That is the purpose of the prize.

That's great. It is going to the right place.

Henrich von Dorf,

How are those tanks on the streets of Beijing working out for you???

Reference - http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304724404577295060978784338.html

On that is right, the Chinese internet has blocked this information to the Chinese citizens... Ha! Ha!

China should stay out of Tibet, Xinjian, Qinghai and Gangsu.

This is tantamount to say US should stay out of Texas, California, Hawaii and Alaska.

AC Robertson

The coup as you depicted was nothing but rumour spread by someone on internet. BBC and and other media reports confirmed there wasn't any coup or military movement in Beijing.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-17570005

http://www.newstrackindia.com/newsdetails/2012/03/23/277508-China-censors-Internet-reports-on-rumours-of-attempted-military-coup.html

David Kelly, research director at analysis group China Policy, said top authorities were likely trying to contain the effects of Bo’s dismissal—and the rumors.

Search terms such as “gunshot”, “tank”, “Bo Xilai”, “Wang Lijun”, Bo’s son “Bo Guagua” or his wife “Gu Kailai” have all been censored on Sina.com’s popular microblog, or weibo.

“All this is saying that the factional struggle has now burst into the open,” said Willy Lam, a China expert at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

http://www.japantoday.com/category/commentary/view/online-rumors-fill-information-void-in-jittery-china

Nice thing about most foreign media sites, they also publish up-dates...

CHONGQING, China (CNN) -- More details are emerging of links between the mysterious death of a British businessman and the sacking of a senior Chinese Communist Party official.

Bo Xilai was sacked as party chief of Chongqing after his handpicked police chief sought refuge in a U.S. Consulate reportedly fearing for his safety.

Foreign media reports quoting diplomatic sources, now say the cop split with Bo after raising suspicions with his boss that Heywood had been poisoned.

http://www.todaysthv.com/news/article/204602/288/More-questions-than-answers-in-UK-businessmans-death?odyssey=mod|newswell|text|FRONTPAGE|t

The US Senate again are meddling in the internal affair of China and blackmailing China in respect of the establishment of further consulaltes.

China is not a tin-pot nation that will be pushed around by bully tactics. Hu Jingtao is too weak to rebuff US. However the new leadership under Xie Jing-ping will be diiferent. China will embark on a new course different to the current one that tends to avoid being confrontational even to the detriment of her natioal interests.

The US and others realize that with-in a DECADE. China will have the Missiles, Navy, and Nukes to control most of the Pacific & Indian Oceans...

Then it will be too late...

China already has missiles with a range of 12,000km (DF-31A & DF-41), nuclear ballistic submarines (094 in deployment and 096 under constructions) and attack submarines (093 &095).Western estimation of the Chinese nuclear warheads in stockpile is grossly under, it is believed thatt China has some 3,000 warheads.

China is embarking on a program of modernization of her military forces, noticeably in the construction of new naval vessels, stealth fighters and bombers. This is in line with her economic development and the need to protect her shipping links. China had suffered aggressions and humiliation in the hands of western power and Japan in the past and her modernization drive is to prevent a repetition of the past when she was subject to bully and indignity.

China's rise to prominence is a peaceful one and does not pose any threat to other nations. China has established no military bases nor stationed troops outside her own territory. She is the only nuclear power that pledges not to be the first one to use nuclear weapon. China focuses on the national development to improve the living standard of her people. China spends a great part of her GDP on infrastructure development and in areas of education and health which in the long run will further enhance her growth potential.

"China's rise to prominence is a peaceful one and does not pose any threat to other nations. China has established no military bases nor stationed troops outside her own territory."

Ask Indonesia, India, Japan, Philippines, South Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam, etc. About their claim on territory that China also claims, that just happens to contain natural resources...

Pakistan and China have finalized a strategic partnership that will allow the Pakistani strategic port of Gwadar to be utilized by China as China's first military base overseas. China has significant oil, gold, copper and other raw material interests in Pakistan. The Gwadar port will allow China to safeguard her interests in the Persian Gulf and will simultaneously allow China to supply its South-Eastern regions with vitally needed supplies. The port will host major oil refineries and Chinese naval assets.
see http://weapons.technology.youngester.com/2011/05/chinese-naval-base-in-pakistan.html & http://weapons.technology.youngester.com/2011/05/dark-side-of-future-for-china.html

China has perticipated in the UN fight against Somalie pirates, for over 4+years... see http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/3830006/Chinese-navy-to-take-on-Somali-pirates.html

The territorial claims in South China Sea are a legacy of the past wherein both China and Taiwan(as ROC) regard these part of Chinese territories. However China has not resorted to settle the disputes with military means but opt for dialogue and diplomatic solution. In respect of the Diaoyu Island (Senkaku by Japan) claim it was historically part of China but seized by Japan when China was weak. After WWII US unilaterally turned this island to Japan. Taiwanese government also acknowledged this. Japan continues to seize the island and China chooses to wait and resolve diplomatically rather than go to war.

China's participation in UN flght against Somalie pirates just shows China is a responsible member of the international community. This is drastically different to sending troops to other sovereign nation to engage a war of aggression on false pretence.

China helped develop Pakistan's Gwadar port from scratch on the Baluchistan coast to take the
pressure off the country's main port of Karach.iChina, which provided more than 80 percent of the port's $248 million development cost, has moved quickly to distance itself from Pakistani Defence
Minister Ahmad Mukhtar's remarks about a naval base in Gwadar.

http://blogs.reuters.com/afghanistan/2011/05/26/in-pakistans-gwadar-port-chinese-whispers-grow/

"They operate silently so as not to make any statements in public apart from cliches. So one doesn't know what's happening," said retired Pakistani general Talat Masood.

The war games conducted by 540 Chinese and Pakistani soldiers running around scrubland -- the fourth joint exercises since 2006 -- were ostensibly a chance for China to benefit from Pakistan's counter-terrorism experience.

China is Pakistan's main arms supplier, while Beijing has built two nuclear power plants in Pakistan and is contracted to construct two more reactors.

But the alliance has been knocked by Chinese accusations that the separatist East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM), which wants an independent homeland for Xinjiang's Muslim Uighurs, is training "terrorists" in Pakistani camps.

reference - http://www.spacewar.com/reports/War_games_spotlight_China-Pakistan_hype_999.html

BEIJING — China said Friday that its maritime defense forces recently staged three days and nights of exercises in the South China Sea, a disputed, resource-rich region where tensions are rising.

The vast South China Sea and its island groups form one of Asia's most politically sensitive regions, with China, Vietnam and the Philippines trading diplomatic barbs recently over overlapping territorial claims. Vietnam's navy conducted live-firing exercises Monday after accusing Chinese boats of disrupting oil and gas exploration in its waters.

Read more: http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/World/20110617/china-stages-military-drills-in-south-china-sea-110617/#ixzz1qlUpXn3V

No matter what is being stated - This is all about access to natural resources and anyone that comes between these and China, Russia, or the Western nations, will have a fight on their hands...

US has conducted a policy of containment towards both Russia and China.

US has deployed anti-missile defense shield in Poland with the excuse of defending against possible Iranian missile strike. But in reality it is targeted against Russia.

NK's intended satellite launch has given US impetus to install missile defense shields, through her proxy of Japan and SK. In reality it is targeted China. US is making every effort in containing China from her peaceful rise.

Many of the posters on this vine are seemingly incapable of grasping this political reality and unable to view events in a global prospective. They simply accept the misinformation that was fed to them by the US propaganda through western media.