China cracks down on "foreign scum"

[BigInJapan]

It seems that Japan is not the only country to initiate campaigns to roust out FG's. Some of you may remember Japan's Immigration Bureau has/had a hotline for reporting illegal foreigners a few years ago.

CNN - China's crackdown on foreigners raises specter of xenophobia

Until the end of August the Beijing Public Security Bureau has decreed that all resident foreigners are expected to show their passports for "spot checks" of visas and resident permits.

The campaign has enlisted the help of the Chinese public, who can call a telephone hotline to report "suspicious foreigners." Violators will be fined, detained or even deported.

Soon after the campaign was announced, Chinese TV anchor Yang Rui poured gasoline onto the fire when he posted scornful comments on his microblog calling for the expulsion of "foreign scum."
[Cont. on CNN]

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

Doesn't seem like much of a "specter" to me...

[matsuki]

"suspicious foreigners" eh?

I'd know the immigration agents children's names by now if it was that bad here haha

[wagyl]

Some of you may remember Japan's Immigration Bureau has/had a hotline for reporting illegal foreigners a few years ago.

The program at the Immigration Bureau has been suspended, not because it is wrong, but more because it is inconvenient.

“This is a highly regrettable situation,” said an official with the bureau’s general affairs division. “Sending e-mails to slander foreigners does not meet the purpose of the system to inform on illegal residents.”

...Citing concerns that the surge in e-mails could snarl up its service provider, the Immigration Bureau stopped accepting further e-mails at the end of October. In November, it asked the police to ascertain whether a criminal case could be made for business obstruction.

Once they can overcome the inconvenient aspects, they hope to relaunch the program.

The bureau plans to resume accepting tips on people overstaying their visas after they come up with measures to eliminate bogus e-mails.

Stay classy, Japan!

By HWANG CHUL/ Staff Writer

Stay classy, FG, for pointing that last detail out!

[Russell]

Protest after Western media 'troublemakers' barred from Xi Jinping speech

China has trumpeted this week’s pomp-filled Communist party congress as an example of its increasing openness and transparency.

But a number of major western news organisations whose coverage has irked Beijing were excluded from Xi Jinping’s unveiling of China’s new ruling council on Wednesday – in some cases for the first time in more than two decades.

Those refused access to Xi’s statement to the media include the BBC, the Financial Times, the Economist, the New York Times and the Guardian. Chinese officials offered no formal explanation for the decision.

The Daily Telegraph, which regularly publishes Communist party propaganda in the UK as part of a reported £800,000 annual contract with Beijing’s China Daily, is understood to have been granted an invitation to Xi’s event.

In a statement, the Foreign Correspondents Club of China (FCCC) said it was concerned about the exclusions.

“The press conference is a high profile news event involving China’s top leadership and it is hard to avoid the conclusion that these media organisations have been singled out to send a message,” it said.

“Using media access as a tool to punish journalists whose coverage the Chinese authorities disapprove of is a gross violation of the principles of press freedom,” the group added.

Qiao Mu, a former journalism professor at Beijing Foreign Studies University who recently went into self-imposed exile in the United States, said China appeared to have barred those it considered “trouble makers”. The move reflected the frustration of Chinese officials at Xi’s inability to “control the tone of the western media”.

“The situation will get worse ... more and more western media websites will be blocked, and journalists will be expelled or [find it] hard to get visas,” Qiao added. He said that in Xi’s “new era” there was room for only “one voice”.

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[Coligny]

Damn... until that I thought China was this pristine pinacle of democracy and freedom... and not a nation of retards eating dogs and shitting in train and elevators...

[Russell]

Damn... until that I thought China was this pristine pinacle of democracy and freedom... and not a nation of retards eating dogs and shitting in train and elevators...

The news is that China is becoming less democratic.

Well, maybe we should call it progress...

[Coligny]

What's next ? The sea getting wetter ?

[Russell]

What's next ? The sea getting wetter ?

How about "the sea getting warmer"?