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Thursday, 28 November 2013

Getting Senkaku History Right

Posted on 02:18 by Unknown
Chinese claims to sovereignty over the Senkaku islands don’t hold up well under scrutiny
By Tadashi Ikeda


East Asia this year has been marked by rising tensions over the Senkaku Islands.
As has been widely reported, China has dispatched government patrol and surveillance ships to intrude into Japan’s territorial waters off the islands, which lie in the East China Sea.
Meanwhile, Beijing’s rhetoric has been more heated.
In April, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson appeared to indicate that the Chinese government regarded the Senkaku Island issue as a core interest for China.
This was the first government use of a term normally reserved for highly sensitive Chinese political concerns such as Taiwan, Tibet and the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.
And in recent days, China has made the very provocative decision to establish an air defense zone that encompasses the Senkaku skies.
With concerns rising that the situation could spiral out of control, it seems worth reviewing the facts regarding the sovereignty of the Senkaku and the options available for a sensible resolution to the issue.

Unfounded Assertions
Ever since it incorporated the Senkaku Islands into Japanese territory through a Cabinet decision in 1895, the Japanese government has consistently taken the position that the islands are an integral part of the territory of Japan.
This stance accords with both international law and the historical facts.
The Senkaku have consistently been under Japan’s effective control, except for a period (from 1945 to 1972) when the islands were placed under the administration of the United States as part of Okinawa prefecture.
Before 1971, neither China nor Taiwan made any claims to “territorial sovereignty” over the Senkaku Islands.
For 76 years, neither government expressed any objection to Japanese sovereignty over the islands.
Why the change in position?
In the late 1960s, a UN agency, the Bangkok-based Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East (ECAFE), surveyed the waters around the Senkaku.
The survey suggested potentially rich deposits of oil beneath the seabed.
After the ECAFE released its findings, in 1971, the Republic of China (Taiwan) made its first territorial claim to the islands.
Several months later the People’s Republic of China followed suit.
So, let’s review the history of the issue more carefully.
For ten years starting 1885, Japan conducted field surveys on the Senkaku Islands, scrupulously confirming that the islands had never been inhabited and showed no traces of having been under the control of China’s Qing Dynasty.
Based on this research, the Japanese government decided in January 1895 to erect national territorial markers on the islands, officially incorporating the Senkaku Islands into the territory of Japan.
This administrative action was consistent with international law, namely the internationally accepted legal theory of terra nullius (land belonging to no one) concerning the rights of acquisition through occupation.

The Historical Record
As the record shows, Japanese inhabited the Senkaku from 1895 until immediately before the start of World War II. Japanese people sometimes lived on the islands to harvest albatross feathers.
During another period, a factory was built to process dried bonito.
The population of one of the islands, Uotsuri, topped 200 at one point.
In 1920, residents of Ishigaki Island, which was under the jurisdiction of Okinawa prefecture, rescued Chinese fishermen caught in a storm in waters near the Senkaku.
The Consul of the Republic of China in Nagasaki sent a signed and sealed letter of appreciation for the rescue in the area of “the Senkaku Islands in the Yaeyama District of the Japanese Empire’s Okinawa Prefecture.”
The letter cited the names of the residents of Ishigaki Island, whom the consul noted “were willing and generous in the rescue operation.”
Just over three years after the People’s Republic of China’s birth, a January 8, 1953 article in the People’s Daily, an organ of the Communist Party of China had the Senkaku as Japanese territory.
A World Atlas published in China in 1960 showed the islands as part of Japan.
According to notes taken at meetings of the Chinese government around 1950, copies of which were recently obtained exclusively by the Jiji Press news agency, Chinese government officials were using the Japanese name “Senkaku Islands,” indicating that they considered the Senkaku part of Okinawa prefecture.
When Okinawa prefecture was provisionally placed under U.S. administration in 1945, the U.S. military used some of the Senkaku Islands as firing and bombing ranges.
With the reversion of Okinawa to Japanese rule in 1972, the Senkaku returned to Japan, as part of the prefecture.
The U.S. has clearly and repeatedly stated the Senkaku are “within the range of application” of the Japan-U.S. Security Treaty.
China argues that Japan stole the Senkaku Islands during the Sino-Japanese war, from August 1894 to April 1895.
The claim suggests Japan “usurped” the islands using the turmoil of war as an excuse.
But in making that assertion, China deliberately ignores two key facts:
(1) Over a period of at least 10 years before the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War, the evidence showed that the Senkaku were terra nullius, and not under the control of China’s Qing Dynasty; and
(2) Japan incorporated the islands into its sovereign territory using procedures in accordance with international law, prior to the conclusion of the Treaty of Shimonoseki, which ended the Sino-Japanese War.
Under the Treaty of Shimonoseki, signed in April 1895, the Qing Dynasty ceded Taiwan and the Pescadores Islands to Japan.
No mention was made of the Senkaku Islands.
There is no record of any discussions taking place on the Senkaku in the bilateral negotiations on the treaty. The incorporation of the Senkaku into Japan’s territory by exercising its rights of “acquisition through occupation” based on the legal principle of terra nullius was carried out three months before the Treaty of Shimonoseki was concluded.
During the 50-year period from 1895 to 1945, when Japan ruled both Taiwan and the Pescadores under the jurisdiction of the Governor-General of Taiwan (Formosa), the Senkaku Islands were under the jurisdiction of the Okinawa prefectural government as part of the prefecture’s Nansei Islands, a chain of islands extending from southwestern Kyushu to waters north of Taiwan.
Administrative jurisdiction over the Senkaku was entirely separate from the administration of Taiwan and the Pescadores.
Searching for options, the Chinese government has recently begun quoting the 1943 Cairo Declaration and the 1945 Potsdam Declaration as evidence of its claims.
Beijing argues that Japan’s acceptance of these declarations means that it agreed to return the Senkaku to China (the Republic of China) along with Taiwan and the Pescadores as “islands appertaining to Taiwan.”
To be sure, the Cairo Declaration obliged Japan “to restore to the Republic of China all the territories Japan has stolen from the Qing Dynasty of China such as Manchuria, Formosa and the Pescadores.”
Article 8 of the Potsdam Declaration stipulated, “The Cairo Declaration shall be implemented.”
However, there is no evidence that shows that the Allied powers, including the Republic of China, recognized the Senkaku Islands as among “the islands appertaining to Formosa.”
The San Francisco Peace Treaty, signed in September 1951, defined the territory of Japan after the war: Article 2 (b) of the treaty stipulated that Japan renounced territorial sovereignty over Formosa and the Pescadores, which the treaty said had been ceded by China to Japan after the Sino-Japanese War. However, the Senkaku Islands were not included “in the islands appertaining to Formosa” in the treaty.
Had the Senkaku, at that time, been recognized as “islands appertaining to Taiwan,” the U.S. would not have placed the Senkaku under its administration as part of Okinawa prefecture.
In this respect, China’s claims are without legal foundation.

No Agreement on “Shelving”
The term of “shelving” an issue refers to the acknowledgement by two parties that an issue exists, and the agreement to postpone resolution to a future date.
Japan and China never agreed to “shelve” any issue related to the territorial sovereignty over the Senkaku Islands.
Documents recently released by Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs make this clear.
At the time of negotiations between Japan and China in 1972 to normalize diplomatic relations, Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka and Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai briefly exchanged words on the Senkaku Islands.
One document quotes Tanaka as asking Zhou: “What is your view on the Senkaku Islands? Some people say things about them to me.”
The exchange ended abruptly with Zhou’s response: “I do not want to talk about it this time. If there wasn’t oil, neither Taiwan nor the United States would make this an issue.”
That is the entire exchange, and it simply cannot be equated with an argument in favor of shelving the issue.
The record also reveals what Chinese Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping said about the Senkaku Islands in 1978 to then Japanese Prime Minister Takeo Fukuda.
Deng was visiting Japan for an exchange of instruments ratifying the Japan-China Treaty of Peace and Friendship.
During his meeting with Fukuda, Deng said, “There’s no need to raise subjects like this [the issue of what is called the Diaoyu in China and the Senkaku Islands in Japan] at a meeting like this.”
Deng also said: “There’s probably insufficient wisdom to resolve this issue in our generation, but with the next generation likely to be wiser than us, they will probably be able to find some resolution to the issue.”
Fukuda made no response.
At a press conference on the day he met with Fukuda, Deng reiterated his desire to leave a solution to the Senkaku problem to the next generation, as “people of our generation don’t have sufficient wisdom to settle this problem… Even if this means the issue is temporarily shelved, I don’t think I mind. I don’t mind if it’s shelved for 10 years,” Deng added.
As these records show, there was never any recognition that a territorial or sovereignty problem existed between Japan and China or that an accord or agreement to shelve the matter existed.
Although Deng’s remarks were carefully and skillfully phrased at the press conference, he was merely offering his own opinion.

Tokyo’s Position
The Japanese government has consistently maintained that the Senkaku Islands are under the valid control of Japan as an integral part of its territory and therefore no issue of territorial sovereignty exists.
This is obvious from remarks made by then Foreign Minister Kiichi Miyazawa in October 1975.
During deliberations in Japan’s parliament on the Japan-China Peace and Friendship Treaty negotiations, the foreign minister asserted, “It can never be said the Japan-China negotiations are being conducted under the assumption of a so-called shelving [of matters related to the Senkaku].”
Miyazawa added, “Ever since the 28th year of the Meiji era (1895), the Senkaku Islands have been part of Japan’s integral territory and they in fact have been under our country’s valid rights of administration.”
Since then, the Japanese government has been consistent in its position that “shelving” the issue is out of the question.
In April 1992, 14 years after Deng Xiaoping held his press conference in Japan, China unilaterally enacted a domestic law, the Law on the Territorial Sea and Contiguous Zone of the People’s Republic of China,under which it incorporated the Senkaku Islands into its own territory.
The Japanese government immediately issued a strong protest at the act, which in fact contradicts China insistence it was “shelving” the Senkaku issue.
Japan, for its part, should demand that China amend or abolish the law before agreeing to a discussion on “shelving” the Senkaku sovereignty issue.
Beijing also maintains that proof of China’s sovereignty over the Senkaku can be found in descriptions of the islands in old documents from the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty.
It says it named the islands.
These assertions, however, are attributable mostly to China’s ancient notion of Sinocentrism in an age of nominal suzerain-tributary relationships between the Chinese Empire, which claimed to be cultural center of the world, and other nations.
At that time imperial titles were given by Chinese dynasties to “barbarian” tributary states. This thinking has been superseded by modern international law.
Taiwan is also referred to as Formosa, a derivation from the Portuguese Ilha Formosa, meaning “beautiful island.” Does that mean Taiwan should be Portuguese territory?
Extending this false notion of Sinocentrism, it could be argued that Okinawa (the Ryukyu Archipelago), which once paid tribute to both Japan and China, was “part of the sovereign territory of China.”
News reports this year have a high-ranking Chinese government official suggesting China could claim sovereignty over Okinawa.
Subsequently, the Global Times, the People’s Daily’s international version, argued in an editorial in May 2013 that the territorial status of Okinawa remained undecided.

Agreement with Taiwan
Taiwan’s position on the Senkaku is similar to that of the People’s Republic of China.
It asserts the islands were Chinese territory since the Ming and Qing dynasties.
Nevertheless, when the People’s Republic of China called on Taiwan recently to join hands with it in dealing with Japan “on the basis of defending Chinese sovereignty” over the Senkaku, Taipei refused.
As it turns out, Taiwan is mainly worried about fishing.
Although Tokyo and Taipei have met more than 15 times since the mid 1990s to negotiate fisheries rights, divisions remained, with Japan placing priority on the Japan-Taiwan median line and Taiwan demanding its traditional fishing grounds.
In 2008, when I was chief Japanese representative to Taiwan, a Japan Coast Guard patrol boat rammed and sank a Taiwan fishing boat near the Senkaku.
In the wake of this incident, anti-Japanese sentiment surged, albeit temporarily, in Taiwan.
That experience made me all the more aware of the importance of the fisheries problem between Japan and Taiwan and the need to resolve them at the earliest possible time.
In April of this year, after long and careful preparation, Japan and Taiwan signed a fisheries agreement.
This was a groundbreaking event that deepens friendly Japan-Taiwan relations and is a positive development on the Senkaku sovereignty issue.
Separating fisheries negotiations from any territorial question has proved useful.
China, which regards Taiwan as part of its territory, objected to the Japan-Taiwan accord.
Despite the fisheries accord, it seems that the Taiwan government authorities will continue to make claims to the Senkaku in a way unique to Taiwan, although pressure from Taiwan fishermen to deal firmly with Japan will likely ease.

Could the ICJ Help?
One option on the Senkaku issue would be to seek arbitration by the International Court of Justice (ICJ). Since Japan is certain of the legitimacy of its sovereignty over the Senkaku, it would be pointless for it to lodge any claim.
But if China did so, and agreed to accept whatever ruling was handed down, Japan might also think it beneficial to defer to the ICJ, demonstrating that it is ready to abide by internationally accepted rules.
Both Japan and China would have to be prepared to run the risks inherent in such a decision.
However, if China complied with an ICJ ruling on the Senkaku, Beijing could be inundated with calls to accept ICJ rulings on other “core interests,” including Taiwan, Tibet, the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and even the South China Sea.
Given that, it seems highly unlikely that China would run the risk of an adverse ICJ ruling.
For Japan, deferring to the ICJ carries the risk of having the legitimacy of its sovereignty over the Senkaku decided by a third party.
Would all 15 ICJ judges be well versed in Japan’s assertions?
In a territorial dispute between Colombia and Nicaragua over a group of islands, the ICJ recently handed down a ruling that split the islands between the two countries.
Colombia relinquished its ICJ affiliation in protest.
If it were to agree to ICJ arbitration, Japan would have to be prepared to face a similar situation.
Personally, I see no need for Japan to run such a risk in light of this country’s extremely well laid-out position both in terms of legality and historical facts.
Japan should continue to hold to the position that it has maintained for more than 100 years.
Compromising on territorial integrity and sovereignty could open the door to more challenges.

What Will China Do? 
Any improvement in China-Japan relations should be welcome. Both countries refer to it as “a strategic relationship of mutual interest.”
Needless to say, Japan and China should maintain dialogues and exchanges and use compromise where possible to contain tensions.    
That does not mean, however, rushing to compromise at the expense of a nation’s territorial integrity and sovereignty.
Japan wants China to act as a responsible Asian power and to play a constructive role by adopting a policy of international cooperation.
This is roughly what Americans have in mind when they call for a “China as a responsible international stakeholder.”
Will China adopt a policy of international cooperation or will it pursue a hegemonic path that uses its military strength to flout international law?
In light of recent events in the East China and the South China Seas, it seems clear that China has superpower status in mind.
China’s defense outlays – those that have been made public – have consistently risen at a double-digit clip over the past two decades.
Article II of the 1978 Treaty of Peace and Friendship between Japan and China stipulates, that “Neither of the two countries should seek hegemony in the Asia-Pacific region and each is opposed to efforts by any other country or group of countries to establish such hegemony.”
Is this stipulation still valid or has it become a remnant of the Cold War?
Japan and China should have a candid exchange of views on this point.
While Deng Xiaoping’s remarks proposing the shelving of the Senkaku sovereignty issue are widely known, few people are aware that Deng made a statement to the effect that Japan should object if and when China began to show signs in the future of seeking hegemony.
This brings to mind a 1980s statement by the chief of the general staff Wu Xiuquan of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army, who said – probably in reference to China’s military tensions with the then Soviet Union at the time – that Japan should spend at least 2 percent of its gross national product on its defense, double Japan’s actual defense spending at the time.
As China’s economic growth slows, it is likely to face social unrest over wealth disparities, corruption, environmental issues and human rights.
There is an obvious temptation for the government to distract from these issues by casting Japan as a “villain.”
On the Senkaku issue, Beijing has been making outrageous claims implying that Japan is going to ruin “the postwar peace order.”
It has been trying to link today’s Japan with its 1940s version, as exemplified by a statement by Premier Li Keqiang that China will “never accept any comments or actions that seek to deny or glorify the history of fascist aggression.”
China’s moves are mainly designed to hold Japan in check while at the same time trying to drive a wedge between Japan and the United States.
China’s rigid diplomatic stance today is likely to remain unchanged at least for the immediate future, particularly given the domestic problems it faces.
Japan should maintain the position that it is always ready to talk with China about any issue without condition.
At the same time, Japan should bolster its alliance with the United States.
It should also maintain an effective defense of the Nansei Islands, which include the Senkaku in Okinawa.
In other words, seek peace by all means, but prepare to defend its own core interests.
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  • Code 204
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  • Comite de Apoyo al Tibet
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  • Command: Modern Air/Naval Operations
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  • discrimination
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  • Document No. 9
  • dogfight
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  • editor in chief
  • education
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  • eight-year probe
  • electric irons
  • Elephant Hunting
  • embezzlement
  • emergency situation
  • emigration
  • Empire of Lies: The Truth About China in the XXI Century
  • Employing Land-Based Anti-Ship Missiles in the Western Pacific
  • Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China
  • Empress in the Palace
  • encrypted-only access
  • endemic corruption
  • ending online censorship
  • Energias de Portugal
  • energy
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  • English name
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  • environment
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  • Eric Schmidt
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  • Esprit Dior
  • ethnic minorities
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  • extravagant lifestyles
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  • Ezra F. Vogel
  • F-15J Eagle
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  • fabricated facts
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  • Falun Gong
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  • FDA
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  • Feitian Moutai
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  • FireEye
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  • forced evictions
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  • foreign business
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  • forgeries
  • Framework Agreement on Increased Rotational Presence and Enhanced Defense Cooperation
  • Frank Wolf
  • fraud
  • free markets
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  • freedom
  • Freedom House
  • freedom of expression
  • freedom of navigation
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  • freedom of religion
  • Freedom on the Net
  • FreeWeibo
  • French
  • Friedrich A. Hayek
  • fruit-juice manufacturers
  • Fujian
  • Fuling
  • Fullmark Consultants
  • Fundacion Casa del Tibet
  • Futenma Base
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  • garbage
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  • gay rights activist
  • Gazprom
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  • General Political Department
  • genocide
  • genocide charges
  • genuine universal suffrage
  • George Macartney
  • George Osborne
  • Georgetown University
  • German-designed engines
  • ghettoization
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  • giant bronze tribute
  • gift cards
  • Gion district
  • GitHub
  • GlaxoSmithKline
  • GlaxoSmithKline Plc
  • Global Hawks
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  • Global Slavery Index
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  • glow-in-the-dark pork
  • Golden Passport
  • Goldman Sachs
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  • GONGO
  • google
  • Google Inc
  • google.com.hk
  • governance
  • government default
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  • government surveillance
  • Grace Geng
  • Great Firewall
  • Great Firewall of China
  • Great Han Chauvinism
  • Great Leap Forward
  • Greatfire
  • GreatFire.org
  • Greece
  • greed
  • group confessions
  • GSK
  • Gu Kailai
  • guangdong
  • Guangzhou
  • Guangzhou National Sex Culture Festival
  • guanxi
  • guanyao
  • Guidebook for Civilised Tourism
  • Guo Feixiong
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  • gutter oil
  • Guy Sorman
  • H-6K
  • H.I.V. infections
  • hacking attacks
  • Halloween decorations
  • Hamas
  • Han hegemony
  • Han Junhong
  • Hangzhou
  • harassment
  • Harbin
  • hardball tactics
  • hardship bonuses
  • harmful children’s products
  • Hayek Association
  • health
  • health care
  • healthcare expenses
  • healthy female virgins
  • Heathrow Airport
  • heavy environmental damage
  • heavy metals
  • hedge fund
  • henan
  • hidden crime
  • hidden financial ties
  • Hidden Lynx
  • high mercury levels
  • Hillary Rodham Clinton
  • hiring practices
  • historical facts
  • historical fiction
  • history
  • HMS Poseidon
  • Holland's Got Talent
  • Home Depot
  • homosexuality
  • Hong Kong
  • Hong Kong University
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  • horror
  • horse urine
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  • HQ-9
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  • Hu Jia
  • Hu Jintao
  • Hua Guofeng
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  • human papilloma virus
  • human rights
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  • humiliation
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  • Huynh Thuc Vy
  • hydroelectric power
  • hypocritical nation
  • IBM
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  • ideological rectification
  • idioms
  • Ieodo
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  • imminent collapse
  • implosion
  • independent judiciary
  • india
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  • indictment
  • indiscriminate killing
  • inefficiency
  • infant formula
  • influence peddling
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  • jinü
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  • Jung Chang
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  • Justin Trudeau
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  • Karicare
  • Kashagan oil field
  • Kashgar
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  • Kepler telescope
  • keyword censorship
  • kidney failure
  • kids
  • kill everyone in China
  • Kmart store
  • kowtow
  • KPMG
  • Kun Huang
  • Kunming
  • Kyoto
  • Kyrgyz workers
  • Kyrgyzstan
  • L-3
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  • labor force
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  • Labrang Monastery
  • lack of coordination
  • lack of transparency
  • LACM
  • Ladakh
  • Lake Beijing
  • land seizures
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  • land-based anti-ship cruise missiles
  • lanthanum
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  • Laos
  • lax environmental controls
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  • layoffs
  • LDOZ
  • lead
  • leadership role
  • leading space polluter
  • Lee Teng-hui
  • Leed International Education Group
  • left-over woman
  • legal warfare
  • legitimacy
  • Lei Zhengfu
  • Leninist corporatism
  • letter of remorse
  • LG Group
  • LG U+
  • LGFV
  • Li Jianli
  • Li Keqiang
  • Li Peng
  • liaison
  • Liang Chao
  • Lianwo 连我
  • Liaoning
  • lies
  • life sentence
  • life-size female dolls
  • Lijia Zhang
  • Lily Chang
  • Lin Xin
  • Line
  • Line application
  • Line of Actual Control
  • line-cutting
  • littering
  • Little Red Book
  • Liu Tienan
  • Liu Xia
  • Liu Xianbin
  • Liu Xiaobo
  • Liu Yazhou
  • Liverpool
  • Lloyds Registry Canada
  • local government debt
  • local government financing vehicles
  • Lockheed Martin
  • locusts
  • lonely Chinese male
  • long-range land attack cruise missile
  • long-range missile defense system
  • Lost in Thailand
  • loudness
  • Louis Vuitton
  • love lives
  • low Earth orbit
  • low-quality tourists
  • loyalty
  • Lu Xun
  • Lunar Defense Obliteration Zone
  • lung cancer
  • Luo Yang
  • lust
  • luxury
  • luxury brands
  • luxury goods
  • luxury goods industry
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  • LVMH
  • mafia state
  • magnetic powders
  • mainland Chinese
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  • Malawi
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  • malware
  • Mandiant
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  • Mao Zedong
  • Mao's Great Famine
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  • Maoist techniques
  • Maotai
  • map application
  • marine archaeology
  • maritime disputes
  • maritime security cooperation
  • maritime sovereignty
  • Mark Stokes
  • market reforms
  • market stabilization
  • Masanjia Labor Camp
  • mass line
  • mass line rectification campaign
  • mass shootings
  • massive disaster
  • massive online censorship
  • Mattel
  • Matthew Winkler
  • Mauritania
  • Mead Johnson
  • media independence
  • media self-censorship
  • media warfare
  • medical conflicts
  • medical research
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  • mega-dams
  • Meiji Holdings
  • Mekong
  • Mekong River
  • melamine
  • Melissa Chan
  • mercury
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  • Michael A. Turton
  • Michael Forsythe
  • microbloggers
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  • Mid-Autumn Festival
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  • Middle School Number Eight
  • Mig-29K
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  • Mike Forsythe
  • military alliance
  • military dominance
  • military occupation
  • milk powder products
  • minimum deterrent military capacity
  • mining industry
  • minyao
  • miracle cure
  • mirror sites
  • mirrored version
  • misallocation of capital
  • misogyny
  • missile defense system
  • missiles
  • mixed marriages
  • mob boss
  • modern slavery
  • modernization strategy
  • MolyCorp Inc.
  • monopoly on rumors
  • mooncakes
  • moral victory
  • Morgan Stanley
  • Mount Fuji
  • Mowa
  • Mowa Village
  • multinationals
  • multiple-unit ownership
  • Munk School of Global Affairs
  • murder
  • Murong Xuecun
  • Museum of Contemporary Art
  • mutual suspicion
  • MV-22 Osprey
  • Nagchu
  • names
  • Nanjing
  • NASA
  • National Arts Centre orchestra
  • National Broadband Network
  • National Court
  • National Day
  • National Endowment for Democracy
  • national habit
  • national holiday
  • National Intelligence Council
  • National Museum of China
  • National Museum of the Philippines
  • national security
  • National Shipbuilding Procurement Strategy
  • NATO
  • natural gas
  • naval exercise
  • naval secrets
  • Nazi Germany
  • Nazi-era Germany
  • neo-Maoist rhetoric
  • nepotism
  • Nestle
  • New Century Global Centre
  • New Citizens Movement
  • New Citizens' Movement
  • New Citizens’ Movement
  • New Horizon Capital
  • new reserve currency
  • new rich
  • new type of great-power relations
  • New York Times
  • news distributor
  • news terminals
  • news war
  • Next Media Animation
  • Ni Yulan
  • Niger
  • Nigerians
  • Nike
  • Nikki Aaron
  • nine haves
  • nine-dash line maritime grab
  • Ningguo
  • No Exit From Pakistan: America’s Troubled Relationship With Islamabad
  • No. 8 Middle School
  • Nobel Peace Prize
  • Nomura Holdings Inc.
  • North Korea
  • nose-picking
  • nouveau riche
  • Novatek
  • novel
  • nuclear “countervalue” strategy
  • nuclear attacks
  • nuclear option
  • nuclear strikes
  • nuclear submarines
  • nuclear war
  • nuclear-armed missile submarines
  • Nutricia
  • Nyoma air strip
  • obligations
  • OECD
  • official rumors
  • oil deals
  • one-child policy
  • online dissent
  • online rumor-mongering
  • online rumors
  • OPEC
  • Open Constitution Initiative
  • OpenDoor
  • Operation Aurora
  • Operation Beebus
  • oppression
  • oppressive occupier
  • orbital debris
  • Ordos
  • organ donations
  • organ harvesting from prisoners
  • organ transplants
  • organised prostitution
  • outlandish names
  • outrage
  • overcapacity
  • overseas agricultural project
  • P-3C Orion
  • P-8 Poseidon
  • Pacific Defense Quadrangle
  • Pacific operational geography
  • paintings
  • Pakistan
  • Palestinian terror groups
  • Panchen Lama
  • paper tiger
  • paracel islands
  • paranoid authoritarian government
  • Park Geun-hye
  • party discipline and purity
  • Party Plenum
  • Party's Third Plenum
  • patients’ anger
  • Patriot air defense systems
  • patriotism
  • patriotism campaign
  • Paul Mooney
  • Paul Reichler
  • payment defaults
  • pedophilia
  • Peel Group
  • Peel Holdings
  • peinü
  • Peking
  • Peking University
  • Peking University Cancer Hospital
  • Peng Ming
  • Periplaneta americana
  • Perry Link
  • persecution
  • personal liberty
  • pet food
  • Peter Humphrey
  • Pfizer
  • Pfizer Inc.
  • Phiblex
  • Philippines
  • Photoshop
  • Phuket International Airport
  • physical abuses
  • physical assaults
  • pig trotters
  • Ping An
  • PISA
  • pivot to Asia
  • pivot to Eurasia
  • PLA Navy
  • PLA's National Defence University
  • placebo effect
  • PM 2.5
  • PM2.5
  • poison jerky treats
  • poisonous baby milk
  • police interference
  • police state
  • political corruption
  • political education sessions
  • political freedom
  • political persecution
  • political prisoners
  • political reform
  • political struggle sessions
  • political trust
  • political warfare
  • pollution
  • Poly International Auction company
  • poor behaviour
  • population growth
  • Portland
  • Portugal
  • positivist science
  • potential brides
  • power
  • power struggle
  • Powerful Sex Shop
  • Pranab Mukherjee
  • PRC’s candidacy
  • premature deaths
  • premodern and imperialist expansionism
  • press event
  • press freedom
  • price fixing
  • price-fixing accusations
  • prices
  • princeling
  • Princeton University Press
  • prisoner of conscience
  • pro-democracy manifesto
  • Probe International
  • professional body double
  • profitable industry
  • Program for International Student Assessment
  • Program of International Student Assessment
  • Project 2049 Institute
  • Project Seascape
  • propaganda
  • property bubble
  • property bubbles
  • prostitution
  • protest
  • protests
  • pseudoscience
  • psychological warfare
  • public apology
  • public money
  • public opinion
  • public opinion analysts
  • public skepticism
  • publishing houses
  • Pudong
  • puffer fish
  • qi
  • Qi Baishi
  • Qiao Shi
  • Qihoo 360 Technology Co. Ltd.
  • Qing Dynasty
  • Qing Quentin Huang
  • Qiu Xiaolong
  • quad tiltrotor
  • quantitative easing
  • Quotations from Chairman Mao
  • race
  • Ramada Plaza
  • RAND Corporation
  • rare earth elements
  • Raytheon
  • RCMP
  • re-education
  • re-education through labor
  • Reagan National Defense Forum
  • real estate prices
  • real-estate investments
  • real-name registration
  • Reaper
  • Rebiya Kadeer
  • reckless government spending
  • recklessness
  • reconciliation
  • recovery efforts
  • Red Cross Society of China
  • Red Guards
  • red restoration
  • Reed Bank
  • reeducation through labor
  • reform struggle
  • refurbished Soviet-era vessel
  • regional A2/AD alliance
  • regional security
  • regional security architecture
  • regional stability
  • regional status quo
  • Rei Mizuna
  • rejection of orthodoxy
  • relief effort
  • relief supplies
  • religious repression
  • Ren Zhiqiang
  • RenRen
  • replica
  • reporting
  • repression
  • repressive Web controls
  • reproductive health
  • repugnance
  • residency visa
  • resistance to China
  • resolution
  • resource scarcity
  • responsible state
  • restorative surgery
  • Reuters
  • Reuters Chinese website
  • reverse engineering
  • Revolution to Riches
  • rich Chinese offenders
  • rights activists
  • rising costs
  • rising labor costs
  • risk of conflict
  • rivalry
  • river pollution
  • river systems
  • rivers
  • Rob Hutton
  • Robert Ford
  • Robert Menendez
  • Rosneft
  • rotten apples
  • RQ-4 Global Hawk
  • rule of law
  • rumormongers
  • Rupert Murdoch
  • Russell Hsiao
  • Russia
  • Russian defense technology
  • ruthless tyranny
  • sabotage
  • Sakashima Islands
  • salami slicing
  • Salween
  • Sam Wa
  • Sam Wa Resources Holdings
  • Samsung
  • San Francisco Treaty
  • San Leandro
  • Sao Tome and Principe
  • Sarah Cook
  • SARS epidemic
  • satire
  • scam artists
  • Scarborough Shoal
  • schoolgirl
  • schoolteacher
  • SCO
  • sculpture
  • sea row
  • Sears
  • SEC
  • second island chain
  • Second Thomas Shoal
  • second-class citizens
  • secret salvage
  • secure communications systems
  • security
  • security balance
  • security codes
  • security diamond
  • Security of Information Act
  • security strategy
  • security ties
  • self-castration
  • self-censorship
  • self-criticism
  • self-criticism sessions
  • self-immolation
  • self-immolation protests
  • Senkaku Islands
  • Sensitive Reconnaissance Operations
  • Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
  • sewers
  • sex
  • sex classes
  • sex education
  • sex education courses
  • sex product industry
  • sex scandals
  • sex toys
  • sex workers
  • sexual contact
  • sexual revolution
  • shadow banking
  • Shai Oster
  • Shandong
  • Shanghai
  • Shanghai Cooperation Organization
  • shao guan xian shi
  • shengnü
  • Shenyang
  • Shenzhou space capsule
  • Shi Tao
  • Shichung
  • Shinzo Abe
  • shipwrecks
  • short sellers
  • short-selling
  • shouting
  • show trials
  • shrinking leverage
  • Sichuan
  • Sierra Madre
  • silence
  • Silk Road Economic Belt
  • Silvercorp Metals
  • Sina Weibo
  • Sina Weibo tweets
  • Sino-American conflict
  • Sino-India relations
  • Sino-Indian border
  • Sino-Indian relations
  • Sino-Vietnamese War
  • Sinopec
  • Skynet
  • slaughterhouses
  • small-stick diplomacy
  • smear campaigns
  • smog
  • smog-related cancer
  • social dysfunction
  • social media
  • social media crackdown
  • social media monitoring
  • social morality
  • society
  • Socotra Rock
  • soft power
  • soft-power contest
  • soft-power failure
  • Sora Aoi
  • South China Mall
  • South China Sea ADIZ
  • South Korea
  • South-North Water Diversion project
  • South-to-North Diversion
  • Southeast Asia
  • Southeast Asian pressure
  • Southern European
  • sovereignty
  • space debris
  • space program
  • space science
  • Spain
  • Spain-China relations
  • Spain’s national court
  • spam attacks
  • Spanish court
  • Spanish criminal court
  • Spanish justice
  • Spanish National Court
  • spas
  • spearphishing
  • spending spree
  • spiritual civilization
  • spitter
  • spitting
  • spoiling of the negotiations
  • Spoiling Tibet: China and Resource Nationalism on the Roof of the World
  • Spratly Islands
  • spurious claim
  • stability
  • Starbucks
  • Starbucks latte
  • state capitalism
  • state decadence
  • State Information Office
  • statism
  • Stella Shiu
  • Stephen Cassidy
  • Stephen M. Walt
  • Steven Schwankert
  • strategic bomber
  • strategic partnership
  • strategic quadrangle
  • strategy of harassment
  • street food
  • street vendor’s execution
  • struggle session
  • study sessions
  • Su Ling
  • Su-27
  • Su-33
  • Su-35
  • submarine
  • subpoena
  • substitute criminals
  • suburbia
  • suicide bombers
  • suicides
  • Sunday trading rules
  • superblock
  • Supertyphoon Haiyan
  • supply and demand
  • surrogacy agencies
  • surrogates
  • surveillance
  • surveillance cameras
  • surveillance systems
  • sustainable fishing practices
  • sustainable growth
  • sweeping crackdown on dissent
  • Swiss watchmakers
  • Symantec
  • symbolism
  • taboo
  • taboo topic
  • tailings pond
  • taiwan
  • Tang Shuangning
  • Tang Xiaoning
  • Tank Man
  • Taobao
  • taste for luxury
  • tax evasion
  • tax on second home
  • tea kettles
  • teenage romance
  • teenager
  • teenagers
  • telecom network equipment
  • televised confession
  • televised confessions
  • televised public pre-trial confessions
  • television drama series
  • terra nullius
  • territorial dispute
  • territorial sovereignty
  • territorial tensions
  • terrorism
  • terrorist funding
  • test of wills
  • testimony
  • Thailand
  • Thames Water
  • the final solution of the Chinese question
  • The Long Shadow of Chinese Censorship: How Chinese Media Restrictions Affect News Outlets around the World
  • The Media Kowtow
  • The Network
  • The New York Times
  • The Plum in the Golden Vase
  • The Silent Contest
  • the Tibet House Foundation
  • The Vagina Monologues
  • theft of intellectual property
  • thefts
  • Theodore H. Moran
  • Third Plenum
  • Thomson Reuters
  • thorium
  • threats
  • Three Gorges Corporation
  • Thubten Wangchen
  • Ti-Anna Wang
  • Tiananmen Massacre
  • Tiananmen Square
  • Tiananmen Square attack
  • Tiananmen Square crash
  • Tianducheng
  • Tianjin
  • Tibet
  • Tibet Action Institute
  • Tibet flag
  • Tibet genocide case
  • Tibet Support Committee
  • Tibet's cultural dilution
  • Tibetan exile groups
  • Tibetan National Congress
  • Tibetan plateau
  • Tibetan Support Committee
  • Tibetans
  • Tiger Woman on Wall Street
  • time stamp
  • TiSA
  • toddler
  • Tom Clancy
  • Tombstone: The Untold Story of Mao's Great Famine
  • Tony Abbott
  • top schools
  • Toronto
  • torture
  • total fertility rate
  • totalitarian China
  • totalitarianism
  • tourism
  • toxic air pollution
  • toxic legacy
  • toxic smog
  • toxic substances
  • toy safety
  • TPP
  • trade balance
  • Trade in Services Agreement
  • tradition
  • traffic accident
  • train ride
  • Trans-Pacific Partnership
  • Transparency International
  • trash
  • trashy habits
  • Treasury bonds
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  • Treaty of Westphalia
  • Trojan Horse
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  • Trottergate
  • Trường Sa
  • tuhao
  • Turkey
  • Turkmenistan
  • Type 092 Xia-class nuclear powered submarine
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  • tyranny
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  • U.S. Director of National Intelligence
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  • U.S. government debt
  • U.S. government shutdown
  • U.S. journalists
  • U.S. media firms
  • U.S. senators
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  • U.S. Treasury bonds
  • U.S. West Coast
  • U.S. women
  • U.S.-China Business Council
  • U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission
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  • U.S.-Japan Security Treaty
  • UAV
  • Uighur democracy movement
  • Uighurs
  • UK
  • UK infrastructure
  • UK Trade and Industry
  • Ukraine
  • Ullens Center for Contemporary Art
  • UN Committee on the Rights of the Child
  • UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
  • UN Human Rights Council
  • UN human rights review
  • UN sanctions
  • unbridled materialism
  • uncivilized Chinese tourists
  • UNCLOS
  • underground organ sales
  • unemployment
  • unencrypted version
  • Unit 61398
  • united front
  • United Nations arbitration process
  • United Nations Human Rights Council
  • United Nations International Tribunal on the Law of the Sea
  • universal competence
  • universal jurisdiction
  • universal justice principle
  • Universal Periodic Review
  • University of Chicago
  • University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab
  • unmanned arms race
  • unpaid meals
  • unreasonable expansionism
  • unruly behaviour
  • unsophisticated marketing
  • urban management officials
  • urbanism
  • urbanization
  • urinating in swimming pools
  • Urumqi
  • US
  • US anti-terrorism laws
  • US Congress
  • US Food and Drug Administration
  • US government debt
  • US government intelligence adviser
  • US journalists
  • US military preeminence
  • US think-tank
  • US Treasurys
  • US war with China
  • US-China Economic and Security Review Commission
  • US-Japan Security Treaty
  • USA
  • Usmen Hasan
  • USS George Washington
  • Uyghur Human Rights Project
  • Uyghurs
  • Uzi Shaya
  • Vancouver
  • Venice Film Festival
  • very troublesome human rights record
  • veteran Beijing protester
  • vice-mayor
  • video
  • video surveillance technologies
  • vietnam
  • Vietnam’s Communist Party
  • Vietnamese brides
  • Vietnamese-Indian summit
  • villainess
  • Vincent Wu
  • vineyards
  • virginity
  • virgins’ blood
  • visa regulations
  • visa rules
  • visa terrorism
  • vital waterways
  • Voho
  • Voltaire Gazmin
  • wage increases
  • Walk Free Foundation
  • Wall Street Journal
  • Walter Slocombe
  • Wanda
  • Wang Bingzhang
  • Wang Gongquan
  • Wang Hun
  • Wang Jianlin
  • Wang Keping
  • Wang Lijun
  • Wang Xiuying
  • Wang Zhiwen
  • Wangluo
  • war
  • war crimes
  • war games
  • Warner Technology and Investment Corp.
  • warp-speed engine
  • Washington D.C.
  • Washington Post
  • Washington’s muddled response
  • wasting food
  • water
  • water shortages
  • water supply
  • water usage
  • wave of repression
  • wealth migrations
  • wealthy Chinese
  • Web censorship
  • WeChat
  • wedge politics
  • weibo
  • Wellesley College
  • Wen Jiabao
  • Wen Jiabao family empire
  • Wen Ruchun
  • Wen Yunsong
  • Wenchuan quake
  • Wenzhou
  • West Philippine Sea
  • Western businesses
  • western constitutional ­democracy
  • Western culture
  • Western media
  • Western monikers
  • Western news organizations
  • White House
  • Wikimania
  • Wikipedia China
  • Wing Loong
  • wireless network
  • Witherspoon Institute
  • work ethos
  • working-age population
  • World Uyghur Congress
  • world waters
  • world's biggest building
  • world’s leading executioner
  • world’s leading superpower
  • worsening cycle of repression
  • worst online oppressors
  • WTO
  • Wu Dong
  • wumao
  • Wyeth
  • Wyndham Hotel Group
  • Xi Jinping
  • Xi Jinping's family wealth
  • Xia Junfeng
  • Xia Yeliang
  • Xiahe
  • xiaojie
  • xiaosan
  • Ximen Qing
  • Xinhua
  • Xinjiang
  • Xinjiang independence
  • Xinjiang mosque
  • Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps
  • Xu Beihong
  • Xu Ming
  • Xu Qiya
  • Xu Zhiyong
  • Xue Manzi
  • Yahoo
  • Yamazaki Mazak
  • Yang Jisheng
  • Yang Luchuan
  • Yang Zhong
  • Yangzhong
  • Yantian
  • young love
  • Yu Hua
  • Yu Jianming
  • Yunnan
  • Yunnan Tin
  • Yuyao
  • Zambia
  • zaolian
  • Zhang Daqian
  • Zhang Shuguang
  • Zhang Xixi
  • Zhang Xuezhong
  • Zhang Yuhong
  • Zhejiang
  • Zhen Huan
  • Zheng He
  • Zhu Jianrong
  • Zhu Ruifeng
  • Zhu Xingliang
  • Zipingpu dam
  • Zoomlion Heavy Industry Science Technology Co.
  • Zubr landing craft
  • 人艰不拆
  • 喜大普奔
  • 成语
  • 温如春
  • 茉莉花革命
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Blog Archive

  • ▼  2013 (499)
    • ►  December (79)
    • ▼  November (181)
      • The Art of Self-Censorship
      • Low Profile
      • Paper Dragon
      • China, India spar over disputed border
      • Face-off
      • Isolation Under House Arrest for Wife of Imprisone...
      • With new air zone, China tests U.S. dominance in E...
      • With air-defence overreach, China has proven itsel...
      • Seoul Sees Territory Threat in China Defense Zone
      • Questions raised over ‘China fever’ development on...
      • Britain goes soft on rights to woo China
      • China looks to redraw Asian airspace
      • China's Latest Territorial Moves Renew Fears In Ph...
      • Cultural revolution taking place in China's bedrooms
      • Enforcing rules in air zone will stretch China's a...
      • China has thrown down a gauntlet to America
      • Spying beyond the façade
      • Paper Dragon: Beijing Draws Online Ridicule Over A...
      • Tony Abbott refuses to back down over China comments
      • China’s Move Puts Airspace in Spotlight
      • Air Defence Farce
      • With Glut of Lonely Men, China Has an Approved Out...
      • China's presence looms amid massive U.S.-Japanese ...
      • China, Australia spat over Air Defence Identificat...
      • Japan, South Korean military planes defy China's n...
      • Getting Senkaku History Right
      • Paper Tiger
      • Flight of the B-52s
      • China overplayed its hand on the Senkaku islands
      • China Qualifies Air-Zone Threats After U.S. Challenge
      • Beijing plays a longer game with its air defence z...
      • U.S. affirms support for Japan in island dispute w...
      • China’s Airspace Claim Inflames Ties to South Kore...
      • China's behavior has been unsettling to neighbors:...
      • Airspace Claim Forces Obama to Flesh Out China Str...
      • Obama Sends B-52s, and a Message, to China
      • U.S. Directly Challenges China's Air Defense Zone
      • Australia expresses concern over China air defence...
      • All-Out Intimidation
      • Japan Answers China’s Warnings Over Islands’ Airspace
      • US sends B-52 over China-claimed waters
      • Japanese Airlines Defy China Demand for Data in Ai...
      • China’s Restriction on Airspace Over Disputed Isle...
      • The Chinese Communist Party’s Biggest Obstacle Is ...
      • China's rich fleeing the country—with their fortunes
      • China's Favorite Villainess
      • China must rescind its air zone over disputed islands
      • Europe's role in East Asian islands dispute
      • American think tank envisages blockading China wit...
      • Vietnam’s Confucius Institute Distraction
      • No China Release for A Touch of Sin, Director Bann...
      • Airpocalypse: U.S. Embassy Stocks Up on Air Purifiers
      • The Globalisation of Anti-Chinese Sentiment
      • The Long Shadow of Chinese Blacklists on American ...
      • Former Top Aide Warns China Not To Interfere With ...
      • Court ruling on Tibet raises concerns over Spain-C...
      • U.S., Japan slam China's destabilizing move on Eas...
      • Google could end China's web censorship in 10 days...
      • How Google Could End Web Censorship In China In Tw...
      • Spanish Court Issues Arrest Warrants for Ex-Chines...
      • China demands clarity on Spanish Jiang Zemin arres...
      • Spanish court orders arrest of former Chinese Pres...
      • China creates air defence zone over Japanese islands
      • China bolsters East China Sea claim, warns of 'def...
      • Why Would Russia Sell China Su-35 Fighter Jets?
      • China's Great Firewall : Activists Find New Ways A...
      • Dalai Lama Defends Tibet Flag at Meeting with Japa...
      • Exposing China's cyber espionage campaign hasn't l...
      • Japan Seeks Friends in Asia—but Not China
      • Chinese Propaganda Expands from Washington Post to...
      • What's at Stake in Bloomberg's China Coverage
      • China to Foreign Media: Get in Line or Get Out
      • China’s Bribery Culture Poses Risks for Multinatio...
      • China 'Challenging US Military Preeminence in Asia'
      • Why Taiwan’s Allies are Flocking to Beijing
      • Spanish court orders arrest of Chinese leaders inc...
      • What Will It Cost to Cover China?
      • China Central TV: champion of the people with a bl...
      • China's Illegal Fishing Expeditions Threaten World...
      • China is not ending its human rights abuses
      • Another Animated Take on Bloomberg News
      • An Old Chinese Novel Is Racy Reading Still
      • China and Japan are heading for a collision
      • Spain Has Indicted Hu Jintao Over Tibet
      • Japa Looks for Asian Allies to Say No to China
      • Kyrgyz workers query Chinese influx
      • The Transparent Chinese
      • China's One-Child Change Doesn't Avert Demographic...
      • Bloomberg News Suspends Reporter Whose Article on ...
      • Chinese leaders control media, academics to shape ...
      • How LINE Censors Users in China (and How to Get Ar...
      • Chinese male model Liang Chao uses fake photos to ...
      • China may long regret miserly typhoon aid offer
      • Discussions of Wen Jiabao's daughter censored in C...
      • China Nuclear Missile Submarine Threat is Not Cred...
      • Israel files to quash testimony in Bank of China a...
      • JPMorgan and the Wen Family
      • Bloomberg boots ‘China leak’ scribe
      • Wall Street Journal and Reuters’ Chinese sites blo...
      • Chinese e-commerce site draws anger for global sal...
    • ►  October (178)
    • ►  September (61)
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