by Viola Zhou in South China Morning Post, July 25, 2017 China’s popular and lucrative video-streaming websites are censoring their content and offering Communist Party propaganda as they brace for even tighter controls on the internet. Video and live-streaming sites have been a major target of Beijing’s sweeping efforts to “clean up” the internet, with more than 70 shut down and more than 50 million users comments pulled since January, according to official figures. Other…
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by Jane Cai in South China Morning Post, July 25, 2017 Chinese police will strike hard against shady financial schemes because of the risk of social unrest from such fundraising ploys, according to the Public Security Ministry. The warning came a day before a rare gathering of thousands of protesters in Beijing on Monday. They were members of Shanxinhui (Kindness Exchange), a fundraising scheme declared illegal by the Chinese authorities over the weekend. “There are…
By Li Yincai in Global Times, July 24, 2017 at 20:58:39 The author is an assistant research fellow from the Institute of International Relations at Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences. There have been remarkable changes in China’s neighborhood diplomacy in recent years. Taking active steps, China has endeavored to guide and shape the environment around it. But it faces increasing risks and challenges. Over the past two years, China has seen significant fluctuations in its…
by Minnie Chan in South China Morning Post, July 25, 2017 China’s biggest annual war games, at Asia’s largest military training base, will have a special guest on August 1 to mark the 90th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA). Sources close to the PLA, the world’s largest army, have told the South China Morning Post that President Xi Jinping will make his first known visit to the Zhurihe Combined Tactics…
By THOMAS ERDBRINK in the NY Times, JULY 25, 2017 NEYSHABUR, Iran — When Zuao Ru Lin, a Beijing entrepreneur, first heard about business opportunities in eastern Iran, he was skeptical. But then he bought a map and began to envision the region without any borders, as one enormous market. “Many countries are close by, even Europe,” Mr. Lin, 49, said while driving his white BMW over the highway connecting Tehran to the eastern Iranian…
PTI report in the Times of India, | Jul 25, 2017, 10:10 AM IST WASHINGTON: China is increasingly resorting to “coercive, assertive practices” to achieve its goals in the Asia-Pacific region, as seen in the disputed South China Sea, a senior official of the US foreign intelligence service said. The remarks from Michael Collins, deputy assistant director at the Central Intelligence Agency’s East Asian Mission Centre, came as the Pentagon on Monday said that a…
by Tahseen Ali in bdnews24.com, July 24, 2017 The western media and several otherwise well-intentioned nongovernmental organizations routinely criticize Bangladesh for taking actions against leaders of the country’s main opposition party, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, or BNP. They assume that accusing opposition party members with crimes is automatically undemocratic and undermines the rule of law. In fact, the opposite is the case, and a top court in Canada recently provided proof. Earlier this year, Judge…
by Tanvir Sohel and Riadul Karim in Prothom Alo, Jul 25, 2017 Field-level officials of the election commission (EC) are in favour of deploying defence personnel as regular law enforcement to create confidence among voters during the next general elections. They came up with these recommendations as their opinion was sought in order to amend 14 laws, rules and directives ahead of the 11th parliamentary polls. Reinsertion of the provision for ‘No’ option in the…