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A group of disputed islands, Uotsuri island (top), Minamikojima (bottom) and Kitakojima, known as Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China is seen in the East China Sea, in this photo taken by Kyodo September 2012. Mandatory credit. REUTERS/Kyodo/File Photo
Tiếp tục đọc “Japan to bolster coastguard amid island row with China”
AP Dec 21, 2016
BEIJING – Taiwan on Wednesday condemned the African island nation of Sao Tome and Principe’s “abrupt” move to break their diplomatic ties, while rival China welcomed the defection of one of the self-governing island’s small number of allies. Tiếp tục đọc “China cheers as Taiwan splits with one of few remaining allies”
Reuters
SHANGHAI – Northern China was shrouded in almost-record pollution for a fifth day on Wednesday, closing factories and schools and disrupting flights, traffic and shipping, with some residents complaining that emergency anti-smog measures were not operating. Tiếp tục đọc “Smog chokes Chinese cities for fifth day, closing schools and factories”
TT – Tự hào là quốc gia xuất khẩu gạo thứ hai thế giới nhưng cả nước hiện có khoảng 700.000ha lúa lai, thì có đến 70% diện tích là lúa giống nhập khẩu, chủ yếu từ Trung Quốc.
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| Cánh đồng gieo cấy bằng giống lúa được nhập khẩu từ Trung Quốc tại Yên Định (Thanh Hóa) – Ảnh: HÀ ĐỒNG |
Việc phụ thuộc vào một thị trường cung cấp hạt giống không chỉ tạo điều kiện cho các công ty bán hàng ép giá mỗi khi vào vụ mà còn có nguy cơ ảnh hưởng tới sự chủ động nguồn lương thực quốc gia.
ENLARGETTCT – Việc thất thủ Hoàng Sa là hậu quả của những đổi chác giữa Mỹ và Trung Quốc, mà chủ súy chính là cố vấn Henry Kissinger.
Chính sách của Mỹ trước trào Nixon, tức trước Kissinger, hoàn toàn khác. Còn từ “trào Kissinger” trở đi là trái nghịch hoàn toàn, thậm chí cả các đồng minh Đài Loan và Nhật Bản cũng “nếm mùi” ông này.
| Đảo Hữu Nhật – Ảnh: Nhóm Trúc Nam Sơn |
BEIJING — Only a day before a small Chinese boat sidled up to a United States Navy research vessel in waters off the Philippines and audaciously seized an underwater drone from American sailors, the commander of United States military operations in the region told an audience in Australia that America had a winning military formula.
“Capability times resolve times signaling equals deterrence,” Adm. Harry B. Harris Jr. told a blue-chip crowd of diplomats and analysts at the prestigious Lowy Institute in Sydney, Australia, the leading city in America’s closest ally in the region.
Philippines president Duterte says: ‘I will not impose anything on China’ despite fresh report showing militarisation of disputed reefs
The Philippine president has said he would “set aside” a ruling by an international arbitration tribunal that invalidated Beijing’s claims to most of the South China Sea, because he doesn’t want to impose on China. Tiếp tục đọc “Philippines to ‘set aside’ South China Sea tribunal ruling to avoid imposing on Beijing”
China’s Defence Ministry said it had been in talks with the United States about returning an underwater drone taken by a Chinese naval vessel in the South China Sea, but the US was not helping by “hyping up” the issue. Tiếp tục đọc “China agrees to return seized US underwater drone”
Staff Writer, Dec 16, 2016
China’s first and only aircraft carrier battle group has carried out its first-ever live-fire drills — a show of force amid ongoing tensions in the region — the Defense Ministry has announced.
The drills, which took place “days earlier,” were conducted in the Bohai Sea and involved the Liaoning carrier and dozens of ships and aircraft — including J-15 carrier-based fighter jets carrying live ammunition. Tiếp tục đọc “China’s Liaoning aircraft carrier conducts first ever live-fire drill as Beijing shows off military might”
Thomson Reuters Foundation Dec 16, 2016
HONG KONG/BEIJING – Living in Beijing for 23 years, Li Xue has never attended school, not even for a day.
China provides a free, nine-year education to every child but Li was not included. For the past 23 years, she has had no access to any form of social welfare. She has not been allowed to get married, find a job, or open a bank account.
Li was the second child born to her parents. Due to the nation’s one-child policy that ran from around 1978 until 2015 to curtail population growth, she didn’t exist in the Chinese government’s database. Tiếp tục đọc “Lost lives: China’s invisible children fight to recover their missed years”
The Philippines, Brunei, Malaysia and Vietnam have competing claims in the South China Sea [AFP]A Chinese Navy warship has seized an underwater drone deployed by an American oceanographic vessel in international waters in the South China Sea, triggering a formal diplomatic protest from the US and a demand for its return, a US defence official said. Tiếp tục đọc “China seizes US naval drone in South China Sea”
BEIJING — A well-known Chinese human rights activist who had not been seen or heard from for more than three weeks is in police custody, accused of possessing secret government documents and spiriting them abroad, state-run news outlets said on Friday.
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ANTG – Các chuyên gia phân tích quốc tế đánh giá việc Trung Quốc để ngư dân Philippines trở lại ngư trường Scarborough chỉ là một biến tướng mới của chiêu bài biến khu vực không có tranh chấp thành khu vực tranh chấp rồi tiến tới “gác tranh chấp để cùng khai thác lợi ích chung” mà nước này vẫn sử dụng trên Biển Đông.
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| Tàu Trung Quốc di chuyển gần tàu đánh bắt cá của ngư dân Philippines ở bãi cạn Scarborough. |
Tiếp tục đọc “Vì sao ngư dân Philippines “được phép” tiếp cận bãi cạn Scarborough?”
Satellite images released by the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington this week showed “large antiaircraft guns and probable close-in weapons systems” on its outposts in the Spratlys.
Tiếp tục đọc “China Appears to Confirm It Has Militarized Disputed Spratly Islands”
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