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China is executing fewer people now that the central court in Beijing must review capital cases. It still puts more people to death than the rest of the world combined.

From the LA Times: "A Chinese businessman is executed for a murder plot, but the big story may be shady deals and Beijing's bid to make a grim example of him."

The author tells the story of Yuan Baojing's rise to wealth and the murder that led to his execution by lethal injection.

From the NY TImes:
Flush with nearly a trillion dollars in hard currency reserves and eager for stable friends in Southeast Asia, China is making big loans for big projects to countries that used to be the sole preserve of the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the United States and Japan.

With the Singapore meeting of the World Bank on Sept. 19 and 20, China, one of the bank

This businessman was given a lethal injection in a van and had his ashes delivered to his wife ....

Say what you will about the Fragrant Concubine or thousands of years of Han involvement on the fringes of Central Asia, but collective punishment is the tool of a government that doesn't feel at home within its own borders.

Ren Chaoqi, the Nanyang resident who was fined 1,900 yuan when police discovered an adult film stored on his computer, has been given a reprieve. Following an uproar among netizens and considerable attention from the media, police have reconsidered his punishment and have cancelled his fine

Do Free Trade Agreements which are generally intended to favor the bigger country, end up forcing the other country into economic conditions which hinder quality, being that it's clear the Multinational corporations go to third world countries to enhance their profits, and give less attention to quality, due to industrial rules infancy in the third world countries?

Here is an encouraging story about how the Chinese Supreme People’s Court has been rejecting a number of death sentences. So yes, the government is secretive as to how many executions take place. That could improve. But if this is one step at a time, this is quite a BIG one.

The grasslands in northern Xinjiang's Altai Mountains are under attack by determined radical forces bent on death and destruction by any available means to achieve their goal of world domination! Yes, I'm talking about rats... despised worldwide for their ability to destroy food supplies, spread disease, and crawl over sleeping babies in the middle of the night. When trying to route an enemy of such extreme capabilities, the only choice is to call in Ratforce3 Xinjiang Alpha Squad!