Media Report
- The Washington Post reports: "China on Wednesday banned exports to North Korea of technology and materials that might be used in weapons production in a new response to the North's development of nuclear weapons and missiles....Beijing has long supported the North Korean government but in a sign of growing frustration signed on in March to United Nations sanctions enacted in response to the North's fourth nuclear test. Those penalties include a ban on sales of 'dual use' items....In April, China banned imports of North Korean coal and iron ore, an important revenue source for the impoverished country. Beijing also banned sales of jet fuel to the North, though it said civilian aircraft would be allowed to refuel on flights to China."
- Reuters reports: "China has lodged diplomatic representations with the United States over a planned meeting between U.S. President Barack Obama and the Dalai Lama at the White House on Wednesday saying it would damage Chinese-U.S. ties, the Foreign Ministry said....'If the United States plans this meeting, it will send the wrong signal to Tibet independence and separatist forces and harm China-U.S. mutual trust and cooperation,' [ministry spokesman Lu Kang] said....China urged the United States to abide by its promises to recognize that Tibet is part of China and cease any support for Tibet independence, Lu said."
- The Wall Street Journal reports: "A Chinese court on Wednesday found a son of China's disgraced former security czar, Zhou Yongkang, guilty of engaging in a business conspiracy along with his father to illegally control millions of dollars in assets, and sentenced him to a lengthy prison term. The son, 44-year-old Zhou Bin, was jailed for 18 years and fined $53 million, according to a court document published in Chinese state media that accused him of accepting bribes and business offenses. State media also reported a guilty verdict against the elder Mr. Zhou's wife, a 47-year-old former television personality named Jia Xiaoye, who received a nine-year sentence and a $155,000 fine for corruption-related offenses....The court didn't explain how it arrived at the unusually high amount for the fine but said it found the younger Mr. Zhou, along with his father, used the 'convenience' of position and power to illegally controlpersonally and through associates around $18 million in assets and business ownership, according to CCTV."
Calendar
- 2016-06-14 China, US Hold Talks to Bridge Cybersecurity Differences
- 2016-06-13 China investment growth slowest since 2000
- 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
News
- Reuters China says Dalai Lama-Obama meeting will damage bilateral ties
- The Wall Street Journal China Sentences Son and Wife of Ex-Security Chief to Prison
- The Washington Post China bans exports to NKorea with possible military use
- Reuters China spy ship 'shadowing' U.S., Japanese, Indian naval drill in Western Pacific
- The New York Times The Financial Plan for a 'Brexit'? Cross Your Fingers
- The New York Times Obama and Dalai Lama to Meet Over China's Objection
- The Washington Post South China Sea: China willing to pay the price of defiance
- TIME What a Retracted Statement Says About China's Growing Power in the South China Sea
- Bloomberg Business South China Sea Talks End in Disarray as China Lobbies Laos
- The Wall Street Journal Asian Bloc Struggles to Unify Against China
- CNN China stocks shut out of the spotlight again
- Financial Times Former China security tsar's son sentenced to jail
- TIME Millions of Chinese Are Calling for an End to the Yulin Dog Meat Festival
Commentary
- The Diplomat For First Time Since 2004, Chinese Warship Enters Japanese Territorial Sea in East China Sea
- Foreign Affairs China's High-Speed Rail Diplomacy
- The New York Times: Sinosphere How the Cultural Revolution Sowed the Seeds of Dissent in China
- The Wall Street Journal: China Real Time Inside the Slow Workings of the U.S.-China Cybersecurity Agreement
- Foreign Policy: The Cable SitRep: U.S. Navy Beefs Up in The Pacific
- The National Interest More Trade Won't Stop China's Aggression
- The Guardian Eastern promise: the Hollywood films making their money in China