political nonsense

China and France signed a bilateral pact to fight against climate change together.
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North and South Korea agreed today to press their superpower allies for a peace treaty to end the world’s oldest and bloodiest cold war conflict, as the leaders of the divided peninsula wrapped up only their second summit in more than 50 years.

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China ordered the media only to report on positive developments.
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China Public Security, a U.S.-financed company contracted by the People’s Republic, was outfitting the city of Shenzen with 20,000 surveillance cameras and issuing identity cards to record each citizen’s name, address, employment status, education, religion, ethnicity, police record, medical-insurance status, reproductive history, and landlord’s phone number. “If they do not get the permanent card,” said a China Public Security executive, “they cannot live here.”
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China decided to chart every inch of the moon’s surface.
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The Chinese state media announced that Tibetan living Buddhas are no longer allowed to be reincarnated without permission from the atheist Chinese government.
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The Chinese government forcefully relocated 250,000 Tibetans - nearly one-tenth the population - from scattered rural hamlets to new “socialist villages,” ordering them to build housing largely at their own expense and without their consent. The government calls the more than year-old project the “comfortable housing program.”
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Chinese police arrested a television reporter who is accused of fabricating a story claiming that a stall in Beijing had used cardboard as a substitute for pork in steamed buns, state media said on Thursday.
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Weathermen in China decided to fire rockets into the sky to try and disperse rain clouds, so it would be sunnier during the 2008 Olympics.

[bad for business]
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It was discovered that companies in China were using chopped cardboard, softened in an industrial chemical and made tasty with pork flavoring, as a main ingredient in batches of steamed buns.

[yummy]
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China executed a former director of its food and drug agency Tuesday for approving fake medicine in exchange for cash.
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Villagers in central China dug up a ton of dinosaur bones and ate them, believing they were from flying dragons and had healing powers.
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China unveiled its first national plan for climate change.

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The government warned consumers on Friday to avoid using toothpaste made in China because it may contain a poisonous chemical used in antifreeze.

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China and Russia have denied claims by Amnesty International that they are supplying arms to Sudan for use in Darfur, in breach of a UN arms embargo.
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In a massive campaign that recalls the socialist engineering of an earlier era, the Chinese government has relocated some 250,000 Tibetans - nearly one-tenth of the population - from scattered rural hamlets to new “socialist villages,” ordering them to build new housing largely at their own expense and without their consent. The government calls the year-old project the “comfortable housing program.”
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China’s national state-run television networkbanned all images of pigs from advertisements to avoid offending Muslims.

[not cool]
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Chinese scientists revealed that showing pornography to pandas has helped increase the captive panda population, and said that they had successfully mated robot fish.
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China pledged to increase its peacekeeping presence in Lebanon to 1,000 troops.
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A woman in Hohhot, the capital of north China’s Inner Mongolia region, crashed her car while giving her dog a driving lesson.
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