Morning Clicks | Should shoe-throwers be arrested?
Sima Nan hasn't said clearly either way, but his political opponents seem to think so.
An Iraqi journalist threw a shoe at American president George Bush and was sentenced to three years in prison, and China's public intellectuals all felt he deserved it! When a student in Britain threw a shoe at China's Prime Minister, he was arrested and sued and China's public intellectuals felt he deserved that too! Now that a shoe has been thrown at patriotic scholar Sima Nan, they've changed tune completely and say not just that the shoe should have been thrown, but are also cursing out Li for criticising the thrower! The thuggish nature of China's universal values clique once again proves that they're nothing more than two-faced beasts!!!
Morning Clicks
-- Why nobody really wants to get to the bottom of China, ZTE and Huawei The U.S. Congress is set to release a report that tells U.S. firms not to buy gear from Chinese telecoms vendors Huawei and ZTE. But is the report a real assessment of a threat or just economic protectionism? Here’s how we might be able to tell.
-- Statement regarding HPSCI's report We had hoped to ensure that the investigation would be fact-based and objective in its review of our business activities and the global issue of cyber-security.
-- Huawei: national security threat, or national commercial interest threat? Huawei is the first Chinese company to come out of the woodwork, and break into the international arena for enterprise and government technology services. And while it should come as no surprise that there is blowback from this, the ‘don’t buy a Chinese-manufactured phone because it could be sending all your messages to the Chinese government’ reminds me a little bit of World War II propaganda.
-- Proof of concept: US used telecom equipment sales to China in 80s and 90s to spy on Chinese officials and military.
-- Dongguan, Prosperous Chinese City and “Factory to the World,” May Be On The Financial Brink Perhaps as long as “maintaining stability’” (维稳) throughout the country remains the premier goal for all public sectors in anticipation of the 18th Party Congress in early November, inquiring into the fate of the country’s economic backbone is simply too risky.