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April 19 , 2016
  • The New York Times reports: "Seeking to further reduce opportunities for corruption, China will include additional cities and regions in a pilot program begun in the financial hub of Shanghai that restricts the business dealings of officials' spouses and children, the government said Tuesday. The move follows revelations in the Panama Papers document leak showing family members of eight past or present leading officials owned shell companies registered abroad....The rules ban the spouses of high-level officials from serving as managers of private Chinese or foreign-invested companies. Officials' children and their children's spouses are also forbidden from engaging in business in the administrative jurisdictions in which a parent holds office."
  • CNN reports: "China's apparent landing of a military jet on a man-made island in the disputed waters of the South China Sea drew a protest from the U.S. military Monday. The Chinese military aircraft landed on Yongshu Reef, also known as Fiery Cross Reef, to give emergency assistance to three severely ill civilian workers, said Lu Kang, spokesman with China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs....'We're aware that a Chinese military aircraft landed at Fiery Cross Reef on Sunday in what China described as a humanitarian operation to evacuate three ill workers,' Pentagon spokesman Capt. Jeff Davis told CNN in a statement. 'It is unclear why the Chinese used a military aircraft, as opposed to a civilian one.'...It was unclear whether this was the first landing by a Chinese military jet on the new airstrip."
  • The Washington Post reports: "China is marking National Security Education Day with a poster warning young female government workers about dating handsome foreigners, who could turn out to have secret agendas....The poster has appeared on local governments' public bulletin boards, targeting mainly rank-and-file state employees. A Beijing district government said in a statement that it would display the poster to educate its employees about keeping classified information confidential and reporting to state security agencies if they spot any spying activity."
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