19 Mar 2008

Year of Olympics: Year of the Trojan Rats
South Asia Analysis Group (SAAG), New Delhi, India
Supplied note: "The latest paper of the Institute For Topical Studies, A-2/3, Bharathi Dasan Colony, K.K.Nagar, Chennai---600078, India, on the above subject is now available at the web site of the South Asia Analysis Group (SAAG), New Delhi, at [the URL below] - br."
Extract: "3. [On the Internet there are] many references to a new computer virus disseminated by Chinese hackers, which they had named "the Trojan Rat". [...] 4. There were also ominous (for the Chinese, if they had seen them) references to the Trojan Rats, which would keep the Chinese foxed and busy throughout the year of the Olympics. Many were planning to let loose Trojan Rats all over China as the Beijing Olympics approached and during the Olympics. 5. The highly intelligent, Internet-savvy Tibetan youth, the bin Laden-admiring Uighurs, the Falun Gong, the disgruntled youth of China, the pro-democracy activists of Hong Kong, the many anti-China groups in the US ----- they were all planning for their own Year of the Trojan Rat. 6. Each had strong reasons for anger against the Chinese. Each was determined to give vent to his or her anger in this year of the Olympics. Each was determined to make this go down in history as the Year of the Trojan Rats. [...] 12. In the Year of the Olympics, the entire world focus is on China. The Chinese cannot adopt the same methods of suppression as they normally do. They have to suppress without seeming to be doing so. 13. The Chinese are worried not only over what could happen before and during the Olympics. They are also worried as to what could happen thereafter. Will the Olympics set in motion the weakening of the control of the Chinese Communist Party over the people?" - b.raman
[The author of the paper, Mr B. Raman, is Additional Secretary (retd), Cabinet Secretariat, Govt. of India. - ed. ]
URL http://www.southasiaanalysis.org/papers27/paper2632.html
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) - the paper was not archived at the time of this abstract. However, in a few weeks time it will be available at web.archive.org/web/*/www.southasiaanalysis.org - ed.
Link reported by: B. Raman (ram1994--at--vsnl.net)
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