What’s Really Happening?
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Happily Surprised with China
I included an article on Tesla opening a factory in Shanghai because Tesla is a popular phenomenon in the United States, and although they have been around a long time, they are still up and coming. I thought this would be an interesting, or at least a fun fact to share with my regional report group. I found an impressive… Read more »
CPC issues new work rules on rural primary-level organizations
BEIJING, Jan. 10 (Xinhua) — The General Office of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee has issued revised regulations on primary-level Party organizations in rural areas. The original document issued in 1999 could no longer adapt to new requirements and practical needs as rural areas are advancing reform and development and facing new situations and tasks, said the… Read more »
Interview: China-U.S. Beijing trade talks make “useful progress”: U.S. expert
NEW YORK, Jan. 9 (Xinhua) — The just-concluded U.S.-China trade talks in Beijing achieved “useful progress” and both parties are expected to narrow down their differences further in addressing the trade tension between the world’s two largest economies, said a U.S. expert. “Let me be frank in saying that I belong to a very tiny minority who has always viewed… Read more »
China supports regional free trade arrangements in line with WTO principles
BEIJING, Jan. 10 (Xinhua) — A spokesman for the Ministry of Commerce said Thursday that China consistently advocates for the building of regional free trade arrangements in line with the World Trade Organization (WTO) principles. “At present, related countries have pressed forward with regional free trade arrangements in the hope of further promoting trade and investment liberalization and facilitation, showing… Read more »
Tesla’s first overseas plant in Shanghai heralds China’s further opening up: FM spokesperson
BEIJING, Jan. 10 (Xinhua) — China welcomes more foreign enterprises to engage in its new round of high-standard opening up and continues to share benefits from its development opportunities, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lu Kang said here Thursday. The U.S. electric carmaker Tesla Inc. broke ground on Jan. 7 in Shanghai on its first overseas factory. Saying China’s development speed and… Read more »
S.Korea ship beams radar multiple times
NHK has learned a South Korean naval ship beamed fire-control radar toward a Japanese patrol plane multiple times and it continued to do so for a period of time. Defense Ministry officials informed NHK of the findings from an investigation by the Maritime Self-Defense Force. The MSDF has confirmed that a South Korean destroyer beamed fire-control radar at its P-1… Read more »
Japan restates protest in S.Korea radar incident
Japan’s Defense Ministry has restated its protest against a South Korean naval ship for directing fire-control radar at a Japanese patrol plane. The incident Thursday involved a South Korean destroyer and a P-1 patrol aircraft of the Maritime Self-Defense Force. It took place over the Sea of Japan off the Noto Peninsula in Ishikawa Prefecture. Japan first lodged a protest… Read more »
China Focus: A global view of China’s reform and opening-up
BEIJING, Dec. 20 (Xinhua) — Lawrence Lau, former vice president of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, still vividly remembers his trip to the Chinese mainland in 1979. “I saw fried dough sticks and baked sesame seed cakes along the streets. They looked fairly tasty and were only five cents each,” Lau recalled. “But the vendors wouldn’t allow me to… Read more »
China firmly opposes U.S. act on Tibet: FM spokesperson
BEIJING, Dec. 20 (Xinhua) — China Thursday expressed firm opposition to the United States on its signing into law of the Reciprocal Access to Tibet Act of 2018, saying it is a gross interference in China’s domestic affairs and sent a seriously wrong message to “Tibetan independence” forces. The U.S. act has seriously violated the basic norms of international relations… Read more »