A series of violent attacks on young school students has taken place in China, with five episodes in March and April resulting in serious injury and in some cases multiple deaths. As with the phenomenon of school shootings in the US, the incidents in China are not simply the product of individuals, but a tragic expression of the growth of enormous social inequality and the resultant tensions. The first attack took place on March 23…
Posts published in May 2010
Forty terror camps are active in Pakistan-Afghanistan border areas, according to a Russian diplomat. The assessment is based on satellite imagery and intelligence reports, Ambassador Alexander M. Kadakin said. ‘The camps don’t sport their organisations’ names any longer but the camps remain very much’, Kadakin, who is in Delhi on his second stint as Russian envoy since Oct 2009, told an English daily. He was posted here earlier from 1999 for five years. Significantly, the…
Uighur leader killed in Pakistan: Rehman Malik BEIJING: Pakistan and China have “broken the back” of the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM), which China accuses of orchestrating attacks in its restive Xinjiang region, Pakistan’s Interior Minister said in Beijing on Friday. An alleged leader of the group, about which little is known, has been killed, Rehman Malik said at the end of a visit to discuss security cooperation between the two countries. China has granted…
(The author is a senior analyst with the Alliance for American Manufacturing. She was appointed in 2006 by House Speaker Dennis Hastert to serve on the U.S.-China Economic and Security Commission) The Washington Times, Apr 29, 2010 Toxic drywall driving owners from their homes, poisoned pet food killing Fluffy and Spot and defective tires causing injury and death – all sent to America by the People’s Republic of China. Following on the heels of that…