CNBC reports: "According to terrorism monitoring website SITE intelligence Group, ISIS published a four-minute propaganda song or chant – called a 'nashid' -- in Mandarin to attract Chinese Muslims to Jihad, or so-called holy war...It is unknown how many Chinese Muslims have joined ISIS, but the treatment of Muslims in China – notably, Muslim Uighers in western China who are often discriminated against – has been criticized in the past. As such, ISIS could be trying to attract disaffected Chinese Muslims to the group which is primarily based in Syria and Iraq and is trying to expand its self-proclaimed caliphate."
The New York Times reports: "Over the years, Qin Xiang and his fellow scientists at a high and lonely research station in the Qilian Mountains of northwest China have tracked the inexorable effects of rising temperatures on one of China's most important water sources. 'The thing most sensitive to climate change is a glacier,' said Dr. Qin, 42, as he slowly trod across an icy field of the Mengke Glacier, one of the country's largest. 'In the 1970s, people thought glaciers were permanent. They didn't think that glaciers would recede. They thought this glacier would endure. But then the climate began changing, and temperatures climbed.'"
Bloomberg News reports: "A group led by China Resources Holdings Co.'s semiconductor arm and Hua Capital Management Ltd. made an offer for Fairchild Semiconductor International Inc. valuing the company at $2.46 billion, people familiar with the matter said, topping a previous offer by ON Semiconductor Corp...In November ON Semiconductor agreed to buy Fairchild for $2.4 billion. The offer came a month after Fairchild said it was seeking a buyer and was in discussions with potential suitors including ON Semiconductor and Infineon Technologies AG. Fairchild agreed to pay ON Semiconductor a $72 million termination fee if it fails to complete the deal and chooses another buyer, according to a Dec. 4 regulatory filing.China has been trying to create a national champion in semiconductors. The country buys more than half the semiconductors sold each year, and its share is growing."