The China Thread

[Admiral Yi]

South Chinese Girl: What Texan Women pretend to be
North Chinese Girl: What Texan Women actually are

heh

[Monoriu]

It does fit common Chinese stereotypes 

Northern girls (and men) also tend to be bigger and taller 

[Sheilbh]

North China girl seems a lot more fun

[Valmy]

North China girl seems a lot more fun

Yes indeed.

[Admiral Yi]

I'm all over the weenie.  Bet she's a screamer.  Plus she's cuter.

[Josquius]

Yes. The southerner wins on all counts except the cooking.

Though of the Chinese girls I know right now, one is southern and the other northern.... And both behave like the northern one.

[The Brain]

I like Ke$ha.

[Monoriu]

Now that I think about it, mine feels very much like the northern one.  The cooking part is spot on and happens in disturbing frequencies 

[Syt]

http://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2015/05/the-chinese-art-of-the-crowd/392531/

And now for something of a more Riefenstahl tinge

(More pictures, and explanations at the link)

[Admiral Yi]

Now if they could only line up like that when they got off their tour buses. 

[Josquius]

Now if they could only line up like that when they got off their tour buses. 

Damn qing dynasty turning the Chinese forever off queues

[Tonitrus]

Bringing back some good 'ol Soviet/Frankenstein science ideas...

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/chinese-surgeon-who-has-performed-1000-head-transplants-on-mice-wants-to-create-the-first-headtransplanted-monkey-that-can-live-at-least-for-a-little-while-10304115.html

Chinese surgeon who has performed 1,000 head transplants on mice wants to create the first head-transplanted monkey that can live 'at least for a little while'

Critics have branded his work 'ridiculous'


Christopher Hooton

Monday, 8 June 2015
Not content with having created over 1,000 hybrid mice with different heads, some a different colour from their bodies, controversial doctor Xiaoping Ren next wants to perform pioneering transplants on primates.

Shadowing him during a 10-hour operation, the Wall Street Journal witnessed a mouse with a new head move and breathe on its own following the procedure, even opening its eyes and drinking.

That being said, none of Dr Ren's transplanted mice have as yet lived longer than a few minutes.

He claims to be perfecting the procedure however, using tiny tubes to carry oxygenated blood from the brains to their new bodies, and will next try it out on primates (there are already plans for it up on his wall).

According to WSJ, he is hoping the primates will live, 'at least for a little while.'

Dr Ren claims his work isn't frivolous, likened it to previous concerns about now more commonplace hand transplants, and claimed his research might one day be able to help human patients who have healthy heads but have suffered spinal-cord injuries or muscle-wasting diseases.

Head transplants are hugely controversial however, raising ethical concerns and challenging the very idea of consciousness.

[Tonitrus]

Here's the original WSJ story (it didn't make me subscribe)...

http://www.wsj.com/articles/surgerys-far-frontier-head-transplants-1433525830

[jimmy olsen]

Kuala Lumpur, aye chihuahua, woah woah woah!

http://www.wsj.com/articles/malaysia-wakes-up-to-china-1433892739

Malaysia Wakes Up to China

Kuala Lumpur shows new backbone against Beijing's incursions.
June 9, 2015 7:32 p.m. ET

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The Journal got the scoop Monday that the Malaysian government will loudly protest the Chinese coast guard's incursions into its exclusive economic zone. National Security Minister Shahidan Kassim said in an interview that Prime Minister  Najib Razak will raise the issue personally with Chinese President  Xi Jinping.

The Malaysians are upset that a Chinese coast-guard ship is anchored in the waters around the Luconia Shoals within their exclusive economic zone. The state-owned company Petronas has active gas wells nearby.

Kuala Lumpur played down such provocations in the past; Chinese ships have frequented the area for at least two years, and Malaysia made pro forma protests. The Chinese disrupted oil survey work nearby in August 2012 and January 2013. Yet Malaysia took a low-key approach when Beijing's ally Cambodia shut down discussion of the South China Sea disputes at regional summits in 2012.

Malaysia has changed its attitude over the past year as China started reclaiming land for military bases on the disputed shoals and rocks it controls. Last year Kuala Lumpur offered to let the U.S. fly P-8 surveillance planes from Borneo airbases. At the Shangri-La Dialogue security conference in Singapore at the end of May, Defense Minister  Hishammuddin Hussein warned that the dispute could "escalate into one of the deadliest conflicts of our time." Two weeks ago Mr. Najib was in Tokyo to discuss maritime defense-technology transfer with Prime Minister  Shinzo Abe.

The Malaysians used to chastise Vietnam and the Philippines for being too confrontational toward China and called for diplomatic solutions. But it didn't do them much good. The Chinese military is using the same tactics of creeping assertiveness in the Luconia Shoals that it employed in 2012 to take Scarborough Shoal from the Philippines. Beijing's aggressive behavior has created such fear among Southeast Asian nations that a new unity may be emerging.

[Monoriu]

Kuala Lumpur, aye chihuahua, woah woah woah!

Malaysia recently refused a HK pro-democracy legislator and student leader from entering its borders to participate in a seminar about 1989 Tian An Men, citing concerns about the diplomatic relationship with China. 

Occupy student leader Joshua Wong Chi-fung was denied entry into Malaysia yesterday with the country's police chief later saying they did not want him to jeopardise their ties with China.

The 18-year-old will miss four seminars at which he was to talk about last year's pro-democracy movement and the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown, after government officers at Penang International Airport ordered him to return to Hong Kong.

Wong, convenor of the student group Scholarism, said he "deeply regretted" the Malaysian government's decision to reject him, which he said was "totally unexpected".

But Malaysia's Inspector-General of Police Abu Bakar Khalid said the purpose of Wong's visit was to explain how he had organised demonstrations in Hong Kong.

"We were afraid that what he was going to speak about would harm our security," he said.

"He was also going to speak about China. We know his anti-Chinese speeches. We do not want him to jeopardise our ties with China."

Malaysian authorities have blocked activists before - in 2012, they deported six Chinese Uygurs who had sought asylum back to the mainland, and the following year Australian politician Nick Xenophon was denied entry on national security grounds after he took part in an anti-government rally earlier.

In November, a group of Occupy leaders were denied entry into the mainland during the protests that lasted for 79 days.

"I understand the mainland [Chinese] government may see me as a sensitive person, but I am not there to fight for universal suffrage in Malaysia. I'm not there to plant a revolution," Wong said after returning to Chek Lap Kok airport.

The Malaysian consulate in Hong Kong confirmed Wong was denied entry.

"Based on records available to me, the named subject is listed as 'NTL' - not allowed to land," said Wang Syaifuldin, the consulate's immigration attaché.

Hong Kong's Security Bureau said by way of "international practice" it respected the decisions of immigration authorities of other countries in clearing travellers for entry based on their laws. Those authorities "had no duty" to report to the host country if a foreigner was rejected.

Wong was invited to attend four talks this week in Penang, Ipoh, Johor and Kuala Lumpur, organised by a group called the Working Committee for the 26th Anniversary Commemoration of June 4 Incident in Malaysia.

He was to be accompanied by radical lawmaker "Long Hair" Leung Kwok-hung at a seminar in the national capital on Friday. Leung said he would go to the city as scheduled.

Event organisers called Wong's rejection "political suppression".