Two Way Street
05.12.15
We Need to Stay Coolheaded
from Two Way Street
In recent years, a noticeable change has occurred in China-U.S. relations. The “problem areas” where the two countries tend to clash are increasing in both number and scope, and there has been a greater degree of hostility in judgments about the...
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05.12.15U.S. Military Proposes Challenge to China Sea Claims
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Moves would send Navy planes, ships near artificial islands built by China in contested waters.
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05.12.15Pentagon Report: China Deploys MIRV Missile
Federation of American Scientists
For China to join the MIRV club strains China’s claim of having a minimum nuclear deterrent.
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05.11.15Obama’s Quiet Nuclear Deal with China Raises Proliferation Concerns
Washington Post
Beijing could buy more U.S.-designed reactors and pursue a facility or the technology to reprocess plutonium.
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05.08.15As Russia Remembers War in Europe, Guest of Honor Is From China
New York Times
China’s leader, Xi Jinping, is an imperfect symbol of the wartime past and an uncertain one for Russia’s future.
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05.04.15The Battle for Taiwan’s Soul: The 2016 Presidential Election
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Xi Jinping and Kuomintang leader Eric Chu’s summit Monday is the first between respective party leaders since 2009.
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05.01.15Ask The Vietnamese About War, And They Think China, Not The U.S.
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Vietnam's brief but bloody border war with China in 1979 left more than 50,000 dead.
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04.30.15China and South Korea Criticize Japanese Prime Minister’s Speech in US
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Shinzo Abe denounced for not repeating previous PMs’ apologies for Japan using sex slaves during second world war.
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04.29.15Obama Accuses China of Flexing Muscle in Disputes with Neighbors
Reuters
Obama said a strong U.S.-Japan alliance should not be seen as a provocation to China.
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04.29.15
Is China Building Up Soft Power by Aiding Nepal?
A devastating earthquake has struck one of China’s smallest neighbors, the mountainous former kingdom known, since 2008, as the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal. Surrounded on three sides by India—known in Nepali as a “friendly nation”—Nepal...
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04.29.15Commentary: South China Sea No Showcase for U.S.-Japanese Alliance
Xinhua
As long as Japan refuses to face WWII atrocities, the world community will never loosen the screw.
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04.29.15China on My Mind: U.S.-Japan Visit Mostly About Beijing, State Media Says
Wall Street Journal
U.S.-Japan talks mainly served to throw into relief concerns about China.
Features
04.28.15
Where Do We Draw the Line on Balancing China?
from Foreign Policy
Is it time for the United States to get serious about balancing China? According to Robert Blackwill and Ashley Tellis, the answer is an emphatic yes. In a new Council on Foreign Relations report, they portray China as steadily seeking to increase...
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04.26.15Nepal Earthquake: India and China Send Rescue Teams to Himalayan Nation
Wall Street Journal
China sent 62 rescue workers, six sniffer dogs, and was providing about $3.2 million in supplies.
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04.23.15
A New Era for China and Pakistan?
This week, Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Islamabad and showered Pakistan with attention and promises of $46 billion in development support. What does this intensified Sino-Pakistani engagement mean for Asia and the rest of the world? —The...
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04.23.15China’s Big Plunge in Pakistan
New York Times
If China can advance a stable Pakistan through development programs, the whole region would benefit.
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04.22.15China Warns North Korea’s Nuclear Arsenal is Expanding
Agence France-Presse
China's communist ally may already have 20 warheads and the enrichment capacity to double that number in a year.
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04.22.15China Is Planning to Rebuild the Silk Road and Transform Global Trade Routes
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China plans to build a modern version of the Silk Road through Pakistan and beyond.
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04.22.15Xi Jinping of China and Shinzo Abe of Japan Meet Amid Slight Thaw in Ties
New York Times
The meeting signaled a continued slight warming in otherwise frosty relations between Asia’s two top economies.
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04.21.15Xi Says Increasingly Confident in China-Pakistan Ties
Xinhua
Xi called for focus on the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, the Gwadar Port, energy, transport infrastructure, and industrial cooperation.
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04.21.15What China’s and Pakistan’s Special Friendship Means
Washington Post
Sino-Pakistan friendship, read Islamabad billboards, "is higher than mountains, deeper than oceans, sweeter than honey, and stronger than steel."
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04.20.15Philippines Starts South China Sea War Games With U.S.
Bloomberg
More than 11,000 soldiers from the Philippines, U.S. and Australia will take part in joint drills in the South China Sea.
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04.20.15Shinzo Abe and Japan’s History
New York Times
But Japan cannot credibly help the U.S. to counter China in Asia if it seeks to repudiate criticism of its past.
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04.20.15China’s Investing $46 B to Carve Route Through one of World’s Most Dangerous Regions
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Xi visiing Pakistan to sign energy and infrastructure deals for a corridor stretching to Xinjiang.
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04.20.15China Defines Overall National Security Outlook in Draft Law
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Economic security is the basis of national security, and military, cultural, as well as social security are safeguarding measures.
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04.17.15Images Show Rapid Chinese Progress on New South China Sea Airstrip
Reuters
China's new airstrips sit in a shipping lane through which $5 trillion of trade passes each year.
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04.15.15China’s Biggest Chip Maker’s Possible Tie-Up With H-P Values Unit at Up to $5 Billion
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Tsinghua Unigroup in talks to buy a controlling stake in Hewlett-Packard unit H3C Technologies.
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04.13.15China Accused Of Decade Of Cyber Attacks On Governments And Corporates In Asia
TechCrunch
“There’s no smoking gun...,but all signs point to China” Bryce Boland told TechCrunch.
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04.13.15China’s Island-Building Is Ruining Coral Reefs, Philippines Says
New York Times
China’s South China Sea neighbors could lose up to $100 million a year because reefs are fish breeding grounds.
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04.07.15
Cyber Leninism and the Political Culture of the Chinese Internet
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04.06.15Born Red
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How Xi Jinping, an unremarkable provincial administrator, became China’s most authoritarian leader since Mao.
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04.02.15American Admiral Flexing Muscles
Sydney Morning Herald
After taking aim at China's “Great Wall of Sand” China’s in the South China Sea, U.S. Admiral Harris has to make a plan.
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04.01.15Obama Expands Options for Retaliating Against Foreign Hackers - NYTimes.com
New York Times
Obama used existing authority to impose economic sanctions on North Korea, but the new order will expand his options.
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04.01.15U.S. Navy Alarmed at Beijing’s ‘Great Wall of Sand’ in So China Sea
Washington Post
US Admiral says competing territorial claims in the South China Sea are “increasing regional tensions and the potential for miscalculation."
Reports
04.01.15
Revising U.S. Grand Strategy Toward China
Council on Foreign Relations
China represents and will remain the most significant competitor to the United States for decades to come. As such, the need for a more coherent U.S. response to increasing Chinese power is long overdue. Because the American effort to “integrate”...
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04.01.15
U.S.-China 21: The Future of U.S.-China Relations Under Xi Jinping
Harvard University
We are, therefore, seeing the emergence of an asymmetric world in which the fulcrums of economic and military power are no longer co-located, but, in fact, are beginning to diverge significantly. Political power, through the agency of foreign policy...
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03.31.15Yemen Evacuation Shows Chinese Navy’s Growing Role
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Chinese warships evacuated nearly 600 of its citizens from conflict-torn Yemen, demonstrating Beijing’s increasing ability to extract its people from dangerous places.
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03.30.15Iran Nuclear Talks: What China Brings to the Negotiating Table
Christian Science Monitor
China is reportedly proposing a compromise between Iran's insistence on an end to all UN sanctions and US desires for gradual relief.
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03.26.15US Admiral: China Counter-Space Threat Is ‘Real’
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China’s ability to wage war in space is a major concern for the United States.,
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03.23.15Indonesian President Says China’s Main Claim in South China Sea Has No Legal Basis
Reuters
Jakarta says it wants to remain an "honest broker" in one of Asia's most thorny territorial disputes.
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03.19.15China, Japan Start First Security Talks in Four Years
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Step aimed at thawing ties plagued by the legacy of Japan’s wartime aggression and a territorial dispute.
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03.17.15Why China Can’t Get too Angry at Burma for Dropping Bombs
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Burma remains a large importer of Chinese weapons amd China needs the country's energy and raw materials.
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03.16.15Was News of Xu Caihou’s Death Buried?
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Speculation mounts on demise of former PLA general.
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03.16.15China’s Army in Show of Force Along Myanmar Border After Fatal Bombing
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Tensions rising between Asian neighbors after death of five people in Yunnan.
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03.16.15China to Reveal Detailed “Belt and Road” Roadmap
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Hundreds of major infrastructure projects could spread into Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Pakistan.
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03.16.15India Should Play Bigger Role in South China Sea, Says Singapore
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India’s involvement in the region could give Southeast Asian nations a further buffer against China.
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03.15.15Q. and A.: David Shambaugh on the Risks to Chinese Communist Rule
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Shambaugh’s recent essay argued that the “endgame of Chinese communist rule has now begun.”
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03.13.15
The Spy Cables: Chinese Espionage in Africa
Buried in the trove of secret intelligence documents known as “The Spy Cables” obtained by Al Jazeera and The Guardian is a passing reference to allegations Chinese spies broke into a South African nuclear facility in 2007. Interestingly, this was...
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03.10.15Sorry, America: China Is NOT Going to Collapse
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David Shambaugh bases his conclusion on flawed interpretations of recent socioeconomic and political developments.
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03.10.15US Should Consider Establishing a So China Sea Intl Ops Ctr in Indonesia
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The PLA Navy is building more submarines and ships and intends to operate three aircraft carriers.
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03.05.15China 2015 Defense Budget to Grow 10.1 Pct, Lowest in 5 Years
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Projected spending of $144.2 billion lowest in five years as country confronts economic slowdown.
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03.04.15How China Fuels Myanmar’s Wars
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No one should be investing in large-scale development projects in Myanmar’s war zones until durable peace agreements are established.
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03.04.15China’s Military Budget Increasing 10% for 2015, Official Says
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Increase would put the budget around $145 billion, the world’s second-largest, though still far behind the United States,
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China's ambassador to Belgium urged Western powers to "abandon the zero-sum mentality" with Russia.
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02.27.15China’s Neighbors Build Up Militaries
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China’s neighbors are moving forward with the modernization of their militaries with new fighter jets, submarines and other hardware, even as Beijing has tried to tamp down territorial tensions in the region.
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02.27.15
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02.24.15Argentina, China Could Jointly Develop Fighters
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China's JF-17 fighter program in Pakistan has proven a reasonably successful test bed for joint fighter production programs.
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02.17.15China Says Thousands Forced to Flee Myanmar Fighting
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The Yunnan government said that since Feb. 9 there had been more than 30,000 trips by border residents both into and out of China.
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02.17.15
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