Hong Kong: Legislature vetoes Beijing-backed “electoral reform” proposal
"Hong Kong's legislature on Thursday vetoed a China-vetted electoral reform package criticized by opposition pro-democracy lawmakers and activists as undemocratic, easing for now the prospect of fresh...
View ArticlePhilippines, US, Japan hold military drills near South China Sea
"Military exercises between the United States and the Philippines opened Monday, at the same time that the Japanese and Philippine navies started joint training. Both operations are being held on the...
View ArticleReading war with China
Review of Ghost Fleet, by Peter W. Singer and August Cole: "Imagine a near-future scenario in which China and Russia sneak-attack America's assets in the Pacific, sink its fleet, and occupy Hawaii in...
View ArticleTurkey: Protesters ransack Thai consulate over Uighur deportations
"On Thursday, Turkish protesters vandalized the Thai consulate in Istanbul following the deportation of more than 100 Uighurs from Thailand. Human rights groups claim that the deported Uighurs hold...
View ArticleMyanmar: 152 Chinese nationals sentenced to life for illegal logging
"China is raging after a court in northern Myanmar sentenced 152 Chinese nationals to life imprisonment for violating the law against destroying public properties. Most of them have been accused by the...
View ArticleChina: Shanghai share index suffers biggest daily drop since 2007
"The Shanghai share index fell the most since early 2007 on Monday as Chinese stocks suffered a renewed sell-off despite government efforts to calm the market. The Shanghai Composite Index closed down...
View ArticleChina: Police bust phone manufacturing entrepreneurs to protect IP monopolists
"Police in Beijing have busted a factory that produced more than 41,000 fake iPhones worth as much as 120 million yuan ($19 million), including some that reached the United States, and have arrested...
View ArticleHow to deal with China
"The New York Times recently carried a story detailing China's increasing economic clout around the world, brought about by billions of dollars in cash and grandiose socialist projects in targeted...
View ArticleChina, Russia to hold joint naval, air drills
"China and Russia will hold joint military drills in the waters and airspace of the Sea of Japan, Beijing said Thursday, the latest defence cooperation between the countries. ... The drills come as...
View ArticleChina: The real problem is nominal
"There is nothing wrong with 5.8% NGDP growth. If China kept growth at that pace for the next 20 years, their business cycle would become more stable. The problem now, and in the late 1990s, is the...
View ArticleChina’s 1929 moment
"Anyone with a nose for markets will tell you that the Chinese government's attempt to rescue the country's stock markets from collapse is far from succeeding." (08/03/15)
View ArticleChina: Regime to set up censorship offices inside Internet companies
"So here's a problem. You're a government that has already brought in some of the most repressive online censorship measures anywhere in the world, and yet you worry that you might not be in complete...
View ArticleWas China’s devaluation a beggar-thy-neighbor policy?
"I've argued that devaluations are not beggar-thy-neighbor policies. More specifically, the Chinese need to devalue their currency to boost NGDP (and RGDP) growth, and that this would also help the...
View ArticleChina: At least 44 dead in port explosions
"A warehouse in the Chinese port city of Tianjin erupted in a series of explosions late Wednesday, killing 44 people and spewing massive fireballs and billowing clouds of smoke into the night sky. The...
View ArticleReserve judgment
"Long hours of trying to reconcile the conflicting and partial Chinese data on gold have yielded little result other than to say that reserves appear to be held at some sort of yuan historic cost...
View ArticleJapan: Abe to skip China visit during World War Two commemoration
"Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will not visit China next week, the government said today, as Beijing prepares for a huge military parade to mark the 70th anniversary of Tokyo's defeat in World War...
View ArticleChina: Central bank cuts rates, reserve ratio to aid economy
"China's central bank cut interest rates and lowered the amount of reserves banks must hold for the second time in two months on Tuesday, ratcheting up support for a stumbling economy and a plunging...
View ArticleWhy devaluing the yuan won’t help China’s economy
"Earlier this month, the Chinese government decided to depreciate its currency on three consecutive occasions. On August 13, the price of the US dollar was trading at 6.413 -- an increase of 3.3...
View ArticleChina: Regime says netizens who spread rumors about Tianjin blasts, stock...
"People recently punished in China's campaign against online rumors include those who circulated an inflated death toll in the Tianjin blasts and who alleged a man committed suicide because of the...
View ArticleChina: Regime to cut 300,000 soldiers, shift resources to sea and air
"At a military parade Thursday to mark the end of World War II, President Xi Jinping announced that China will cut some 300,000 soldiers from the country's 2-million-strong armed forces, a move that...
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