BBC Chinese, Jan. 18, 2010.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/china/2010/01/100118_china_google_notleaving.shtml
My comment: Intriguing. Please read
Google probing possible inside help on attack. Reuters, Jan. 18, 2010.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTOE60H07V20100118
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(1) 中日领事协定》2月中生效. BBC Chinese, Jan. 18, 2010.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/china/2010/01/100118_china_japan_diplomacy.shtml
Note:
(a) James Brooke, Japan Protests China's Arrest Of Koreans At Consulate. New
York Times, May 10, 2002.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/10/world/japan-protests-china-s-arrest-of-koreans-at-consulate.html?pagewanted=1
(b) Vienna Convention on Consular Relations 1963
http://untreaty.un.org/ilc/texts/instruments/english/conventions/9_2_1963.pdf
(Article 31 Inviolability of the consular premises)
My comment: Just a week ago, the Ma administration of Taiwan wanted to push
through a bill in the Legislature to ban the same. The nation erupted and
government backed off.
Note:
(a) Pentecostalism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentecostalism
("Today's Pentecostal movement traces its community's growth to a prayer
meeting at Bethel Bible College in Topeka, Kansas on January 1, 1901")
(b) Pentecost
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentecost
(Ancient Greek pentekostē "the fiftieth (day); is one of the prominent
feasts in the Christian liturgical year; "Pentecost is celebrated seven
weeks (50 days) after Easter Sunday, hence its name.")
(c) 圣灵 Holy Spirit
(d) The VOA report cites
Spengler, Christianity finds a fulcrum in Asia. Asia Times, Aug. 7, 2007.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/IH07Ad03.html
("The World Christian Database offers by far the largest estimate of the
number of Chinese Christians at 111 million, of whom 90% are Protestant,
mostly Pentecostals")
The Asia Times report in turn cited
David Aikman, esus in Beijing: How Christianity Is Changing the Global
Balance of Power. Regnery Publishing, 2006.
(The author's web site: http://www.davidaikman.com)