Wednesday, 13 January 2010

CHINA CONFIDENTIAL

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Is China Cooking the Books?

IBD challenges the conventional view of a country with no transparency. Read the editorial here.

Google Threatens to Pull Out of China


Google said it suffered a major hack attack, which could cause the company to pull out of China. Click here for the story.

The cyber-spies reportedly targeted dissidents' email addresses.

Blog's Antiterrorism Coverage Attracting Readers

China Confidential is now averaging about 3,000 unique users a day, a significant portion of whom are clearly drawn to the blog's antiterrorism coverage.

Though still published anonymously, China Confidential has proven that it is possible to compete with the mainstream media on the basis of content alone. The emerging foreign news and intelligence media property, which was launched in April 2005 in response to China's anti-Japanese riots and opaque military buildup, further proves that established media "brands" have at best a shaky hold on readers and viewers. The media landscape is changing rapidly and dramatically.

Israel Will be Blamed When Iran Gets Nukes


China Confidential predicts the Obama administration's most anti-Israel officials and advisors--and media mouthpieces--will immediately blame the Jewish State when Iran becomes a nuclear weapons state.

The lie/line will be that Israel's "intransigence" and "aggression"--and presumed nuclear arsenal--fueled an arms race with Iran, undercut "moderate" factions in power in Iran, and made it more difficult for Iran's opposition to take power.

Pro-Opposition Nuclear Physicist Killed in Iran

An Iranian nuclear physicist who supported the opposition was assassinated outside his home. Read about it here.

The regime blamed an opposition group--and the United States and Israel.

In fact, the Revolutionary Guards Corps killed the man.

Pro-Iran Regime Hackers Hit Baidu

China's top search engine was hit by pro-Iran regime hackers, as reported here.