
Beijing will welcome the head of the Syrian National Coalition (SNC), an umbrella group of Syrian opposition groups, this week to discuss political solutions to the ongoing civil war in Syria.
by Frances Martel5 Jan 2016, 6:39 PM PST0

In an extensive report published this week, Reuters has revealed how the Chinese communist state threatens and intimidates foreign citizens of ethnic Uighur extraction into spying on fellow Uighurs abroad.
by Frances Martel31 Dec 2015, 9:36 AM PST0

A patriotic organization opposed to Chinese imperialism in the Philippines has made a voyage to the contested Spratly Islands in the South China Sea, where China has begun constructing numerous military facilities in violation of international law.
by Frances Martel29 Dec 2015, 8:38 AM PST0

An unusual threat warning has been issued by the American, British, French, and Australian embassies in Beijing, warning Westerners to use extra vigilance when visiting the popular Sanlitun shopping district.
by John Hayward26 Dec 2015, 2:01 PM PST0

Beijing is trying to nip the growing Chinese labor movement in the bud, as ABC News reports the detention of seven labor activists in Guangdong province, including three leaders of the movement, “on charges they improperly intervened in labor disputes.”
by John Hayward23 Dec 2015, 8:05 PM PST0

China is considering tough new restrictions on its state-run media operations, using a new anti-terrorism law that could be in effect by New Year’s Day.
by John Hayward22 Dec 2015, 8:40 PM PST0

China summoned U.S. envoy Kaye Lee in Beijing on Thursday to complain about the sale of $1.83 billion in arms to Taiwan, and threatened to impose sanctions on all companies involved, accusing the United States of breaking international law and compromising China’s sovereignty.
by John Hayward17 Dec 2015, 11:39 AM PST0

The Islamic State announced the murder of two hostages in the latest issue of its Dabiq magazine, Fan Jinghui of China and Ole Johan Grimsgaard-Ofstad of Norway.
by John Hayward19 Nov 2015, 10:25 AM PST0

Author Brett Decker sees the TPP as another step on the long path away from fidelity to the U.S. Constitution. “You know, I don’t think the Founders would recognize anything about this country,” he said. “The whole secrecy around this thing… as much as 20 years I’ve been in this town, it shocked me how you couldn’t see this thing, it couldn’t be public. The public wasn’t allowed to see it before it was voted on and approved. Is that really what this country’s about, where we can have this ‘Great Wall of Paper’ in a new law, and the public isn’t allowed to know what it is?”
by John Hayward11 Nov 2015, 8:01 AM PST0

The Obama administration authorized the U.S. Navy to conduct “freedom of navigation” operations in the South China Sea.
by Admiral James A. "Ace" Lyons4 Nov 2015, 8:31 AM PST0

Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou and the head of the People’s Republic of China, Xi Jinping, will meet in person in Singapore on Saturday, the first time a meeting between these nations’ heads of state has occurred since 1949.
by Frances Martel4 Nov 2015, 8:00 AM PST0

Chinese state media outlet Xinhua has published an editorial threatening the Chinese government is open to “use of force” against the United States should it continue to establish a military presence in the South China Sea.
by Frances Martel28 Oct 2015, 9:29 AM PST0

On Friday, a Chinese official declared to the United Nations General Assembly that it was “highly necessary and pressing for the international community to jointly bring about an international code of conduct on cyberspace at an early date.”
by John Hayward13 Oct 2015, 8:59 AM PST0

Contents: Thousands of cars in China stuck in week-long traffic jam; Fears in Israel grow of ‘third intifada’ as West Bank violence spreads; Anger and frustration grow among West Bank Palestinians; Four Russian cruise missiles fall in Iran; Severe epidemic of dengue fever strikes Vietnam
by John J. Xenakis9 Oct 2015, 4:00 AM PST0

Chinese journalist Wang Xiaolu has been arrested and has “confessed” to causing the stock market to crash in what the nation is calling its “Black Monday” last week. State media outlet Xinhua reports that nearly 200 others were also arrested for “causing panic” by “spreading rumors” in publications or on social media.
by Frances Martel31 Aug 2015, 6:51 AM PST0

You might think, as many investors do, that a loss of confidence in Beijing caused the Chinese market rout, but Beijing thinks you’ll find the real culprits along the banks of the Potomac.
by John Hayward28 Aug 2015, 6:19 PM PST0

Investors hope the U.S. and European markets are stabilizing after Monday morning’s free fall, but China’s stock market dropped again on Tuesday. It looks as if the parachutes are finally popping, as the AP reports the Shanghai Composite rallied from a 6.4% drop on Tuesday morning to a 4.3% loss by midday. This follows an 8.5% plunge on Monday, the worst performance in eight years.
by John Hayward26 Aug 2015, 5:41 AM PST0

One of the big problems with allowing an authoritarian communist/crony-capitalist regime to become a world financial leader is that they lie about everything. China’s long-concealed economic woes finally became impossible to hide, and we got a worldwide market panic that sent the
by John Hayward24 Aug 2015, 2:29 PM PST0

Hong Kong’s emeritus archbishop, Cardinal Joseph Zen, has slammed the Chinese government’s program to demolish rooftop crosses from Christian churches, calling it a “regression” in China’s policy toward religion, reminiscent of Mao’s Cultural Revolution.
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.19 Aug 2015, 12:56 PM PST0

The families of passengers of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 stormed the Malaysian embassy in Beijing Friday, objecting to being left out of meetings with Malaysian government officials and demanding Malaysia pay for their flight to Reunion, a remote island in the Indian Ocean where the flaperon part of a Boeing 777 was found this month.
by Frances Martel7 Aug 2015, 5:45 PM PST0

Beijing was awarded the 2022 winter Olympics on Friday, beating Kazakhstan’s Almaty in an International Olympic Committee vote to become the first city to have won both summer and winter editions of the world’s biggest multi-sports event. The Chinese capital
by Reuters31 Jul 2015, 3:24 AM PST0

After a mass roundup of hundreds of human rights attorneys and employees at a human rights law firm, reports suggest at least six individuals are unaccounted for, believed to have been taken into Chinese police custody for interrogation and, some fear, torture.
by Frances Martel21 Jul 2015, 9:00 PM PST0

Hillary Clinton’s ludicrous effort to reinvent herself as a champion of cybersecurity led her to accuse China of trying to hack “everything that doesn’t move in America” at a New Hampshire campaign event.
by John Hayward7 Jul 2015, 9:09 PM PST0

Joshua Wong, 18, a student leader of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement, was assaulted by an as-of-yet unidentified attacker. Wong was out on a date with his girlfriend when the assailant attacked him and his girlfriend outside a movie theater near the site of important protests from last year.
by Michael Lucchese29 Jun 2015, 6:24 PM PST0

President Obama’s eagerness to set his Iranian partners-in-peace up with a fully functional economy and functional nuclear weapons is not generating much reciprocal affection from Tehran. Iran’s Fars news agency reports that Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s top adviser for foreign affairs, Ali Akbar Velayati, declared his country “is keen to build closer military ties with China, welcoming Beijing to expand its naval presence worldwide.”
by John Hayward10 Jun 2015, 9:01 AM PST0