China's Defense/Military Breaking News Thread

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Jeff Head

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Guys, I think this hotline is different from the one between Kremlin and Whitehouse, this is a military hotline, I thought there is a political hotline between ZhongNanHai(Chinese leadership residence, old imperial palace) and WhiteHouse for several years already.
Yes, Clinton kept the PRC hotline in his private quarters so if any visiting female high ranking Chinese official needed to use it, it could quickly and easily be found. :p

But I believe Bush has since moved the PRC hotline to the kitchen. :nono:

Hehehe...it's a joke guys, just a joke. :D
 

bd popeye

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PAP rescues 217 citizens held as slaves

Slavery still exist worldwide in diffrent forms. Outstanding job by the PAP to rescue their fellow citizens.:china:

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Police rescue 217 'slaves' in China

BEIJING (AFP) - Police said Thursday they had rescued more than 200 people, including 29 children, who were working as "slaves" in brick kilns, in a shocking revelation of labour practices in booming China.

"We have rescued 217 people, including 29 children, from brick kilns in Henan (province)," a police officer at the criminal investigation department of the Henan public security bureau told AFP by phone.

"During inspections of the kilns we arrested 120 criminal suspects."

The police officer refused to comment further, nor would he confirm widespread stories in the state press that human traffickers had been selling labourers to brick kilns in Henan and neighboring Shanxi province for months.

"The labourers were enticed or sent by human traffickers to the kilns, but upon arrival were beaten, starved and forced to work long hours without payment," the official Xinhua news agency said.

Press reports said that some of the children forced into slavery were as young as eight years old, while photos of those who were rescued or escaped showed groups of young children badly scarred from beatings and underfed.

Children claimed to have witnessed workers being beaten to death for refusing to work or working too slowly, the reports said.

According to the Southern Weekly, Henan police mounted an inspection campaign involving more than 35,000 police on June 9, inspecting 7,500 kilns in Henan in the ensuing three days.

The checks only came after widespread reports in the press about distraught parents trying to find their children in both Henan and Shanxi, the paper said.

"I ran to over 100 brick kilns, and every one of them were forcing children to work," the paper quoted Yang Aizhi, the mother of a 16-year old boy that had gone missing in March.

After failing to find her son, Yang returned to her home in Henan's provincial capital of Zhengzhou, where in April she soon came into contact with other families searching for missing children.

Children had disappeared at train stations, walking home from school or out shopping, sometimes they were told they could make money and were tricked into going along with kidnappers, other times they were drugged, the report said.

According to the Beijing News, a Henan journalist who travelled to brick kilns in Shanxi with the parents of missing children three times, estimated that more than 1,000 children were working there.

The report said that local police protected the kilns and only allowed the parents to take away their own children, resulting in the release of about 40 kids during the three trips.

The paper cited the rescue of one boy named Zhu, who was later taken away by a labour inspection department in Shanxi, only to be sold to another kiln, the paper said.

Police in Shanxi were not immediately available for comment.

"I was at the Zhengzhou train station in early March, when a group of traffickers drugged me and sold me into slavery," the Southern Weekly quoted 17-year old Zhang Wenlong as saying.

Zhang said he worked from five in the morning to midnight, eating only pickled vegetables and turnips three times a day and being deprived of meat for three months.

"All we could do was watch the guards enjoying dog meat and beer," the paper said cited him as saying.

"There was no way to escape, they had six dogs watching over us at night."
 

szbd

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Children kidnapping in China is a serious problem. A few years ago the people's congress raised punishment for this kind of crime and the public security department put more emphasis on dealing them. The highest punishment can be death penalty and excecute just after the final sentence. This means if someone was sentenced to death, he has the right to appeal to higher court, if the final sentence is still death, he will be shot at the same day of the final sentence made.

This is a shame. I believe people are waiting to see some serious punishment on some high ranking officers.
 

flyzies

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This kidnapping stuff really doesnt surprise me that much....its sad and all, and of course should never be allowed to happen...but truth is, its is happening and i think people are aware of it and either turning a blind eye or too selfish to care...

Totally agree with szbd...those kidnappers should get more serious punishments
 

yehe

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Yes, Clinton kept the PRC hotline in his private quarters so if any visiting female high ranking Chinese official needed to use it, it could quickly and easily be found. :p

But I believe Bush has since moved the PRC hotline to the kitchen. :nono:

Hehehe...it's a joke guys, just a joke. :D


Meh, I liked Clinton:nana: , that guys hade some carisma and common sence unlike little Pushy, then again, like the old CIA Pushy senior better as well:coffee:


Anyway, I think the local village and town goverment are to blame for the conned slaves.
 

bd popeye

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Anyway, I think the local village and town goverment are to blame for the conned slaves

That was my guess. Those officals are probaly reciving payments to keep quiet. If so they are just as guilty!
 
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That was my guess. Those officals are probaly reciving payments to keep quiet. If so they are just as guilty!

*Ahem*

Popeye, what does this have to do with Chinese military news? They weren't working in a military establishment were they? :p

From some reports I read, the Police were alleged to have been involved too - otherwise they would have been busted a lot earlier. It's such a shame that greed still leads people to treat their fellow man this way in the 21st century.
 
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bd popeye

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Popeye, what does this have to do with Chinese military news? They weren't working in a military establishment were they?

Well..ahem..The PAP was involved so that's close enough for me!;)

From some reports I read, the Police were alleged to have been involved too - otherwise they would have been busted a lot earlier. It's such a shame that greed still leads people to treat their fellow man this way in the 21st century.

Seems as thogh since the beginning of time mans greed has overwhelmed him.
 
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Well..ahem..The PAP was involved so that's close enough for me!

Hmm, they're para-military police. Personally I would draw the line to put them on the other side of the PLA, because the armed forces shouldn't be involved with law enforcement unless you're in something like a war-zone.

Seems as thogh since the beginning of time mans greed has overwhelmed him.

Well it certainly doesn't help when officials are elevated to an untouchable status in day-to-day life. You won't hear about many cases of John McCain's son or Gordon Brown's nephew running an operation like this.......
 
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