• Why China is stealing America's corn seeds

Why China is stealing America's corn seeds

Three years ago, a security guard working for seed company Pioneer Hi-Bred came across something unusual on a road in Iowa: Just off the pavement, a man was on his knees, digging in a field.

Challenged by the guard, Mo Hailong claimed to be an employee of the University of Iowa who was traveling to a nearby conference. He jumped back in his car and sped away.

• Han racism: ‘No Africans’ policy at Chinese restaurant in Kenya prompts arrest, outrage By Matthew Bell

Han racism: ‘No Africans’ policy at Chinese restaurant in Kenya prompts arrest, outrage

Kenyan officials have arrested the owner of a Chinese restaurant in Nairobi — after it stopped most Africans from entering after 5 p.m.
By Matthew Bell

The Chinese restaurant in Nairobi that has been shut down and its owners summoned by authorities after it emerged it was barring black patrons, on March 25, 2015.

• Wind Power Research Was Front for Chinese Ballistic Missile Development By Oliver Lane

Wind Power Research Was Front for Chinese Ballistic Missile Development
By Oliver Lane

A Chinese PhD candidate and a member of faculty staff at the Norwegian University of Agder have been expelled, after it transpired their research was being used as a cover for work on advanced ballistic missiles.

• Fog of War: Is China's Military Battle-Ready? Lyle J. Goldstein

Fog of War: Is China's Military Battle-Ready?
Lyle J. Goldstein

Are you experienced? The Chinese military debates the importance of its lack of recent combat experience.

A new assessment of the Chinese military by a reputable U.S. think tank concludes, in effect, that “the emperor has no clothes.” The authors of this report seem to be wary lest “… the US might be inclined to assume China has more sway in international affairs than its actual combat power merits.” 

• Most Chinese Say Their Military Can Crush America in Battle - Zachary Keck

Most Chinese Say Their Military Can Crush America in Battle
Zachary Keck

The vast majority of Chinese citizens believe the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) could seize islands in the East and South China Seas, even if the U.S. military were to intervene in the conflicts.

• China Blocks Web Access to ‘Under the Dome’ Documentary on Pollution - By EDWARD WONG

China Blocks Web Access to ‘Under the Dome’ Documentary on Pollution
By EDWARD WONG

Residential buildings in Wuhan in Hubei Province were shrouded in heavy smog last month. China's environmental degradation is among the worst in the world. CreditDarley Shen/Reuters
BEIJING — “Under the Dome,” a searing documentary about China’s catastrophic air pollution, had hundreds of millions of views on Chinese websites within days of its release one week ago.

• China's artificial Islands in South China Sea By Amrita Jash

China's artificial Islands in South China Sea
By Amrita Jash

Time-lapse satellite imagery taken by Airbus Defence and Space, a division of Airbus Group, shows the extent of Chinese progress in building an island at Gaven Reefs in the Spratly Islands. By Jan. 30 a pre-existing platform had been joined to the new island and at least one helipad built.

• China’s new "terrorism" law provokes anger in U.S., concern at home - Simon Denyer

China’s new "terrorism" law provokes anger in U.S., concern at home
Human Rights Watch calls the draft law a “recipe for abuses.”
By Simon Denyer

Pedestrians walk past anti-terror propaganda posters pasted along the streets of Urumqi. China’s new draft counterterrorism law is provoking widespread condemnation.

• Israel Put Chinese Money Over Justice By Roger Cohen

Israel Put Chinese Money Over Justice 

By Roger Cohen

ON April 17, 2006, a Palestinian suicide bomber killed 11 people near the old Tel Aviv bus station. Among the victims was Daniel Wultz, a bright and determined 16-year-old from Florida who fought for his life for 27 days before succumbing to severe injuries. 

• Documentary on Air Pollution Grips China By CHRIS BUCKLEY

Documentary on Air Pollution Grips China 

By CHRIS BUCKLEY 

Chai Jing said she was prompted to make her documentary, “Under the Dome,” by concern over the threats pollution posed to her daughter’s health.

• Mankind's Curse: Chinese Are The World's Worst Behaved Tourists By James Burke

Mankind's Curse 

Chinese Are The World's Worst Behaved Tourists 

By James Burke

I’m currently based in Bangkok and I wasn’t surprised to read in a local newspaper about another Chinese mainlander causing an uproar here due to his bad behavior in northern Thailand.

• 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. 

• 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.