The Associated Press reports: "South Korea sent military vessels to repel Chinese fishing boats that were illegally harvesting prized blue crabs near the disputed sea boundary between the Koreas before the fishermen retreated Friday, South Korean officials said. Four naval and marine boats entered neutral waters around South Korea's Ganghwa island to chase away about 10 Chinese boats, which by afternoon had escaped into North Korea-controlled waters, said a Defense Ministry official who didn't want to be named, citing office rules. The operation was approved by the United Nations Command that governs the zone where fishing activity is prohibited."
Reuters reports: "A California woman was convicted on Thursday by a federal jury in Florida of conspiring to illegally export fighter jet engines, a military drone and technical data on the weapons to China, the U.S. Justice Department said.Wenxia Man, 45, of San Diego, faces a maximum of 20 years in prison for violating the Arms Export Control Act, the department said in a statement. The engines are used in F-35, F-22 and F-16 U.S. fighter jets, and a drone capable of firing Hellfire missiles through a third country, it added....According to the grand jury indictment filed on Aug. 21, 2014, Man was a legal permanent resident of San Diego doing business as AFM Microelectronics, Inc. It said she worked with Xinsheng Zhang, a resident of China who was 'acting as an official agent for the procurement of arms, munitions, implements of war, and defense articles on behalf of that country.'"
The Washington Post reports: "Powerful government inspectors from the disciplinary commission issued a report Thursday publicly berating the propaganda department for not taking firm enough control of the Internet, the media, arts and the nation's universities....'The effect of guiding culture and art to serve socialism and art is not obvious enough,' Wang Haichen, the leader of the inspection team, was quoted as saying. 'Its news propaganda is not targeted enough, or effective enough. It needs to strengthen further its leadership of ideological work. It does not do enough in applying the principle of the party controlling the media in weak points like new media, or in coordinating thought and political work at universities.'...He urged it to effectively use and control the Internet, as well as 'strengthen the coordination of ideological work at universities, and strictly control its guidance of textbooks and academic assessment.'"