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June 30 , 2016
  • Reuters reports: "An international court said it would deliver a hotly anticipated ruling in the Philippines' case against China over the South China Sea on July 12, drawing an immediate rebuke from Beijing, which rejects the tribunal's jurisdiction....U.S. state department spokeswoman Anna Richey-Allen reiterated U.S. backing for the court. 'We support the peaceful resolution of disputes in the South China Sea, including the use of international legal mechanisms such as arbitration. 'But China's official Xinhua news agency said the court was a 'law-abusing tribunal' that would only worsen the dispute."
  • The Associated Press reports: "A Chinese national has been sentenced to 30 months in prison for smuggling military-grade arms from Delaware to China. The U.S. Attorney's Office said in a news release that 26-year-old Kan Chen of Ningbo, China, was sentenced Wednesday in federal court in Wilmington. According to court documents, Chen illegally exported more than 180 export-controlled items, valued at more than $275,000, from the United States to China. Prosecutors say Chen purchased the items, which included night vision and thermal imaging scopes, on the internet."
  • BBC News reports: "A rap song in English aiming to tell foreigners "the truth" about China has been released by a faction of the Chinese Communist Party. This is China was posted onto micro-blogging site Weibo on Tuesday by China's Communist Youth League and has been shared more than 40,000 times. It features a mix of traditional Chinese elements against modern rap....'This is a song for Westerners to understand China,' Wang Zixin of CD Rev, a rap group from Chengdu who collaborated with the Youth League to produce the video, told news outlet Sixth Tone. 'We want Westerners to know that Chinese know our problems and we are trying to make a change.'
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