AsiaCast

Asia Cast for Thursday 25th September

In this Bulletin…

- West is naïve in business with China, say experts;
- Taro Aso has been officially confirmed as Japans new Prime Minister; and
- Two smuggling tunnels blown up by Egytptian forces.

-But first, here’s our SOH focus on China
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Epoch Times report -Chinese ex-pats are saying Westerners are naïve about doing business in China and do not understand the long reach of the communist party and its presence behind everything.

“They only see the huge market of 1.3 billion people without knowing about the danger of Chinese markets,” said Jia Jia, a former General Secretary of the Shanxi Provincial Association of Scientists and Technology Experts, who was granted asylum in New Zealand this year.

He said the Sanlu/Fonterra milk powder issue stems back to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

“New Zealand is a democratic country, and China is a totalitarian communist country. All the enterprises in China are under the leadership of the Party, they are actually Party-operated … in China, everything is under the control of the Party,” Mr Jia said.

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And now for the rest of Asia Cast
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Taro Aso has been officially confirmed as Japans new Prime Minister.

The former foreign minister was elected as leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party on Monday

He replaces the unpopular Yasuo Fukuda, who failed to get his legislation through a hostile Upper House.

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Indian and Pakistan leaders have agreed to initiate peace dialogue, with new talks to be set in the next three months,

The leaders of the nuclear-armed nations agreed that their foreign secretaries “will schedule meetings of the fifth round of the composite dialogue in the next three months,” a joint statement said after the summit at the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly.

Nuclear-armed India and Pakistan have fought two of their three wars over Kashmir since their independence in 1947.

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At least 50 people have been killed since Monday and Thousands more continue to flee the Somali capital, Mogadishu, because of fighting between African Union peacekeepers and insurgents, including Islamists.

The violence in Mogadishu has entered a new phase with African Union peacekeepers the main focus of attacks by insurgents instead of Government troops and their Ethiopian allies.

However, an aid worker warns that as usual, it is civilians who suffer the most.

A human rights worker in Mogadishu says between 15,000 and 18,000 people have fled the city in the past few days joining the thousands of others living in desperate conditions in makeshift camps.

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Two smuggling tunnels running between Egypt and the Gaza strip has been blown up by Egytptian forces.

Israel authorities feared the tunnels were being used by Palestinian militant groups to smuggle weapons.

It is suspected that more tunnels are being dug all the time.

Last month, Hamas, the dominant Palestinian faction in Gaza, accused the Egyptians of using dangerous methods to block the tunnels but Egypt denies this.

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