Breaking News Items. From The Stirring Trouble Team
January 14, 2010
Today we present another selection of breaking news items. From the Stirring Trouble team. Breaking News: UN Secretary General, Ban Ki Moon, says he will be travelling to earthquake hit Haiti to promote his action man image. Breaking News: The earthquake in Haiti is voted first biggest PR opportunity of 2010 by most world leaders. Breaking News: Aid agencies are telling everyone to send the donations to the victims of the earthquake in Haiti directly to the private accounts of the country’s rulers. To save them the hassle. Breaking News: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton calls on everyone not to donate any money directly to her husband Bill who is a specials envoy to Haiti. He’ll go on a bender, she warns. Breaking News: World Health Organisations expresses hope that the fatality...
China Prepares For The Next Generation Of Leaders
December 9, 2009
Martin McCauley writes: I assure you, foreign intelligence services monitor very closely all the promotions that take place in the Communist Party of China (CPC). Everyone wants to know who is going tobe in charge of the country in the next few years. It was no different with the recent reshuffle of the CPC’s first secretaries that was made public recently. Six of the 31 provincial Party bosses have been replaced or moved upwards. Two of the promotions are potentially very significant: Hu Chunhua, first Party secretary in Hebei province, moves to become boss of the Inner Mongolian Autonomous region, and Sun Zhencai, Minister of Agriculture, became Party leader of Jilin province. Significantly, Hu Chunhua was formerly head of the Communist Youth League (CYL). This links him closely to...
Why Is Mao Zedong Making A Comeback In China?
November 24, 2009
Martin McCauley writes: When the father of Chinese perestroika, the late Deng Xiaoping, had won the struggle to succeed the late communist leader, Mao Zedong, in 1978 he ordered the removal of statues and mementos of the Mao period. Deng wanted to demonstrate that the era of dead pan communism was over. Policy was supposed to be decided not by the whims of the leadership but on the basis of hard facts and figures. Mao was probably turning in his grave in those days.But now it is time for Deng to start doing the same: Mao’s legacy is enjoying the great revival and statues to the Great Helmsman are once again being erected in China. Why is this? In cities and provinces which President Obama or other foreign dignitaries do not visit, the symbols of the Cultural Revolution (1966-76) are beginning...
The New Faces Of The EU: Tough-Talking No-Nonsense Herman And Cathy
November 21, 2009
Thomas Mathew writes: The people of the European Union have spoken: two giants of politics have been finally selected to represent the EU as its President and foreign policy chief. Both are serious political heavyweights, known throughout Europe and the whole world for their independent thinking and ability to operate in political wilderness for long periods of time. Tough-talking no-nonsense Belgian Prime Minister, Herman Van Rompuy, was an obvious favourite for the post of EU President right from the start, despite all the talk that former British Prime Minister, Tony Blair was in serious contention for the job. (Who on earth would have a President of the EU with the first name Tony?) And as for Baroness (Cathy) Ashton, who has never held an elected post in her entire life, she was the ideal...
More Breaking News Items. From The Stirring Trouble Team
November 20, 2009
We present more breaking news items. From the Stirring Trouble team. Breaking News: Asked why they have selected Herman Van Rompuy as the first President of the European Council EU leaders say they liked his name and his haircut. Breaking News: EU new foreign policy supremo, Baroness Ashton, says that she is hoping that her lack of experience could be compensated by her stunningly good looks. Breaking News: French President Nicolas Sarkozy denies that he conspired with Chancelor Angela Merkel to select two non-entities to represent the EU to piss everyone off. Breaking News: Having been rejected as a candidate for the post of the President of the EU Tony Blair goes on the run. It was my chance to get immunity from prosecution, Blair says. And I blew it. Breaking News: White House says that...
More Breaking News Items. From The Stirring Trouble Team
November 19, 2009
Today we present more breaking news items. From the Stirring Trouble team. Breaking News: US President Barack Obama says that just because his visit to China did not bring any results does not mean that it was not a good trip. Breaking News: President Obama reveals that he was terrified at the thought that his hosts in Beijing would ask him whether the US can honour any of its debt obligations to China. Breaking News: President Obama says that he will never read Sarah Palin’s book because he heard she did not include any of the revealing photos in it. Breaking News: White House says that it was by pure coincidence that President Obama stayed clear of Chinese dissidents and independent journalists and shunned ordinary Chinese. Breaking News: Chinese President Hu Jintao, in a frank interview...
More Breaking News Items. From The Stirring Trouble Team
November 16, 2009
Today we present more breaking news items. From the Stirring Trouble team. Breaking News: Beijing says President Barack Obama will feel at home during his visit to China. All our officials read from prepared texts, like he does, spokesman explains. Breaking News: President Obama inspires Chinese students in Shanghai by saying: one day all of you will be making cheap goods for the American market at a sweat shop. Breaking News: Asked by one Chinese student how as a Muslim himself he treats the struggle of his brothers in Afghanistan, President Obama replies with a joke about a rabbi and a prostitute. Breaking News: Asked whether he is not worried that Vice President Joe Biden is in charge at home while he is in China, President Obama says: I’m not bothered. Joe is kept under sedation. Breaking...
President Obama In China: Please Don’t Mention Human Rights Or Democracy
November 15, 2009
Anton Goryunov writes from Moscow: Do you think that US President Barack Obama would raise the issue of human rights and democracy generally during his current visit to China? Will he, for example, tell Chinese President Hu Jintao during their private little chat something along the lines of: ‘Look, Hu, I know we owe you a hell of a lot of money, but I really need to tell you that you should stop throwing people in jail for their political views and religious beliefs and introduce democratic elections. Or we will find it hard to work with you and your people.’ And President Hu would smile and nod, like all Chinese people do when they’re pissed off big time, and say that he’ll give it a thought when he has a free moment. Do you think this sort of thing could happen? I personally...
Is China Redefining Its Attitude To Projecting Soft Power?
November 11, 2009
Martin McCauley writes: Some time ago hundreds of Chinese ambassadors, diplomats and other officials responsible for formulating foreign policy gathered in Beijing to debate the future of China on the wold stage. Given the global financial crisis, should the Middle Kingdom seize the opportunity to play a more active role on the world stage? Is the United States a declining power? China’s priority is its domestic development, but it is becoming clear that domestic and foreign policy are merging. Should China give greater emphasis to expanding its influence through ‘soft’ power? The conference was organised by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Party Foreign Affairs Bureau. The main speaker was President Hu Jintao and other speakers included the Prime Minister Wen Jiabao....
Is Corruption Undermining The Power of the Communist Party of China?
November 7, 2009
Martin McCauley writes: The revelations emerging from the present campaign against the triads, criminal gangs, in the city of Chongqing, in western China, has shocked many in China and abroad. So far over 3,000 hoods have been arrested. It is now clear that the police and judicial authorities have been colluding with the triads for at least two decades. The move against the criminals did not originate in Chongqing but in Beijing. It took the authority of President Hu Jintao to set the ball rolling. In other words, the local Party boss, Bo Xilai, was powerless to act on his own. Local syndicates were so entrenched – with high level patrons – that only the top leader could mobilise the police and legal resources to launch the drive against corruption. The city of 34 million is one...
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