http://regimewatch.blogivists.com These guys get to host the Olympics? Sun, 06 Jul 2008 02:36:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The China Post describes the first day of a new cross-strait commercial air travel arrangement between Taiwan and Mainland China: More than 700 Chinese tourists arrived in Taiwan while about an equal number of Taiwanese passengers flew to China yesterday in the first wave of regular cross-straits commercial flights in nearly ... http://regimewatch.blogivists.com/2008/07/05/can-cross-straits-tourism-help-communist-china-become-more-like-democratic-taiwan/ The latest Taiwan Communique, published by the Formosan Association for Public Affairs, has an interesting essay by Charles Tannock of the British Conservative Party. Tannock notes that while China's thuggish occupation of Tibet gets much (and well deserved) international attention, "the injustice of Taiwan's ongoing international isolation has ... http://regimewatch.blogivists.com/2008/06/26/why-taiwan-deserves-more-support-from-the-west/ This morning regime watch hit two thousand page views. As I said when the blog hit one thousand page views, I don't really know what this means considering the many thousands of blogs out there...but it seems like a pretty hefty number to me. The majority of visitors ... http://regimewatch.blogivists.com/2008/06/22/two-thousand-page-views-and-countingthanks/ No surprise here, but Tibet's thuggish communist occupiers recently used the Olympic torch relay to "politicize" the Olympics and remind the world of their true colors. From Rueters (June 21): Chinese Communist Party officials in charge of restive Tibet used the passing of the Olympic torch relay through the capital ... http://regimewatch.blogivists.com/2008/06/22/olympic-torch-update-chinese-communists-show-thier-thuggish-olympic-spirit-in-tibet/ The International Olympic Committee made a staggeringly bad decision by allowing Communist China to host the 2008 Olympics. Here's a snippet from a recent New York Times editorial describing Beijing's "list of Olympic dont's" for international visitors: On its Web site last week, the Chinese Olympic organizing committee listed a ... http://regimewatch.blogivists.com/2008/06/21/beijing-shows-its-authoritarian-olympic-spirit-with-a-list-of-donts-for-visitors/ I've posted on several fine reports concerning China's cyber attacks against U.S. government and private sector information systems. One from National Journal here, and another from the Heritage Foundation here. Now comes this article on some members of the U.S. Congress claiming their office computers were hacked from within China. ... http://regimewatch.blogivists.com/2008/06/14/more-on-chinese-hackers-now-its-members-of-congress-being-hacked/ The Heritage Foundation's John Tkacik has some advice for the Bush Administration about how to deal with the 2008 Olympics in Beijing: In August, President Bush and his retinue of more than 500 high officials, aides, factotums, security and communications specialists, and drivers will descend upon Beijing. The President's presence in ... http://regimewatch.blogivists.com/2008/06/12/should-president-bush-attend-the-olympics-in-beijing-advice-from-the-heritage-foundation/ Numerous sites re-printed my recent Denver Post article on some of China's other (other than Tibet) captive peoples and nations.  These sites offer a lot of good information about Beijing's oppression of Tibetans, Uighers, Mongolians, and people of faith in general. A big thank you to the following, and apologies to ... http://regimewatch.blogivists.com/2008/06/10/good-websites-about-beijings-captive-nations/ I posted earlier on National Journal's excellent article on China's "cyber-militia" penetrating U.S. government and business information systems.   The Heritage Foundation has also been on top of this story. From the February 2008 Heritage report, "Trojan Dragon:  China's Cyber Threat"  The U.S. military has been the primary target of Chinese cyberattacks, ... http://regimewatch.blogivists.com/2008/06/07/more-on-chinese-hackers-heritage-foundation-on-chinas-cyber-threat/ The first paragraph of National Journal magazine's recent article on the growing threat posed by Chinese computer hackers: Computer hackers in China, including those working on behalf of the Chinese government and military, have penetrated deeply into the information systems of U.S. companies and government agencies, stolen proprietary information from American ... http://regimewatch.blogivists.com/2008/06/05/national-journal-on-the-rise-of-chinas-cyber-militia/