• U.S. Intelligence Chief James Clapper Suggests China Behind OPM Breach - By DAMIAN PALETTA

U.S. Intelligence Chief James Clapper Suggests China Behind OPM Breach

Director of National Intelligence James Clapper.

Mr. Clapper says China is “leading suspect” in the theft of millions of personnel records
By DAMIAN PALETTA

• Chinese feminists show off armpit hair in photo contest By Wilfred Chan and Shen Lu

Chinese feminists show off armpit hair in photo contest
http://edition.cnn.com/2015/06/10/china/china-armpit-hair-gender-equality/
By Wilfred Chan and Shen Lu

Beijing (CNN)In the fight against domestic violence and gender inequality, Chinese feminists have opened up a new battlefront: Their armpits.

• Cyber Pearl Harbor: Big U.S. data breaches offer treasure trove for China - Andrea Shalal

Cyber Pearl Harbor: Big U.S. data breaches offer treasure trove for China

* Federal personnel office hacked for second time in a year
* Cybersecurity expert sees "huge uptick" in data theft
* Defense chiefs worry over copycat weapons systems
* The attack involved malicious software installed together with the Chinese-language search engine Baidu.
By Andrea Shalal

• Go Ahead, China - Copy Our Crappiest Warplane - David Axe

Go Ahead, China - Copy Our Crappiest Warplane

David Axe

Desperate to project power in the South China Sea, Beijing is working on a hovering “jump jet” that looks a lot like the Pentagon’s F-35B. But this bit of espionage will cost them.

• China Poised To DEMAND U.S. LAND As Payment For U.S. Debt by Realities Watch

China Poised To DEMAND U.S. LAND As Payment For U.S. Debt 
by Realities Watch

NEW YORK – Could real estate on American soil owned by China be set up as “development zones” in which the communist nation could establish Chinese-owned businesses and bring in its citizens to the U.S. to work?

• 8,000 Chinese students were expelled from US universities - Son Dao

8,000 Chinese students were expelled from US universities last year, mostly for cheating and bad grades.
by Son Dao

Chinese students regularly rank among the best performing in the world, but that’s not always the case when they enroll in US schools.

• The Chinese army just informed everyone that the internet means war - By Linette Lopez

The Chinese army just informed everyone that the internet means war
By Linette Lopez
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/chinese-army-just-informed-everyone-151017928.html

(Reuters) The People's Liberation Army isn't joking around.
In a chilling memo released on Wednesday, the People's Liberation Army, or PLA, informed the world that, at least on the internet, China is at war.

• China illegally fishing in Africa, Greenpeace study finds - AFP

China illegally fishing in Africa, Greenpeace study finds
AFP
http://news.yahoo.com/china-illegally-fishing-africa-greenpeace-study-finds-031851509.html

Beijing (AFP) - Chinese companies have been illegally fishing off the coast of West Africa, environmental campaign group Greenpeace said in a study Wednesday, at times sending incorrect location data suggesting they are as far away as Mexico.

• China's Mad Dash for the South China Sea

China's Mad Dash for the South China Sea
by Richard Javad Heydarian

"China has already established the skeleton of an ADIZ, thanks to an emerging network of airstrips and military garrisons on contested features, backed by ever-expanding military and paramilitary patrols across the South China Sea."

• China Deploys New 'Carrier Killer' Missile - Franz-Stefan Gady

China Deploys New 'Carrier Killer' Missile
A new report by the Office of Naval Intelligence highlights the growing capabilities of the Chinese Navy.
By Franz-Stefan Gady

Type 052 (Luhu-class) destroyer.

This week, the Pentagon’s Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) released an unclassified assessment of the Chinese navy’s new capabilities and missions in the years ahead.

• The Rapid Expansion of China’s Navy in Five Charts By Jeremy Page

The Rapid Expansion of China’s Navy in Five Charts
By Jeremy Page

China’s Harbin guided missile destroyer takes part in a navy exercise in the East China Sea off Shanghai.

With tensions mounting over China’s island-building in the South China Sea, the U.S. Office of Naval Intelligence has published its first report on the Chinese navy since 2009.
The report, released late Thursday (pdf) predicts: “In the next decade, China will complete its transition from a coastal navy to a navy capable of multiple missions around the world.”

• Beijing, With an Eye on the South China Sea, Adds Patrol Ships By JANE PERLEZ

Beijing, With an Eye on the South China Sea, Adds Patrol Ships
By JANE PERLEZ

The Chinese guided missile destroyer Harbin during exercises with the Russian Navy in 2012.
SINGAPORE — China is rapidly building coast guard ships, the vessels that China most commonly uses for patrols in the South China Sea, and in the last three years has increased the number of ships in that category 25 percent, a new report by the United States Navy says.

• China Cyber Terrorism: The Great Cannon - By NICOLE PERLROTH

China Cyber Terrorism: The Great Cannon
China Uses Powerful New Weapon to Censor Internet
By NICOLE PERLROTH

The Great Cannon system was used to intercept web and advertising traffic intended for Baidu, China’s biggest search engine company, researchers said.

• The Other Problem in the South China SeaTerritorial disputes are not the only issue to trouble this vital maritime region By Nina Hachigian

The Other Problem in the South China SeaTerritorial disputes are not the only issue to trouble this vital maritime region.
By Nina Hachigian

The Chinese peril

When I became the U.S. Ambassador to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, I knew the South China Sea would feature in my new role: Out of the six competing territorial and maritime claims in the South China Sea, four are from ASEAN member states – Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines and Vietnam. 

• U.S. Agencies Block Technology Exports for Supercomputer in China - DON CLARK

U.S. Agencies Block Technology Exports for Supercomputer in China
Moves comes as U.S. technology companies grapple with Beijing’s proposed restrictions
By DON CLARK

Intel processors are displayed at a store in Seoul June 21, 2012.

• Should America Really Fear China's Military? Harry J. Kazianis

Should America Really Fear China's Military?
Harry J. Kazianis

Is China's military really that powerful?

China’s military is growing in terms of raw power and basic power projection. Many of Beijing’s defense investments over the last two decades are aimed at limiting Washington’s ability to intervene in areas that China describes as being of “core interest.” But just how much should Washington worry about it? A good question, for sure. 

• 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)