China hopes to get relations with the Philippines back on track, President Xi Jinping has told new Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, after ties were affected by an increasingly bitter spat over territorial claims in the South China Sea. – Reuters
Nearly 27 years later, the carnage of June 4, 1989, remains a raw political scar in China. So raw that a man has been detained on subversion charges, his supporters say, because he shared pictures of liquor bottles labeled to mark the day soldiers extinguished democracy protests based in Tiananmen Square in Beijing. – New York Times
China will "pressure" the United States on maritime issues at key talks in Beijing next week because of Chinese concerns over the increased U.S. military presence in the disputed South China Sea, a major state-run newspaper said on Tuesday. – Reuters
The growing number of private car drivers is at odds with the millions of residents who ride two- and three-wheeled electric cycles. The conflict has stirred emotions about inequality in urban China, pitting wealthier drivers against the blue-collar workers who need the electric bikes to make a living. – New York Times
China could be erecting "a Great Wall of self-isolation" with its increasingly provocative moves against its neighbors, Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Friday. – Associated Press
American ships and fighter jets maneuvering across the South China Sea and the Sea of Japan represent the "new normal" in U.S.-Pacific relations despite rising tensions with China and Moscow. – Associated Press
Debating the Coats bill is one of several steps Congress is taking to force President Obama and future administrations to reshape military-to-military relations with Taiwan as an open partner while an increasingly aggressive China is building up forces along the Taiwan Strait and is attempting to seize the international South China Sea and dominate its neighbors. – Washington Times
For more than two decades, Australia has danced a delicate two-step with the United States and its longtime Pacific allies on one hand and a not-so-friendly but big-spending China on the other. It was a split-the-difference approach that raised eyebrows — and blood pressures — from Washington to Tokyo and Seoul to Manila, where the view of Beijing’s designs on the region is colored far more in terms of potential threats than trade-related partnerships. – Washington Times
Lanzhou New Area, in Gansu province, embodies China’s twin dreams of catapulting its poorer western regions into the economic mainstream through an orgy of infrastructure spending and cementing its place at the heart of Asia through a revival of the ancient Silk Road. – Washington Post
Joseph A. Bosco writes: But China's leaders may finally begin to get the message that its aggressive actions in the South and East China Seas and across the Taiwan Strait are bringing about the very counter-China groupings among countries in the region that it fears. To reverse the maxim that China scholars used to bandy about to call for restraint in dealing with China: if you treat your neighbors and their friends as adversaries, you will get adversaries. – National Interest
Nearly 27 years later, the carnage of June 4, 1989, remains a raw political scar in China. So raw that a man has been detained on subversion charges, his supporters say, because he shared pictures of liquor bottles labeled to mark the day soldiers extinguished democracy protests based in Tiananmen Square in Beijing. – New York Times
China will "pressure" the United States on maritime issues at key talks in Beijing next week because of Chinese concerns over the increased U.S. military presence in the disputed South China Sea, a major state-run newspaper said on Tuesday. – Reuters
The growing number of private car drivers is at odds with the millions of residents who ride two- and three-wheeled electric cycles. The conflict has stirred emotions about inequality in urban China, pitting wealthier drivers against the blue-collar workers who need the electric bikes to make a living. – New York Times
China could be erecting "a Great Wall of self-isolation" with its increasingly provocative moves against its neighbors, Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Friday. – Associated Press
American ships and fighter jets maneuvering across the South China Sea and the Sea of Japan represent the "new normal" in U.S.-Pacific relations despite rising tensions with China and Moscow. – Associated Press
Debating the Coats bill is one of several steps Congress is taking to force President Obama and future administrations to reshape military-to-military relations with Taiwan as an open partner while an increasingly aggressive China is building up forces along the Taiwan Strait and is attempting to seize the international South China Sea and dominate its neighbors. – Washington Times
For more than two decades, Australia has danced a delicate two-step with the United States and its longtime Pacific allies on one hand and a not-so-friendly but big-spending China on the other. It was a split-the-difference approach that raised eyebrows — and blood pressures — from Washington to Tokyo and Seoul to Manila, where the view of Beijing’s designs on the region is colored far more in terms of potential threats than trade-related partnerships. – Washington Times
Lanzhou New Area, in Gansu province, embodies China’s twin dreams of catapulting its poorer western regions into the economic mainstream through an orgy of infrastructure spending and cementing its place at the heart of Asia through a revival of the ancient Silk Road. – Washington Post
Joseph A. Bosco writes: But China's leaders may finally begin to get the message that its aggressive actions in the South and East China Seas and across the Taiwan Strait are bringing about the very counter-China groupings among countries in the region that it fears. To reverse the maxim that China scholars used to bandy about to call for restraint in dealing with China: if you treat your neighbors and their friends as adversaries, you will get adversaries. – National Interest
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