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California Vietnamese, Tibetans Protest Communist China Leader's Arrival For Summit

Chinese President Xi Jinping is getting a warm welcome from U.S. President Barack Obama this afternoon in Rancho Mirage for their summit and not just because the California desert temperature topped 110 degrees. In his five years in the White House, Obama has treated the Chinese leadership with guar ... More >>

Jenna Milburn-DiPasquale, OC Cybersitter Marketer, Sees Red Thanks to China's Hackers

Jenna Milburn-DiPasquale was working on the computer in her Orange County home office in June 2009 when she received an email from her father. There's nothing strange about that since she does all the marketing for her Santa Barbara-based dad's eight-person company, Solid Oak Software, best known fo ... More >>

More American Than Jay Chen?

Ignoring racist emails is all in a day's work for the Democratic congressional candidate

Death By China Screening and Special Panel Discussion Set For Anaheim on Sept. 28

Some critics have declared that Death By China is fueled by warmongering, anti-Chinese sentiment and others call the film/book another important wake up call to a looming disaster.You can make up your own mind Friday night in Anaheim when there will be a special showing of the controversial, 79-minu ... More >>

Death By China Screening and Special Panel Discussion

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Huntington Beach Businessman Nailed For Exporting Thermal Imaging Cameras To China

A 52-year-old Huntington Beach businessman got sentenced this week for exporting seven thermal imaging cameras to China in violation of U.S. national security controls.Jason Jian Liang, a 1985 immigrant from China and president of Sanwave International Corp., admitted that he did not seek export lic ... More >>

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Segerstrom Center for the Arts

Dana Rohrabacher Takes Hypocritical Stance on Space Technology Transfers To China

OC Congressman: Please pay no attention to my hypocrisy​This week, newspapers reported that Orange County Congressman Dana Rohrabacher was outraged because President Barack Obama's administration is allegedly jeopardizing national security by sharing sensitive satellite technology with China.Of co ... More >>

[UPDATED: Recall Effort Dropped] Residents Petition to Recall Hacienda School Board Members for Supporting a Language Program Funded by the Chinese Government

Flickr user cleverCl@i®ê ​UPDATE, JUNE 7, 1:46 P.M.: Opponents of the Confucius Classroom, a Chinese culture and language school program, have stopped their efforts to recall the four members of the Hacienda La Puente Unified School Board who voted to implement it. A small group of resident ... More >>

Seated? Dana Rohrabacher Gets One Right!

Dana finally finds an issue he can't botch​Okay, sure. Perennially goofy Orange County Congressman Dana Rohrabacher occasionally makes a good point.This week in Washington, Rohrabacher and other Republican politicians questioned planned U.S. aid to China.What does the Obama administration want to ... More >>

Residents Petition to Recall Hacienda School Board Members for Supporting a Language Program Funded by the Chinese Government

Flickr user cleverCl@i®ê ​Four members of the Hacienda La Puente Unified School Board have been targeted in a recall effort.  The basis for the recall? They support a middle-school Chinese-language-and-culture program funded by the Chinese government.

Shocker: AIDS Group Praises Dana Rohrabacher

Rohrabacher ​When it comes to healthcare reform you can count on Rep. Dana Rohrabacher to take a firm "no" stance, unless the so-called reform is sponsored by the insurance lobby.So it's a notable moment when a healthcare lobbying group enthusiastically praises Rohrabacher.It's even more notable w ... More >>

Racist OC Register Reader Fustercluck of the Day

​Headline: Tran: 'Uphill' Chance to Defeat Rep. SanchezComment by UGLYINLA: Tran...its over...give it up. Its not your fault. After years of voter apathy, the 47th has been turned into a barrio. A simple stroll down to Santa Ana is all one needs to see to understand what has manifested over t ... More >>

[UPDATED:] Are the Red Chinese Polluting Young Minds in a Quiet Irvine Shopping Center?

​UPDATE: In an email to the Weekly, the owner of A Little Dynasty denies there is any basis for the criticism of his new Chinese school in Irvine (see end of post) . . .  Could the Quail Hill Village Center in Irvine become the next hotspot for anti-communist crusaders fighting the spread of ... More >>

Anti-Commie Activist Kai Chen Claims Victory in Confucius Classroom Spat

​Kai Chen may not have got the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda to remove its life-size statue Mao Tse-Tung, but the Los Angeles-based, Chinese-American activist and others are claiming victory in their spat with the Hacienda La Puente Unified School District.District ... More >>

Does Dana Rohrabacher Suffer From Multiple Personality Disorder?

Two faced pumpkin​Earlier this month, a San Francisco television station quoted Orange County Congressman Dana Rohrabacher on his outrage that Americans have suffered cyber e-mail attacks from China through Google. "We have a potential adversary who is the worst human rights abuser in the wor ... More >>

Dana Rohrabacher is Going to Be Pissed

Dana Rohrabacher believes missiles should be pointed at China that way.A day after Rep. Dana Rohrabacher sent a blistering letter urging President Barack Obama "to unambiguously condemn the Communist Chinese government's violent crackdown on peaceful Uyghur protests in the Xinjiang province of China ... More >>

Chuck Devore to China: Set Your Prisoners Free!

In September 2001, Chuck DeVore (R-Irvine) self-published a book called "China Attacks" which envisioned a Chinese sneak attack against Taiwan that precipitates a third world war. Call it a case of bad timing: as the events of 9/11 suggested, China might not be America's worst enemy after all. In 20 ... More >>

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Bowers Museum

LowBallVideoChatter: Cold Blooded Animal = Chinese Nirvana?

Yesterday's Chinese hip-hop post got me thinking about Cold Blooded Animal, a band I fell hard for when I discovered them at a South By Southwest some years ago. They're usually described as a Chinese Nirvana, but they go deeper than that, and their lyrics sometimes bravely cross over into bold ... More >>

Rohrabacher: Why aren't we causing a revolution in China?

Last night in a C-SPAN televised speech, Dana Rohrabacher called Chinese government officials “gangsters,” slammed both Bush presidential administrations for failing to challenge China’s human rights abuses and complained that the U.S. Government isn’t working to spur a democratic revolution ... More >>

Register Gone Red?

The Orange County Register's parent company, Blackstone Group, said Red money is good money May 22 as they accepted $3 billion from its newest partner, the Chinese government, according to reports from several news agencies. Blackstone Group is a private equity firm that owns 28 daily newspapers and ... More >>

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Put Up That Wall, Mr. Bush!

There are people on the Right who still believe George W. Bush is the greatest thing since sliced Reagan. (People on the Left do, too, but in a totally different way.) So leave it to those qwaaaazy Minutemen Projectors to compare the Dubs to Reagan's archest enemy-turned-steam-room buddy: Mikhail Go ... More >>

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