Farcical Case Concludes
The conclusion of the hearing into the disputed estate of late tycoon Nina Wang comes as a relief to Hongkongers, who no longer have to be confronted, on a daily basis, with even more tales of baseness, superstition and venality than already fill our lives. Those unfamiliar with the story—it is hard to think who they might be, given that the proceedings have been the stuff of sniggering news briefs and lurid dispatches worldwide—can make use of the following précis: eccentric billionairess with infantile streak (wore pigtails, bobby socks, and answered to the nickname “Little Sweetie”), dies at 70. Two wills are produced. One instructs that her fortune be given to her family run Chinachem Charitable Foundation; the other bestows everything upon a grinning feng-shui “master” Tony Chan who claimed to have been her lover. Cue court case of the decade.
Chan already made an astonishing $250mn out of Wang in payments for his asinine voodoo. But he nonetheless has no problems with publicly squabbling with a charity for the rest of the loot and in the process subjecting his wretched wife with the testified banalities of his relationship with Wang (building model aircraft was apparently one of the activities enjoyed by the dowager and the eunuch, as Wang's sister contemptuously described the couple).
Justice Johnson Lam will bang the gavel on the case in September, after hearing closing arguments. Let's hope he makes the right call.
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My crystal ball said that Tony Chan will make some more claim within the next week, just to ensure continuance of press coverage.
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Hu Jintao Falls in a Hole While Practising Feng Shui
Chinese President Hu Jintao fell in a hole today while practising Feng Shui Wednesday night. He was quickly dug out and escorted back to his home in Zhongnanhai.
It is unclear if Hu has suffered any injuries and for how long he was in the hole. The news of the accident was quickly censored from all Chinese state-owned newspapers. However, earlier reports were leaked by Hu's bodyguards who found the incident very funny.
Sources close to Hu say that Hu is immersed in I Ching philosophies and thus a highly superstitious man. It is rumored that Hu arranges his Tibetan slaves to stand in a circle around his bed every night because feng shui says sharp shapes will lead to misfortune for him.
Hu began practising hole-digging feng shui after learning about the legal dispute in Hong Kong, Tony Chan v Chinachem Charitable Foundation. It was discovered during cross examination that Mr. Chan had earned $2.1 billion just by digging holes with Nina Wang, the benefactor of the trust money in contention who is now deceased.
Realizing the profitability of hole-digging compared to engaging in corruption, which must be done covertly, Hu quickly mastered the art of hole-digging feng shui. His residence in Zhongnanhai is currently filled with several human-deep holes.
Hu allegedly throws potraits of Mao Zedong into the holes in the hope they will turn into real money. One of Hu's bodyguards, speaking on condition of anoymity, said he once buried a few Communist officials in the holes as food for the hungry ghosts in the underground world.
Every Communist must still burn billions of dollars in fake paper money to Mao Zedong before they sleep each night.
There is already an outburst of speculation in Chinese forums whether Hu Jintao was indeed recovered from the hole or was the man actually an incarnation of Mao Zedong himself.
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I said many times, this blog is ruined by these Chinese dissidents...who turned this blog into a landfill site (literally) full of smelly garbage...
This chinabriefing even wrote some rediculous stuff and falsely presented them as quoting from DaGong Bao...
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Hi bylooker,
Indeed!
Hi Liam,
Yeah, what a farce! Also, what a farcical situation with the media.
TIME and CNN have become farcical too, though they are still banking on their hard earned reputation of the 80's and 90's.
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To be honest, most those Chinese living overseas who condem Chinese communist party are former CCP officials who were suspects in corruption cases. They fled to the West with huge sum of money and escaped prosecution in China and live "happily" in the West. they come to the internet to release their anger toward CCP...
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This is like the Ann nicole case back a couple of years ago...
You cannot escape from it...man, everwhere you go, every time you see a TV, magazine cover, newspaper front pages, you see her face with several men, lawers, lovers, mother etc...
It's all about money...onething the western philosophy got right is that people are born selfish...Chinese philosophy believes people are born innocent (a blank piece of white paper)...SO WRONG...
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You are not only an idiot, you are evidently not Chinese. Only Mencius says that and he did not have you in mind at that time. In fact, Xun Zi - a Chinese Confucius philospher says that men are disposed to evil. Confucius himself takes a neutral stance on the matter
Regardless, you are a Russian Communist trying to spread your evil propaganda to the world. I am sad to ask why they failed to purge you in the Great Stalin Purge in 1936.
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Hi bylooker,
Agreed.
The best prescription for those are simply to ignore them. They will resort to more absurdity to try to get attention. That's all they can do.
I'd say focus attention on helping other TIME readers (dwindling but still a sizable audience) get a more nuanced view. Let them judge on their own.
Btw, I learn a lot at http://blog.foolsmountain.com
Also, you will like http://china.lightroomgalleria.comCheers!
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How Chinese help their next generation to get ahead:
http://fs.southcn.com/xwss/shxw/content/2009-07/30/content_5445902.htm -
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Great examples of fine Chinese cultural traditions:
http://gb.cri.cn/27824/2009/07/30/3365s2577688.htm
http://life.jschina.com.cn/jschina/life/node4221/yong/userobject1ai1316865.html -
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The fenqing above who haven't read Animal Farm should read it right away. Your semblance to the dim-witted, deceptible sheep is too ironic. "China is good, World is evil!" "Mao Zedong is always right!"
And bylooker, stop pretending to be Chinese. I am certain you are American and deliberately acting barbarous so to incite people to hate uncivilized Chinese people.
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Takungpao Yesterday
中美對話繼續 戰略分歧難解
http://www.takungpao.com/news/09/07/30/LT1-1119405.htm中美在華盛頓舉行了奧巴馬政府上台後的首輪戰略與經濟對話，雙方為了營造良好氣氛均好話說盡，為表重視奧巴馬會見了中方代表，且引用孟子名句做公關。但對話的實質意義為何卻值得研究，是否如有些評論所指是G2會，或重在機制框架而不在具體成果？
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Takungpao Editorial Today
張琳七分鐘游回半世紀金牌
http://www.takungpao.com/news/09/07/31/LT1-1119946.htmZhang Lin Wins Back Half a Century's Gold Medals in 7 Minutes
Yesterday morning at the FINA World Championships held in Rome, the Chinese anthem was played and the Chinese flag was hoisted for the first time in history, successfully completing "two firsts" - the first gold medal, and the first world record.
In Hong Kong yesterday, all patriotic citizens were elated and proud of the patriotic Zhang Lin, who has sacrificed for his motherland and won glory for the great China.
Everyone stopped what they were doing - the entire Hong Kong and all its people stood absolutely still to watch Zhang Lin's moment of triumph. The video replayed itself over and over again; each and every time the whole of Hong Kong collectively shouted at exactly the same moment: "Great!", "I love China",
"We defeated USA" and "Hu Jintao is always right!".No one moved a muscle yesterday except to shout patriot slogans and sing the national anthem. There are rumors that trains have broken down, cars have crashed and the financial market plummeted 6,000 points ecause of the momentary freeze in social activity yesterday, but they are in fact rumors planted by Western countries to put down China's rise in swimming. The rise shows that China has become a superpower.
The victory has also shown that Chinese are superior to everyone else. That is because Western swimmers all rely on ultra-high-tech swimsuits; Zhang, in spite the fact he looks like he is wearing an ultra-high-tech swimsuit sponsored by Speedo, is actually a fake Chinese copy - like fake LVs. China is too poor to afford high tech swimsuits. So he is the only hard working and authentic swimmer in the world and has shown the power of China to those cheating Western people!
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bylooker and huaren2000
I don't think these Chinese dissidents are former CCP officials in corruption cases.
I believe they are more or less just Chinese dissidents either from pro-democracy protesters in Tiananmen Square in 1989 or Falun Gong Cult.
Though these people are really annoying, they are indeed just victims of Chinese goverment which did a lot of good and bad things to his people.
The tragedy here is this is a part of the China history, the history somebody at a position can't avoid being punished.
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timeonly,
most of my friends who participated the 1989 student movement, living in China or overseas, have already had a different view from what they had back in 1989 and believe now the Chinese government did the right thing at that time. Most of them felt cheated by the student "leaders".
You are right, a lot of Fa Lun Gong people are in here.
As an ordinary citizen like me, I don't felt the government did much wrong onto me. I got great free education including university (no tuition and on stipend, even though low, free dormitory; cheap meals, though not that tasty); got medicals covered in my college years and paid nothing when I was ill. My family was pretty poor in the 70s but got much better during the 90s.
This is why I felt that those people who hate the Chinese government must have lost some privilege somehow. As an ordinary citizen, I gain a lot more than I lose from the state. That is why I don't believe these dissidents are ordinary citizens.
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indeed bylooker - now they are paying you 5mao per trash you post here.
your tiananmen friends were double agent US spies; what better treatment did they expect. No one in China wants to be free. Every Chinese is content to live as slaves or beasts under the sons of corrupt, genocidal Communist Party members.
The smarter ones, like yourself, have fled abroad, and live like hanjians - enjoying freedom and laughing at the poor brutes cannibalizing each other back at home.
Why you still haven't acquired civilization yet escapes me - perhaps the barbarity in China is too awesome to overcome. Once a barbarian, always a barbarian.
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Go China, The future is China.
Yes, the west is losing the control of the world.
The west is in desperation - create hate in people to distablize China.
The west will lose.Go China, The future is China.
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[...] Farcical Case Concludes - The China Blog - TIME.com [...]
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I believe they are more or less just Chinese dissidents either from pro-democracy protesters in Tiananmen Square in 1989 or Falun Gong Cult.
I have seen some of these ex-protesters working for RFA or "Free Tibet."
I would say vast majority of the ex 6.4 who came to the West afterwards are now disillusioned by the "democracy" and "human rights" campaigners. Oh, the press too!
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"Cheers" is so English: why are you adopting the language of your sworn enemy? You are a disgusting hanjian.
You seem to have participated in 6.4. That makes you a doubly disgusting hanjian. "Mao Zedong is always right!" is the only thing you are allowed to say.
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chinabriefing,
I simply say something about my personal experience and opinions, I don't post professional "newspiece" like you.
I know that you are very afraid of people knowing you are just a small bunch of clowns within the Chinese community around the world. Most Chinese regard you as rubbish...
cheers!
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why do you think I care about what inferior barbarians think? You and your scum are, after all, only capable of chanting "Mao Zedong is always right!"
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huaren2000,
Thanks for the link to two wonderful blogs.
The authors of this blog need to learn how to blog....
Since you are in China, why not write somehting about your PERSONAL experiences and stories in China? I only see Liam's feelings about the HongKong "ann nicole" case. Other than that, this blog only provides links to articles on time. I guess your personal experiences don't fit your political agenda.Simon basically shut up, because there is not much bad news in China in these couple of days. He told us before, that he had not taken photos in Beijing for a while because the sky was so blue until two days of sand storm came, when he immediately put his photo on this blog. Then a "conclusion" from a pure academic article was all over the western press:"Beijing got lucky last Summer Olympics, the pollution control measures did not work"...
Huanren2000, you are right, most ex-6.4ers are extremely disillutioned by the democracy, rights campaign and the press...
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