Media Report
- The Financial Times reports: "Fixed-asset investment in China grew at its slowest rate for 16 years in the first five months of this year, as private companies held off spending and left the state sector to keep the economy humming. The figures could weigh on China's ability to hit its economic growth in line with its annual target this quarter. Beijing targets average annual economic growth of 6.5 per cent until 2020, and reported 6.7 per cent year-on-year growth in the first quarter....'This figure suggests that the tightening measures by the policymakers, such as window guidance towards property-related lending, are starting to bite,' said Raymond Yeung, analyst with ANZ Bank."
- Reuters reports: "Chinese coast guard vessels prevented a Philippine nationalist group from planting a Filipino flag on a rocky South China Sea outcrop, the group said on Monday, the latest territorial standoff between the two countries.The incident between the coast guard and the Kalayaan Atin Ito (Freedom It's Ours) group took place at the disputed Scarborough Shoal on Sunday, just as foreign ministers from Southeast Asian countries and China prepared for a meeting in Kunming to discuss territorial rows in the hotly contested waters....The shoal, seized by China after a three-month standoff in 2012, is a bone of contention for the Philippines and its president-elect, Rodrigo Duterte, has vowed not to give way over the right of his country to sail there freely....Philippine defense and military officials declined to comment on the incident. Beijing stressed that the shoal belonged to China."
- The New York Times reports: "The Chinese police have recommended prosecution on a charge of subversion for Zhou Shifeng, a prominent lawyer whose arrest last year formed the focus of a campaign to discredit and dissolve networks of rights-focused defense lawyers who challenged the government, one of his former colleagues said on Monday....Over the weekend, the police told Mr. Zhou's family that they had recommended indictment on suspicion of 'subverting state power,' said Liu Xiaoyuan, a former colleague of Mr. Zhou's, citing word from Mr. Zhou's family. Mr. Liu said the subversion charge was particularly serious and, if successfully prosecuted, could lead to a prison term of at least a decade. The charge suggested that under President Xi Jinping, the government would continue its intense drive to silence organizations and activists who even a few years ago survived in a margin of official tolerance, said Maya Wang, a researcher on China for Human Rights Watch."
Calendar
- 2016-06-12 'Chinese Hawaii' Shows Xi's Anti-Graft Drive Hasn't Hurt Economy
- 2016-06-10 South Korea Sends Military Boats to Repel Chinese Fishermen
- 2016-06-09 Japan Protests to China After Spotting Chinese Warship Off Disputed Islands
- 2016-06-08 U.S. Accuses Chinese Jet of Flying Too Close to American Plane
- 2016-06-07 U.S. presses China to reduce barriers for foreign business
- 2016-06-06 China to submit 'negative list' for U.S. investment treaty talks next week
- 2016-06-05 Maritime Spat Simmers as U.S., China Talk
- 2016-06-03 U.S. to Urge China to Put More Pressure on North Korea
- 2016-06-02 China tells U.S., don't let allies set South China Sea policy
- 2016-06-01 President Trump would hand the world to China
News
- The Financial Times China investment growth slowest since 2000
- Reuters Filipino nationalists say flag-planting on disputed shoal halted by China
- The New York Times Police in China Want Rights Lawyer Prosecuted on Subversion Charge
- The Wall Street Journal How China Tamed Stocks
- The Washington Post Picking sides: A world of opinions on South China Sea case
- The New York Times Doctor's Plan for Full-Body Transplants Raises Doubts Even in Daring China
- The Wall Street Journal China Private-Investment Slowdown Fuels Fears of Weaker Growth
- Bloomberg Business China's Economy Steadies Even as Investment Growth Slows
- The Financial Times China A-shares: finally ready?
- The Washington Post World of 'Warcraft': Will this type of game-changing film render American audiences irrelevant?
- Reuters China tells Germany: 'We don't want to fight a trade war'
- Bloomberg Business China's Stocks Sink Most Since February on Eve of MSCI Decision
- The Wall Street Journal China's Uber Rival Didi Adds Insurer to List of Powerful Investors
Commentary
- The Washington Post A fight worth having with China
- The Diplomat That Chinese Frigate in the Senkakus Was a Bad Move for China
- The Wall Street Journal 'Warcraft' Breaks Box Office Records in China
- Foreign Policy: Tea Leaf Nation Who Said It, Donald Trump or a Chinese Communist?
- The National Interest The U.S. Navy's New Super Frigate: Armed to 'Sink' Russia and China
- The Economist Why Sino-American relations are likely to become stormier
- The Wall Street Journal: China Real Time Heard in the Hutong: Beijingers on the China-U.S. Relationship