Dalai Lama in talks to return to Tibet
"The Dalai Lama, the Tibetan spiritual leader, indicated Thursday that he has had discussions with Beijing about making a pilgrimage to Wutai Shan mountain in the Tibetan Autonomous Region, in what...
View ArticleChina: Regime abducts dozens in effort to stop Hong Kong protests from spreading
"The Chinese authorities, determined to prevent pro-democracy rallies in Hong Kong from spilling across the border into the mainland, have detained at least 10 people in recent days, including a group...
View ArticleChina declares war on US intellectual property, gets into the patent trolling...
"China is not known for its respect of intellectual property rights. According to the U.S.-China Business Council, counterfeit products make up approximately 15-20 percent of total Chinese GDP. That is...
View ArticleHong Kong: Tension rises with police beating of protester
"Hong Kong authorities said on Wednesday police involved in the beating of a pro-democracy protester would be removed from their positions after footage of the overnight incident went viral, sparking...
View ArticleApple addresses iCloud hacks; Chinese regime denies hacking allegations
"On Monday, a group that monitors online censorship in China accused the People's Republic of intercepting traffic between local users and iCloud.com in an attempt to steal their passwords. In a...
View ArticleChina completes first moon-and-back mission
"China has completed its first return mission to the moon with the successful re-entry and landing of an unmanned probe. In the latest step forward for Beijing's ambitious space program, the probe...
View ArticleChina: Regime unveils laser defense cannon
"China announced the successful development of a laser-firing cannon to shoot down drones with a 1.2 mile radius. The state-run news agency Xinhua reported Monday the 'homemade laser defense system'...
View ArticleHong Kong: Protesters clash with police
"Pro-democracy protesters clashed with police in Hong Kong early Thursday for the first time in more than two weeks as pressure grows on demonstrators to abandon more than a month and a half of street...
View ArticleChina unveils sophisticated stealth fighter aircraft
"China unveiled a sophisticated new stealth fighter jet at an air show on Tuesday, a show of muscle during a visit by U.S. President Barack Obama for an Asia-Pacific summit. China hopes the...
View ArticleHong Kong in context
"The recent protests in Hong Kong have adhered to the choreography of Chinese politics in at least one important respect: the Communist regime has accused its political opponents of being unpatriotic....
View ArticleChina building airstrip in disputed sea?
"China may be building a military base in the disputed Spratly Islands in South China Sea, believe Asian military experts. The belief is buttressed by leading defence publication IHS Jane's showing...
View ArticleChina: Regime sentences former energy chief to life for bribery
"The former head of China’s energy agency was sentenced to life imprisonment for taking 36 million yuan ($5.8 million) in bribes to approve projects, a Chinese court said. Liu Tienan, 60, who ran the...
View ArticleThe importance of property rights for China’s future
"President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang have called for rebalancing the economy and structural reforms, with the recognition that slower, more sustainable high-quality growth is consistent with...
View ArticleChinese spacecraft enters orbit around moon in major milestone
"A Chinese spacecraft service module just entered orbit around the moon, just months after it was successfully tested. The service module, which came from China’s circumlunar test flight, arrived in...
View ArticleTibet: Chicom officials punished for helping Dalai Lama
"Investigators have found that 15 Communist Party officials in Tibet joined underground Tibetan independence organizations, provided intelligence to the Dalai Lama and his supporters or participated in...
View ArticleChina: Regime clamps down still harder on Internet access
"China has long had some of the world’s most onerous Internet restrictions. But until now, the authorities had effectively tolerated the proliferation of V.P.N.’s as a lifeline for millions of people,...
View ArticleChina: Xi Jinping plans to make first state visit to US
"A top Chinese diplomat has said President Xi Jinping plans to make his first state visit to the U.S. later this year, Chinese state media reported Monday. The official China Daily newspaper quoted...
View ArticleAre the ruling elites in China now more pro-market than the ruling elites in...
"Once upon a time, the Chinese were the enemies of private property rights and free markets, and the Americans were the enemies of the Chinese and purported to cherish the institutions that the Chinese...
View ArticleInside China’s “new normal”
"Seen from the Chinese capital as the Year of the Sheep starts, the malaise affecting the West seems like a mirage in a galaxy far, far away. On the other hand, the China that surrounds you looks all...
View ArticleChina: Suspect shot dead after knife attack wounds nine
"Knife-wielding attackers slashed and stabbed people at a railway station in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou, wounding at least nine before police shot dead one of the suspected assailants and...
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