• China Lifts Lid on Sale of Fake Goods Online - Saibal Dasgupta

China Lifts Lid on Sale of Fake Goods Online

FILE - People walk past an advertising billboard showing the mobile app of Alibaba’s Taobao consumer-to-consumer site at a subway station in Beijing.

• China's man-made islands in disputed waters raise worries

China's man-made islands in disputed waters raise worries

A Chinese vessel works on a building project in the Spratly Islands in 2014.  
 
Chinese dredging has created a new island nearly 2 miles long and several hundred yards wide U.S. worries that China is building islands to establish de facto control over South China Sea waters By DAVID S. CLOUD

• Dystopian Reality of China’s Smog Captured in ‘Airpocalypse’ App

Dystopian Reality of China’s Smog Captured in ‘Airpocalypse’ App

A Beijing resident wore a mask against heavy air pollution near the China Central Television headquarters in November.

• Big Brother Xi is watching you - China attacks Microsoft users in surveillance attempt

Big Brother Xi is watching you China attacks Microsoft users in surveillance attempt
By Lorenzo Franceschi-bicchierai

China mounted a cyberattack on users of Microsoft's Outlook email service on Saturday, with the apparent goal of spying on their communications, according to a Chinese Internet monitoring group.

• China's Aggressions: Microsoft Outlook Hit With Man-In-The-Middle Attacks - By Tyler Lee

China's Aggressions: Microsoft Outlook Hit With Man-In-The-Middle Attacks

"Chinese authorities are intent on cracking down on communication methods that they cannot readily monitor.” -- Greatfire.org

Man-in-the-middle attacks is when the attacker inserts themselves in the middle of their victims’ connections, thus being able to intercept messages sent back and forth. 

• Graham believes China involved in Sony attack

Graham believes China involved in Sony attack

• Graham said he believes China was involved in North Korea's cyberattack. 

• Graham gave Obama a rare kudos on his handling of the Sony hack

By Jeremy Diamond

• China, the Climate and the Fate of the Planet - Jeff Goodell

China, the Climate and the Fate of the Planet

If the world's biggest polluter doesn't radically reduce the amount of coal it burns, nothing anyone does to stabilize the climate will matter. Inside the slow, frustrating — and maybe even hopeful — struggle to find a new way forward
By Jeff Goodell | September 15, 2014

• China predicted to have more warships than the US by 2020 By Ishaan Tharoor

China predicted to have more warships 

than the US by 2020
By Ishaan Tharoor

This May 2012 photo provided by China's Xinhua News Agency shows the Chinese aircraft carrier Liaoning cruising for a test on the sea.

• The Way Obama Just Let China Overtake The US Is Being Called “A Geopolitical Earthquake”

The Way Obama Just Let China Overtake 

The US Is Being Called 

“A Geopolitical Earthquake”

If you recently felt the earth move beneath your feet — or possibly a ripple in the Force — this could be why…

• A Nation of Thieves and Poachers - Reuters

A Nation of Thieves and Poachers

Philippines fines Chinese fishermen $102,000 each for poaching
Reuters

A group of Chinese fishermen leave a court in Puerto Princesa in the Philippines on Nov. 24.

A Philippine court on Monday fined nine Chinese fishermen $102,000 each after they were caught with hundreds of sea turtles in a disputed shoal in the South China Sea amid a festering territorial standoff between the two sides.

• China's threat: Vietnam, the US, and Japan in the South China Sea - By Vũ Hồng Lâm

China's threat: Vietnam, the US, and 

Japan in the South China Sea

Prospects for regional security hinges heavily on how these actors relate to the South China Sea issue.
By Vũ Hồng Lâm

• Most Beautiful Photos Of Wonderful China By Jade Small

Most Beautiful Photos Of Wonderful China
By Jade Small

With China’s economic growth of more than 10%, the environment was forced to take a back seat. It’s the most populous country on earth and it is starting to show increased incidences of birth defects and some of the dirtiest air in the world. 

• Territorial Disputes and China's Fisher Militia - By Emmanuel

Territorial Disputes and China's Fisher Militia
Chinese fishermen have been baiting people instead of fish in the service of PRC interests in asserting military supremacy.
By Emmanuel

And he said to them, “Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.” (Xi Jinping 4:19)

• Amerikanischfrage China's State Media Finally Ran An Article About Nuclear Strikes Against The U.S. By JEREMY BENDER

Amerikanischfrage China's State Media Finally 

Ran An Article About Nuclear 

Strikes Against The U.S. 

By JEREMY BENDER

Amerikanischfrage
China's State Media Finally Ran An Article About Nuclear Strikes Against The U.S.
By JEREMY BENDER

• Chinese aggression: The U.S. government thinks China could take down the power grid

Chinese aggression: 

The U.S. government thinks China 

could take down the power grid

The United States has detected malware from China on U.S. computers systems that affect the daily lives of every American. The head of U.S. Cyber Command said China has the ability to attack the U.S. power grid
By Jamie Crawford

• Sina Delenda Est: Pentagon Report Reveals Chinese Military Developments

Sina Delenda Est: Pentagon Report Reveals 

Chinese Military Developments
Last year’s annual report on Chinese military developments was widely criticized. What does the 2013 version offer?
By Andrew S. Erickson

• China’s Cyber-Theft Jet Fighter - The Wall Street Journal

China’s Cyber-Theft Jet Fighter

Chinese military and commercial cyber theft amount to the greatest transfer of wealth in history. This Chinese behavior persists because it is cost-free.
The Wall Street Journal

A Chinese J-31 stealth fighter performs at the 10th China International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition in Zhuhai, south China's Guangdong Province, Nov. 11, 2014.

• Chinese hack U.S. weather systems, satellite network - By Mary Pat Flaherty, Jason Samenow and Lisa Rein

Chinese hack U.S. weather systems, satellite network
By Mary Pat Flaherty, Jason Samenow and Lisa Rein

Hackers from China breached the federal weather network recently, forcing cybersecurity teams to seal off data vital to disaster planning, aviation, shipping and scores of other crucial uses, officials said.

• Sex Trafficking and China’s One Child Policy - By Madeline Fetterly

Sex Trafficking and China’s One Child Policy

Among the consequences of China’s one child policy: a growing market for trafficked women. Women and children from Burma, Vietnam, Laos, Mongolia and North Korea, as well other countries in Africa and the Americas, are subjected to forced labor and sex trafficking in China. By Madeline Fetterly

• In Beijing, Clearer Views Hide Real Life By DIDI KIRSTEN TATLOW

In Beijing, Clearer Views Hide Real Life
By DIDI KIRSTEN TATLOW

Pollution shrouded the Olympic Green, built for the 2008 Games, on Oct. 9. Officials want to show a cleaner version of Beijing during the summit talks.

• Japan Warns China Coral Poachers - TOKO SEKIGUCHI

Japan Warns China Coral Poachers
Coast Guard Says ”Far From Average” 

Number of Arrests Recently
By TOKO SEKIGUCHI

A coast guard vessel approaches a suspected Chinese coral poaching ship off the coast of Japan's Ogasawara islands.

TOKYO—Top Japanese officials on Tuesday warned coral poachers to stay out of the country’s territorial waters after arresting six Chinese nationals suspected of hunting illegally for precious red corals in recent weeks.

• Hong Kong’s ‘Umbrella Square’ one month on: how are protesters living? By Jonathan Kaiman

Hong Kong’s ‘Umbrella Square’ one month on: 

how are protesters living?

With tents to rent, a study zone, WiFi, and a growing art movement, the pro-democracy movement has evolved into a functional utopian collective
By Jonathan Kaiman

• South Korea: Illegal fishing by Chinese boats causing over US$1 bln in damage - The Korea Herald

South Korea: Illegal fishing by Chinese boats 

causing over US$1 bln in damage
The Korea Herald

Running from the law: Chinese fishing boats tied themselves together to try and evade capture from South Korea's coastguard

• China's Xi calls on army to remember past in graft fight - Reuters

China's Xi calls on army to remember past in graft fight
Reuters

China's President Xi Jinping arrives before the opening session of the National People's Congress (NPC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing,March 5, 2014.
CREDIT: REUTERS/JASON LEE

• Creeping Expansionism - How China Is Making Tiny Islands Inhabitable With Huge Floating Docks By Sarah Zhang

Creeping Expansionism
How China Is Making Tiny Islands Inhabitable 

With Huge Floating Docks
By Sarah Zhang

The Spratly Islands are basically mounds of sand in the middle of the South China Sea, some of them barely tall enough to reach above the water. 

• Researchers identify sophisticated Chinese cyberespionage group - Ellen Nakashima

Researchers identify sophisticated Chinese cyberespionage group

“Axiom’s activities are supported by China to steal trade secrets and to target dissidents, pro-democracy organizations and governments.” -- Peter LaMontagne
By Ellen Nakashima

• China strives incoherently for the ‘socialist rule of law’ - Rebecca Liao

China strives incoherently for the ‘socialist rule of law’

The Communist party attempt to introduce legal redress is an impossible feat
By Rebecca Liao

China’s leaders are attempting to bring the country’s relationship with law into balance. The Chinese Communist party will remain supremely powerful, but the Chinese people are to have the right to seek redress through the courts. How is this balancing act to be accomplished? In truth, it is an impossible feat. 

• Chinese Hacking Is Eroding U.S. Military Superiority By Mackenzie Eaglen & Charles Morrison

Chinese Hacking Is Eroding U.S. Military Superiority

Countering Chinese cyber espionage must be a top priority
By Mackenzie Eaglen & Charles Morrison
Earlier this month, the latest cyber-attack against J.P. Morgan garnered national headlines. 

• China Hires As Many As 300,000 Internet Trolls To Make The Communist Party Look Good - CHRISTINA STERBENZ

China Hires As Many As 300,000 Internet Trolls 

To Make The Communist Party Look Good 

CHRISTINA STERBENZ

The Chinese government doesn't just censor its internet. It actually pays people to leave fake comments that make the country - and its communist regime - look good.
After reading "Blocked on Weibo" by Chinese researcher Jason Q. Ng, we recently learned China's version of Twitter, Sina Weibo, banned the phrase "50 cents." It references China's "50 Cent Party," a group of ordinary citizens hired by the government to post internet comments spinning that day's news in China's favor.

• Global security firms cooperate against Chinese state hackers - Tim Ring

Global security firms cooperate 

against Chinese state hackers

Global security firms cooperate against Chinese hackers

Ten cyber-security companies have cooperated to pool intelligence and combat Chinese state APT actors.
By Tim Ring

• FBI warns industry of Chinese cyber campaign - Ellen Nakashima

FBI warns industry of Chinese cyber campaign

“The Axiom threat group is a well-resourced and sophisticated Chinese cyber espionage group that has been operating unfettered for at least four years, and most likely more.” -- Novetta Solutions report
By Ellen Nakashima

• Ai Weiwei says Communist Party lost its principles, blasts silent fellow artists

Ai Weiwei says Communist Party lost its principles, blasts silent fellow artists

Chinese communists have increasingly targeted activists and dissidents, as well as their relatives, on non-political charges such as disturbing public order or business-related misdeeds, instead of free speech and political dissent charges that would draw international condemnation.

AP

• A Nation of Spies and Thieves - Chinese Student Spies Overwhelm The West - Joshua Philipp

A Nation of Spies and Thieves
Chinese Student Spies Overwhelm The West
By Joshua Philipp

Students and spies: "You could have one spy steal 10,000 documents, or you could have 10,000 Chinese student spies each steal one document."

Intelligence agencies around the world typically regard China’s approach to spying as sloppy and unprofessional. 

• China's Huawei Shipped U.S. Equipment to Cuba - Bill Gertz

China's Huawei Shipped U.S. Equipment to Cuba

by Bill Gertz

Commerce probing whether Huawei sale of U.S. gear violated sanctions
By Bill Gertz

A Chinese telecommunications company linked to the People’s Liberation Army provided U.S.-origin equipment to Cuba in apparent violation of U.S. economic sanctions on the communist-ruled island.
U.S. officials familiar with intelligence reports said the equipment included U.S.-made modems, routers, and switches for telecommunications networks.