Donald Trump has set himself on a collision course with Chinese president Xi Jinping, saying the first meeting between the two leaders would be “very difficult”. Xi will travel to the US next week and will have his first face to face meeting with Trump at Mar-a-lago, the US president’s country club in Florida, from April 6 to 7. But just hours after the trip was officially announced, Trump used Twitter to slamChina for its trade balance with the US, setting an ominous tone for what many call “the most important bilateral relationship in the world”. “The meeting next week with China will be a very difficult one in that we can no longer have massive trade deficits and job losses. American companies must be prepared to look at other alternatives,” Trump wrote in a pair of tweets. Read more
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The New York Times vs. the ‘Great Firewall’ of China
If you look at the top of our home page, you’ll see a tab with two Chinese characters, which mean “Chinese.” Few people know the struggle and angst that put those characters there. In August 2001, I accompanied our publisher, Arthur O. Sulzberger Jr., and a group of New York Times writers and editors to see Jiang Zemin, then the president of China. The meeting took place in a typical Chinese meeting room — doily-draped fauteuils underneath a monumental ink-and-brush painting of sea and mountains — at China’s leadership compound in Beidaihe, an otherwise gritty seaside resort on the northeastern coast. Read more
Military bases and submarines: What it's like to dive in the South China Sea
The Spratly Islands are a nebula of biological wonder -- an archipelago of atolls and reefs that support 600 coral species and 6,000 fish species -- including huge schools of batfish, bumphead parrotfish, scalloped hammerhead sharks, and dolphins. But they are also located in one of the most contested stretches of water in the world -- the South China Sea -- and the island chain is now is home to some 15 military bases. China, Vietnam, Taiwan, Malaysia and the Philippines have all reclaimed land in the Spratlys and built airstrips that can accommodate military aircraft but it's China's island-building that has grabbed the most headlines. Read more
Donald Trump expects 'very difficult' summit with Xi Jinping at Mar-a-Lago
US President Donald Trump expects his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida next week to be "very difficult," with jobs and trade likely to dominate discussions. The summit on April 6 and 7 will be the first meeting between the two men in what many argue is the most important bilateral relationship in the world, and it comes amid heightened tensions in Asia. Read more
Kina: - Må bygge tillit til Norge først
Det var nesten fullsatt på den daglige pressekonferansen til Kinesisk UD i Beijing i ettermiddag. Etter å ha redegjort for et planlagt statsbesøk fra Myanmar, var turen kommet til Erna Solberg. – Norge var ett av de første land som anerkjente folkerepublikken, og har et solid fundament for samarbeid, sa talsmann Lu Kang da han kunngjorde Erna Solbergs besøk neste helg. På NRKs spørsmål om Kina er interessert i å gjenoppta menneskerettighetsdialogen, tok han derimot flere forbehold. – Kina er ikke motstander av menneskerettighetsdialog basert på gjensidig tillit. Men vi er resolutte motstandere av at menneskerettighetsspørsmål blir brukt til å blande seg inn i andre lands indre anliggender. Les mer
VG: Erna Solberg tar ikke opp menneskerettigheter med Kina
The End of Poverty in China?
One of the most cited statistics about China may well be the number of Chinese who have been lifted out of poverty over the last 35 years. At over 800 million, it is a huge number – and an extraordinary feat. Indeed, no other country has achieved such a level of poverty reduction in such a short period. But what about the millions of Chinese who have remained behind? Read more
China’s Extraordinary Response to the 11-Nation Letter Over the Torture of Human Rights Lawyers
On February 27, diplomatic missions in Beijing from 11 countries wrote a letter, expressing their “growing concern over recent claims of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment in cases concerning detained human rights lawyers and other human rights defenders.” The letter also urged China to abandon the practice of secret detention known as “residential surveillance at a designated location” (RSDL). The 11 countries are: Australia, Canada, Japan, Switzerland, and seven European Union member nations: Belgium, the Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Germany, Sweden and the United Kingdom. Read more
China has an irrational fear of a “black invasion” bringing drugs, crime, and interracial marriage
Earlier this month in Beijing, amid the pomp of China’s annual rubber-stamp parliament meetings, a politician proudly shared with reporters his proposal on how to “solve the problem of the black population in Guangdong.” The latter province is widely known in China to have many African migrants. “Africans bring many security risks,” Pan Qinglin told local media (link in Chinese). As a member of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, the nation’s top political advisory body, he urged the government to “strictly control the African people living in Guangdong and other places.”
Have Chinese emissions peaked?
Growth in Chinese carbon dioxide emissions have made an incredible turnaround in the last few years. Have emissions peaked? Is it because of the rapid growth in renewables and concerns about air pollution? Or do analysts just have short memories? When it comes to predicting future emissions, China is good a good example of how bad we are. Read more
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