Free Talk Live - China

China Toughens Its Restrictions on Use of the Internet

panax — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 14:55:41 +0000

The Chinese government issued new rules on Friday requiring Internet users to provide their real names to service providers, while assigning Internet companies greater responsibility for deleting forbidden postings and reporting them to the authorities.

China May Launch a Gold Currency

MuslimNonarchist — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 19:14:40 +0000

China has been recasting their gold reserves, currently in 12.4 kg bars into smaller 1 kg bars, allegedly to lay the foundation a gold backed currency, and new banking reserve system.

U.S. sticks Chinese solar makers with tariffs

thefatalepic — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 18:02:55 +0000

"The U.S. International Trade Commission agreed in a unanimous vote today that Chinese solar manufacturers have benefited from illegal subsidies from its government and sold products at less than fair value, the final decision in more than a year-long trade tussle."

Classes suspended as students are forced to work on iPhone 5

phonon — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 18:11:00 +0000

THOUSANDS of students in an east China city are being forced to work at a Foxconn plant after classes were suspended at the beginning of the new semester, it has been revealed. Students from Huai'an in Jiangsu Province were driven to a factory in the city run by Taiwan's Foxconn Technology Company after the plant couldn't find sufficient workers for the production of Apple's much-anticipated iPhone 5, they said in online posts.

Critics of ‘post-birth abortion’ guilty of ‘hate speech’

Takeshi Kovacs — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 03:58:58 +0000

“The editor of an ethics journal that recently published an article advocating infanticide (what the authors call ‘post-birth abortion’), has responded to widespread criticism by pointing out that promoting the killing of newborns is nothing new: in fact, in the Netherlands infant euthanasia is already legal and practiced."

Ethicists Argue Killing Newborn Babies Should Be Allowed

Takeshi Kovacs — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 01:42:54 +0000

The authors argue that “both fetuses and newborns do not have the same moral status as actual persons,” and that because abortion is allowed even when there is no problem with the fetus’ health, “killing a newborn should be permissible in all the cases where abortion is, including cases where the newborn is not disabled.”

China plots against the dollar hegemony

MuslimNonarchist — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 17:12:54 +0000

According to a leaked cable the increase in China’s gold reserves is intended to “kill two birds with one stone.” Firstly, it serves as a model for other countries to encourage reserving more gold, and therefore less USD. Second, it strengthens the Chinese currency, the Renminbi, so that it can begin to replace the declining USD as the world reserve currency. All of this spells bad news for the American economy.