"China's hottest tech giants - Alibaba, Xiaomi, and Baidu - are making a splash on a global scale. But even as they battle for market shares, they are also helping Chinese people fight against pollution with newly released tech products that monitor air, water, and food pollution. While the government struggles to keep the country's airways clean, these companies are enabling ordinary Chinese citizens to take environmental health into their own hands...Transparency continues to be a challenge for fighting pollution in China. After all, the Chinese government blocked the U.S. Embassy in Beijing's air pollution readings as recently as fall 2014 during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum. However, if Chinese companies take it upon themselves to address the pollution issue, it will be much harder for the government to justify clamping down on its own tech darlings," explains an opinion article from The Diplomat. 

According to CNBC, "Beijing is directing an increasing amount investment into Latin America, raising sphere-of-influence worries in the U.S. and trepidation among some local enterprises. But experts [say] that-with the important exception of the environmental degradation typically brought on by Chinese business interests-the situation is benefiting everyone involved. China's involvement in Latin America can be seen as an extension of its 1999 Go Out policy, which said the country should invest abroad to secure access to natural resources, gain new markets for exports and internationalize Chinese firms. Despite this open strategy-Beijing explicitly addressed its interest in Latin America in a 2011 white paper-the growth of China's involvement in the region has taken many by surprise." 

Reuters writes, "China must keep educational materials that promote 'Western values' out of its classrooms ...[saying] '(We must) strengthen effective management of Western original classroom materials and we must not allow materials into our classrooms that spread Western values,' Yuan was quoted as saying in a report late on Thursday. China's ruling Communist Party has long railed against Western values, including concepts like multi-party democracy and universal human rights. The tenor has become more shrill under President Xi Jinping who has tightened control over the media, political dissidents and the Internet and has urged more 'ideological guidance' at universities."