Chinese shenanigans

[Russell]

Beijing thanks Tokyo for rescue after Chinese fishing boat collides with freighter near Senkakus

A collision between a Chinese fishing boat and a Greece-flagged merchant ship near the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea early Thursday led to a rescue operation by the Japan Coast Guard and a note of thanks from Beijing.

The coast guard rescued six Chinese crew members and was searching for eight missing, the agency said, after the fishing boat sank.

The boat collided with the 300-meter-long bulk carrier Anangel Courage about 65 km off Uotsuri Island, the largest in the Senkaku group of islets, just after 5 a.m.

The cargo ship issued a distress signal, and the coast guard dispatched a vessel and a plane to the area, the agency said. Weather conditions in the area were poor at the time.

Tokyo informed Beijing of the incident and the Chinese side “expressed appreciation” for the operation, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

Hundreds of Chinese boats are currently fishing in waters close to the disputed islands, the ministry has said, with multiple Chinese patrol vessels maneuvering among them. At least some of the government ships appear to be armed.

The Chinese ambassador in Tokyo said Wednesday that the flotilla is a response to heavy potential fish catches in the area, according to an official from Japan’s ruling party.

Toshihiro Nikai, secretary-general of the Liberal Democratic Party, quoted Ambassador Cheng Yonghua as saying “fish were markedly concentrated” around the islets.

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[Russell]

[Samurai_Jerk]

[Takechanpoo]

unstoppable chinese scamming

State-owned construction firm Vinaconex has backed out of a deal to use pipes from a Chinese company to fix an unreliable water supply system in Hanoi amid concerns over the quality of the replacement.
Viwasupco, the water utility subsidiary of Vinaconex, said in a new statement that it has canceled the plan to buy ductile iron pipes from Xinxing Pipes International Development Company for its Song Da water pipe system, whose existing fiberglass pipes kept broken.


The new water pipe line, which will cost a total of $53.7 million to build, will run 21 kilometers to provide tap water for nearly 200,000 families in Hanoi.
Local media counted that the current system, which cost $70 million, has broken 18 times since 2012, three years after the pipe was installed, although it was supposed to last at least 50 years. The latest rupture was last month.

http://www.thanhniennews.com/society/vi ... 65078.html
the more chinese scam their neighbors, the more japanese reputation relatively soars.

[Isle of View]

[Takechanpoo]

The Danish Data Protection Agency (Datatilsynet) said on Wednesday that the CPR numbers of 5,282,616 people were mistakenly delivered to the Chinese Visa Application Centre, a Copenhagen-based Chinese company.

http://www.thelocal.dk/20160720/five-mi ... by-mistake
5,282,616 people is almost all of danish nationals.......

"mistakenly delivered"
oh really? why dont you honestly confess to be honeytraped?

[Russell]

The Danish Data Protection Agency (Datatilsynet) said on Wednesday that the CPR numbers of 5,282,616 people were mistakenly delivered to the Chinese Visa Application Centre, a Copenhagen-based Chinese company.

http://www.thelocal.dk/20160720/five-mi ... by-mistake
5,282,616 people is almost all of danish nationals.......

"mistakenly delivered"
oh really? why dont you honestly confess to be honeytraped?

Yeah, China actually wants to invade Denmark.

And enslave all its inhabitants...

But seriously, did you actually read the article?

A package sent by the Danish State Serum Institute (SSI) to Statistics Denmark in February 2015 contained two CDs with the CPR number and health information of over 5 million residents who lived in Denmark between 2010 and 2012. The package, sent by registered mail, was “delivered to the Chinese Visa Application Centre” by mistake, Datatilsynet wrote.

[...]

SSI said however that it was of the “perception” that the information “neither reached other people nor was seen by other people”.

It said that it was contacted by an employee of the Chinese Visa Application Centre who said she opened the letter addressed to Statistics Denmark “by mistake” but then delivered the package to the statistics agency.

SSI said it “has not found reason to doubt” the employee’s story.

[Takechanpoo]

SSI said however that it was of the “perception” that the information “neither reached other people nor was seen by other people”.

It said that it was contacted by an employee of the Chinese Visa Application Centre who said she opened the letter addressed to Statistics Denmark “by mistake” but then delivered the package to the statistics agency.

SSI said it “has not found reason to doubt” the employee’s story.

you naive to seriously believe it. thats nice

[Russell]

SSI said however that it was of the “perception” that the information “neither reached other people nor was seen by other people”.

It said that it was contacted by an employee of the Chinese Visa Application Centre who said she opened the letter addressed to Statistics Denmark “by mistake” but then delivered the package to the statistics agency.

SSI said it “has not found reason to doubt” the employee’s story.

you naive to seriously believe it. thats nice

So, where is your "honey trap" in the story?

[matsuki]

SSI said however that it was of the “perception” that the information “neither reached other people nor was seen by other people”.

It said that it was contacted by an employee of the Chinese Visa Application Centre who said she opened the letter addressed to Statistics Denmark “by mistake” but then delivered the package to the statistics agency.

SSI said it “has not found reason to doubt” the employee’s story.

you naive to seriously believe it. thats nice

So, where is your "honey trap" in the story?

In the story? I thought he was admitting he got honey trapped?

[Takechanpoo]

now the world is under the semi-state of emergency.
you should suspect that every single issues involving china are espionage even if there is no evidence to prove it.
http://thediplomat.com/2016/08/uk-china ... r-project/

[Samurai_Jerk]

China is totally over getting Olympic gold medals, says China

For China, winning Olympic gold medals is so 2012.

Team China ended up third in the Olympic medal table, finishing with the smallest gold medal haul in two decades. In 2008 China topped the rankings for the first time with 56 golds at its own games in Beijing. At London 2012, it ranked second only to the US with 38 golds.

China certainly had strong feelings about its underperformance. After Great Britain surpassed China to reach second place in the medal tally, the official news agency Xinhua wrote on Twitter: “You kidding me?” The tweet was later removed.

China’s poor performances in traditionally strong sports like gymnastics and badminton are to blame for the lower-than-expected medal tally. China collected only two bronzes in gymnastics this year, compared to five gold medals and 12 medals overall in 2012.

In response, Chinese state media has been trying to downplay the importance of winning. As the Rio games ended Sunday night, the state-backed nationalistic tabloid Global Times concluded in a commentary: “[T]he public has generally been unfazed since observers say the country, already the second largest economy in the world, no longer needs Olympic medals to boost morale.” Although the gold medal won by the women’s volleyball team is an apparent source of “national pride,” the tabloid noted, citing a sports professor, “charisma and individual performance are likewise valued.”


In fact, China’s state media had been trying to manage expectations from the start. In pursuit of the first gold medal of this year’s Olympic games, China’s veteran sport shooter Du Li ended up losing to the US’s Virginia Thrasher in the women’s 10-meter air rifle. One day later, Chinese swimmer Sun Yang finished second to Australia’s Mack Horton in the 400-meter freestyle swimming race, missing the chance to secure the first gold for China once again.

“The first gold of the Olympics: Are you really that important?” asked the Chinese Communist Party’s official mouthpiece People’s Daily (link in Chinese) in an article shared on social networking app WeChat. The answer was no, according to the newspaper: “Both Du Li and Sun Yang had brilliant smiles on the podiums. Their smiles show Chinese athletes’ confidence and calm. Perhaps that’s more important than gold medals in the upcoming journey.”

Yeah, suuuuuuuure ...

[matsuki]

The spirit of Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf lives on!!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Saeed_al-Sahhaf

Ok, so he's not dead but retired?

[Samurai_Jerk]

IS LAOS SHIFTING ALLEGIANCES FROM CHINA TO VIETNAM AND THE U.S.?

Obama will become the first sitting president to visit the small nation when he joins global leaders for an Asian summit.

The secretive communist government of Laos, a country with a population of less than 7 million, rarely causes a ripple on the diplomatic circuit. And yet its sleepy capital will spring to life next week when global leaders arrive for an Asian summit.

Barack Obama will be among them, making the last push of his presidency to rebalance Washington's foreign policy toward Asia, a strategy widely seen as a response to China's economic and military muscle-flexing across the region.

The might of Laos' giant neighbor to the north is hard to miss in Vientiane: wealthy Chinese driving SUVs overtake tuk-tuks sputtering along the roads and Chinese-backed hotels sprout from noisy construction sites in one of Asia's most low-rise cities.

But diplomats say Obama could be pushing on an open door in Laos, thanks to a change of government there in April.

[...]

It is difficult to read policy in Laos because its leaders are so uncommunicative, but Western diplomats have detected some shifts.

First, deputy Prime Minister Somsavat Lengsavad—who ran the steering panel for a $7 billion Chinese rail project—retired. The project is now believed to be on hold because Laos is unhappy with the terms of the deal.

Officials of Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith's new government, many of them educated in Vietnam, have visited Hanoi en masse in recent weeks, their first foreign trip.

At two of the past meetings of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), which is currently chaired by Laos, Vientiane has taken a more nuanced stance on Beijing than neighboring Cambodia, which is increasingly seen as a Chinese satellite.

[...] the Lao are closer culturally to Vietnam than they are to China. Their businesses use Lao language signs and mixed Lao-Vietnamese families incorporate local customs, while Lao-Chinese families tend to be isolated.

"We are a bit frustrated with (China). They create their own ecosystem," a Lao businessman said.

[Grumpy Gramps]

Yeah, a POTUS in his lame duck period would usually go to Israel and hammer out a flimsy "peace deal" in order to pick up his obligatory Nobel Peace Prize. Now Obama has his peace prize already, so needs to find some other thing to do. Hope, he can find something of better value than the short-lived peace deals of his predecessors.

[Russell]

Barack Obama 'deliberately snubbed' by Chinese in chaotic arrival at G20

President was denied a red carpet welcome and made to ‘go out of the ass’ of Air Force One, observers say

China’s leaders have been accused of delivering a calculated diplomatic snub to Barack Obama after the US president was denied a red-carpet welcome during his chaotic arrival in Hangzhou ahead of the start of the G20.

Chinese authorities have rolled out the red carpet for leaders including India’s prime pinister Narendra Modi, Russian president Vladimir Putin, South Korean president Park Geun-hye, Brazil’s president Michel Temer and British prime minister Theresa May, who touched down on Sunday morning.

But the leader of the world’s largest economy, who is on his final tour of Asia, was forced to disembark from Air Force One through a little-used exit in the plane’s belly after no rolling staircase was provided when he landed in the eastern Chinese city on Saturday afternoon.

When Obama did find his way onto the tarmac, there were heated altercations between US and Chinese officials, with one Chinese official caught on video shouting: “This is our country! This is our airport!”

“The reception that President Obama and his staff got when they arrived here Saturday afternoon was bruising, even by Chinese standards,” the New York Times reported.

Jorge Guajardo, Mexico’s former ambassador to China, said he was convinced Obama’s treatment was part of a calculated snub.

“These things do not happen by mistake. Not with the Chinese,” Guajardo, who hosted presidents Enrique Peña Nieto and Felipe Calderón during his time in Beijing, told the Guardian.

“I’ve dealt with the Chinese for six years. I’ve done these visits. I took Xi Jinping to Mexico. I received two Mexican presidents in China. I know exactly how these things get worked out. It’s down to the last detail in everything. It’s not a mistake. It’s not.”

Guajardo added: “It’s a snub. It’s a way of saying: ‘You know, you’re not that special to us.’ It’s part of the new Chinese arrogance. It’s part of stirring up Chinese nationalism. It’s part of saying: ‘China stands up to the superpower.’ It’s part of saying: ‘And by the way, you’re just someone else to us.’ It works very well with the local audience.

“Why [did it happen]?” the former diplomat, who was ambassador from 2007 until 2013, added. “I guess it is part of Xi Jinping playing the nationalist card. That’s my guess.”

Bill Bishop, a China expert whose Sinocism newsletter tracks the country’s political scene, agreed that Obama’s no-carpet welcome looked suspiciously like a deliberate slight intended “to make the Americans look diminished and weak”.

“It sure looks like a straight up snub,” Bishop said. “This clearly plays very much into the [idea]: ‘Look, we can make the American president go out of the ass of the plane.’”

Bishop added: “We’ve no proof. It could clearly just be a cock-up but it would be a stunningly large cock-up given how well these people plan for all these events and especially for something like the G20.”

“The idea that they have been preparing for well over a year for the G20 but suddenly there be a malfunction with the ramp just for one president … that really strains strains credulity.”

Chinese officials have yet to comment on the reception offered to Obama.

[...]

Susan Rice, the US national security adviser, admitted she had been surprised by the handling of the president’s arrival. “They did things that weren’t anticipated,” she told reporters.

The New York Times said Rice had appeared “baffled and annoyed” that the president had been forced to leave Air Force One through a door normally reserved for high-security trips to places such as Afghanistan.

In the lead-up to the final meeting between Obama and Xi, experts had predicted the pair would seek to part ways on a positive note with the announcement that the world’s two largest polluters would ratify the Paris climate agreement.

However, Obama’s unconventional welcome – and a series of subsequent skirmishes and quarrels between Chinese and US officials and journalists – were a reminder of the underlying tensions.

The Washington Post said Obama’s bumpy landing in China was “a fitting reflection of how the relationship between these two world powers has become frayed and fraught with frustration”.

“I think this time… maybe the seams were showing a little more than usual in terms of some of the negotiations and jostling that takes place behind the scenes,” Obama admitted on Sunday.

Official statements issued by both sides on Saturday, as the pair held more than four hours of bilateral meetings, hinted at some of the disagreements between the world’s two largest economies.

According to a White House statement, Obama told Xi of “America’s unwavering support for upholding human rights”.

“China opposes any other country interfering in its internal affairs in the name of human rights issues,” Xi told Obama in response, according to Xinhua, Beijing’s official news wire.

In an interview with CNN, Obama warned Beijing against muscle-flexing in the South China Sea. Xi told Obama his country would “unswervingly safeguard” its claims in the region.

Bishop said: “Other than in climate, in most areas of the US-China relationship there is increasing amounts of friction and some actually increasingly quite hot friction around the South China Sea and some of these military [interactions] in the region.”

“The US is looking a little weak and a little tired and I think [Beijing is] happy to put anybody in their place when they can. I think they see the opportunity to make Obama look weak,” he added.

Both Bishop and Guajardo said the reported confrontations between Chinese and US officials and journalists following Obama’s arrival in Hangzhou were par for the course in China.

“That is just typical China. I remember when my president came, one of the Mexican press corps came out of it with stitches,” Guajardo recalled.

But Obama’s unceremonious arrival was unusual and surely deliberate, the former Mexican ambassador added.

“Just as the Chinese are about giving face they are also about not giving it and letting you know that they are not giving it to you… They don’t overlook these things by mistake. It’s not who they are. It’s not the way they do these things,” he said.

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Just goes to show that the Chinese government has no style.

I do like Obama's response, though:

The US president offered a diplomatic reply when asked to comment on the airport “kerfuffle” on Sunday during a joint press conference with Theresa May.

“I wouldn’t over-crank the significance of it because, as I said, this is not the first time that these things happen and it doesn’t just happen here. It happens in a lot of places including, by the way, sometimes our allies,” Obama said, adding that “none of this detracts from the broader scope of the relationship”.

Obama suggested his Chinese hosts might have found the size of the US delegation “a little overwhelming”.

“We’ve got a lot of planes, a lot of helicopters, a lot of cars and a lot of guys. If you are a host country, sometimes it may feel a little bit much.”

LOL. I wonder whether the Chinese got the message that as a country they still have to develop to the level that they can properly organize these things...

[wuchan]

considering when the president travels he brings 2 boeing 747 (airforce 1), three "beast" limos, five armored SUVs, 3 helicopters, enough c-17s to carry all the crap, a number of fighter aircraft, and all the staff needed to support the circus it's believable that the Chinese may have been "overwhelmed".

or they wanted the US to cut down on the amount of shit they bring and the US said "fuck off, you can't hold this event without us".

[Coligny]

considering when the president travels he brings 2 boeing 747 (airforce 1), three "beast" limos, five armored SUVs, 3 helicopters, enough c-17s to carry all the crap, a number of fighter aircraft, and all the staff needed to support the circus
....

And Shanning Tatum...

[Tsuru]

He could have pulled a Kruschev and claim that the airport didn't have an airstair tall enough to reach the door to his mighty AF1...

[legion]

He could have pulled a Kruschev and claim that the airport didn't have an airstair tall enough to reach the door to his mighty AF1...

Whether it was deliberate or a mistake it was very dumb, the US, with its democratically elected leaders can roll with this, leaders in a country like China have to continually struggle for legitimacy in the eyes of their non electorate, and it won't be difficult for Uncle Sam to return the favour, with garnish.

[Russell]

He could have pulled a Kruschev and claim that the airport didn't have an airstair tall enough to reach the door to his mighty AF1...

Whether it was deliberate or a mistake it was very dumb, the US, with its democratically elected leaders can roll with this, leaders in a country like China have to continually struggle for legitimacy in the eyes of their non electorate, and it won't be difficult for Uncle Sam to return the favour, with garnish.

Especially if the next leader is Trump...

[Tsuru]

He could have pulled a Kruschev and claim that the airport didn't have an airstair tall enough to reach the door to his mighty AF1...

Whether it was deliberate or a mistake it was very dumb, the US, with its democratically elected leaders can roll with this, leaders in a country like China have to continually struggle for legitimacy in the eyes of their non electorate, and it won't be difficult for Uncle Sam to return the favour, with garnish.

I'm not entirely sure that they will.... Americans are bigger than that, and it's unlikely that reports of such diplomatic clapback will reach the general public in China with the proper context and effect.

[kurogane]

Nice Slam by Obama "It can all be a bit overwhelming".........

BOYCOTT CHINA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[matsuki]

Stay classy China....oh wait...

Maybe they thought Obama would throw a fit like a child and refuse to exit the plane until he could do it with the entitled respect he thought he deserved? I mean, I'm pretty sure that's what a Chinese official would do...

[kurogane]

..........and is now furious at the insult Obama has hurled at China by refusing to take the bait and behave as his hosts expected. This takes even retardo Japanese etiquette and protocol to unheard of caveman levels.
That Mexican Ambassador's commentary was brilliantly undiplomatic. Betcha he gets the blue finger salute on his next visit.

[Takechanpoo]

recent ordinary chinese wedding

[Russell]

recent ordinary chinese wedding

Wait until you see their funerals...

But seriously, you think Japanese weddings are less boring?

[wagyl]

He's got no mates so he never gets invited.

[Takechanpoo]

Renho(蓮舫), whose father is chinese and naturalized taiwanese later(so-called 外省人), insisted she selected japanese nationality in her 18 year old.
but she herself actually talked in the interview of a magazine in 1997 that she remained to be a taiwan national.

http://www.dotup.org994641.jpg

http://www.dotup.org994645.jpg

　外国の国籍と日本の国籍を有する人（重国籍者）は，２２歳に達するまでに（２０歳に達した後に重国籍になった場合は，重国籍になった時から２年以内に），どちらかの国籍を選択する必要があります。選択しない場合は，日本の国籍を失うことがありますので注意してください。

"ppl who have multiple nationality needs to select which of those until hitting 22 year old. otherwise they may lose japanese natioality."
http://www.moj.go.jp/MINJI/minji06.html

[Russell]

　外国の国籍と日本の国籍を有する人（重国籍者）は，２２歳に達するまでに（２０歳に達した後に重国籍になった場合は，重国籍になった時から２年以内に），どちらかの国籍を選択する必要があります。選択しない場合は，日本の国籍を失うことがありますので注意してください。

"ppl who have multiple nationality needs to select which of those until hitting 22 year old. otherwise they may lose japanese natioality."
http://www.moj.go.jp/MINJI/minji06.html

So, what is the meaning of the following phrase on the web page you linked?

なお，期限までに国籍の選択をしないときは，その期限が到来した時に日本の国籍の選択の宣言をしたものとみなされます。