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China is a greater anxiety for Russia in the long run and politically it is desirable for India to strengthen relations with Russia. Tensions have flared between both China and India militaries along their disputed 2,175 mile-long border, with both sides alleging more frequent troop incursions in recent weeks.

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MATADOR NINETY-FOUR

Since 1947, India has not fully pledged itself to any camp or global pole during the Cold War and as a result was a founding member of the Non-Aligned Movement (N.A.M.). Since the post-Cold War era that position has eroded. New Delhi has been gradually moving away from its traditional position, relationships, and policies in the international arena for over a decade.

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MATADOR NINETY-FOUR

Washington’s reasons for intervention into Xinjiang affairs has little to do with concerns over alleged human rights abuses by Beijing authorities against Uyghur people

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2. Is the CIA behind the China-bashing Olympics protests?
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MATADOR NINETY-FOUR

When European consumers are compelled to buy energy-efficient lightbulbs from 2012, they will save up millions of tons of carbon dioxide a year from being pumped into the atmosphere. In China, however, a heavy environmental price is being paid for the production of “green” lightbulbs in cost-cutting factories.

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MATADOR NINETY-FOUR

As the death toll from the Chinese earthquake continues to rise, Sichuan province is threatened with flooding from a dam that is near bursting point.

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MATADOR NINETY-FOUR

A major earthquake measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale hit southern China's Sichuan Province, shaking buildings as far away as Beijing and Shanghai. President Hu Jintao called for all-out efforts to rescue quake-hit victims, while Premier Wen Jiabao is on his way to the epicentre.

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1. China’s Death Toll Reaches 15000. Flooding is new danger
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MATADOR NINETY-FOUR

Viewers were led to believe that the protests were in China and that the Indian police shown in the videotape were Chinese cops. At the outset of the report, a few still pictures were presented followed by a videotape showing police repressing and arresting demonstrators in what appeared to be a peaceful protest:

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MATADOR NINETY-FOUR

We hear that Tibetans suffer “demographic aggression” and “cultural genocide”. But we do not hear those terms applied to Spanish and French policies toward the Basque minority. We do not hear those terms applied to the US annexation of the Kingdom of Hawaii in 1898. And Diego Garcia? In 1973, not so long ago, the UK forcibly deported the entire native Chagossian population from the Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia. People were allowed one suitcase of clothing. Nothing else. Family pets were gassed, then cremated. Complete ethnic cleansing. Complete cultural destruction. Why? In order to build a big US air base. It has been used to bomb Afghanistan and Iraq, and soon maybe to bomb Iran and Pakistan. Diego Garcia, with nobody there but Brits and Americans, is also a perfect place for rendition, torture and other illegal actions.

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China is no model of human rights but neither are the US and its indefectible British ally, responsible for extensive war crimes and human rights violations in Iraq and around the World. The US and its allies, which uphold the practice of torture, political assassinations and the establishment of secret detention camps, continue to be presented to public opinion as a model of Western democracy to be emulated by developing countries, in contrast to Russia, Iran, North Korea and the People's Republic of China.

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1. Tibet, the ‘great game’ and the CIA
2. Is the CIA behind the China-bashing Olympics protests?
3. Western Media Fabrications regarding the Tibet Riots

MATADOR NINETY-FOUR

Around the world, Beijing’s hosting of the 2008 Olympic Games has become the target of unprecedented, well-orchestrated and extremely hostile mass protests. Meanwhile, geostrategic realities, and historical and current parapolitical fact, suggest that the protesters and passionate activists (in time-honored form) have once again become the willing dupes, propaganda shills, and street bullies for “causes” created, fronted, and pushed by Anglo-American intelligence agencies (CIA, British intelligence, etc.) that continue to target a government (this time Beijing), in a host of long-term subversion and sabotage plans.

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1. Tibet, the ‘great game’ and the CIA
2. The Hypocrisy and Danger of Anti-China Demonstrations
3. China and America: The Tibet Human Rights PsyOp

MATADOR NINETY-FOUR

Given the historical context of the unrest in Tibet, there is reason to believe Beijing was caught on the hop with the recent demonstrations for the simple reason that their planning took place outside of Tibet and that the direction of the protesters is similarly in the hands of anti-Chinese organizers safely out of reach in Nepal and northern India.

MATADOR NINETY-FOUR - What happens in the World today? News, backgrounds and opinions too hot to handle for the mainstream media

1. Western Media Fabrications regarding the Tibet Riots
2. China and America: The Tibet Human Rights PsyOp
3. Washington is Playing a Deeper Game with China in Xinjiang