• EU and US groups sound alarm on China cyber security rules

EU and US groups sound alarm on China cyber security rules

The regulations would require IT equipment to undergo security testing, use Chinese intellectual property and force developers to share source codes and other sensitive data with Beijing.
By Christian Oliver in Brussels and Tom Mitchell in Beijing

• The SEC Caves on China An exemption for Chinese auditors puts U.S. markets at risk.- The Wall Street Journal

The SEC Caves on China An exemption for Chinese auditors puts U.S. markets at risk.
The Wall Street Journal

A not so smart SEC Chairman

U.S. stock-market regulators say they promote transparency and fair play, but this month the Securities and Exchange Commission quietly carved out a China-size exception: When Chinese companies list on U.S. markets, basic auditing rules won’t apply.

• US: China is expanding its South China Sea outposts - By MATTHEW PENNINGTON

US: China is expanding its South China Sea outposts
By MATTHEW PENNINGTON

Director of National Intelligence James Clapper testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 26, 2015, before the Senate Armed Services Committee to deliver the annual assessment by intelligence agencies of the top dangers facing the country. China is expanding its outposts in the South China Sea to include stationing for ships and potential airfields as part of its "aggressive" effort to exert sovereignty, the U.S. intelligence chief said. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

• Chinese hackers obtained info on Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system

Chinese hackers obtained info on Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system

In a raid seeking information related to Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system, Chinese hackers infiltrated the databases of three Jewish defense contractors.

• Poisoning the World Made in China (with asbestos) By John Ferguson

Poisoning the World

Made in China (with asbestos)

By John Ferguson

Workers package asbestos in Zhangye, China.

CONSUMERS are being exposed to a booming trade in Chin­ese products laced with asbestos, as border-security officials admit to a limited capacity to stop contam­inated goods entering Australia, potentially contribut­ing to a fresh wave of disease.

• Chinese hackers attack blue-chip groups via Forbes website - By Sam Jones

Chinese hackers attack blue-chip groups via Forbes website

By Sam Jones in London and Hannah Kuchler in San Francisco  
 
The attack is one of the most brazen cyber espionage campaigns launched by Beijing so far. It is the latest evidence of a Chinese cyber espionage war against western businesses that has expanded dramatically in recent months.

• China's 'Code War' attacks on US internet titans By Kevin Holden

China's 'Code War' attacks on US internet titans

Beijing has launched major cyber strikes against American IT giants eyeing its market. 

The latest hacker invasions of Google, Apple, Microsoft and Yahoo are being masterminded by Lu Wei, with the Politburo's approval.

• China plans to arm Hawaii separatists who want kingdom By Bill Gertz

China plans to arm Hawaii separatists who want kingdom
Islands vital to U.S. military’s Asia pivot
By Bill Gertz

China's 23rd province: 夏威夷州
HONOLULU — China has suggested arming Hawaii’s independence activists in retaliation for U.S. arms sales to Taiwan and recently threatened to challenge American sovereignty by making legal claims to the Pacific islands as its territory.

• Chinese Eat Baby Soup for Sex - theseoultimes

Chinese Eat Baby Soup for Sex
A human baby is being made into soup for sexual power in China.

Some Chinese people are known to be eating babies, and the news, which has been circulating through the internet and via email, is shocking the world.

An email report received by The Seoul Times confirmed that news with several vivid and appalling pictures of human embryos and fetuses being made into a soup for human consumption.

• Shocking Live Organ Harvesting Happening Right Now!

Shocking Live Organ Harvesting Happening Right Now!

Recently, Minghui.org, an official site for Falun Gong meditation, released a story about a new dimension in the forced organ harvesting and transplantation programs in China. For the past 15 years, peaceful Falun Gong meditators have been persecuted in China. The persecution has included arrest, imprisonment, torture, forced labor and even live organ harvesting. 
Falun Gong is a traditional and advanced Chinese qigong self-cultivation that was first publicly introduced in China in 1992 and had up to 100 million people doing the practice when the Chinese Communist Party banned it in 1999.

• Intel chief warns US tech threatened by China cybertheft By Matthew Pennington

Intel chief warns US tech threatened by China cybertheft
By Matthew Pennington

Lt. Gen. Vincent Stewart, director of the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency

WASHINGTON — The U.S. defense intelligence chief warned Tuesday that America's technological edge over China is at risk because of cybertheft.

• Chinese Air Pollution Work Its Way Around the World in This Scary NASA Animation

Chinese Air Pollution Work Its Way Around the World in This Scary NASA Animation
By Rafi Schwartz

Baoding, a heavily industrialized city in China’s northeast, has been awarded the dubious honor of having that country’s most polluted air. 

• The Long, Strange Trip of China’s First Aircraft Carrier - JAMES HOLMES

The Long, Strange Trip of China’s First Aircraft Carrier
And what it says about Beijing’s naval ambitions.
BY JAMES HOLMES

It’s an epic saga made for Hollywood: the long, strange odyssey of China’s highest-profile weapons acquisition in decades — the aircraft carrier Liaoning, née Varyag — from unfinished Soviet navy hulk purchased in 1998 to operational warship plying the Asian seas. Named after a Chinese province, China’s only aircraft carrier debuted in 2012 to great fanfare.