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To: Ilaine who wrote (191)	4/7/2001 3:06:32 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 2279

China Deploys Internet Police by Steven Schwankert Managing Editor, asia.internet.com [August 8, 2000--HONG KONG] Special police to patrol the Internet are necessary to ensure online security, a Chinese newspaper reported Tuesday via Sina.com. While the Internet population in China is doubling approximately every six months, accompanied by explosive growth in online commerce and banking, online security has lagged behind, Beijing Morning News reported. A new Public Security Bureau (PSB) unit in the Anhui provincial capital of Hefei, the China Internet Police, has been designated as the national center for Internet crime control. Altogether, 20 provincial, municipal and autonomous regional units for Internet policing are being established, the report said. The Anhui unit will cooperate with banks to prevent electronic fraud, and work with media outlets to announce new computer viruses and prevent their spread, the report said. The China Internet Police unit is also working in tandem with the Chinese Academy of Sciences to find ways to prevent pornographic and violent material from reaching children, "to create a pleasant Internet environment for young people," the report said. In July, China's Internet population was estimated at 16.9 million users by the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), a government-supported Internet monitoring body. Wire service and newspaper reports earlier this week indicated the establishment of the police units to stamp out Internet-related crime. Tuesday's article appears to be the first public acknowledgement of the unit's existence in print media. Computer crime units of the PSB have existed since at least 1998, and are thought to have been involved with the 1998 arrest of Shanghai software engineer Lin Hai. Lin was convicted on charges of subversion for passing 30,000 e-mail addresses to the online pro-democracy publication Big Reference (Da Cankao). One such unit in Guangzhou has been known to exist since 1999. The new unit seems to have sprung into action already. The Associated Press is reporting Tuesday that police are searching for the founders of a dissident Chinese Web site shut down last week. The placement of a national center for Internet police in Anhui province seems a strange choice. Anhui is one of China's poorest province and sports a low rate of Internet usage. Beijing and Shanghai lead the nation in Internet users. Tuesday's Beijing Morning Post article made no mention of the potential for political criminals to be arrested or prosecuted as a result of online activities. In June, police in Chengdu arrested dissident Huang Qi for operating a pro-democracy site that commemorated the June 4, 1989 military crackdown against student protests in Beijing. Last month a Chinese newspaper carried a report stating that not only producers but consumers of online pornography in China were criminally liable.

To: Ilaine who wrote (191)	4/7/2001 4:55:36 PM
From: KLP	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 2279

An interesting thing to do is while attending any street fair, or other similar event, that has many ethnic food booths....just stand back and watch for about 10 minutes....just watch everyone, both the lines of people buying, and the folks behind the counter preparing the food and drinks.... watch who is working hard, and those who are hardly working, or working very slowly. Those who really are customer service oriented, and those who could care less. This observation can be made at any place in the country, or for that matter, the world where similar booths and opportunities to introduce foods, and other items, are located.... Think we will quickly see why some people succeed and some don't.

To: Ilaine who wrote (191)	4/8/2001 3:56:54 AM
From: KLP	Respond to of 2279

We talked earlier of Harry Wu...Today, he said: America Holds Trump Card in China Showdown Saturday, April 7, 2001 1:31 a.m. EDT newsmax.com Harry Wu: America Holds Trump Card in China Showdown Chinese dissident Harry Wu expects that the crew of a downed U.S. surveillance plane held captive in China will be released soon - because Beijing doesn't dare risk America playing its trump card. "There's a lot of things the Chinese are very, very worried about," Wu told WABC Radio's Steve Malzberg Friday night. "China knows that if they prolong this there will be very serious damage to them." "They really need good relations with the United States because they need money," the twice-jailed dissident contended. "They need investments and profits from trade and technology from America." Wu outlined the extent of Red China's dependence on U.S. business. "Today, 22 million Chinese work for foreign companies. There's a $300 billion U.S. investment in China. Forty percent of the products for export are made by foreign or joint ventures. Maybe 20 to 21 percent of all tax revenue comes from foreign or joint ventures." Wu said that an American boycott of Chinese goods could bring the government to its knees, a development Beijing would want to avoid at all costs. "The money is not going to the people in China. It's going to the government and greater military assistance." Wu warned that Americans should not be fooled when the surveillance plane's crew comes home. "It won't mean the Chinese government is being kind. It's that they're being smart," the Chinese dissident contended. "They are a very smart enemy." But the Chinese aren't the only culprits. American business and certain politicians are hooked on Chinese trade as well. With the profits, Wu explained, "the big companies could make the big donations for the presidential election. They need the donations." "These politicians - what are they doing? They don't care about American national interests," Wu told Malzberg.

To: Ilaine who wrote (191)	4/8/2001 11:59:10 AM
From: Angler	Respond to of 2279

It is true that the Chinese have gotten along well all over the world because they have generally stayed out of political or religious foment wherever they have landed and just gone to work. They had usually been perceived by the local native population of their destinations of choice as being non threatening since they worked so hard and long hours through hard and good times and who else wants to do that. The only time that they really found trouble early on because of this natural work ethic happened when they docked in California (to build the new railroads) and clashed with the Caucasian rough neck gold seeking migrations arriving from the East Coast who considered them a threat to white employment and higher wages laboring in the railroads, mines and timbering so they had no place else to turn but to remote individual mining, laundering and hash houses. Worse yet. They had left their families back in China and had no female companions for decades unless they packed up and returned home - so the birth of the Tongs, gambling and prostitution in the dark recesses of the old Chinatown ghettos to which the majority citizenry paid little attention (except in imaginative mysteries) When the families finally came into being, the successive generations of children with their strong family values, dedication and respect, strove to become well educated and so became doctors, educators, storekeepers and professionals and succeeded. Angler