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Eight assailants, a security guard killed in NW China bombings

August 12, 2008, 1:34 PM (GMT+02:00)

Beijing's historic Drum Tower

The attackers and the security guard were killed after a series of bombings targeted a police station and government buildings at Kuga county, in the northwest region Chinese region of Xinjiang after midnight Saturday, Aug. 9. The Chinese news agency Xinhua reported that the bombers drove a taxi to their gargets and tossed homemade explosives. Two died in the attacks while six more were killed later by police.

In Beijing, a Chinese man stabbed to death an American tourist from Minneapolis, Todd Bachman, and injured his wife and daughter at the historic Drum Tower monument.
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China in massive security operation for Olympic Games opening Friday

August 9, 2008, 11:41 AM (GMT+02:00)

While security measures have been imposed across China ahead of the Olympic Games opening Friday, special steps have been taken in the northwestern province of Xinjiang after two Uighur members of the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM) killed 16 policemen in Kashgar, 4000 km from Beijing Monday, Aug. 4. The regional authorities have tightened security for trucks, buses and transport hubs, reporting that the assailants who drove a garbage truck showed that ETIM had for the first time begun using cars or trucks in their attacks.
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China reports 35 radioactive sources secured in quake-hit Sichuan, 15 inaccessible

May 26, 2008, 8:57 PM (GMT+02:00)

Ruins of Miyanyang nuclear center

Eleven days after the 7.9 magnitude earthquake struck western China, vice environment minister Wu Xiaoqing first revealed Friday, May 23, that 50 hazardous radioactive sources have been located – 35 recovered and controlled; “three more are buried in rubble and 12 in dangerous buildings. At present, tests show no accidental release of radiation,” he reported as the death toll climbed past 55,000.

Two of the most badly damaged cities housed China’s secret nuclear weapons design facility - at Mianyang - and a plutonium processing facility - in Guangyuan – both close to the quake’s epicenter.
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Air crew foils terrorist attempt to crash Chinese air liner

March 10, 2008, 8:43 PM (GMT+02:00)

The Chinese Southern flight originated in Urumqi, capital of Xinjiang, which is home to 8 million Muslim Uighurs – some, according to DEBKAfile with ties to al Qaeda. The plane made an emergency landing at Lanzhou Friday, March 8, en route for Beijing, and two passengers were taken into custody.
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Chinese deny hacking into Pentagon computer network in June

September 5, 2007, 7:28 PM (GMT+02:00)

The Financial Times reported that the Pentagon acknowledged defense secretary Robert Gates’ computers were attacked, but declined to name the hacker. But officials point the finger at the People’s Liberation Army. Thursday, Sept. 6, President Bush is scheduled to meet Chinese president Hu Jintao the at Asian-Pacific summit in Sydney, Australia.

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Drone Tug-o-War Brings Chinese Dep. PM to Jerusalem, Involves Rumsfeld

December 27, 2004, 11:29 PM (GMT+02:00)

High-ranking Tang Jiaxuan comes to Israel to retrieve Chinese UARs

Chinese deputy prime minister, State Councilor Tang Jiaxuan, flew in to Israel secretly Saturday night, December 25. His mission: to recover an unspecified number of Israel-built Harpy unmanned aerial attack vehicles sent back for overhaul or upgrade and held back by Israel at Washington’s insistence. No official word has been released on the visitor or the message he carried. According to DEBKAfile’s political sources, the Israeli prime minister’s and defense minister’s offices have known the general content of the message since the middle of last week. These are its main points. 1. It is time for Israel to appreciate that China is a world power. 2. Israel is stepping out of line for the second time on a defense transaction. In 2000, the Barak government called off the sale to China of Phalcon surveillance craft under US pressure. (Ex-prime minister Ehud Barak brought the news to President Clinton at the Camp David conference with Yasser Arafat). China received $350 million indemnity from Israel for defaulting on the deal. 3. This time, Beijing will not accept monetary compensation. The drones must be returned. Sold to Beijing several years ago, they now bear Chinese military markings. Withholding the craft is tantamount to illegal seizure of a Chinese weapons system and will bring down on the Jewish state serious reprisals.
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Year of the (Dark) Horse: Hu Jintao

November 14, 2002, 5:51 PM (GMT+02:00)

Thursday, November 14, Chinese President Jiang Zemin and five other leaders resigned their posts in a well-choreographed transfer of power to the “fourth generation” of leaders, as the Chinese Communist party Congress drew to a close in Beijing. Prime Minister Zhu Rongji and Party Number Two Li Peng also stepped down, while vice president Hu Jantao stepped forward into the limelight as the new ruler of the most populous country on earth. Friday, November 15, the new Central Committee will hold its first session to choose the new Politburo and the select group that will act as China’s next supreme governing council. On February 22, DEBKA-Net-Weekly No. 50, carried a profile of China’s next ruler, who appears to have sprung from the more obscure recesses of Chinese government. Not quite, as we see from a summary of that article hereunder.
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Chinese Engineer Cracks Russian Su-27 Fighter Production Codes

June 29, 2002, 5:10 PM (GMT+02:00)

A 33-year old Chinese software engineer, Zhu Rong Gong, has duplicated the secret fire-control software and systems integration for Russia’s Su-27 series of aircraft, giving his country’s drive towards the fully autonomous production of this potent weapon a sharp spurt.
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Beijing’s Finger in Nepal’s Maoist Revolt

May 28, 2002, 5:09 PM (GMT+02:00)

The tiny Himalayan kingdom of Nepal, beloved of mountaineers and backpacking trekkers, is in the grip of an intense government crisis precipitated by a long-running, bloody Maoist insurgency.
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Russia Helping China Build Systems for Taiwan Assault

May 25, 2002, 5:07 PM (GMT+02:00)

US President George W. Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin began their four-day summit at the Kremlin on a high note Friday, May 24, with the ceremonial signing of a reciprocal nuclear reduction pact. However, stormy waters lie ahead of the two leaders as they move to St. Petersburg, Saturday, May 25, and get down to brass tacks. Iran is not the only issue seriously at odds between them.
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