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China launches first domestically made aircraft carrier

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Al Jazeera April, 26, 2017

Newly built 50,000-tonne carrier demonstrates the growing technical sophistication of China’s defence industries.

The newly built carrier was transferred from dry dock into the water in Dalian [Li Gang/Xinhua via AP]
The newly built carrier was transferred from dry dock into the water in Dalian [Li Gang/Xinhua via AP]

China has launched its first domestically made aircraft carrier, in a demonstration of the growing technical sophistication of its defence industries.

The 50,000-tonne carrier was towed from its dockyard on Wednesday morning after a ceremony in the northern port city of Dalian.

Development of the new carrier began in 2013 and construction commenced in late 2015. It is expected to be formally commissioned some time before 2020, after sea trials and the arrival of its full air complement. Tiếp tục đọc “China launches first domestically made aircraft carrier” →

Triều Tiên – Vì sao căng thẳng? – 5 kỳ

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  • Kỳ 1: Triều Tiên – Vì sao căng thẳng?
  • Kỳ 2: Sóng ngầm ở Hội đồng Bảo an
  • Kỳ 3: Bình Nhưỡng có gì trong tay?
  • Kỳ 4: Tình hình Triều Tiên có thể cứu vãn?
  • Kỳ 5: Chìa khóa “made in China”

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Triều Tiên – Vì sao căng thẳng?

17/04/2017 11:33 GMT+7

TTO – Bình Nhưỡng đã năm lần thử hạt nhân và hơn chục lần bắn thử các loại tên lửa. Không biết bao nhiêu lời răn đe, không biết bao nhiêu biện pháp trừng phạt đã được công bố nhưng có vẻ đâu vẫn hoàn đấy. Vì sao vậy?

Triều Tiên - Vì sao căng thẳng?
Binh lính Triều Tiên trong lễ duyệt binh ngày 15-4 – Ảnh: Reuters

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China, Philippines spar over military visit to island

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Al Jaazeera

China voices displeasure after high-profile Philippine military brass visit disputed island in the South China Sea.

Troops march as a plane carrying Philippine military brass arrives on Pag-asa island [Bullit Marquez/AP]

China has protested about a visit by Philippine military chiefs to a disputed island in the South China Sea, but Manila maintained on Saturday that it owns the territory where Filipino troops and villagers have lived for decades.

The public argument comes amid a thaw in once-frosty relations between the neighbours after Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte took office last June and moved to rekindle Manila’s friendship with Beijing, which has been strained by long-seething territorial disputes. Tiếp tục đọc “China, Philippines spar over military visit to island” →

Vietnam, China hold first fishery patrol in 2017

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Last update 15:01 | 21/04/2017

The coast guards of Vietnam and China conducted a joint fishery patrol on shared fishing grounds in the Tonkin Gulf from April 18-20, Quan doi Nhan dan (People’s Army) daily reported. 

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Ships coded 8004 of the Vietnam Coast Guard in the patrol

Ships coded 8003 and 8004 of the Vietnam Coast Guard joined Chinese ships coded 3301 and 3304 in the first patrol this year.

The Vietnamese and Chinese sides were led by Colonel Tran Van Tho, Deputy Commander and Chief of the Staff of the Coast Guard High Command Region 1 under the Vietnam Coast Guard, and Liu Tianrong, Deputy Head of the China Coast Guard’s Nanhai bureau.

They examined fishing boats working across nine locations in the countries’ shared fishing grounds. Tiếp tục đọc “Vietnam, China hold first fishery patrol in 2017” →

VN, China to bolster strategic partnership

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Update: April, 18/2017 – 10:06

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Việt Nam and China agreed yesterday that they would work to strengthen the focal points of their strategic partnership. — VNA/VNS Photo Vũ Lê Hà

BEIJING – Việt Nam and China agreed yesterday that they would work to strengthen the focal points of their strategic partnership.

The agreement came at the 10th meeting of the countries’ Steering Committee for Bilateral Co-operation co-chaired by Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Phạm Bình Minh and Chinese State Councillor Yang Jiechi in Beijing.

Reviewing bilateral co-operation since the ninth meeting on June 6, 2016, both sides saw positive development trends, noting in particular the holding of regular meetings between senior leaders, enhanced co-operation between ministries, sectors and localities, and stronger people-to-people exchanges. Tiếp tục đọc “VN, China to bolster strategic partnership” →

China’s abandoned daughters search for their parents

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Al Jazeera April 16, 2017

The stories of three women who were abandoned by their parents during China’s one-child policy.

Han Meng is a photojournalist and filmmaker based in Beijing.

Cai Fengxia: ‘Being reunited feels like a dream’

Cai Fengxia’s adoptive father cooks for her in Dangshan, eastern China [Han Meng/Al Jazeera]

Cai Fengxia cried as she had dinner with her biological parents for the first time in 38 years.

She had spent the past 12 years looking for the people who had wrapped her in white cloth and left her at the gate of the people’s commune of Qiaoqi Town in Jiangyin city, eastern China, when she was 25 days old.

But as she shared a meal with them she could only think about her elderly adoptive father, who was back home in Dangshan, hundreds of miles away. Tiếp tục đọc “China’s abandoned daughters search for their parents” →

VN-China border defence friendship exchange to be held in May

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Last update 11:46 | 14/04/2017

The fourth Vietnam-China border defence friendship exchange is scheduled to take place in the northern mountainous province of Lai Chau and Yunnan province of China in May.

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Deputy Defence Minister Nguyen Chi Vinh inspects preparations for the 3rd Vietnam-China border defence friendship exchange in 2016

The event will be co-chaired by Vietnamese Defence Minister General Ngo Xuan Lich, Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission, and Sen. Lieut. Gen Fan Changlong, Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission of China.

Deputy Defence Minister Sen. Lieut. Gen Nguyen Chi Vinh on April 13 visited Lai Chau province to inspect preparations for the event. Tiếp tục đọc “VN-China border defence friendship exchange to be held in May” →

Chinese official demoted for not smoking in front of Muslims

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ChannelNewsAsia

  • Posted 11 Apr 2017 18:20

A notice from the Hotan district government in China’s Xinjiang region accused a village-level secretary of being afraid to smoke before religious figures. (Photo: AFP/Johannes Eisele)

BEIJING: A Chinese official who allegedly declined to smoke in front of Muslims in Xinjiang has been demoted for taking an “unstable political stance,” a state-run newspaper reported on Tuesday (Apr 11).

Xinjiang, home to China’s Muslim Uighur ethnic minority, restricts religious practises – such as growing beards, wearing headscarves, and fasting during Ramadan – that are seen as symbols of “Islamic extremism”. Tiếp tục đọc “Chinese official demoted for not smoking in front of Muslims” →

Amnesty criticises ‘rogue state’ China as global death penalty toll falls

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Guardian

Rights group calls on Beijing to publish figures to allow informed debate about use of capital punishment

An execution chamber in Texas
An execution chamber in Texas. The US last year carried out its lowest number of death sentences since 1991. Photograph: Pat Sullivan/AP

Amnesty International has sharply criticised China for continuing to conceal the number of people it sentences to death, as the human rights group reported a fall in executions globally last year. Tiếp tục đọc “Amnesty criticises ‘rogue state’ China as global death penalty toll falls” →

China may shelve controversial Myitsone dam in exchange for other interests in Myanmar

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China may shelve controversial Myitsone dam in exchange for other interests in Myanmar
Ethnic Kachin people visit Myitsone, the confluence of the Mali and Nmai rivers, outside Myitkyina, Myanmar, on March 30. | REUTERS

japan times

Reuters, Apr 6, 2017

NAYPYITAW, MYANMAR – China has shifted its position in a lengthy dispute with Myanmar over the building of a $3.6 billion dam, seven sources said, signaling its willingness to abandon the project in exchange for other economic and strategic opportunities in Myanmar.

Myanmar President Htin Kyaw will discuss a potential deal on the massive Myitsone dam during a trip to China beginning on Thursday, two senior Myanmar officials and a person familiar with the matter said. Tiếp tục đọc “China may shelve controversial Myitsone dam in exchange for other interests in Myanmar” →

Chinese patrol ships keep presence around Malaysian reefs

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Guardian

Exclusive: Ship-tracking data shows Chinese coastguard vessels at Luconia Shoals, 1,000 miles from mainland

A Chinese coastguard vessel
China’s coastguard fleet is often armed with machine guns and can be placed under army control during wartime. Photograph: AP

South-east Asia correspondent

Wednesday 5 April 2017 12.36 EDT Last modified on Wednesday 5 April 2017 12.39 EDT

Chinese coastguard vessels maintain a near-constant presence around reefs claimed by Malaysia in the South China Sea, ship-tracking data shared with the Guardian has revealed.

The findings show the extent of Beijing’s military ambitions far south of its borders, antagonising south-east Asian countries and deepening a potentially explosive foreign policy crisis with the US president, Donald Trump. Tiếp tục đọc “Chinese patrol ships keep presence around Malaysian reefs” →

Philippines seeks to rename marine zone after China shows interest

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ChannelNewsAsia

  • Posted 01 Apr 2017 19:25

MANILA: The Philippines said on Saturday it was planning to change the name of a stretch of water east of the country in a bid to highlight its sovereignty over the area, which was surveyed recently by a Chinese vessel.

A Chinese survey ship was tracked for several months late last year moving around Benham Rise – declared part of the Philippines’ continental shelf in 2012 by the United Nations, stirring concern in Manila about Beijing’s possible intentions.

China says the ship was simply passing through the area and was not engaged in any other activity, and the country’s foreign minister said last week China fully respects the Philippines’ maritime area rights over Benham Rise. Tiếp tục đọc “Philippines seeks to rename marine zone after China shows interest” →

China eyes an opportunity to take ownership of climate change fight

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The Guardian

The economic and environmental cost of pollution will drive Beijing’s policies regardless of what Donald Trump does

Smog in Liaocheng in eastern China. Reducing carbon emissions is a priority for Beijing’s leadership and could help to bring about global change.
Smog in Liaocheng in eastern China. Reducing carbon emissions is a priority for Beijing’s leadership, which could influence the global battle against climate change. Photograph: Sipa Asia/REX/Shutterstock

Li Shuo

Thursday 19 January 2017 21.57 EST Last modified on Tuesday 7 March 2017 20.31 EST

Twenty years ago, climate change was believed by many in Beijing to be a conspiracy cooked up by the western world to contain China’s development.

Since then, China has performed an about-turn, not only recognising climate change as a major global challenge but also, ahead of Davos this week, vowing to lead the world’s effort in combating it.

The election of Donald Trump, who, labelling climate change a “hoax” created by China, has reversed the conspiracy, casts a dark shadow on the prospect of future international climate cooperation. But for China, now could be a moment of opportunity. Tiếp tục đọc “China eyes an opportunity to take ownership of climate change fight” →

Rodrigo Duterte to US: Why did you not send the armada?

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AlJareeza

Philippine president takes US to task over its refusal to challenge China on its South China Sea activities.

Duterte met with US Ambassador Sung Kim in his hometown of Davao on Monday [RTVM/Presidential Communications]

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte says he confronted the American ambassador about the US’ inaction in stopping China’s construction of man-made islands that are now at the heart of a regional dispute in the South China Sea.

“Why did you not send the armada of the 7th Fleet,” the straight-talking president said he told US Ambassador Sung Kim. Tiếp tục đọc “Rodrigo Duterte to US: Why did you not send the armada?” →

China confirms arrest of Taiwan activist Lee Ming-che

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Al Jareeza

Beijing says the activist is being investigated on suspicion of ‘pursuing activity harmful to national security’.

Chinese authorities said Lee Ming-che was being investigated on ‘pursuing activities harmful to national security’ [AP]

China has confirmed it is detaining Taiwanese pro-democracy activist Lee Ming-che, who went missing last week.

Ma Xiaoguang, spokesman for China’s Taiwan Affairs Office, said Lee was being investigated on suspicion of “pursuing activities harmful to national security”.

Lee disappeared on March 19 after clearing immigration in Macau. He never showed up for a planned meeting later that day with a friend across the border in China’s city of Zhuhai. Tiếp tục đọc “China confirms arrest of Taiwan activist Lee Ming-che” →