Media Report
- The New York Times reports: "China rejected suggestions that its fighter jets flew dangerously close to an American surveillance aircraft and instead accused the United States on Thursday of threatening its security by regularly sending such flights near the Chinese coast....'American military vessels and aircraft frequently engage in surveillance in close proximity to China's coastal waters, and this constitutes a grave threat to China's security on land and sea,' the spokesman for the ministry, Hong Lei, told a daily news briefing in Beijing. 'China requests that the United States immediately halt this kind of close-proximity surveillance, thereby avoiding the recurrence of such incidents.'"
- Reuters reports: "Taiwan's new ruling party is set for an early clash with China over the first major item on its legislative agenda - a bill that could paralyze trade between the two rivals and which Beijing has already condemned....Incoming president Tsai Ing-wen has made the bill, spurred by anti-China student protests in 2014, a priority for her government, which will be sworn in on Friday.The bill requires government officials to get legislative consent before, during and after any talks with Beijing....Critics of bill say it will stall, rather than ease, the relationship with the world's second-largest economy. A spokesman for China's top agency in charge of handling Taiwan affairs said in March that anything that 'puts up man-made blocks' on ties with Taiwan would be absolutely opposed."
- The Washington Post reports: "China's ambassador to Zambia released a stern statement on Tuesday, seeking to battle misinformation that he said was harming China's reputation in Africa....The misinformation in question? That China was taking dead bodies, marinating them, putting them in cans and then selling them in African supermarkets....Some reports quoted people who allegedly worked in Chinese meat factories as saying that the practice had begun because China had run out of space to bury their dead or that Beijing reserved its good, nonhuman meat for more powerful countries. Such rumors are, of course, untrue. As the hoax-busting websiteSnopes.com notes, the photographs shared online that purport to show 'human flesh' were from a 2012 marketing stunt for the video-game Resident Evil 6."
Calendar
- 2016-05-18 China criticizes US steel anti-dumping measures
- 2016-05-17 Top ranked Chinese official to 'listen' to HK demands as independence calls grow
- 2016-05-16 China Housing Revival Buffers Economy
- 2016-05-15 Maoists Still a Force 50 Years After the Cultural Revolution
- 2016-05-13 Apple invests $1 billion in Chinese ride-hailing service Didi Chuxing
- 2016-05-12 EU lawmakers reject market economy status for China
- 2016-05-11 Ahead of inauguration, China says Taiwan to blame for any crisis
- 2016-05-10 U.S. Sails Warship Near Island in South China Sea, Challenging Chinese Claims
- 2016-05-09 EU Envoy Calls for Fairer Economic Relationship With China
- 2016-05-08 China to Curb Land Supply for Cities with Property Glut
News
- The New York Times In China, Government Workers Push Rosy, Diverting Views Online
- Reuters Incoming Taiwan government likely to infuriate China from the word go
- The Washington Post China: No, we are not sending cans of human flesh to Africa
- TIME Q and A: Philippines President Benigno Aquino III on China, the U.S.—and Duterte
- The New York Times China and India Burdened by Untreated Mental Disorders
- Bloomberg Business China Fakes 488 Million Social Media Posts a Year: Study
- The Washington Post Chinese jets intercept U.S. recon plane, almost colliding over South China Sea
- The Wall Street Journal Time to Put China's Currency Back on Worry List
- The New York Times China's High-Tech Future Emerges in Factory Town Shenzhen
- Reuters Chinese jets intercept U.S. military plane over South China Sea: Pentagon
- The Wall Street Journal Chinese Businessman Says He Paid $109 Million for U.K. Soccer Team
- The Washington Post Taiwan's leader faces thornier ties with China, growth woes
- The New York Times China, Denying Close Encounter With American Plane, Points Finger at U.S.
Commentary
- The Diplomat Tsai Ing-wen's Limited Options on Cross-Strait Relations
- The New York Times China Offers Airport Security for Women, and Their Makeup
- The Wall Street Journal: MoneyBeat What Can Be Learned From China's Monetary Past
- Forbes China's U.S. Buying Spree Is Just Getting Started
- Brookings Institute China as a global investor
- The New York Times: Sinosphere Chinese Official Condemns Calls for Greater Autonomy in Hong Kong
- The National Interest China's DF-26 Anti-Ship Ballistic Missile: What Does the Pentagon Really Think?