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July 25 , 2017
  • The Washington Post：China fires back at US accusations over aerial encounter
    The Washington Post reports: "China on Tuesday denied its fighter jet pilots operated dangerously during an encounter with a U.S. surveillance plane in international airspace in which the American pilot took evasive action to avoid a possible collision. Spokesman Ren Guoqiang said in a statement on the defense ministry's microblog that the performance of the pilots of the two J-10 fighters was 'legal, necessary and professional.' Ren criticized frequent close-in surveillance runs by U.S. planes as raising the chance of accidents, saying such missions 'threatened China's national security, harmed China-U.S. sea-air military safety, endangered the safety of pilots from the two sides and were the root cause of China-U.S. sea-air unexpected incidents.' ...(Ren's statement) reflects China's standard policy toward U.S. surveillance missions intended at collecting Chinese computer and voice data in hopes of gaining insight into the workings of the People's Liberation Army. Asked about the incident at a daily briefing, Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Lu Kang said Beijing objected to such missions but remained 'committed to building military mutual trust with other countries.' U.S. Navy Capt. Jeff Davis said the Chinese fighters intercepted the U.S. EP-3 surveillance plane Sundayin international airspace between the East China Sea and the Yellow Sea, in an area he described as west of the Korean Peninsula. Davis said one of the Chinese planes approached at a high rate of speed from beneath the American plane, then slowed and pulled up, prompting the EP-3 pilot to take evasive action. He called the Chinese pilot's move unsafe."
  • Forbes：Xi Jinping To China's Private Sector: Go Home, The New Silk Road Is Not For You
    Forbes comments: "In 2013, Chinese President Xi Jinping announced something called the Belt and Road Initiative, which was to be a trillion-dollar framework to guide Chinese foreign investment, infrastructure development, trade, and other international forays. What this initiative actually consists of still remains vague, what its benchmarks are have never been stated. It is often difficult to discern which projects are a part of the initiative and which aren't, but this hasn't stopped China's private sector from jumping onto the "China International" bandwagon and embarking on global investment sprees of their own... Last month, a President-Xi-Jinping-approved crackdown on the international acquisitions of private Chinese companies went into effect, with banking regulators being sicked upon a handful big firms who had been stuffing their international portfolios in recent years... As it turns out, this new crackdown appears to already have been effective, with Wanda Chairman Wang Jianlin publicly claiming that his company will return home to focusing its investment activities in China's domestic market, while also engaging in a mass selloff of assets to repay some of its loans. All told, it is becoming clear that China's Belt and Road will not go the same way that NAFTA initially did for the USA or of Japan's big outward bound spending spree in the 1980s. It is looking as if China will not see a situation where droves of private domestic companies up anchor and go offshore, leaving industrial wastelands and an economic vacuum in their wake, essentially doing to them what companies like Kodak, GM, and GE did to the USA during the first leg of the globalization race."
  • The New York Times：The Lonely Crusade of China's Human Rights Lawyers
    The New York Times reports: "The last five years have brought severe setbacks for China's lawyers — especially those who work on the rule of law. Sida Liu, the Toronto professor, has called this divergence the 'dual-state model.' 'They use one system for ordinary legal cases and use another, much harsher system for sensitive cases,' Liu told me. 'They draw a line between the acceptable and the unacceptable.' When that line is crossed, 'they can do anything to you.'...Then came July 9, 2015 — '709,' as it came to be known, the largest crackdown on Chinese lawyers in decades. All together, Chinese human rights observers estimated that fall, more than 300 rights lawyers and activists from across the country were targeted, with 27 forbidden to leave the country, 255 temporarily detained or forcibly questioned and 28 held in government custody. It was an attack not just on rights lawyers but also on the wider networks of civil and social activism... Many of the lawyers and activists swept up in 709 faced possible sentences of life imprisonment. For six months, they effectively disappeared, under a provision of the Chinese criminal code that allows the police to hold suspects incommunicado for 'residential surveillance in a designated location,' a practice that the United Nations Commission on Human Rights has asked the government to end 'as a matter of urgency.'""
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