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China SCRAMBLES to recruit North Korean interpreters leading to fears WAR is imminent
By 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
By 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
By 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?
By 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?
By 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
By 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
By 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
By 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
Stephen 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 →
Tibetan Prime Minister (in Exile) to Visit Wellington Next Week
Wellington .Scoop – 26 April 2017 Tibetan Prime Minister Dr. Lobsang Sangay will visit Wellington for the first time next week. Dr. Sangay is the first democratically elected political leader after the Dalai Lama stepped down from his political role in 2011. With a doctorate from Harvard Law School, he read more →
Tillerson: China threatened to sanction North Korea over another nuclear test
By Eli Watkins, CNN Washington (CNN)Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Thursday that China threatened the North Korean government with sanctions if it undertook another nuclear weapons test. Tillerson made his comments on Fox News ahead of a visit to the United Nations and amid rising tensions over the North read more →
‘Renaming six places in Arunachal Pradesh by China doesn’t make sense … Don’t know why China was so scared’
Times of India, 28 April 2017 Lobsang Sangay is a legal scholar and Prime Minister of the Tibetan government-in-exile. He spoke to Rohit E David on Dalai Lama’s recent visit to Arunachal Pradesh, China’s belligerent response and its impact on the relationship between Delhi and Beijing: What is your response to China renaming read more →
China is crushing South Korea’s tourism industry
by Alec Macfarlane, CNN money, Pro tip for countries looking to keep their tourism numbers up: Don’t annoy China. That’s the lesson South Korea is learning the hard way. The country suffered a 40% plunge in Chinese visitors last month, according to the Korea Tourism Organization. Chinese tour groups have read more →
Malaysians’ response to big China presence shows concerns
By Wan Saiful Wan Jan For The Straits Times, Many colleagues were surprised when a Hong Kong-based newspaper last month claimed that mainland Chinese are migrating to Malaysia “by the thousands”. The report stated that last year alone, more than 1,000 had utilised the Malaysia My Second Home (MM2H) read more →
China ranked 5th from the bottom again on this year’s World Press Freedom Index
26 April 2017, Shanghaiist For yet another year, China has managed to hold onto its traditional spot at 176 on the annual World Press Freedom Index, besting only the states of Syria, Turkmenistan, Eritrea and North Korea. Released each year by the international organization Reporters Without Borders (RSF), the index read more →