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Posts: 65472
 Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2012 4:54 pm
I just got an IM from a friend who is in Beijing and he says his tour group was hustled back to their hotel around 7:30am local time (20 minutes ago). He says they saw tanks and BMPs in the street and that they can hear shots being fired.
I'm not finding snot on the net on this. Anyone else?
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Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2012 4:56 pm
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Regina 
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Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2012 4:59 pm
The way they drive..........could be a car accident. 
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Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2012 5:02 pm
Nothing really being reported on the local news here.
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Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2012 5:02 pm
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Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2012 5:02 pm
It's not gunfire..... it's a festival. 
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hucat
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Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2012 5:20 pm
Interesting news
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FieryVulpine
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Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2012 5:45 pm
hucat hucat: Interesting news Indeed. I though China's economic growth would make something like a coup less likely, but I am not so sure after reading that G&M article. Looks like there's some intrigue going on in the Chinese Politburo.
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hucat
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Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2012 6:35 pm
FieryVulpine FieryVulpine: hucat hucat: Interesting news Indeed. I though China's economic growth would make something like a coup less likely, but I am not so sure after reading that G&M article. Looks like there's some intrigue going on in the Chinese Politburo. Well, the political struggles in Chinese Politburo is a public secret. I just didn't expect a coup.
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Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2012 6:39 pm
It's a power struggle between the repression and corruption factions within the Chinese government.
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Hawkes
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Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2012 7:38 am
"U.S. intelligence agencies monitoring China’s Internet say that from March 14 to Wednesday bloggers circulated alarming reports of tanks entering Beijing and shots being fired in the city as part of what is said to have been a high-level political battle among party leaders - and even a possible military coup. The Internet discussions included photos posted online of tanks and other military vehicles moving around Beijing. The reports followed the ouster last week of senior Politburo member and Chongqing Party Secretary Bo Xilai, who was linked to corruption, but who is said to remain close to China’s increasingly nationalistic military. Chinese microblogging sites Sina Weibo, QQ Weibo, and the bulletin board of the search engine Baidu all reported “abnormalities” in Beijing on the night of March 19." http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/201 ... 436080940/
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Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2012 1:26 pm
Hawkes Hawkes: "U.S. intelligence agencies monitoring China’s Internet say that from March 14 to Wednesday bloggers circulated alarming reports of tanks entering Beijing and shots being fired in the city as part of what is said to have been a high-level political battle among party leaders - and even a possible military coup. The Internet discussions included photos posted online of tanks and other military vehicles moving around Beijing. The reports followed the ouster last week of senior Politburo member and Chongqing Party Secretary Bo Xilai, who was linked to corruption, but who is said to remain close to China’s increasingly nationalistic military. Chinese microblogging sites Sina Weibo, QQ Weibo, and the bulletin board of the search engine Baidu all reported “abnormalities” in Beijing on the night of March 19." http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/201 ... 436080940/Thanks. I haven't heard back from my friend yet but he's due to come home tomorrow so I'll get the skinny pretty soon, I imagine. Hopefully, he's got pictures, too and if I can I'll post them in this thread.
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Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2012 1:31 pm
Interesting indeed. So far it seems as though this is Chinese version of "Keep calm and carry on"...tanks in the streets and soldiers on every corner.
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Hawkes
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Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2012 8:01 pm
BartSimpson BartSimpson: Hawkes Hawkes: "U.S. intelligence agencies monitoring China’s Internet say that from March 14 to Wednesday bloggers circulated alarming reports of tanks entering Beijing and shots being fired in the city as part of what is said to have been a high-level political battle among party leaders - and even a possible military coup. The Internet discussions included photos posted online of tanks and other military vehicles moving around Beijing. The reports followed the ouster last week of senior Politburo member and Chongqing Party Secretary Bo Xilai, who was linked to corruption, but who is said to remain close to China’s increasingly nationalistic military. Chinese microblogging sites Sina Weibo, QQ Weibo, and the bulletin board of the search engine Baidu all reported “abnormalities” in Beijing on the night of March 19." http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/201 ... 436080940/Thanks. I haven't heard back from my friend yet but he's due to come home tomorrow so I'll get the skinny pretty soon, I imagine. Hopefully, he's got pictures, too and if I can I'll post them in this thread. I hope he and the rest are ok! If you do get those pics I'd love to see them.
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Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2012 2:18 pm
China scrubs online rumors from Internet, shuts down sites$1: China has taken down more than 210,000 online posts and closed 42 websites since mid-March as part of a crackdown on Internet rumors, which authorities claim represent a danger to society, officials said Thursday.
The Chinese government strictly censors any sensitive or anti-government content. But the political chatter online has grown in recent weeks because of a controversy surrounding a top official, Bo Xilai, who has seen his career plummet and is now linked with an investigation of alleged homicide of a British businessman.
China ordered earlier this month Twitter-like microblogging platforms to temporarily prevent users from publishing comments on other users' postings. The microblogging sites said this was done in order to clean up what they described as harmful illegal information on the sites.
On Thursday, Chinese officials noted Internet users had been fabricating rumors that said military vehicles were in Beijing and that the city was in trouble, according to the state-run press Xinhua News Agency. Relevant ministries have taken a series of actions to investigate and prevent further rumors. This led to the detention of six people, who allegedly fabricated online rumors.
Authorities are also focusing on the alleged online rumors spreading on the country's microblogging platforms, said Liu Zhenrong, an official with China's State Internet Information Office, according to the Xinhua report. Some users were creating the rumors to attract attention, he said. But users from outside China have also been using the sites to fabricate rumors, Liu claimed.
... Did your friend ever come back Bart? Any pictures?
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