Vietnamese Fighter Jet Goes Missing Along South China Sea Coast
on June 14, 2016
Jet goes missing 30-40 kilometers off the coast of Nghe An province....
A War of Words Over the South China Sea
A ChinaFile Conversation
on June 13, 2016
Beginning earlier this year, four-star Admiral Harry Harris, the U.S. Navy’s top commander in the Pacific, has spoken out in speeches, interviews, private meetings, and testimony to Congress urging that the U.S. take more aggressive action against what he characterizes as China’s push for hegemony in Asia. In early June, Chinese Admiral Sun Jianguo gave a speech at the annual Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore in which he implied that the U.S. looks to international law only when it’s convenient, and proclaimed China’s peace-loving intentions even as he threatened a fight. Which admiral’s comments more accurately describe the reality of what is happening in the South and East China seas?
China, Hong Kong Shares Fall as Global Investors Flee Risky Assets
on June 13, 2016
Investors fretted ahead of this week's central bank meetings and Britain's referendum on whether to remain in the EU.
Despite Narendra Modi's Stellar Efforts, China Can Still Destroy India's NSG Dreams
on June 13, 2016
The 48-member NSG, set up after India conducted nuclear tests in 1974, regulates the trade of nuclear technology.
China’s Content Crackdown Forces Western Media Concessions
on June 13, 2016
Rules barring foreign media firms from video-streaming licenses are being more strictly enforced.
Inside the World of China's Ultra Rich
on June 13, 2016
Kevin K Li, director of reality show Ultra Rich Asian Girls, speaks to Al Jazeera about China's wealthiest 1 percent.
Filipino Nationalists Say Flag-Planting on Disputed Shoal Halted by China
on June 13, 2016
The Filipinos' move comes as the Permanent Court of Arbitration in the Hague prepares to deliver a ruling.
Insurance Firm China Life Puts $600M into Didi Chuxing Months after Backing Uber
on June 13, 2016
It provides an equity investment of $300 million, and a separate “long-term debt investment” of RMB 2 billion ($305 million).
50 Years of Work on U.S.-China Relations
A Sinica Podcast
on June 13, 2016
In this week’s episode of Sinica, we are proud to announce that we’re joining forces with SupChina. We’re also delighted that our first episode with our new partner is a conversation with President Stephen Orlins and Vice President Jan Berris of the National Committee on United States-China Relations, recorded at their offices in Manhattan.
Namibia’s Secret Ivory Business
Chinese Nationals Involved in an African Elephant Poaching Crisis
on June 9, 2016
Many locals and wildlife conservation institutions I talked to didn’t even know about the existence of the ivory black market in Okahandja.
It was a quiet evening in Zambezi, until a herdsman heard a gunshot in the wilderness. By the time the police arrived, they found an elephant carcass—and the tusks had been taken.
“It could be a good trophy animal. Poachers never take small ones,” said chief control warden Morgan Saisai at the Katima Mulilo office of Namibia’s Ministry of Tourism and Environment (MET).
