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Re: Listen: Former Aussie PM John Howard on China and India

MPR — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 20:31:00 -0000

Man, so many associations (mostly negative) with that voice. This is only novel to non-Australians. What is up with the sound????

Re: A Convertible RMB is Not Going to Happen | Carl E. Walter | Prospects | The China Boom Project

MPR — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 22:32:08 -0000

Walter is among the most incisive and clear explainers of the Chinese financial system around.

Re: China airs documentary proving military university is hacking U.S. targets

MPR — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 17:30:07 -0000

Haha; refreshing humor.

Re: China airs documentary proving military university is hacking U.S. targets

MPR — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 14:33:11 -0000

You did not respond to any of my questions. But your first sentence sums up the extent of your engagement. Alas.

Re: China airs documentary proving military university is hacking U.S. targets

MPR — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 14:31:00 -0000

How was the news here editorialised?

Re: China airs documentary proving military university is hacking U.S. targets

MPR — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 13:41:14 -0000

Please see my note to Jonas below. The Epoch Times does not have any formal affiliation with the Falun Gong spiritual practice. We are also not anti-China, or violently anything. I'm a great fan of China and have spent years studying the language and culture. The Chinese Communist Party, however, is not China--clearly we are just reporting truthfully on the activities of the Chinese Communist Party. Our report here is based on publicly available and verifiable facts.

Re: China airs documentary proving military university is hacking U.S. targets

MPR — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 13:37:31 -0000

I am a co-author of the article. Can you point out what is not credible about The Epoch Times' reporting here? We simply reported on the existence of this video, explained it, made some translations, got some comment, and made it public. What is not reliable about that?

Re: ‘I’m not interested in them; I wish they weren’t interested in me’: An Interview with Liao Yiwu by Ian Johnson | NYRblog | The New York Review of Books

MPR — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 13:47:32 -0000

Awesome interview. Liao Yiwu has been rendered very well in English--Johnson granting him the same courtesy he extends to his own interviewee's, I suppose.

Re: Reporting in China

MPR — Thu, 26 May 2011 14:32:03 -0000

Great piece of work. This part stuck out: “the habit of tattling as a show of loyalty to the Communist Party and to the community.” -- stating it this way conceals the contradiction between the Party and the community.

They are not the same thing. They're opposite things. When people tattle on their neighbours they are SELLING OUT the community while surrendering to the control of the Party.

Re: User Profiles

MPR — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 16:58:31 -0000

Very cool not to have fields. Why restrict it!

Re: China and Google: A detailed look

MPR — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 14:18:33 -0000

Great post. Unfortunately this doesn't explain the details of how Mr. Walton was able to use the Cytoscape tool to find out all that information based on the message you got. A technical explanation along those lines would be very interesting indeed.

Re: Will Declaring Chinese Officials’ Assets Cause ‘Chaos’? And Will That Delay The Introduction Of A Property Tax?

MPR — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 09:12:24 -0000

How about we wait until they actually begin disclosing all their assets etc.? I just don't see real, willful transparency on that. Look at what happened in the UK with Minister's expenses; the institutional restrains in China are far, far less. It's so optimistic to think this is anything other than brouhaha.

Re: Sun Zhou, missing

MPR — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 22:32:07 -0000

So what happened to the people who kidnapped the kid? I found it odd that the article did not address this. Did they catch them, or what?

Re: CCTV New Year's Evening Gala 春节联欢晚会 (chūnjié liánhuān wǎnhuì)

MPR — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 10:50:30 -0000

Probably important to remember that the primary goal of Chunwan is state propaganda. That's the central purpose in the CCTV's putting it on year after year. The government doesn't poor so much money into the thing simply for entertainment. Here are some links:

http://behindthewall.msnbc....

http://cmp.hku.hk/2011/02/0...

http://www.theepochtimes.co...

http://chinadigitaltimes.ne...

http://www.reuters.com/arti...

http://www.rfa.org/english/...

Anyway, have fun.

Re: Hu Knew About The J-20 Test Flight?

MPR — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 12:59:20 -0000

Concur. Geremie Barme made a similar point at a recent lecture. Hu is a "company man" who knows all about handling foreigners. He found it "risible" that there was so much speculation about Hu not knowing. I trust Barme's judgement more than dozens of other pundits.

Re: What the Chinese are reading about the Xinjiang riots

MPR — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 13:37:51 -0000

What? Epoch Times makes things up? Could you please provide some examples?

Re: Dashan denied visa, stops smiling

MPR — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 23:35:53 -0000

I have to say it again: I really admire the humour on display here. It is subtle and funny. Am I the only one who really appreciates this stuff? If I ever figure out how to write amusing copy, I will submit it here and hope for publication.

Re: Politburo: Mao’s hairstyle “70% right, 30% wrong”

MPR — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 23:21:41 -0000

Sorry sorry; the statement that the article is hilarious and that there is a mistake are completely unrelated. I can't edit my comment or I'd put in a line break or something.

Re: Politburo: Mao’s hairstyle “70% right, 30% wrong”

MPR — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 23:20:28 -0000

Hilarious. You wrote "it was" twice. This is very funny stuff, well done.

Re: bit.ly blog - Track Sharing on Facebook with bit.ly Ever post...

MPR — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 02:18:06 -0000

Sorry, everything works now. I get the overlay. Great system. I'd switch completely to using bit.ly if for two things:

when I right clicked on a link I could get a bit.ly URL from the dropdown box and have it copied automatically to the clipboard (I use is.gd for this now), and if there was a button that could be put up the top that you could click once and get a link directly on the clipboard (like is.gd). Anyway, awesome software.

By the way, this is a site you might want to check out: www.faluninfo.net

Re: bit.ly blog - Track Sharing on Facebook with bit.ly Ever post...

MPR — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:13:00 -0000

Hi, maybe I'm seeing something different to you guys. I see two bookmarklet links there:

bit.info
Shorten a URL, then get traffic, conversations, and history for any page.

bit.ly
Shorten long URLs then share on Twitter.

I assume it's the first I am meant to get. I got it and clicked it and it does the same thing as the second one. No button or overlay appears, it just opens a new tab and does its thing. Is there something I am missing? I'm sorry to be bothering you guys by the way, it's a very cool service you are running.

Matt.

Re: bit.ly blog - Track Sharing on Facebook with bit.ly Ever post...

MPR — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:59:19 -0000

Hi, I'm very new to your service. I'd like to understand how a bit.ly link is supposed to be submitted into facebook with a click? I have the facebook button in the ff3 toolbar, and the bit.ly button, but how do I make it so that when I submit a link to facebook with that button that it puts in a bit.ly link that I can track?

btw: I cannot get any icons to display on any bookmarks using javascript--what's with that? a little frustrating. I can't find a solution on the net, and thought I'd just randomly append this question. You provide a bit.ly icon type thing, but it doesn't appear as an icon in my ff3, just as bland 'document' type thing. I want to be able to save to google reader, bit.ly, facebook, etc., with a click on the ff3 bookmarks toolbar, but I don't get any icons for javascript. :(