"A remarkable assortment of foreign organizations set up shop in China in the decades after its emergence from isolation under Mao Zedong, offering good will, money and expertise that helped link the nation more closely to the rest of the world and turn it into the global powerhouse it is today...The proposed law, which began circulating in draft form last month and is expected to be enacted later this year, would put foreign nonprofit and nongovernmental organizations under the supervision of the Chinese security apparatus, reflecting both the more restrictive approach toward civil society endorsed by Mr. Xi and the ruling Communist Party's longstanding fear that external forces are conspiring to overthrow it," reports The New York Times.
Reuters writes, "China on Thursday said it would welcome only an anti-independence candidate at Taiwan's presidential election in January, offering its first comment on the likely contender for the island's pro-China ruling Nationalist Party. Taiwan is one of the most sensitive of all policy issues for the Communist Party in Beijing, which claims the island as its own and views it as a renegade province, to be bought under its control by force if necessary."
According to The Washington Post, "The United States is troubled by China's plans to keep building on artificial islands in the South China Sea, the top U.S. diplomat for East Asia said Thursday...China has territorial disputes with several neighbors in the South China Sea...China's Foreign Ministry announced Tuesday it will complete its land reclamation within days, in an apparent bid to reassure its neighbors and perhaps to tamp down tensions with the U.S. ahead of an annual strategic and economic dialogue in Washington next week."