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`Two-Faced` Portrait of China`s Paramount Leader Deng Xiaopeng

Deng, according to pro-democracy activist Bao Tong, believed himself a man with single mission: to save not China, nor its people, but the Communist Party.

(HONG KONG) - A former top aide to late ousted Chinese Communist Party chief Zhao Ziyang has written a stinging attack on Deng Xiaoping, who is credited with launching China on the path to economic reform 30 years ago this month, Radio Free Asia (RFA) reports.

Bao Tong, under house arrest at his Beijing home since completing a seven-year prison term in the wake of the 1989 pro-democracy movement, published his personal reminiscences of Deng in six parts to mark the 30th anniversary of China’s reforms.

“Deng’s two-sidedness was like a pendulum,” wrote Bao, whose voice is never heard publicly now in China, and whose essay was published in response to a wave of official eulogies for Deng and the economic reforms he permitted to take root.

Ancient Marijuana Stash Discovered in Chinese Tomb

This ancient batch of marijuana was reported to have a fairly high content of THC, the main ingredient in cannabis.

(OTTAWA ) - Opponents of marijuana have called foul over the belief that the herb has actually been used for thousands of years; and now their arguments will fall silent as a researcher announces locating a stash of marijuana in a Chinese tomb that is scientifically dated at 2,700 years old.

Chinese Authorities Release Uyghur Woman Without Forced Abortion

According to China’s official news agency, Xinhua, Uyghurs in the countryside are permitted three children while city-dwellers may have two.

(HONG KONG) - An ethnic Uyghur woman in China’s northwestern Xinjiang region who was scheduled to undergo a second-term abortion against her will—and whose case drew international attention—has been released to her family and allowed to continue her pregnancy, Radio Free Asia (RFA) reports.

“I am all right and I am at home now,” Arzigul Tursun told RFA’s Uyghur service, shortly after she was released from the Women and Children’s Welfare Hospital in Ili prefecture.

“I brought her home,” the local population-control committee chief, Rashide, said. “She wasn’t in good enough health to have an abortion.”

Woman in China Faces Imminent Forced Abortion (VIDEO)

China's treatment of Muslim minority citizens is often shocking.

(HONG KONG) - Arzigul Tursun, six months pregnant with her third child, is under guard in a hospital in China's northwestern Xinjiang region, scheduled to undergo an abortion against her will because authorities say she is entitled to only two children.

As a member of the predominantly Muslim Uyghur minority, Tursun is legally permitted to more than the one child allowed most people in China. But when word of a third pregnancy reached local authorities, they coerced her into the hospital for an abortion, her husband told Radio Free Asia (RFA).

"Arzigul is being kept in bed number three," a nurse in the women's section at Gulja's Water Gate Hospital said in a telephone interview with RFA's Uyghur service.

Chinese Authorities Arrest Tibetan Monks Over Blast

The mostly teenage monks were among dozens who were detained in Markham county on or around May 14th.

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Chinese authorities in Tibet have arrested three young Tibetan Buddhist monks in connection with a September blast at a local power station, Radio Free Asia (RFA) reports.

20-year old Ngawang Tenzin, 19-year old Tenzin Norbu, and 17-year old Tenzin Rinchen are now in police custody on suspicion of causing an explosion September 8th at a local power station that knocked out television broadcasts but caused no casualties, Tibetan and Chinese sources told RFA’s Tibetan service.

The explosion, in Markham county, Chamdo [in Chinese, Changdu], in China’s Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), came less than six months after simmering anti-China resentment erupted in massive protests and rioting throughout Tibetan regions in China.

Expert Says China Was Taught Lessons in Socialism America Should Have Learned (VIDEO)

Al Hayward is an experienced trade expert who has specialized in trade with China and other, some former, Communist countries.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - Al Hayward knows China like few others. He has decades of experience working there and getting to know the culture, and people. He says he has watched the evolution of capitalism here in the United States slowly evolving into socialism, which is all too familiar to him, and he believes the slippery slope is suddenly getting steep.

“I can tell you, I’ve been there, I’ve seen it," Hayward says, "and I can tell you that socialism and communism didn’t work in Russia, it didn’t work in East Germany, it didn’t work in red China and it won’t work here.”

China Expert Hayward Warns Against Obama`s `Socialist` Plan For America (VIDEO)

An interview with Al Hayward, 25-year China expert, who says his opinions about Obama won't be popular but promises of less work - more money have failed before.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - Al Hayward, a Chinese trade expert, says “you can drown by tipping the canoe too far in either direction”, and he is worried that what he calls Barack Obama’s “socialistic promises” are tipping this country too far toward communism.

“What bothers me very much is the fact that Obama’s campaign is based on ‘do less, work less, get more’, and the reality of this is it doesn’t work that way,” Hayward said.

Al Hayward has lived, worked, and done business in mainland China and other communist countries for decades, and he is currently working on a 20 billion dollar “City of Tomorrow” project near Macau.

RFA Condemns China`s Decision to Bar Journalist

China says one of its critics will be banned from the international event.

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - Radio Free Asia today condemned the Chinese government's apparent denial of an entry visa to an Olympic-credentialed RFA broadcaster and called on the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to press Beijing to honor its pledge to hold the Games in an atmosphere of openness.

“Twenty-four hours before the opening of the Olympic Games in Beijing, RFA hasn’t received an entry permit for our Tibetan service broadcaster, U.S. citizen Dhondup Gonsar. We deplore this stonewalling by the Chinese authorities,” RFA president Libby Liu said.

China Executes Two for Alleged Terror Links, While Sentencing Fifteen Others

Uyghurs, like Tibetans, have a long history under Beijing’s heavy-handed rule-which has at times erupted in violence. But exiled Uyghurs deny the existence of an organized terrorist campaign and say previous incidents have been fabricated or exaggerated to secure international support for a crackdown.

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - Chinese authorities in the northwestern region of Xinjiang have executed two ethnic minority Uyghurs and sentenced 15 others for alleged terrorist links, according to local sources.

Mukhtar Setiwaldi and Abduweli Imin were originally handed death sentences by the Kashgar Intermediate People’s Court on Nov. 9, 2007, according to a November 11th 2007 report by China's official Xinhua news agency. Referring to them by their Chinese names, Xinhua said Muhetaer Setiwalidi and Abuduwaili Yiming were sentenced to death for separatist activities, training at a terrorist camp, and illegally manufacturing explosives.

Earthquake in China Leaves Thousands Dead, Some Buried (VIDEO)

China's state news agency estimates that 7,651 people have died from injuries suffered in the earthquake.

(SALEM, Ore.) - As many as 5,000 people were killed in China today during a major earthquake. The disaster that jolted southwestern China on Monday measured a magnitude of 7.8.

In China's Sichuan province alone, officials report an estimated 3,000 to 5,000 victims reported the Xinhua news agency said. The military was also dispatched to quake-hit areas.