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Opinion: Maybe it’s time to quit negotiating with China
By Peter Morici, Columnist, 7 May 2018 The battle lines are drawn in the trade war with China, and President Donald Trump can expect little support from the high tech and financial sectors or the economics profession. They argue the … Continued
U.S. condemns China for ‘Orwellian nonsense’ over airline websites
By David Shepardson, Reuters May 06, 2018 00:06:27 IST WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House on Saturday sharply criticized China’s efforts to force foreign airlines to change how they refer to Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau, labeling China’s latest effort … Continued
White House calls China’s warning to airlines ‘Orwellian nonsense’
by Daniel Shane @CNNMoney The White House is publicly admonishing China for warning foreign airlines to change how they identify Taiwan and other areas on their websites. More than 30 airlines — including some US carriers — were recently told by … Continued
China is afraid of its ethnic minorities
As President Xi Jinping takes Chinese influence to every corner of the world, there remain corners of his own country that his government struggles to control. The big picture: The Chinese Communist Party has no tolerance for dissent from ethnic … Continued
Marxism still ‘totally correct’ for China: Xi
REUTERS, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, 5 May 2018 He tells party members to make it ‘way of life’, ahead of 200th anniversary of Marx’s birth BEIJING • The decision of China’s ruling Communist Party to stick with the political theories of Karl … Continued
Tibetan task force discusses developments in China
Times of India, 5 May 2018 Dharamshala: The 30th session of the Tibetan task force on negotiations concluded on Thursday at the headquarters of the Tibetan administration. Nineteen members of the task force attended the meet. During the meeting, the … Continued
World Press Freedom Day 2018: Xi Jinping, release Tibetan Tashi Wangchuk – charged over a NYTimes report
3 May 2018 19:26 – Hong Kong Free Press (Read Original Story Here) An open letter to President Xi Jinping Our organisations are committed to freedom of expression, freedom of the press and human rights in Tibet and China. We … Continued
Chinese Nobel laureate’s widow ‘ready to die’ in house arrest
Lily Kuo, The Guardian, 3 May 2018 04.20 BST Liu Xia, wife of the late human rights activist Liu Xiaobo, says she has nothing left to live for, in phone call with exiled friend Protesters display a portrait of Liu Xiaobo … Continued
China is pressuring international airlines to copy its political views
Tara Francis Chan, Business Insider, 2 May 2018 China is pressuring airlines around the world to toe its political line. China has sent letters to Qantas, American Airlines, and reportedly United Airlines to warn them against referring to Taiwan as … Continued
‘Amazing China’ documentary more fiction than fact
by Erika Kinetz and Elias Meseret | AP May 1 2018, The Washington Post SHANGHAI — A company that made shoes for Ivanka Trump and stands accused of serious labor violations plays an unexpected role in a blockbuster propaganda film … Continued
China, India and water across the border
Joydeep Gupta, Tuesday May 1st, 2018 TheThird Pole.Net When India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi and China’s President Xi Jinping held an informal summit on April 27-28, involving a cruise on Wuhan lake in Hubei province, did they talk about water? … Continued
A Harsh Reality Of Bangladesh: Water Security, Salinity Intrusion, And Internal Migration – OpEd
By Zulker Naeen*, 30 April 2018 Read original story here In recent years, development experts around the world are intensely concerned about water security. According to FAO, a third of the world’s population depends on groundwater and the UN has … Continued
We need to make strong contribution to global peace and development, PM Modi tells Xi Jinping
Daily News & Analysis Web Team, Read original story here Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping today exchanged views on “solidifying” the India-China relationship as they began an unprecedented two-day informal summit here during which they will … Continued
China Guards Its Historical Heroes With New Law
By Chun Han Wong, Updated April 27, 2018 6:00 a.m. ET As President Xi Jinping entrenches Communist Party rule, new law mandates ‘all of society’ honor its heroes and martyrs BEIJING—Eight decades after his grandfather was killed during the Chinese … Continued
Taiwan leader Tsai Ing-wen willing to meet Xi Jinping ‘for peace and stability’
Agence France-Presse, 28 April 2018 Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen said on Friday she would be willing to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping “for peace and stability” in the wake of a landmark summit between the leaders of the two Koreas. … Continued