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July 20 , 2016
  • The Washington Post reports: "On a visit to the northern Chinese port of Qingdao, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson said he backs more exchanges, but added, 'In this area we must judge each other by our deeds and actions, not just by our words.' 'I am supportive of a continued and deepening navy-to-navy relationship, but I will be continuously reassessing my support conditioned on continued safe and professional interactions at sea,' Richardson said, according to a Navy news release....He said the U.S. Navy would continue to conduct 'routine and lawful operations' around the world, including in the South China Sea, in order to protect 'the rights, freedoms and lawful uses of sea and airspace guaranteed to all.'"
  • The Associated Press reports: "In an apparent attempt to head off large-scale street demonstrations, Chinese state newspapers have criticized scattered protests against KFC restaurants and other U.S. targets sparked by an international tribunal's ruling that denied Beijing's claim to virtually the entire South China Sea....In China, protesters have gathered in recent days outside KFC restaurants in several cities, unfurling banners and calling for a boycott of the U.S. chain. Reports on social media say customers have been accused of being unpatriotic and 'losing face for their ancestors.' Such actions interfered with legitimate business and humiliated customers, the official China Daily said Wednesday, echoing an editorial the previous day in the People's Daily, the Communist Party's flagship newspaper."
  • The Washington Post reports: "For those who haven't spent time in China's thriving cities, it can be hard to imagine how digitally connected they are. Many still conjure the China of the 1990s, a nation of shoe factories and fake bags, not cutting-edge apps. Outsiders tend to know one thing about China's Internet: It's blocked — no Facebook, Twitter or Google. They imagine a country languishing behind a digital Iron Curtain, waiting, frozen in time, for the fall of the Web's Berlin Wall. The United States wants to believe that the scourge of censorship thwarts online innovation, but China is challenging the idea in ways that frighten and confound....The truth is that behind the Great Firewall — the system of censorship designed to block content that could challenge the Chinese Communist Party — China's tech scene is flourishing in a parallel universe."
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