days earlier, price.pcauto.com.cn magazine, another Chinese source, confirmed the B21 or Hua Shang E70 being related to a product of Hua Tai's partner brand Bao Li Ge 宝利格 and which is a SUV. As neither photos nor prices were available for the brandnew B21 of Hua Tai Cars, they showed but a series of photos taken from the related Bao Li Ge product. However, another model from Hua Tai Cars, the B11, is fully documented and showing some similarity with the B21 or Hua Shang E70. Selling prices for the B11 (in China) are lying between 100.000 and 176.00 Yuan which is about 12.360 to 21.750 €.



By the way, Hua Tai Cars 华泰汽车 must not be mixed up with the South Korean car manufacturer Hyundai (Chinese: Huan Dai) 现代汽车 who is making and selling cars in China and has already topped one million car sales there in 2010. On a website of China Car Times some Hyundai products appear with brand slogans like "Euro 2012" or "€", - what a nice coincidence. Anyway, getting through the jungle of car manufacturing and model policy in China seems to be rather tough for an outsider.


Beijing-Hyundai's joint-venture product Elantra (latest generation)
at the 2012 Beijing Auto Show.

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The phenomenon I tend to call "migration of competence" is not restricted to car production alone. As Chen Hong Qiao, a deputy director of Shenzhen stock exchange [陈鸿桥 深圳证券交易所副总经理], mentioned in an interview with a Chinese financial news service, foreign enterprises related to electricity production and electrical equipment are as well focussed by Chinese investors.

陈鸿桥：创业板与中国新兴产业

Chen Hong Qiao: Starting what is hard [for] China's new and developing industry.

金风科技收购德国的风电企业，把德国的技术人才、管理人才也“收购”了。苏宁电器收购日本著名的家电连锁上市公司。

Jin Feng Science and Technology bought a German wind electricity enterprise, such "buying" as well German technicians and managers. Su Ning Electrical Equipment bought Japan's well-known home electricity chain [market] company.

[Source: finance.ifeng.com on March 5, 2013]

When Chen Hong Qiao referred to the "Japanese home electricity chain" bought by a Chinese investor, he certainly meant LAOX Corporation from where 27.36% of shares had been bought in July 2009.
[Source: sina.com.cn on July 24, 2009]

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Official statistics, released in the frame of China's government activity report for the last 5 years, are showing an increasing market for private cars from, both, domestic and foreign production:


The number of private cars has risen from 6 cars per
100 urban households in 2007 to 21.5 cars in 2012.


The highway system has been extended from 28.000 km in 2007
up to 42.000 km in 2012. In the same period, the 5-year rate of
newly built road kilometers has risen from 192.000 km in 2007
to 609.000 km in 2012.

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There are two further blogspots of "blueprint news" related to the subject and dating back to December 2011:

East Asia Leading Worldwide Car Production

World Economy: Rise of China - Fall of Europe ?

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Localized visitors to "blueprint news" coming from East Asia. Part of global
visitors mapping on March 7, 2013, based on the last 200 localized visitors:



A visitor from Greenland looking for another habitable planet:

China - Joke of the Week

A newspaper from Yangtze River [is asking]:
Do animal wardens need to understand Marxist philosophy ?

The zoological garden in Canton is offering 15 vacancies for animal wardens who have then to participate in an examination for that profession. Besides required knowledge about literature and history related to public parks and zoological gardens, these wardens ought to grasp the principles of Marxist philosophy as well as writing and handling of official documents.

[Source: People's Network quoting Yangcheng Evening News from February 19, 2013]





What Marxist philosophy considers as essential is not the comprehension of laws ruling the world for a better understanding of the world but the ability to use the knowledge of such laws to actively transform the world.

[Source: Mao Tse Toung "On Practice", July 1937; English translation based on a Chinese-French edition]

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" First Food, Then Morals — 先来食后道德 "
( "Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral" )

The interpretation of a Karl Marx saying ( "The state of being determines the state of consciousness" ) by German playwright Bertolt Brecht in his "Threepenny Opera".

马克思的意思在德国剧作家布雷希特（Brecht）的《三便士歌剧》

Yarmouk Camp - Palestinian Refugees in Damascus

Update for March 03 added at the end of blogspot !


لاجئون من "اليرموك": جماعة جبريل زجت المخيم في العنف

Refugees from Yarmouk [camp]: The "community of Jibril" has thrown the camp into violence.

القيادي الفلسطيني قام بتسليح لاجئين لحماية أنفسهم ثم طلب منهم الدفاع عن الأسد

The Palestinian leadership is going to arm the refugees [in order] to protect themselves as the defense of Assad demanded from them.

[Source: Al-Arabiya on March 2, 2013]

Meanwhile, in the Yarmouk Camp [Damascus], Palestinian fighters defect from the ranks of Ahmed Jibril’s loyalist movement to form a pro-rebel unit.

[Source: Syrian Revolution Digest on February 27, 2013]

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The Story Behind the News: The Jibril Family

The following story about Jihad Jibril has been quoted from Islamweb on May 20, 2002:

A car bombing killed a senior military commander of a radical Palestinian group Monday. The group - which is led by the victim's father, Ahmed Jibril - blamed Israel and vowed retaliation.

Israel denied any connection to the midday blast on a street off the busy shopping area of Corniche Mazraa in Beirut's Muslim sector.

"The defense minister says Israel is not connected and to stop blaming Israel," said Yarden Vatikay, an adviser to Israeli Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer.

Jihad Jibril, 38, was driving the car when the bomb went off and was killed instantly. There were no other casualties in the explosion.

Jibril was a senior commander of military operations in Lebanon for his father's faction of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command, a small Syrian-based group on the State Department list of terrorist organizations for its attacks on Israelis.

Last month, the senior Jibril warned that bombings against Israelis would continue in retaliation for Israeli military attacks.
However, the PFLP-GC has not claimed responsibility for bombings since the latest violence erupted in September 2000. Last month, the PFLP-GC and two other rival groups each claimed to have blown up an Israeli tank in the Gaza Strip.

But the PFLP-GC was accused by Lebanese authorities of firing rockets across the Lebanese border into Israel in April at the height of the West Bank offensive and of seeking to launch more attacks on the Jewish state. Nine Palestinians who Lebanese authorities said belonged to the PFLP-GC have been arrested on charges of illegal possession of weapons and threatening national security.

Jibril's Damascus-based group is a part of an alliance of radical Palestinian factions that opposes peace negotiations with Israel that Arafat began with the 1993 Oslo accords.

Once famed for its guerrilla operations, it has been largely on the sidelines of the Palestinian uprising against Israel that erupted in 2000, but had claimed responsibility for a shipment of arms Israel intercepted en route to the West Bank a year ago. "

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Some information on Ahmed Jibril, founder of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command, as quoted from an Al-Arabiya comment dating from December 19, 2012:


Some say he fled to Mediterranean coastal Syrian city of Tartous, others say it’s somewhere else in Syria, but the head of the Damascus-based Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Ahmed Jibril, is indeed an unforgettable face, remembered and will always be remembered by Palestinians, Syrians and the Lebanese people.

Ahmed Jibril is the man who was always at the forefront of the colonial ambitions of Hafez al-Assad’s regime.

His stance was the same in any Palestinian conflict with the Syrian regime: he was against Arafat, against Habash, against the refugees of Yarmouk Camp. In recognition of Jibril’s unprecedented loyalty [to Assad's Syria], he was given a small but effective role within the Syria and Iran-sponsored Lebanese resistance strategy. This small partnership with Hezbollah wasn’t to support any Palestinians or Lebanese people pro the Assad regime.

Ahmed Jibril spent many years of his life (75 years) playing this role. His secrets were uncovered and the battles in Palestine were full of bloodshed and led him to many places, except Palestine.

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Syrian Violence Swapping Into Lebanon

Only recently the frontier region between Syria and Lebanon experienced clashes between Lebanese and Syrian troops.


اندلاع معارك عنيفة على الحدود بين سوريا ولبنان

Outbreak of violent fightings at the border between Syria and Lebanon.

[Source: Al-Arabiya on February 24, 2013]

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Update for March 3, 2013:

In an interview granted to the British paper "Sunday Times", Syria's president Assad showed himself defiant and accused Britain to support unrest in his country. He showed himself willing to talk with rebels who laid down their arms, making a distinction between "political entities" he would engage with and "armed terrorists".


وزير الخارجية البريطاني وليام هيغ يقول إن بلاده تدرس تسليح الثوار السوريين

The British minister of foreign affairs, William Haig, says his country is "considering" the arming of Syrian rebels.

[Source: Al-Jazeera, Arabic TV, on March 3, 2013]

Iranian Uranium - Large Natural Reserves

Al-Arabiya report dating from February 23 (translation further down)

伊朗宣布发现蕴藏量丰富的新铀矿

Iran declares having discovered a new uranium mine containing rich deposits.

…伊朗23日宣布发现可供核能计划使用的丰富新铀矿，并确定16个可兴建核电厂的地点。

On [February] 23, Iran announced the discovery of a new mine, rich in uranium, that might be convenient for use in nuclear energy plannings [at the time] the location of 16 nuclear energy plants to be constructed has to be determined.

…这些铀矿是在南部沿海地区发现，蕴藏量为先前估计的3倍。若将过去18个月发现的矿藏计入，伊朗的铀储存量约4400吨。

[According to the Atomic Energy Organization], that uranium mine was discovered in the southern part of coastal districts, its deposit being three times the previously estimated value. If [treatment] of the discovered mineral resources started 18 month ago, Iran's stockpiled amount of uranium would be approximately 4.400 tons.

[Source: China News Network / People's Network on February 24, 2013]

The discovery of new uranium deposits and increased nuclear ambitions are expected to strengthen Iran's position in the negotiations with the United States, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany ("5+1") in Kazakhstan, starting on Tuesday February 26.

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طهران استأنفت تخصيب اليورانيوم إلى وقود بنسبة 20%ـ

Tehran resumes uranium enrichment up to a fuel [grade] of 20%.

مصدر غربي يقول إن قلق الأسرة الدولية تضاعف 5 مرات

A western source says that fears in the family of nations have five times increased.

[Source: Al-Arabiya on February 23, 2013]

U.S. Policy - N Korean Ambitions

Military parade in Pyongyang celebrating N Korea's 3rd nuclear test
[People's Network, Beijing, February 17]

美智库：短暂性制裁是打破朝核僵局的思路

U.S. "think tank": Short-living sanctions are breaking
North Korea's train of thought in the nuclear deadlock.

人民网华盛顿2月15日电 （记者 李博雅）15日，有报道称朝鲜已经告知中国今年还将进行1至2次核试。而据布鲁金斯学会网站报道，朝鲜可能已经在秘密地点制造高浓缩铀，每年可以生产相当于几个炸弹威力的U-235铀燃料。

People's Network report from Washington, Feb. 15, correspondent Li BoYa:
There are news reports saying that North Korea already informed China this year [about its intention] to carry out another one or two nuclear tests. According to a report [to be found on] the website of Brookings Institute, North Korea should probably already manufacture highly enriched uranium at a secret site, being able to produce each year [enough] U-235 uranium fuel matching the power of "several bombs".

A Source of Foreign Policy Development in the U.S.

In today's article on North Korea's nuclear capacity, the ideas developed at Brookings Institute, a Washington "think tank", are thoroughly reported by semi-official People's Daily / People's Network without any Chinese comment added. You can find the quoted Brookings article on their website behind the following link:

"Try Temporary North Korea Sanctions" written by Michael E. O'Hanlon and published on February 15, 2013.

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The headline of a related news report from People's Network, published today February 17, is reading:

"Japanese media say Obama is expecting [Japan's prime minister] Abe to visit America for priority talks on the North Korean question."

日媒称奥巴马希望安倍访美优先讨论朝鲜问题

N Korea's Nuclear Test - Still Not Perfect

军事评论员马鼎盛：朝鲜核试称不上成功

Military commentator Ma DingSheng:
North Korea's nuclear test was not successful.

Yesterday, February 12, the Chinese news service IFENG (Hongkong / Beijing), quoted Ma DingSheng (picture above), a Hongkong based commentator on military subjects, that North Korea's recent nuclear test was "not really successful". Nevertheless, North Korea should be regarded as a nuclear power.

Ma then referred to a South Korean evaluation of the explosion capacity matching with 56 kt TNT. "From the data material, considered to be reliable, it can be seen that today's test did not succeed like two other tests before, because the technique North Korea has in its hands is probably not well enough settled, and planning scheme as well as electronic device are not accurate enough."

South Korea: Demonstration against North Korea's leader
Kim Jong Un after yesterday's nuclear test.


Chinese papers reporting on North Korea's nuclear test.


The above pictures are showing the location and
scheme of the Punggje-ri nuclear test facility:
The nuclear test facility consists of a tunnel leading down to a horizontal passway at the end of which the ignition chamber with the nuclear device can be found. The mountain above the ignition chamber measures about 400 m in height. After installation of the nuclear device, the horizontal tunnel in front of the ignition chamber is entirely filled with concrete. A data cable is connecting the lowest level of the tunnel system with an outside facility intended to survey the experiment. The distance between the entrance to the tunnel system and the ignition chamber measures more than one km.

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环保部：朝鲜第三次核试验尚未影响

[China's] ministry of environment protection: North Korea's third nuclear test has still not affected [China's] environment or public health.

[Source: People's Daily / People's Network, Beijing, on February 13, 2013]

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韩国推测朝可能用移动发射车发射多枚弹道导弹

South Korea guessing the North might probably use movable launching vehicles to project [a multitude of] ballistic missiles.


North Korea already owns 640 guided missiles of their "Fleet-Footed Runner" -B, -C or -ER brand that are covering a range of 300-1.000 km as well as 27-40 movable launching vehicles used in realistic war plannings. This goes together with 150-250 guided missiles of their "Labour" brand [or: "Rodong"] guided missiles with their range of 1.300 km and that can be used with the provided 27-40 launching vehicles. Furthermore, North Korea's army has prepared 14 launching vehicles, specially designed for helping to project the 3.000-4.000 km range "Dancing to Water's End" guided missiles that could reach the U.S. [base] on Guam.

[Source: ChinaNews.Com from PR China on February 13, 2013]

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Chinese visitor to "blueprint news" coming from river Yangtse at the beginning of the Year of the Snake:


Macau - Port of the Watersnake:

Neurology Meets Religion - The Devil Within

Prof. Gerhard Roth, University of Bremen, Germany

عالم ألماني يعثر في الدماغ على "وكر شيطاني" يوسوس بالشر

German scholar has discovered the " seat of devil " in human brain from where the evil is being suggested.

هناك 3 أنواع ممن لديهم "وكر" تنبع منه المحرّضات على العنف وأخطرهم الطغاة

There are three categories of [such] " seats " from where originate the [provocation] of violence and the [dangers of tyranny].

[Source; Al-Arabiya on February 8, 2013]

Editor's Note:

I was very much astonished to find a German scholar of humanistic background in the headlines of an Arabic newspaper. However, it is his fascinating theory on the origin of diabolic thought which has caught the interest of journalists in an Islamic country. From reading the Coran I got some idea about the role of "diabolic thinking" in Muslim belief. Now, there is somebody telling them that "devil" is part of everybody, and he even dares to point to a certain area of brain considered as his seat. From there, it is only a small step to assume that such "incorporated devil" will control everybody's action and thought, making any "free decision" in support of or against the rules of Allah (i.e. God) to become a mere result of interacting factors that are supporting or endangering the vital functions of the body and its general well-being. If that well-being can only be ensured by denying moral laws and turning a blind eye on all kinds of crimes, the "devilish authority within" will most certainly take over. Such is the consequence of a fully deterministic theory of human behaviour, ... and we finally reach the undisputed truth of Karl Marx: The state of being determines the state of consciousness. Same goes with the more physical experience of the Pawlow dog who reacts according to brain stimulation.

However, everybody should know, if not from personal experience but from neutral observation of others, that such deterministic point of view has only half the truth. Indeed, some people are opposing the "devil's decision" and acting against it, while knowing well enough that such behaviour will, sooner or later, affect their physical well-being in a rather negative way. As a proof, we can quote outstanding human behaviour under pressure as can be found on the battle field, during torture or in any other situation characterized by personal distress.

Now, it becomes clear that individual choices are still possible, - within certain boundaries of physical integrity, I agree. The proposed "seat of devil" in human brain might then be one possible strategic center where some of such choices are being processed. It could be a place where refined strategies of action are being developed and an evaluation of possible consequences takes place. Whether some action and its consequences are to be considered as "devilish", will then depend on the goal intended to reach and the measures to be taken. Personal goals and suited measures necessary to apply will further depend on the moral background of a person which is a function of education and daily life experience, something that can be influenced from the outside of human brain.

Any extreme human behaviour, however, characterized by violence, aggression and despotism, and that could be related to a prevailing influence of the above mentioned brain segments should then be regarded as what it is, - a mental disorder. Nothing devilish or mysterious about it. Don't let them enjoy your fear.

By the way, I should add that Gerhard Roth's deterministic theory has not been applauded by every specialist on this field of neurology. Nevertheless, he is accepted as an important member of the scientific community in Germany and has even received a high national decoration.

"Now, Verily, it is We who have created man, and
We know what his innermost self whispers with him:
for We are closer to him than his neck-vein."
[Quran 50:16]

" But as for anyone who chooses to remain blind
to the remembrance of the Most Gracious,
to him We assign an [enduring] evil impulse,
to become his other self : " [Quran 43:36]

" whereupon, behold, these [evil impulses]
bar all such from the path [of truth],
making them think that they are
guided aright ! " [Quran 43:37]

Early Understanding of Brain Functions in the World of Islam

Al-Harith ibn Kaladah (Arabic: الحارث بن كلدة‎; deceased 13 AH / 634–35 AD) was, according to traditional sources, the oldest known Arab physician and a companion of the Islamic Prophet Muhammad (deceased 632 AD). He is said to have traveled to Jundishapur, a legendary medical school in Persia, in search of medical knowledge before the advent of Islam. There, he might have received even some basic understanding of brain surgery.

Some are saying that the Prophet's knowledge about medicine can be related to ibn Kalandah. This, however, might be regarded by orthodox Muslims as a blasphemic interpretation of the historical facts. Furthermore, such theory cannot stand scientific approach as one of the few detailed evaluations of ibn Kalandah is stating [=> al-Khazarajî / Kareem], referring to him as a healer who practised traditional Arabic plant and folk medicine rather than sophisticated medicine related to the inheritance of earlier Greek physicians like Hippocrates, Galen or Dioscurides.

Greek influence on Arabic medicine became visible only some 200 years later after the Coran was delivered by Prophet Muhammad. This is most probably due to the fact that Arabic was a rather "new" language at the time of the Prophet, its scripture being perfected around 600 AD. As a result, reliable translations from Greek to Arabic should have come into being only much later when some essential works of ancient Greek medicine, like that of Dioscurides, only survived in the Arabic transcription.

Nevertheless, it cannot be excluded that some miraculous legends on brain surgery and brain functions reached the steadily growing Islamic community much earlier. This, however, should not necessarily imply an influence on the Prophet's perception of brain functioning.

[Main source: Was al-Harith bin Kaladah the Source of Prophet Muhammad’s Medical Knowledge ?; authors: Khalid al-Khazarajî and Elias Kareem; October 26, 2011; update: February 10, 2012; hosted at IslamPapers.com]

In fact, the Greek physician Hippocrates of Kos (460–377 BC) already had a thorough understanding of the human body and, in particular, the brain. He believed that the body must be treated as a whole and not just a series of parts. He was the first physician to assert that thoughts, ideas and feelings come from the brain and not the heart as others of his time believed. He recognized that the brain was involved in sensation and was the center of intelligence.

Hippocrates accurately described disease symptoms and was the first physician to note the symptoms of epilepsy in children. He wrote the first book on epilepsy, "On the Sacred Disease". Refuting the idea that epilepsy is a curse or a prophetic power, as was previously believed, he states that it's a brain disorder. "It is thus with regard to the disease called Sacred: it appears to me to be nowise more divine nor more sacred than other diseases, but has a natural cause like other affections."

[Main source: Hippocrates' Influence on the Origins of Neurosurgery; authors: Anna Chang, BS, Eleonora M. Lad, MD, PhD, Shivanand P. Lad, MD, PhDDisclosures: Neurosurg Focus. 2007;23(1):E9]

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A visitor to "blueprint news" from Abu Dhabi searching for the Devil:

Chinese Hackers - Infiltrating the West

Last UPDATE: January 7, 2013

James Lewis - Center for Strategic & International Studies
[Source: Al-Jazeera, English program, 1st February, 2013]

These days, there is much noise in Western media concerning "China's government hacking the Free World".

As to the New York Times which was after a story that should reveal private income of China's leader Wen JiaBao and his family, there is not much to say. Of course, China's authorities are able to invade certain websites in order to get strategic information from anybody attacking the core of their power. If People's Daily or any other official Chinese paper ever dared to use "investigative journalism" to find out the amount of alleged private earnings of U.S. ex-president Bush senior in the frame of his contacts with the armament industry (Carlyle and the Saudis ...), I could imagine how furiously all those technically skilled specialists and agencies related to the Pentagon would react.

Now, there is the question to what extent Chinese authorities are regularly attacking Western government institutions and high-tech companies in some kind of military hacking. This kind of hacking, however, leads to another question which is that of civil hacking by some Chinese folks who are resembling much those uncivilized guys traditionally haunting the websites of our hemissphere.

In fact, there is much civil hacking in China despite a rigorous control of internet access by China Telecom and state security. Yet, even in China internet security can be outwitted which brought about some special kind of hacker we encountered in a German TV interview already years ago. He said: "When I am breaking through the Great Firewall of China, I always think of doing something in favour of my country. If I can infiltrate the network of Taiwan's defense ministry, maybe the punishment for being caught while tunnelling out of China will be less severe."

China’s Ministry of National Defense recently said, “Chinese laws prohibit any action including hacking that damages Internet security.” It added that “to accuse the Chinese military of launching cyberattacks without solid proof is unprofessional and baseless.” [Source: New York Times on January 30, 2013].

In the frame of the official Chinese declaration on internet security, I searched some IT platforms in the People's Republic for links to "hacking" and related vocabulary. However, I did not find much except some hints at the security standards of Google OS and the quest for "cheap" copies of Western standard software, altogether rather harmless material as expected before. Compare this with the self-portrayals of some Western hackers who seem to fear no consequences for what they are doing.

Nevertheless, there must be an extensive civil hacking activity that is binding much capacity of China's security authorities. The following quotations are dealing with "China's domestic hacking problem" and have been taken from Chinese web resources. Maybe, all those allegations on "China's military hacking activity" could then turn into a demographic problem of a densely populated nation with steadily rising economic and communications capacities. By now, even the number of Chinese language websites should be surpassing that of English language sites as has been predicted already years ago.

The schematic diagram above of "assembly line virus" as used
by hackers makes a difference between "invading virus" (left)
and "virus extracting money" (right). The diagram has been
composed by some Chinese "Lucky Star Anti-Virus Center".

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Computer Related Crimes in China

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公安部侦破最大网站入侵案 30省185家网站被黑

Headline:
An investigation by the Ministry of Public Security broke with the greatest case of website infiltration in 30 provinces on 185 hacked homepages.

假证贩子和电脑黑客联手，185个官方网站被其入侵，范围涵盖30个省、直辖市和自治区。近日，公安部组织在案件线索来源地——揭阳市召开了新闻发布会，宣布近年来公安机关侦破的最大规模入侵政府网站案件。

Dealers of falsified certificates and computer hackers [shook hands] when they invaded official websites in a range effecting about 30 provinces, municipalities [directly under the central government] and autonomous regions. The Ministry of Public Security recently organized the opening of a news release meeting [or: press conference] in Jieyang township presenting sources which delivered clues in that case, thereby announcing the most extensive case of government website infiltration, investigated and [solved] by the public security organization in recent years.
Note: Jieyang township is located in Guangdong province (广东省).

截至本月12日，全国各地共抓获涉案犯罪嫌疑人165名，收缴各类假证书7100多本、假印章1万多枚。

By 12th of this month [i.e. July 2012], the overall number of suspects, seized for being involved in that case of criminal action, reached 165 for any place of the country. More than 7100 fake certificates and more than 10.000 [illegal] seals have been confiscated.

揭阳市新闻发布会现场展示收缴的各类假证等。

News spread from a public site of Jieyang township
revealing all kinds of confiscated fake certificates.

[Source: XinHua News on July 26, 2012]

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黑客团伙5个月入侵70多家政府网站被判刑

A group of hackers, joining for five months to invade more than 70 government websites, has now been sentenced.

The article is mentioning 80-90 youths forming the group's main body. Some of them should have only junior middle school education. 13 group members received prison sentences between one year six months and seven years.

[Source: People's Network quoted by gmw.cn on September 09, 2012]

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" We Did It "

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揭秘全球黑客组织“匿名者” 多次黑掉美中情局

A secret global hacker organization "The Anonymous Ones" being
exposed for having hacked America's Central Intelligence many times.

黑客团体“匿名者”以攻击山达基教官网成名，又“黑”了美国中央情报局、日本索尼公司和英国《太阳报》网站，在一些网民眼里是叛逆英雄，在各国网络监管部门眼中却是“互联网恐怖组织”，去年更是成为一场声势浩大跨国打击行动的目标。英国《观察家报》寻访一些曝光的“匿名者”成员和研究黑客现象的专家，试图揭开这个号称世界最大黑客团体的神秘面纱。

A hacker group named "The Anonymous Ones" and which became famous for their attack on Scientology's instruction network, also hacked websites of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Japan's company Sony and Britain's daily "The Sun". In the focus of some network people these are heroic rebels, while they are a "terrorist organization of the internet" in the focus of supervizing departments in charge of national networks. Last year they turned, even more, towards goals of transnational hitting activities, great in strength and impetus. Britain's "Observer" tried to locate some exposed members of the "Anonymous Ones" together with specialists involved in research of the "hacker phenomenon" in an attempt to lift the mysterious veil of what claims to be the "world's greatest hacker organization".

Editor's Note: The complete article was published on October 26, 2012, by 环球网, a news network belonging to a media group in the People's Republic of China. The article doesn's include any reference to hacking activity in China.

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"China Hacking" - Another subject at the Munich Security Conference
[February 2, 2013]

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Another blogspot related to the subject:

China's Internet People - A Growing Population

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A Brave New World of Internet Security

Above: Professional visitor to "blueprint news" coming from the Philadelphia branch of Lockheed Information Technology Company, a provider of computer related services to U.S. aircraft manufacturer Lockheed Martin in Denver, Colorado. That visitor has been tracked back in order to demonstrate one legal mechanism of verifying an internet address. All data referring to that visitor and regarded as probably sensitive have been deleted from tracking protocols and will not be given away to third parties.

Egypt - Morsy Under Pressure

Anti-government protesters are gathering outside of the presidential palace in Cairo, some of them throwing petrol bombs while security forces are using water cannons to stop them.

The clashes began as Egypt was marking the second anniversary of the revolution, and protest is not restricted to Cairo alone.

التيار الشعبي بقيادة حمدين صباحي يطالب أنصاره أمام القصر الرئاسي بالتدخل لوقف الاشتباكات

A flow of people with [matinal religious guidance] calling for supporters in front of the presidential palace to intervene [in order to] stop the clashes.

الرئاسة المصرية تحمل القوى التي "قد تكون ساهمت بالتحريض" المسؤولية الكاملة عن الأحداث

The Egyptian presidency [deployed] troops that "might be helpful in the provocation" of those entirely responsible for the incidents.



الرئاسة المصرية تتعهد بالتعامل بحزم مع المتظاهرين لحماية منشآت الدولة

Egypt's presidency cares for dealing decidedly with protesters [in order to] protect national institutions.

[Source: Al-Jazeera evening news on 1st February, 2013]

Syria - Israeli Air Raid

غارة إسرائيلية على قافلة أسلحة سورية قرب لبنان

Israeli attack on Syrian weaponry convoy near Lebanon.

قائد سلاح الجو الإسرائيلي: نراقب عن كثب التطورات السورية بشكل يومي

Israeli air force chief: We closely observed the Syrian development on a daily basis.

The reported air raid took place on Wednesday, January 30. Israel most probably intercepted the weaponry transport near the Lebanese border for fear that Syrian weapons, including those for chemical warfare, might fall into the hands of Hezbollah or other militant groups.

[Source: Al-Arabiya on January 30, 2013]

China - Island Dispute - Japan Offering Summit

快讯：安部称或需从首脑会谈重塑中日两国关系

Express message: [Shinzo] Abe calls for a probably needed conference of [government] leaders to [re]sculpture interstate relations between China and Japan.

中新网1月29日电据共同社报道，日本首相安部晋三29日傍晚参加电视节目时就钓鱼岛问题引发的中日对立表示，“如果有必要，应该从首脑会谈重塑两国联系”。

New China Network cable on Jan 29, based on a joint agencies' report:

Japan's prime minister Shinzo Abe joined a TV program at nightfall on January 29 [in order to target the subject of] manifestations of Sino-Japanese opposition that have been initiated by the Diaoyu Island issue.

"If it is necessary, we must sculpture [or: resculpture] the relations between both countries in a conference of government leaders."

[Source: China News on January 29, 2013.]

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On January 21, 2013, The Washington Post published an article named Japan, China struggle to curb tensions which included the following evaluation of Chinese media reports regarding the Diaoyu Island conflict:

Judging by some of the commentary in the Chinese media, an outside observer might think war with Japan is imminent.

However, there are still many voices calling for cold-blooded proceedings in the matter:
In the U.S., which could see itself dragged into a conflict as Japan’s military ally, diplomacy has moved up a gear in recent days. Kurt Campbell, assistant secretary of state for east Asian and Pacific affairs, said on a visit to Tokyo last week: “We’ve made very clear our desire to see cooler heads prevail.”

Yesterday, January 28, i.e. just one day before Japan's prime minister Shinzo Abe offered a summit of national leaders from China and Japan to settle different positions, People's Daily / People's Network came with the following headline:

美大报劝安倍搁置钓岛争议 日自民党坚持不退让

[Important] American newspapers urge Abe to put aside the Diao[yu] island dispute. Japan's Democratic Party [however] persists and doesn't make concessions.

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For more information, please, refer as well to the preceding blogspot on recent changes in the U.S. Department of State and China's general mistrust in U.S. foreign politics in the frame of that notorious island dispute between China and Japan. Here's a professional visitor to "blueprint news" who must have seen the related blogspot:

U.S.A. - Learning More About John Kerry

Related UPDATE on January 27 further down !

Headlines from Al-Arabiya on January 25, 2013, reporting on the new host of the U.S. Department of State after Secretary of State Hillary Clinton:

وزير خارجية أمريكا.. مقتنع بالقرآن ويستخدم المسبحة

America's secretary of foreign affairs .. convinced of the Coran he uses a rosary.

جون كيري عضو بجمعية "الجمجمة والعظام" واجتمع إلى الأسد 6 مرات وقهر السرطان

John Kerry, member of the society "Skull and Bones", met with Assad six times, and he overcame cancer.

Editor's Note: "Skull and Bones" is a secret society at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. Some influential graduates from Yale have been reported as "bonesmen", among them president Bush jun. and John Kerry.

John Kerry and Assad, together with their wives,
meeting in a Damascus restaurant in 2009.

Choice of comments by Arabic readers of the Al-Arabiya article:

وااااااااو
الجمجمة والعظام ؟! في الحقيقة انتابني بعض الخوف عند وصولي بالقراءة لآخر المقال ؟!ـ

Wow ! - Skull and Bones ?! [ Freemasonry ] in reality, somehow alarming [with its] nouveau riche separatism [as could be read in] the recent article ?!

الحمد لله على نعمه الاسلام

Allah be praised, he is comfortable with Islam.

John Kerry's stiff appearance is probably related to health problems.
[The above picture show has been found on the internet years ago. If
Kerry has overcome cancer, he is expected to stand such nonsense.]

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Today, January 26, People's Network, the online service of People's Daily, Beijing, came with the following headlines regarding political changes in the U.S. Department of State:

美参议院“面试”候任国务卿

The U.S. Senate "facing a test" with the appointment of the Secretary of State.

克里认为中美是竞争者而非敌手

Kerry considers China and the U.S.A. being competitors not enemies.

The following text has been extracted from the original article of People's Daily:

新美国安全中心学者凯·金和雅各布·斯托克斯认为，在对华关系上，克里还应回答的问题是，美中关系中主要竞争因素到底是什么，这些竞争因素究竟属互不信任，抑或缘于各自的根本利益。克里还应考虑，美国是否应该修正其“亚太再平衡”战略，以回应中国不断增强的不安全感。

Kay King and Jacob Stokes, scholars of the Center for a New American Security are considering that in the frame of relations with China, Kerry needs to answer another question: To what end will lead the major elements of competition in U.S.-Chinese relations. These competition elements [can be] exactly of a kind not to be trusted, or can be the reason of fundamental profit related to every goal. Kerry should also consider whether or not America ought to revise its strategy of "another peaceful balancing of Asia", such responding to China's feeling of missing safety which is constantly rising.

Editor's Note:

- Kay King is a Senior Advisor and the Director of External Relations at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), where she oversees strategic communications and outreach. Previously, she served as a vice president at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) where she led the Washington office. Mrs. King holds a bachelor's degree in political science and a master’s degree in international affairs from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs.
- Jacob Stokes is a Research Associate at the CNAS, where his research focuses on U.S. national security strategy and defense policy. Prior to joining CNAS, Mr. Stokes served as a Policy Analyst at the National Security Network, where his work focused on the rise of China, defense budgeting and strategy, and Afghanistan. He graduated from the University of Missouri with degrees in political science and magazine journalism.

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People's Daily / People's Network on January 27, 2013:

日本改装后的“鹰眼2000”预警机(资料图)

Japan's "Hawkeye 2000" newly equipped early warning aircraft.

日本调集预警机24小时监控钓鱼岛 防中国飞机

Japan concentrating early warning aircraft for 24 hours in order to watch and control Diaoyu Island and to defend against Chinese aircraft.

Editor's Note:

U.S. manufacturer Northrop Grumman’s E-2C Hawkeye is a carrier-capable “mini-AWACS” aircraft, designed to give long-range warning of incoming aerial threats. Secondary roles include strike command and control, land and maritime surveillance, search and rescue, communications relay, and even civil air traffic control during emergencies. ...
"It looks a lot like the last generation E-2C Hawkeye 2000 upgrade on the outside – but inside, and even outside to some extent, it’s a whole new aircraft." [Source: Defense Industry Daily, 2013]

The deployment of Japan's Hawkeye 2000 planes in the Diaoyu Island region, disputed between China and Japan, goes together with Shinzo Abe, Japan's newly elected prime minister and nationalist hardliner, releasing a $226 bn stimulus package in the middle of an economic crisis. However, his announcement of temporary difficulties that will soon be overcome makes shareholders' value jump again. [Source: Al-Jazeera on January 28, 2013]

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