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- China says Obama should not meet the Dalai Lama [Associated Press] “China said Thursday that President Barack Obama should not meet the Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, when he visits the United States in October. Although a meeting has not been confirmed, every president since George H.W. Bush has met the Dalai Lama, raising the ire of China, which says the Nobel Peace laureate is bent on splitting Tibet from China. "We firmly oppose the Dalai's engagement in separatist activities in any country under whatever capacity and under whatever name," Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said when asked to comment on a possible meeting.”
- China Uses Global Crisis to Assert Its Influence [Washington Post Foreign Service] “BEIJING -- With Jamaica's currency in free fall, unemployment soaring and banks heavily exposed to government debt, the Caribbean island's diplomats went into crisis mode earlier this year. They traveled to all corners of the world to seek help. Jamaica's traditional allies, the United States and Britain, were preoccupied with their own financial problems, but a new friend jumped at the opportunity to come to the rescue: China. When contracts for loan packages totaling $138 million were signed between the two countries in March, China became Jamaica's biggest financial partner. Headlines in Jamaica's leading newspapers, which only a year ago were filled with concern about China's growing influence in the region, gushed about its generosity.
- Fighter Jet Files Stolen [IGN] “Think you have got problems when a bitter ex-lover hacks into your Myspace profile? Try having computer spies break into your $300 billion war machine developments systems. Yep, that is right, our nation's defense structure was cracked into once again recently when unidentified hackers made their way into the Pentagon's Joint Strike Fighter project, causing unknown amounts of potential national security concerns.”
- China geography magazine’s English edition will promote nation’s civilization [Asia News] “China geography magazine’s English edition will promote nation’s civilization. A senior editor of a Chinese geography magazine said Wednesday the launch of its English version would help it reach a global audience and promote Chinese civilization. Li Yongshi, editor-in-chief of Chinese National Geography, a monthly magazine similar to the U.S.-based National Geographic, said the English edition launched Tuesday would target foreign readers in and outside China and overseas Chinese. The new edition “will reveal the ancient civilization [of China] and its splendid history through in-depth reports about the country’s geography, history and culture.”
- Chinese Olympic Committee $120 million strong for London 2012 [China Sports Today] “One of the questions that will be asked again and again between now and the summer of 2012 is, "Can China do it again?" Will China, as a guest this time instead of the host, be able to repeat or improve upon its 51 gold medal performance in Beijing? A recent Reuters story reports that China is at least throwing money at the challenge, investing $120 million in its athletes' preparation for the 2012 games”
- World's largest abandoned man-made mine becomes a park [English People’s Daily Online] “The world's largest abandoned manmade mine in Fuxin City of China's northeast Liaoning Province has been converted to a park and will be ready to receive tourists in May.”
- How real is the threat of social unrest from China’s army of unemployed? [Financial Times] “A couple of months ago, a number of excitable reports predicted that mass lay-offs in China’s export heartlands could spell social chaos. Twenty million angry migrant workers had lost their jobs and revolt was in the air, we were told. So just how bad is the labour situation? Not nearly as bad as many people feared.”
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