US- China
China to build its third domestically made aircraft carrier
Type-001A, the Chinese first domestically made aircraft carrier China kicked off construction of a third aircraft carrier, CNS reported on Nov. 25. In a report on the WeChat network, Xinhua said …
Southeast Asia News
Interview: 'Who Wants Cambodia To Be a Province of China?'
(RFA - March 7, 2018) Sophal Ear is an associate professor of diplomacy & world affairs at Occidental College in California who has written "Aid Dependence in Cambodia: How Foreign Assistanc…
Chinese Hacking
A Nation of Thieves
The wide world of hacking in China: The Chinese have been known to be experts at hacking for quite some time. But what might surprise some is that it's epidemic across the country in all levels o…
South China Sea
China establishes surveillance system covering 4,406 islands, including disputed Spratlys
BEIJING - China has established a national island surveillance and monitoring system and completed airborne remote-sensing surveillance of what it claims to be its 4,406 islands, according to the Min…
Military data
China holds landing exercises in East Vietnam Sea
BEIJING (AP) — China's increasingly powerful navy paid a symbolic visit to the country's southernmost territorial claim deep in the East Vietnam Sea (south China sea) this week as part of mil…
Headlines
China university helps army hackers
Beijing - Researchers at one of China's top universities collaborated with a Chinese army unit accused of carrying out hacking attacks on the United States, academic papers published online show.…
Listening
China: Groundwater Pollution Arouses Concern (Listening)
Photo taken on Jan. 6, 2013 shows Zhuozhang River which is polluted by the aniline released from the Tianji Coal Chemical Industry Group in Changzhi, north China's Shanxi Province. [Photo: Xinhua…
Vietnam-China
Why big Western tech companies have made it in Vietnam but not China
Oftentimes, people like to compare Vietnam with China. In some ways, the similarities are pretty obvious. The Chinese dynasties ruled Vietnam for one thousand years. Vietnamese people celebrate L…
North Korea
Why China is afraid of North Korea
To the outside world, there are things about North Korea even more confusing than Dennis Rodman's sudden renaissance as a diplomat. One is why China bothers to care so much about North Korea, to …
Yellow Sea
Chinese warships regularly patrol in S. Korean naval operation zone
SEOUL, March 3 (Yonhap) -- Chinese warships have regularly patrolled waters within the South Korean Navy's operational zone in the Yellow Sea without prior notification, multiple sources in Seoul…
South China Sea
China Carries Combined Patrol in South China Sea
A joint Chinese sea and air patrol is being carried out in the South China Sea for the first time. Wu Jiansheng heads the Maritime Safety Administration for the province of Guangdong. "In view o…
China
China's dream of rebirth
John Lee says China's mission of national renewal is founded on resurrecting its days of glory, and the US and Japan need to understand that this implies a reworking of the current regional order…
China racism
China racism case: Restaurant owner removes 'racist' sign
This photo taken on February 26 shows a Chinese cook working in a restaurant behind a sign that says "This shop does not receive the Japanese, The Philippines, The Vietnamese and Dog" at th…
Defense news
China moves mobile missiles near coast amid tensions with Japan over islands
Japanese Coast Guard patrol the Senkaku Islands/ AP United States intelligence agencies recently detected China’s military shifting road-mobile ballistic missiles closer to its southern coast near th…
Human rights
China petition urges rights reforms
Scholars, lawyers and journalists have signed a petition urging the National People’s Congress to ratify the ICCPR. Photo: Reuters More than 120 influential scholars, lawyers and journalists have sig…
Defense news
Reports: China carrier permanent base is Qingdao
BEIJING — China's first aircraft carrier has docked at its new permanent base in the northern port of Qingdao, where it will be responsible for operations in waters surrounding Japan and the Kor…
Technology
Huawei reveals 'fastest smartphone in the world'
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Huawei, a Chinese company that recently became the world's third-largest maker of smartphones, calls its new flagship product "the fastest smartphone in the world&quo…
South China Sea
Japan coastguard says more China ships in disputed waters
Agence France-Presse in Tokyo A China Marine Surveillance officer photographs a Japan Coast Guard vessel near the disputed Diayou Islands last week. Photo: Xinhua Japan said three Chinese surveillan…
China
China's Carrier Liaoning and its formation - CG Video(HD)
Liaoning, is the first aircraft carrier commissioned into the People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN). Originally laid down as the Admiral Kuznetsov class multi-role aircraft carrier Riga for the So…
South China Sea
China’s rejection of int’l arbitration could weaken its case: analysts
China’s rejection of the Philippines’ attempt to seek international arbitration in their East Sea territorial dispute may discourage other claimants from taking similar steps, but it will also put th…
