Distrust of China increases in latest Pulse Asia poll
May 2, 2017By AJ Bolando, philstar, MANILA, Philippines – Despite President Rodrigo Duterte’s friendliness towards China, more Filipinos said in a survey that they do not trust the country. Pulse Asia released its latest poll on “awareness and trust ratings of selected countries and international organizations” on Tuesday. China ranked lowest read more →
China SCRAMBLES to recruit North Korean interpreters leading to fears WAR is imminent
May 2, 2017By Thomas Hunt, A CHINESE town which shares a border with North Korea has been ordered to “urgently” recruit translators, stirring speculation the country is preparing for a nuclear emergency. The town of Dandong has reportedly been asked to recruit an unspecified number of Korean-Chinese interpreters to work in ten read more →
Trump says China could have hacked Democratic emails
May 2, 2017By Cyber Risk, Reuters President Donald Trump said China may have hacked the emails of Democratic officials to meddle with the 2016 presidential election, countering the view of U.S. intelligence officials who have said Moscow orchestrated the hacks. In an interview transcript published on Sunday, Trump gave no evidence backing read more →
President of Tibet seeks Kiwi support
May 2, 2017By Lincoln Tan – New Zealand Herald The president of the Tibetan government-in-exile, Dr Lobsang Sangay, wants Kiwis to support the Tibetan fight for autonomy from China. “New Zealand got its freedom supported by others, and the values that it fought for – the basic values of democracy and human read more →
I-Spy in China: a revival of Mao-era paranoia?
May 2, 2017By Verna Yu / America magazine During the Cultural Revolution in the 1960s, when Siu Ying Lee’s kindergarten-age daughter saw a photo of her mother in a white lace wedding dress, instead of wishing she could look pretty like her, she pointed her finger and shouted: “Spy! Spy!” Her mother, read more →
Should the Chinese Government Be in American Classrooms?
May 1, 2017By Richard Bernstein – April 28, 2017 – nybooks.com Since their beginning in 2005, Confucius Institutes have been set up to teach Chinese language classes in more than one hundred American colleges and universities, including large and substantial institutions like Rutgers University, the State Universities of New York at Binghamton read more →
Philippines’ Duterte visits Chinese warships in home town
May 1, 2017By DNA editorial team, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte today visited Chinese warships docked in his home town, highlighting fast-warming relations despite competing claims in the South China Sea. The visit came a day after Duterte issued a chairman’s statement on behalf of the 10-nation ASEAN bloc that took a soft read more →
President of Tibet in New Zealand to drum up support for ‘Middle Way’ with China
May 1, 2017By Lincoln Tan, New Zealand Herald, 1 May 2017 Dr. Lobsang Sangay of the Central Tibetan Administration, photographed at NZME on Monday. 01 May 2017. New Zealand Herald photograph by Nick Reed. The president of the Tibetan government-in-exile, Dr Lobsang Sangay, wants Kiwis to support the Tibetan fight for autonomy read more →
Beijing is putting pressure on North Korea, says Trump
May 1, 2017By AFP, The Asian Age, Trump assailed the failed launch as a show of disrespect towards its ally China. Washington: Donald Trump thinks Chinese President Xi Jinping is “putting pressure” on North Korea, the US President said in an interview to air on Sunday, as tensions mount over Pyongyang’s nuclear read more →
China taking on Wikipedia with its own online encyclopaedia
May 1, 2017Stephen Chen, 30 April 2017 China has employed tens of thousands of scholars to write an internet version of its national encyclopaedia, which will go online next year to compete against Wikipedia. The third edition of the Chinese Encyclopaedia is currently China’s largest publication project, with more than 20,000 authors read more →