- The Wall Street Journal: China Real Time comments: "Google Maps has found itself in a bit of a kerfuffle on social media after some users noticed that some of its maps highlighted the controversial so-called nine-dash line that marks China's claims over the South China Sea....Google Maps' use of the nine-dash line isn't new, according to one person familiar with the matter, though the person indicated it could have been added fairly recently, potentially with the latest update from a third-party provider....Last year, a third-party data provider to Google labeled parts of the South China Sea with the Chinese name of Huangyan Island on maps appearing globally instead of the international name of Scarborough Shoal, prompting an online petition in the Philippines. Google Maps removed the Chinese name, saying in a statement that it understood that 'geographic names can raise deep emotions, which is why we worked quickly once this was brought to our attention.'"
Reuters reports: "Common interests between China and Vietnam far outweigh differences, Chinese President Xi Jinping told Vietnam's prime minister on Tuesday, calling for their dispute in the South China Sea to be resolved through talks....Meeting in Beijing, Xi told Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc that 'China and Vietnam can manage their differences and promote maritime cooperation through friendly negotiations', the official Xinhua news agency said....The South China Sea issue should be resolved by bilateral consultations and maritime challenges transformed into opportunities for cooperation, Xi added....Li told Phuc that the South China Sea involved both issues of sovereignty and maritime rights as well as 'national feelings', China's Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday....The ministry cited Phuc as saying maritime issues should be appropriately handled in a peaceful way on the basis of equality and mutual respect and not allow maritime issues to affect the development of relations."
- The Washington Post reports: "Today, mines run by Chinese companies account for about 70 percent of the world's bitcoin processing power, its factories produce the cheapest microprocessors to run these mines, and its exchanges account for about 70 percent of the world's bitcoin trade. It is increasingly big business. Altogether there around more than 15 million bitcoin in existence: Each is worth $615 at current prices, with a market capitalization of $9.2 billion. For some, Chinese domination of an industry once controlled by libertarian crypto-punks is a rich irony. For others, it is a more practical threat: Chinese miners, some argued, have been standing in the way of reforms needed to speed up transaction speeds on bitcoin's fast-expanding network of users."
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